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by hnaccount141 4mo ago
Typically overtime pay requires approval from management
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by hnaccount141 1y ago
> In other words, the relationship with hundreds of countries has been very one-sided for a long time. US industry needs to export to thrive, but if countries like Turkey impose 140% tariffs on our autos and trucks, markets are de-facto
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by hnaccount141 1y ago
Context matters. In a vacuum, the 85% rule is fine. In reality, it excludes a single company whose CEO not only holds a position in the administration making the rules, but who clearly holds enough influence that the president himself shot
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by hnaccount141 3y ago
They give you a unique URL associated with your account that you can use without manually logging in. It does somewhat defeat the purpose of private browsing mode depending on what you're using it for though.
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by hnaccount141 3y ago
The myth of the rags-to-riches, by-their-bootstraps entrepreneur is foundational to so much political philosophy in the US. It informs popular opinion on a wide range of public policy. Building a more accurate understanding of the nature of
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by hnaccount141 3y ago
That's the whole point. Permabanning on the first offense ignores the reality that these large-scale moderation systems (automated or human) tend to lack nuance and context-awareness, leading to false positives. A system of escalating
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by hnaccount141 3y ago
There’s a difference between production and rent-seeking.
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by hnaccount141 3y ago
> People got up, admitted they were Progressives and that they were wrong about the ideals of rehabilitation instead of punishment. People asked for rehabilitation instead of punishment. All politicians did was stop punishing ( some ) pr
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by hnaccount141 3y ago
Perhaps Castle Bravo would be a closer comparison? I think the point stands.
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by hnaccount141 3y ago
That's not what GP is saying. The (potentially) copyright infringing part is the reproduction of copyrighted material, not the encoding itself. In the same way that learning the lyrics to a song isn't copyright infringement, but p
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by hnaccount141 3y ago
When you press the BT button in control center it shows a message saying "Disconnecting Bluetooth Devices Until Tomorrow"
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by hnaccount141 3y ago
The fun thing about markets is that there's one for labor too, and apparently the labor market has decided otherwise.
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by hnaccount141 3y ago
> The concept of "bullshit jobs" is so hilarious. Honestly it like someone watched "Office Space" and thought it was straight up revolutionary philosophy. > Then decided to stake a huge chunk of their academic care
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by hnaccount141 3y ago
There are decades of well defined laws (and case law) regulating discrimination in hiring, housing, commerce, etc. Why should software be treated any differently?
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by hnaccount141 3y ago
The data itself is plaintext, but it's stored in a sqlite db rather than directories of markdown files on disk.
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by hnaccount141 3y ago
> because the name is constructed to make it look like being male is what's bad I'm open to this argument because it's clear that many people take it this way, but how else would you state it? Everywhere else in English, a
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by hnaccount141 3y ago
> Who's to say that men are incapable of dealing with their emotions through sombre silence? The argument generally being made isn't that teaching boys stoicism is wrong. The argument is that it's wrong to teach boys that
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by hnaccount141 3y ago
The term "toxic masculinity" doesn't imply that masculinity is inherently toxic any more than the term "burnt toast" implies that toast is inherently burnt. Toxic masculinity refers specifically to expressing and en
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by hnaccount141 3y ago
More like saying that an oil worker is different from some guy quoting There Will Be Blood. The problem is that the difference in credibility between the two isn't easily accounted for once their posts are vacuumed up into a giant data
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by hnaccount141 3y ago
Advising against blind trust in non-experts' statements doesn't imply a recommendation to blindly trust experts' statements.
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by hnaccount141 3y ago
> Soooo, which is it? You can't have it both ways, either trial and error or "educated guess". Sure you can -- trial and error doesn't mean the things you're trying have to be picked out of a hat at random. You c
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by hnaccount141 3y ago
This has been my experience working on a distributed team as well. I think my ideal setup involves getting the team together in person once or twice annually for a few days where the focus is brainstorming/collaborating.
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by hnaccount141 3y ago
> Well, I'm glad someone is because everyone else seems to be worse off as a result Fortunately mass incarceration and just doing nothing aren't the only two options.
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by hnaccount141 3y ago
> - The folks at the Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing, which commissioned the survey, depend on those numbers being high in order to justify their budgets and salaries. I'm not sure I understand this argument. If, s
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by hnaccount141 3y ago
Torrent trackers don’t host the content either.
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by hnaccount141 3y ago
I spend a lot of time experimenting with atypical tunings that wouldn't be captured in a dropdown, and I could see this being really a useful tool for learning my way around tunings where there isn't much existing repertoire to pu
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by hnaccount141 3y ago
The question isn't whether or not the USD can fail. Of course it can. The question to ask is whether Monero or any other given cryptocurrency will fare better than the USD in the event that it does collapse. That seems much less clear
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by hnaccount141 4y ago
"John is no longer with us" is a completely reasonable thing to say, unless it's coming from the person who shot John.
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by hnaccount141 4y ago
I'm honestly more surprised that any social media apps were ever allowed on government devices.
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by hnaccount141 4y ago
> The bank doesn't exist anymore and its shareholders got nothing. The customers' reward is they can make payroll. What bailout? Depositors knowingly took a risk by keeping more than $250K in an individual bank account. Rather

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