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by ineptech 4y ago
Are these taxes that your customer was supposed to be paying already, or taxes they pay on the savings your product facilitates (and hence don't need to pay without your product)?
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by ineptech 4y ago
> This is coming from someone who spends a lot of time in the sun. Is it coming from someone with a lot of experience evaluating the protocols of epidemiological studies? Sunlight (whether too much or too little) affects us in all sorts
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by ineptech 4y ago
They asked four questions that all pertain to sun exposure and weighted them into a single metric. Seemed pretty reasonable to me. You may find interesting a recent article on how academia's stance on the benefits/dangers of sun
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by ineptech 4y ago
They controlled for all the big health and lifestyle confounds, as described in the abstract, it was a huge study (1/5 of the female population of southern Sweden), they tracked the subjects for 20 years. Man if that's not good e
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by ineptech 4y ago
The solution I was suggesting was not to play dumb, but to notice the looming problem and try to address it. I don't know what the right plan would've been, but I suspect it would've ended with, "...generous severance p
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by ineptech 4y ago
Yep, force of habit.
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by ineptech 4y ago
This reminds me of an experience with a former employer. Company A, heavy users of Salesforce, was acquired by company B, which was married to M$ Dynamics. On the day of the announcement, one of the bullet points was something like, &quot
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by ineptech 4y ago
Fair point; it hasn't gone anywhere, I guess it just feels outgunned because the closed source movement has grown so unbelievably huge. Also, it seems like a healthy chunk of the "FOSS movement" nowadays is just corporations
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by ineptech 4y ago
I grew up reading about the opposite - not quite a utopia maybe, but a future in which technology was on net beneficial and worked for individual people. "Computer, call Joe Smith's robot butler and see if he's free for dinn
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by ineptech 4y ago
By not integrating with it, or even having an article on how to set it up yourself. When something is effectively free, and a lot of your competitors offer it for free, and your website says you offer it for free, but you actually charge f
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by ineptech 4y ago
The "free SSL" meant adding your domain as a sub of theirs, i.e. https://yourdomain.namecheap.com . I fell for it and was pretty salty to see how much they charge and the lack of a letsencrypt integration. And on that
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by ineptech 4y ago
Are they still charging for SSL? Last I checked, they made it as hard as possible to use letsencrypt, and had a rather deceptive "Free SSL if you buy a domain!" promotion that doesn't actually include a cert.
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by ineptech 4y ago
May I suggest https://www.lynalden.com/quantitative-easing-mmt-inflation/
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by ineptech 4y ago
This doesn't really touch on what I think of when I think of "naming things is hard", which is not really technical or language-specific so much as semantic. When you name an abstraction (object, enum value, function name, e
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by ineptech 4y ago
I get the "from outside our solar system" part, and it seems believable that sensors designed for missile tracking would get enough telemetry info to establish that. But the "tougher than iron" part? Based just on how
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by ineptech 4y ago
Don't expand what I said to make it easier to argue against. I don't think all laws automatically reflect the will of this people. I think this one, the highly publicized one, the controversial one that basically everyone
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by ineptech 4y ago
You've misunderstood the monkey story. Laughter isn't the defense mechanism, it's the thing that interrupts the defense mechanism. The involuntary grin response doesn't happen when someone punches you, it happens when
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by ineptech 4y ago
This doesn't sound even a little right to me. That punchline is based on inversion of expectations, not self-deprecation. Certainly there seems to be some connection between laughter and an interrupted defense mechanism, but your ver
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by ineptech 4y ago
It's a law against offensive speech. If more people in the UK are offended by trolling gays than by trolling Catholics, you don't need a conspiracy theory to explain why one gets you in more trouble than the other. To clarify, I
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by ineptech 4y ago
Imagine a restaurant that followed your rules (customers are never kicked out unless they do something illegal). Would you eat there? How long do you think it would stay in business?
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by ineptech 4y ago
Actually, speaking as a mediocre programmer who got in to management and now only writes code for fun side projects, there are lots of times when I'd prefer a less-performant function that I understand to a more-performant-but-opaque b
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by ineptech 4y ago
Step 1: Plant a tree twenty years ago...
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by ineptech 4y ago
How is one supposed to know who can and cannot take money from the smart contract, if not by consulting the contract? If my sign says "Apples $0.00" and you take an apple, can I sue you (or have you arrested) on the grounds that
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by ineptech 4y ago
We need a Federal Dept of SSO. There is one (1) foolproof way to tell someone is who they say they are, and it involves opening and staffing a real brick-and-mortar office in every town in America. No tech company will ever do that, and t
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by ineptech 4y ago
This might make more sense implemented as personal servers. A linux image you own and run in the cloud somewhere, that has whatever server-side software you want (a blog, your important documents, maybe a discord or minecraft server or wha
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by ineptech 4y ago
"We don't do that here" is not a show of power. Cultural norms don't come from a boss or an authority figure, they come from a team. This (and a lot of other related arguments in this thread) would probably be a lot cle
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by ineptech 4y ago
I quoted the part I was referring to. I think it was a reasonable comment until OP had to throw on some kerosene at the end there - that's the thing we (I hope?) don't do here.
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by ineptech 4y ago
Do you think the people OP was complaining about would say, "Yes, that's a fair summary of what we think"? This is how you turn a useful discussion into a pointless shouting match - you caricature and exaggerate your outgroup
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by ineptech 4y ago
> Or, we could continue down our current path of Orwellian new-speak, where a new group of religious extremists deem ever more language as blasphemous and everyone joins the witch-burners for fear of being labelled a witch themselves. We
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by ineptech 4y ago
Anyone find a transcript? I'd be curious to read it but I really dislike podcasts.

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