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by indymike 2y ago
> C-level positions have disproportionately more individuals with psychopathic tendencies. That is not the same thing as the stereotype "alpha male".
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by indymike 2y ago
Startup means new business does when dealing with economic stats. It means something else in the tech world.
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by indymike 2y ago
Interpreted languages and their associated dependencies are more of an issue than static linking with compiled languages.
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by indymike 2y ago
> But, then I can't find any examples of startups that just operated as normal, chill businesses from day one. I've done five startups this way.
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by indymike 2y ago
> Whoa, the line "Every save is uploaded, automatically [by default]" needs to qualify the non-default options. Can a company policy demand that? I hope there is a protocol-level, client-side opt-out for that, otherwise this VC
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by indymike 2y ago
> Fully remote workers, meanwhile, are ineligible for promotion, I'm not sure how this is even legal.
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by indymike 2y ago
There's a reason that most re-development takes a long time. Most of that time is waiting for land values to drop to the point that redevelopment is the best way to restore property tax revenue. That process takes decades. The thought
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by indymike 2y ago
Typical != Local
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by indymike 2y ago
The ocean of concrete around a typical suburban office building is very expensive to remediate. Downtown buildings often have integrated parking garages which create substantial expense when converting to residential. Also, family residence
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by indymike 2y ago
In the US police are often members of a union, and collaborate with the strikers, causing companies to hire professional security companies. Honestly, I have a hard time feeling much compassion for companies where the workforce unionizes:
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by indymike 2y ago
> Top executives are alpha males This is not accurate at all and really has very little place in rational discussion. > didn't get there without lots of compulsive control-seeking, dominance-asserting, etc. behavior patterns So
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by indymike 2y ago
I've looked at the cost of converting office space to residential, and every time, it was slightly less costly than a tear down and rebuild - and in one case it was a lot more. And that's before you deal with parking. The other is
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by indymike 2y ago
Regulation and innovation rarely make good business partners.
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by indymike 2y ago
This line from the article may be one of the saddest descriptions of modern "success" I've ever read: "When you’ve been conditioned to believe rightly or wrongly that your value as a human being is derived from the econo
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by indymike 2y ago
After watching a few clips of drone warfare in Ukraine, I think humanity really needs to start taking a pass on wars.
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by indymike 2y ago
> I believe multi-user systems are actually an ancient, outdated rather than a "modern" concept. I thought that in the 80s, and even had the same experience with sharing the family PC. Then networking (and the internet) happene
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by indymike 2y ago
> People implying that the study shows only correlation really don't seem to understand how we establish causality in science. This is where explaining how causality is established really helps people understand what they are readin
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by indymike 2y ago
> but what's the proof? The proof was given. > It's easy to think of counterexamples. There is a difference between huge cities of cheap labor and innovation hubs. > you're not exactly seeing a flood of Latin-Americ
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by indymike 2y ago
After seeing several decade-long, slow supply chain attacks, maybe knowing who is contributing might matter a little bit.
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by indymike 2y ago
We need to get a legal advocacy group started for dealing with digital rights (EFF isn't getting it done with consumer rights). A couple of well-funded lawsuits on behalf of wronged users will fix this with all of the vendors. This kin
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by indymike 2y ago
I need a 4k version of this now.
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by indymike 2y ago
> I think multiple display support has gone backwards on the Mac, in a way that’s representative of the platform and rather dispiriting. I think things have gotten worse as Apple silicon chips introduced limitations in how many displays
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by indymike 2y ago
> Companies are amoral, they literally can't be otherwise. If you were to make a Venn diagram of amoral and illegal (including civil malfeasance) have a pretty large overlap. Eventually, the illegal part gets people (even CEOs) sued
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by indymike 2y ago
First, I love Upscayl. Just used it to make about a decade of early lower resolution digital family photos 90s and early 00s printable and beautiful on HDPI screens. It's fantastic software. > Not developing on and doing little test
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by indymike 2y ago
Kindle tablets on the other hand have done well.
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by indymike 2y ago
> It is possible with Effort. "All things are possible with enough effort." -- Dad.
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by indymike 2y ago
> The fact is that space stations, like all crewed spacecraft, are a collosal waste of time and money kept alive primarily by stupid romanticism (and don't even start with the laughable "lifeboat" crap). That's going
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by indymike 3y ago
This story meshes with every incident of long term fraud or embezzlement I've seen in my business life (I've had to deal with four, so it is annecdata): 1. The fraudster is really, really nice and often has a disarming appearance.
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by indymike 3y ago
The name Neon is very confusing as KDE uses that name for it's Linux Distribution and has for quite some time (at least 2017).
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by indymike 3y ago
That's a different case... but I that is fantastic use of prosecutorial discretion.

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