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by glesica 12y ago
I had an ATM eat a check I tried to deposit once. I contacted the bank and they had me give them the ATM location and date and approximate time of the transaction, along with what I thought should have been the result (debiting N dollars to
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by glesica 12y ago
"As part of our investigation we detected suspicious activity affecting a very small number of Slack accounts. We have notified the individual users and team owners who we believe were impacted and are sharing details with their securi
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by glesica 12y ago
I have a small amount of experience with this, having observed the negotiations between a city government and Mediacom. The deal, in that case, wasn't technically "exclusive", but it did require that any additional franchisee
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by glesica 12y ago
> but I do know that a programming language is just a tool. So I take it you write all your *nix programs in C?
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by glesica 12y ago
Food preparation, and other low-skill workers can't afford to do it, 30% less income for most of them is below what they need to survive. It isn't that they "value money more", it's that they have no choice (well, r
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by glesica 12y ago
Tell that to someone who lives in an area where there aren't thousands of employers. Or who works in a specialty field where there aren't thousands of employers anywhere. Or someone who can't move across the country every cou
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by glesica 12y ago
So you change jobs every eight months? That's exactly the kind of generally infeasible solution I said to ignore. The vast, vast majority of people simply can't do that, so it isn't worth talking about as a general solution.
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by glesica 12y ago
You're right, that sounded pretty pretentious and high-horsey. I just meant that if a job can be automated cheaply, then we all generally benefit from automating it, assuming the people previously doing it are cared for.
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by glesica 12y ago
The problem is that most jobs that require less work pay much less. You might work, say, 30% less, but you earn 60% less, especially when benefits (if you aren't full time you generally don't get them at all) are accounted for. It
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by glesica 12y ago
Yes, but we have to automate all the "bullshit jobs" before that can happen. Otherwise people who don't want to be doing them get stuck doing them. "Bullshit job" isn't a judgement against people who enjoy some
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by glesica 12y ago
In this case, the tenant isn't a party to the transaction, the tenant can't afford to be a party to the transaction at $8,000+ per month, that's my whole point.
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by glesica 12y ago
In this case, you need to propose something better in order to be taken seriously. Even companies like Coursera still use exams and quizzes heavily, presumably because they couldn't come up with anything better. The goal is to test whe
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by glesica 12y ago
Economics is not value-free. Actually, economics already has a way of dealing with exactly the problem GP cites: externalities. Taking away someone's home involves potentially massive negative externalities (emotional and otherwise
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by glesica 12y ago
But there again, games developers aren't going to care about an cool new IE feature either unless they're building games that run exclusively or primarily on IE, which I suspect is a very small market. It's not that "nob
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by glesica 12y ago
This is really what I was trying to get at. I used to work for a company that made a web app that needed to run on Windows and IE (it was very "enterprise"). The developers were virtually 100% Mac and Linux users. I don't thi
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by glesica 12y ago
Not scientific, but I don't think I've ever been to a "tech" event and seen more than 25% Windows machines (granted, I'm not a .NET developer). Windows has 90% of the market, but what percentage of the developer (
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by glesica 12y ago
> It's not that difficult. I know that testing on IE is possible, but there's more to it than that. If I'm just going to test my stuff on IE every now and then to make sure it works, I'm not going to focus on, or ex
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by glesica 12y ago
We can certainly debate the "correct" reservoir capacity, maybe California doesn't have enough reservoirs, I don't know enough about it to make an intelligent argument on that point. However, claiming that anyone who w
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by glesica 12y ago
Did I say I was saying that? I said "they", meaning the people referred to in the linked article.
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by glesica 12y ago
That reads like it was written by a clueless reactionary. Draining reservoirs didn't cause the drought. It caused the water supply to dry up sooner in the midst of a drought. > Then they alleged that global warming, not their own fo
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by glesica 12y ago
I think the reason nobody seems to care about IE today isn't that it is a terrible browser, as in the past, but that it doesn't run on Mac OS or GNU/Linux. There are certainly people doing development on Windows, but more (at
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by glesica 12y ago
I agree that this borders on philosophy. The reason I hold the opinion I hold is that I feel it results in greater sustainability. The Earth regulates itself pretty effectively and did so for a long time before we got smart. Therefore, I th
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But the algae didn't intend to alter it. That's the difference. We don't respond to environmental pressure, we just apply equal and opposite pressure (for the most part, obviously everything has a cost). It's like a ps
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But it wasn't natural competition, we brought the rats there. I guess you can argue that the actions of humans are just as "natural" as any others. However, I think this is a very foolish way of looking at the situation becau
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by glesica 12y ago
I'm implementing an API using Elixir + Phoenix right now and the community around this has been incredibly helpful. Despite the relative newness of Elixir, the ecosystem is really quite rich, at least partly because it can draw upon th
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It depends on the programming. There are actual degrees (not a ton of them, but they exist) in "software engineering". Different programs also have more or less emphasis on such things. That was part of my advice, to think about w
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If you're not happy with the education then do something about it . One great option that isn't presented often enough is to transfer to a different institution. Don't think that just because the school you're at sucks
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by glesica 12y ago
Facebook doesn't do it because they don't need to do it, at least right now . Wait until they're on the ropes, fighting for their corporate life in one way or another, then see what they do.
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by glesica 12y ago
I grew up in the midwest and hope I never have to live there again. But I also hate California (hot, even in winter, way too sunny, smells awful about 80% of the time, probably in part because of the heat). I found that places like Washingt
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by glesica 12y ago
> at most schools with sizable endowments. Well there's your problem, most schools don't have sizable endowments. Endowments for rich schools have performed fairly well over the last couple decades, not so much for those with

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