ironlake

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by ironlake 4y ago
Lots of comments in this thread talking about how books aren't being banned, just removed from school libraries, or we're just trying to control the sexual content taught to our kids. No, the books aren't banned. You can stil
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by ironlake 4y ago
Yeah, that's what I'm talking about. This is the good fascism we've been looking for. That durn pendulum of freedom has swung too far in the direction of the gays and the crossdressers. We have to ban books to fix it!
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by ironlake 4y ago
It's actually very accurate. web1 - it's open! web2 - it's open (but really controlled by social media billionaires) web3 - you own digital property but good news, you can be a landlord and get money by leasing out that digit
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by ironlake 4y ago
It's even worse than that. No one can think of anything to do with web3 other than make money off web3. Most young technologies promise more than they can deliver, and the result is underwhelming or disappointing. Nuclear had regulator
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by ironlake 4y ago
My Brother black-and-white laser is about ten years old. Pretty low volume of use from me, but it's held up well and is one of the most satisfying technology purchases I've ever made. If it stopped working, I would buy a Brother p
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by ironlake 4y ago
All money is our money. Families don't compete for resources. My spouse is not working right now, but when she did, she made a quarter of my income. >until it came time to use that rainy day funds and she started feeling that we wer
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by ironlake 4y ago
vim
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by ironlake 4y ago
>I have three rates. If you mention one of them, we can probably calculate the other two.
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by ironlake 4y ago
>I have stopped learning new things, and working on personal projects because of Dota2. In most professions, people learn on the job and don't have personal projects. It's OK to work 40 hours (or less!) a week and not think abo
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by ironlake 4y ago
I don't even think about work in the evenings. Stop working when you're not being paid to work. Your employer should be hiring more people to cover the work you are doing off the clock. And, yes, even if you are salaried, you are
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by ironlake 4y ago
My employer uses employees as "actors" in internal videos. I politely refuse to be in these videos. If they were to insist, I would find another job. It's unprofessional to approach people and ask them to do something outside
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by ironlake 4y ago
As someone who was writing code 25 years ago... it crashed all the time and it was plenty non-essential. My OS crashed most days. Even phones crashed all the time. It's much better now.
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by ironlake 4y ago
>Tesla is showing their first humanoid robot prototype in September. Last time Tesla showed a humanoid robot prototype, it was a guy in unitard, dancing.
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by ironlake 4y ago
My family orders take-out once a week. I used to go pick it up almost every time. DoorDash reduced my personal stress level by so much that the 20% service fee is an absolute bargain. DoorDash itself is predatory and harmful to local restau
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by ironlake 4y ago
Back in the 00's, the J2ME IRC channel was perfect for this. You could describe an architecture or an implementation and get different views from friendly expert peers. Non-toxic, too. The C channel was the opposite. Any question was m
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by ironlake 4y ago
>fediverse needs to go mainstream. Mastodon has been around for more than five years, and the idea of decentralized social networks long before that. Email, from a user standpoint, was much like Mastodon: a protocol that you consumed wit
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by ironlake 4y ago
>I've been at EA for about 1.5 years now and have never enjoyed working somewhere as much as this. Her story is part of an ongoing labor movement. People dismissed it back in 2004, but it's led to change. The practices she desc
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by ironlake 4y ago
People in Texas will be conserving power for most of the summer to "protect the grid". There's a good chance the power won't fail spectacularly like it did in the winter, but their lives are impacted.
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by ironlake 4y ago
And infringing on this imagined-from-first-principles right would cause serious repercussions. No regulation could ever be as beneficial as losing this imagined-from-first-principles right. We must let corporations and the police state that
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by ironlake 4y ago
Thanks for the correction. I did not realize they still made that available.
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by ironlake 4y ago
Same. I recently cancelled two subscriptions for services that I wasn't using very often, but for a family of three our total spend for subscriptions has almost no impact on monthly or yearly budget. It's still annoying when every
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by ironlake 4y ago
There's a scene near the end of Chariots of Fire where Harold Abrahams confesses to an old friend that he's more afraid of winning the race than losing it. Winning the race means losing his purpose. Contrast with the other racer
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by ironlake 4y ago
It's a terrible contract: no due diligence, a specific performance clause. The only type of person who would ever sign a contract like that would be a dumb guy who got rich by accident.
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by ironlake 4y ago
We can't solve climate change with an app or an innovation. Only government regulatory action can fix this. One nation above all others is resistant to worldwide government regulation. And one political party opposes regulation and dow
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by ironlake 4y ago
>Which strategy would you prefer? They actually teach this in business school. Laying off bunches of people triggers regulatory compliance which can limit hiring and other stuff. Announcing layoffs without actually doing them causes the
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by ironlake 4y ago
You are wrong. No value can be added to crypto except through fiat deposit. Publicly traded companies create value by their activity. For example, if I own a share of AT&T, the value of that share goes up if AT&T runs a successful m
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by ironlake 4y ago
1% faster with bionic reading, but I was eating chips and dip so maybe I was just distracted by stuffing my face.
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by ironlake 4y ago
Yep. Do it every night at midnight. It's fun, low-stakes, and hard to lose.
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by ironlake 4y ago
All regulations have limited effectiveness. This one is a step in the right direction. The tech industry tends to dismiss government action as misguided, unenforceable, or watered down. Meanwhile, the free market gives us Ring cameras where
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by ironlake 4y ago
>What do you propose to do about entities like MSTR? He answered the question.

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