gathersnow

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by gathersnow 3y ago
Can you even vote now? I think they do a lot of it by inferring from what you watch.
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by gathersnow 3y ago
Netflix became so user-hostile and it is truly baffling to me. They act as if they are paid by amount of time you spend watching movies and have all of these dark patterns shoving the user all over the place and disorienting them. I remembe
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by gathersnow 3y ago
I signed up for Netflix around the time I got my first DVD player in the late 90s. I watched a lot of cool movies I would never have otherwise had access to. It was fun to discover indie and foreign cinema that were not available in my loca
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by gathersnow 3y ago
Also, what happens if both parties agree to a salary outside of the bound during the interview. Is the employer bound by that number? I am guessing there is no mechanism that would enforce it.
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by gathersnow 3y ago
I was a member of Netflix from 90s to about 2021. The beginning of the streaming era was great. But since then Netflix has a long history of being user-hostile that I said goodbye to them many years ago. I got sick of their stupid auto-play
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by gathersnow 3y ago
This is what I have been thinking recently. In my recent interactions with the IRS site I was impressed. In particular was the weird photo-identity app that I had to use to generate a PIN.
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by gathersnow 3y ago
The IRS will be incentivized to collect as many tax dollars as possible. That could inform decisions that would end up making it harder for taxpayers to save money. The US does transfer payments via the tax code so doing your taxes is in ma
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by gathersnow 3y ago
I don't think that CDMX is considered a hotbed of cartel activity?
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by gathersnow 3y ago
What is really interesting is to ask it how to do things that you know is impossible. I was trying to figure out how to do something in the Django ORM that I knew how to write in SQL. It starts inventing features that to solve the problem.