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by ineptech 5y ago
On a similar note, I see a clear difference in Baba Is You[0] where sober me can follow longer chains of reasoning, but high me can think of more unexpected approaches. 0: Very good logic game on steam: https://store.steampowered
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by ineptech 5y ago
This is interesting, I wish it were that easy for me. Do you do any prep work, i.e. "story planning" (presumably in a less formal way than you would at work)? I find that, for my side projects, I can do a lot of damage while hig
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by ineptech 5y ago
I'm not surprised, I think it's just extremely subjective. I mean, I find it extremely hard to focus on a programming task if there's music playing, but I know people who listen to music all day while they work.
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by ineptech 5y ago
From my experience and some of the comments, it seems like a common thread is that weed is good for "clean the garage" tasks - not cognitively challenging but tedious, something you'd like to be distracted from - and not good
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by ineptech 5y ago
Doesn't seem misleading to me, your summary ("It's about municipalities hiring private companies to staff the libraries and manage day to day operations.") aligns with my understanding of what "privatize libraries&q
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by ineptech 5y ago
Fair enough, though the suggestion that Google engineers take up farming was probably not very serious. However, the idea that we have a choice between no ads or the most pernicious ads imaginable is certainly a false one.
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by ineptech 5y ago
> I would rather have ads than paywalls. No offense but I've heard people who work at ad companies repeat this like a mantra, and it's a false dichotomy, akin to a coal company who dumps slag in rivers saying, "Well we thi
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by ineptech 5y ago
> Since ads can run arbitrary JS it's hard to enforce policy programmatically. Letting ads run arbitrary JS is the policy, right? It's not like that's a requirement to make the internet work, that's just a Google p
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by ineptech 5y ago
I also thought of this; this explanation is like a more complicated and nuanced, but probably less empirically testable, version of the "CDS" mechanism proposed by the study's authors. I scrolled to the bottom half-expecting
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by ineptech 5y ago
I don't think it's unwinnable; we don't want FB to arbitrate between competing scientific opinions, we just want them to blackhole Magic Healing Water and Covid Vaccine 5G Drone Tracker type bullshit. It may be true that it&#
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by ineptech 5y ago
This doesn't have to be either/or. Once upon a time, your "work" would've been weaving baskets or gathering berries or whatever, and you would get immediate satisfaction from seeing how you are improving your own l
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by ineptech 5y ago
Deleted my previous reply as I didn't realize you were OP. I characterized this as a problem because a) you made it sound like one, and b) in my experience, people in this situation are usually unhappy and struggling in other areas. I
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by ineptech 5y ago
Sure, but you could also find a job you like better and embrace FIRE doing that.
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by ineptech 5y ago
Long time manager here. I call this "work-shy" and it is neither ubiquitous nor rare, I'd guess about 10%-20% of all employees, and it's certainly not unique to software or even to white-collar work. You should think o
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by ineptech 5y ago
The exact value of inflation this year is controversial and depends a lot on how you measure it, but you can replace it with 6 or 8 or whatever you think the correct value is without altering their point.
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by ineptech 5y ago
If Chrome can kill uBlock and use its dominance to do user-hostile stuff, and Firefox goes along "in the interest of cross-browser compatibility", then what the hell's the point of Firefox in the first place?
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by ineptech 5y ago
a) You're implying that we use sale prices to set the assessed value of property today; I believe that's often not true. I happen to have the tax slip for a property in front of me, the assessed value is about 80% of what I paid
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by ineptech 5y ago
Inaccuracy isn't a very big component of this; assessing the value of land and structures isn't perfect but there's no obvious reason to think we're way better at one or the other. The point of this is that taxing the l
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by ineptech 5y ago
eh, what? The tax on $500K worth of stock or gold is zero. Also, home ownership is disincentivized by property taxes but also incentivized by the mortgage interest deduction, one of the largest non-corporate tax subsidies in America. And
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by ineptech 5y ago
The only non-speculation and non-dumb use case for NFTs I know of is identities for distributed or federated apps. An NFT registry is just a list of people who own numbers, and they get made fun of because a) owning a number isn't very
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by ineptech 5y ago
You don't; you ease your executive/sales/etc partners into the new world where they get better software, faster features, and fewer outages, but they give up release dates and micro-managing the roadmap. Calling an epic &quo
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by ineptech 5y ago
From context it seems like an awesome community, the sort of thing I'd like to be a part of, and I'm sure some other folks here feel similarly; but it's been redirected to a rickroll video, which I'm guessing means some
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by ineptech 5y ago
It really helps to use vague terms like S/M/L/XL or bike/car/plane or whatever. If you say an epic will take 6 months, it is very likely that in 3 months someone will ask for proof that you're halfway done.
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by ineptech 5y ago
It seems like the common thread is that all of the accounts being mysteriously banned are old, and KYC rules have changed. Is it possible that this (the "you're banned, make a new account" message) is just because it was too
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by ineptech 5y ago
Ah, I think I see the misunderstanding now. I argued that cryptocurrency is only speculative, and hence unlike a currency which has other uses. I did not argue the inverse (that currency only has other uses, and is not speculative).
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by ineptech 5y ago
Seizures were once thought to be caused by sinfulness. We used to think problem gambling was a decision, until we discovered a drug that can cause it. I don't think we know why addicts become addicts just yet, so it might be a little
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by ineptech 5y ago
Yes. Gold has both speculative value (you can sell it for more than you bought it for) and intrinsic value (you can use it for stuff). A bitcoin has speculative value only, as far as I can tell. Whether the same is true of crypto general
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by ineptech 5y ago
Anything that hasn't happened yet is "speculative" I guess, but in this context speculative means you bought it because you think you can sell it for more tomorrow, as opposed to buying it for its intrinsic value.
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by ineptech 5y ago
> Bitcoin has a non zero floor price. I think anyone would agree with this. I don't. I don't think it's literally zero - even if it drops to $.01 some people will still buy it on the theory that it might go up to $.02.
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by ineptech 5y ago
Stronger/weaker refer to the value of a dollar compared to other currencies; inflation/deflation refer to the value of a dollar compared to goods and services. Neither is related to the "elite's proportion of the nation

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