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by gdulli 7y ago
We can't be at the extreme of consuming normally, because that requires all stores to be staffed normally. We also can't go all the way to the other extreme. If we have unprecedented employment now, with partial non-essential cons
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by gdulli 7y ago
That's good to hear. I use VirtualBox to develop on a real Linux VM from Windows and if this lets me get rid of an Oracle product, I'm happy.
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by gdulli 7y ago
And what happens when you, with your good judgement, decide to protect yourself and stay home, and then you have an unrelated treatable condition but die because no hospital could take you because they're all busy dealing with all the
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by gdulli 7y ago
I know it's folly but I'm trying to follow the logic here. Newsom and Cuomo, who won their offices fairly easily in their respective elections, seized on a plan to drastically hurt the economies of their respective states. Because
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by gdulli 7y ago
First, because they live with people who aren't at risk and if those people go about their lives it defeats the purpose. Second, if everyone not explicitly at high risk went about their normal business, some percentage of them would st
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by gdulli 7y ago
I'm glad it was resolved, but what am I supposed to do when Google wrongfully suspends my account and my submission here doesn't make it to the front page?
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by gdulli 7y ago
I don't see the relevance there. Over the years I've lived alone, with a romantic partner, or with platonic friends/roommates at different times. My feelings about remote work don't change based on differences in the hom
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by gdulli 7y ago
My personal perspective is that I can't wait for things to go back to normal and to have a workplace to go to instead of sitting around the house all day. I'm wired to want to get out into the world and see people. That doesn&#x27
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by gdulli 7y ago
That's a very good illustration of the danger of demagoguery. If someone not already in the habit of looking for any reason to keep foreigners out proposed it, maybe it would have been taken more seriously.
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by gdulli 7y ago
I don't know if it's true or not, but believing it and ramping up to drastic measures isn't negligence and certainly doesn't warrant criminal prosecution, as the commenter suggested. I think an abrupt enforced order for
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by gdulli 7y ago
I think there's a social engineering aspect of this where it's believed by governments that drastic measures wouldn't be accepted by the public overnight. They think something like a shelter could only go smoothly after a per
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by gdulli 7y ago
My point is that the distinction is meaningless because we should all be committed enough to the same goal and put the severity of the situation above a rebellion instinct. There are other outlets for that.
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by gdulli 7y ago
It has the force of discretion and common sense behind it. The aspiration of a society isn't for it to be run by the force of law at every turn. It's to educate and motivate people to make good decisions on their own where the for
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by gdulli 7y ago
The decision is not about the players, it's much bigger than that. It was also the players' choice to make their life about something that was always going to lose in priority to public health, if it ever came to that.
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by gdulli 7y ago
> Counterpoint: My friends/family/co-workers are not trolls. Sure, mine are simply uninteresting and that's why Facebook isn't a viable place to get content. > Twitter is optimized for fake identities, and for vira
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by gdulli 7y ago
On Facebook you're bound to your friends/family/co-workers/etc, on Reddit you're bound to the shallowest lowest common denominator content (front page) or else endless spam and self-promotion (sort by new.) Twitter
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by gdulli 7y ago
This site has its own version of Godwin's law in which as any submission gathers more comments, the odds go up that someone will draw a contrived link to remote work. I definitely like going to an office more than I like sitting home o
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by gdulli 7y ago
You don't think Google does a superset of this? You think they didn't start their own payment system just to get the same data for the same reasons?
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by gdulli 7y ago
Epic was not a shit show. The needless histrionics of the community response were a shit show. Not only unnecessary, but downright illogical for the community to throw a fit that amounted to begging for there to be no competition. Players g
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by gdulli 7y ago
> quietly slowing down older iPhones as it launched new models, to induce owners to buy replacement phones or batteries This happened to me a long time ago and it made me a permanent Android user, not that I don't have issues with t
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by gdulli 7y ago
What does "the left" have anything to do with something that's explicitly not about US politics and was done by an Indian company that happens to be owned by a US corporation that, even if involved with the decision, is doing
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by gdulli 7y ago
Hypothetically, what if the executive branch also ever happened to be nonfunctional?
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by gdulli 7y ago
Best Buy even price matches Amazon so I've gotten the same item from there at the same price, same day, no shipping wait, no $120/year charge for "free" shipping.
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by gdulli 7y ago
The good news is, it's not even necessarily true that you pay more when buying elsewhere anymore. Amazon is coasting on that reputation but they're no longer subsidizing customers like they used to.
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by gdulli 7y ago
> technology tends to fail in 'silly' ways And a scenario we can easily imagine is that a buggy update goes out to the whole fleet overnight that starts killing people all over the place. The common case of accidents being on p
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by gdulli 7y ago
I've only ever had one iPhone and the reason I decided I'd never get another is that it slowed down unacceptably when a new OS version came out. Every phone I've had since then I've switched from on my own schedule, neve
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by gdulli 7y ago
There's a law of conservation of advertisement. It's not like you were going to get away from ads forever when switching from real TV. I prefer the purely interstitial (untargeted) commercials from real TV. With a DVR I can fast f
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by gdulli 7y ago
We used to live in caves and evolving past that touched off a chain of events that led to the subprime mortgage crisis. But we don't lament our evolution. Living indoors, while messy with unintended side effects if you choose to look a
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by gdulli 7y ago
I use slack for work and discord for friends. One feels like a labor of love and the other is a chore to use that I'd discard immediately if I could. Becoming an enterprise product would cause discord to grow its organization a certain
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by gdulli 7y ago
They've done everything possible to engineer impulse buying into e-commerce. At a high level, conflating excess with "convenience" is not a good thing for the environment, or for anyone but them. I don't have Prime or us

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