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by ineptech 5y ago
I disagree, this seems like an expected outcome. The economy is turbulent; it has been disrupted and is in the process of adjusting. Some (relatively brief and localized) shortages are expected as the markets find a new equilibrium. Unemp
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by ineptech 5y ago
To the assorted people arguing that the riots on 1/6/21 were not big/successful enough to warrant the term "coup" - you are likely mistaken in assuming that OP was referring specifically to the riot, as opposed to t
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by ineptech 5y ago
Your position is very tenuous, based on a reasonable reading of the definitions of "coup" and "attempt"; but even if GP changed their wording to suit you (e.g. "We just easily stopped a political riot ") it
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by ineptech 5y ago
Namecheap - buy a domain, see an addon for wordpress hosting that includes "free SSL!" It doesn't include a cert; they charge $6/yr and refuse to integrate with letsencrypt. The "free ssl" is for yourdomain.th
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by ineptech 5y ago
> what is a reasonable alternative for a content creator..? Insurance? I'm only half kidding. No individual youtuber has the deep pockets to stir the slumbering Googlebeast enough to get it to notice and correct its mistake, but a
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by ineptech 5y ago
The CEO's post is presumably one-sided, but AFAIK contains all the details: https://world.hey.com/dhh/let-it-all-out-78485e8e
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by ineptech 5y ago
In the abstract, sure, an important sentiment; but applying Wiesel's words to this debate seems like the very height of hubris. No matter how fervently I might agree with some activists' goals, I am very dubious that Basecamp&#x2
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by ineptech 5y ago
They also subsidize the cost with VC money to undercut more efficient public transit.
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by ineptech 5y ago
The presumption that the world can be divided in to "progressive activists" and "racists" probably has a lot to do with the reason people don't want to express diverse political opinions at work.
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by ineptech 6y ago
Not pictured: any attempt to argue that experimenting on the team that reviews kernel patches is a legitimate thing to do. They discuss it as if they were researching something naturally occuring, like the animals living in a tidepool. I c
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by ineptech 6y ago
Growing up, I knew a guy, friend of my Dad's, who had an incredibly elaborate train set in his basement. It's clear he had thousands of hours invested in it. I never got in to trains, but I do have a hobby video game coding proj
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by ineptech 6y ago
Do you imagine that this "expert process" will come up with a way to preserve message privacy while also flagging which messages are illegal? What else could the purpose of it be than to recommend requiring providers to MITM thei
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by ineptech 6y ago
Broadly speaking, a general purpose computer is one that can do anything (like an Apple IIe) and the opposite is one that is constrained to do a few specific things (like an ATM). Whether an iphone (or a wintel computer with UEFI, or an An
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by ineptech 6y ago
a) "Install this app, it's safe" != "Install this app, but only use this part, don't click on that part" b) opt-in features that are very profitable have a funny habit of transmorphing in to opt-out
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by ineptech 6y ago
Iphones try very hard to look like general purpose computers; that's why everyone was so pissed when they pushed that U2 album, it pierced the veil.
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by ineptech 6y ago
Same experience here! The only problem I have is that the Android search bar seems to ignore the default Browser setting, but avoiding it (opening FF rather than using the search bar widget) is a small price to pay for avoiding ads so effe
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by ineptech 6y ago
I think that the value of a lot of unions is obscured by how well-established they are. Historically, unions are a solution to a specific problem - the employer can (for one reason or another) get away with jerking employees around and tre
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by ineptech 6y ago
It seems like the title of this essay should be " My Daily Standup is a Waste of Time." To which the obvious answer is: ok, so change it. That (in my humble opinion) is the basic core feature of agile, that teams own their own
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by ineptech 6y ago
> Tax competition is what keeps governments in check. That's true for me, because if I decide US taxes are too high and leave the country, I don't get to keep using US roads. That's not true of Amazon. Edit to add: more g
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by ineptech 6y ago
Without a harmonized tax, Ireland could also lose all of its corporate tax receipts to some other country that's willing to stoop even lower. More generally, this is a variant of a mutual coordination problem in game theory, in which i
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by ineptech 6y ago
I think you're missing the point here. > "We're working with G20 nations to agree to a global minimum corporate tax rate that can stop the race to the bottom." The race to the bottom Yellen refers to is corporations p
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by ineptech 6y ago
The courts may say there's nothing sinister about it; that doesn't preclude me from saying so. * Tax avoidance by regular people is overwhelmingly accomplished by doing things that tax law subsidizes because we think they're
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by ineptech 6y ago
Thanks to you and the parent comment both for this rundown on the pros and cons, I found it helpful; and also, using a throwaway account to defend nodejs is, if intentional, a fantastically subtle joke.
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by ineptech 6y ago
Not related to data, but nomads and semi-nomads might want to consider an external GPU setup. I tried it and really like it (though it is a bit of a pain and not for people who don't want to deal with drivers and such). The gist of it
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by ineptech 6y ago
IMHO means "in my humble opinion". The reason I hold that opinion is that when someone is using their power surreptitiously, they generally don't call attention to it. More subjectively, none of us can know for certain, but
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by ineptech 6y ago
You left out some context: he did that in a (failed) attempt at lulz. It was a long thread where (IMHO) he was fielding tough questions pretty frankly and honestly, as one might hope he would, but he ruined it by editing someone's pos
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by ineptech 6y ago
It sounds like you've never been a landlord. For small-timers at any rate, the main attraction is asset appreciation, and the second is tax subsidies. Excess rent is usually the least important factor, and is often around zero, and c
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by ineptech 6y ago
> And I'm a Bayesian analyst. Surely your position is that it is a coincidence that... Then you ought to know that seeing more circumstantial evidence for A than B does not imply that A is more likely. What would imply that A is
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by ineptech 6y ago
The fact that most of society thinks it's much worse to say mean things about black people than to say mean things about white people is not Twitter's fault.
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by ineptech 6y ago
> "cognitive error" and "revealed preference" may also be different names for the same thing. Are they experimentally distinguishable? "I would still be against torture no matter what the research shows" is

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