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by jahewson 3y ago
That’s a creditor, not an employee. Even VCs take a management fee.
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by jahewson 3y ago
JBIG2, I should have known! Interesting that bug came not from Apple but from Xpdf.
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by jahewson 3y ago
> I find it hard to believe this would be upheld in court. I think you mean in arbitration.
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by jahewson 3y ago
They absolutely do hold up in court. In recent years multiple US courts have found even browsewrap licenses to be enforceable.
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by jahewson 3y ago
This is not business, it’s loyalty and empire building, at the expense of the business.
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by jahewson 3y ago
What gets me is that they have no idea how awful they are at what they do.
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by jahewson 3y ago
Actually I think that is a bad thing. Employee negotiating power is strictly capped under such a system. If every employer offers the same range, you’re screwed.
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by jahewson 3y ago
The range is not forced and salaries of existing employees are not disclosed, so this effect does not hold. A talented individual is free to negotiate above the pay range and the range for a new role does not have to reflect the salaries of
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by jahewson 3y ago
The destruction of freedom for a good cause is still the destruction of freedom.
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by jahewson 3y ago
In other words, the biscuits need more shortening.
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by jahewson 3y ago
Yep! It would be a great it generating hot takes and click bait.
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by jahewson 3y ago
Does not work in a globalised world as the emissions just move to wherever they are not taxed. Now, you could then tax imports but that’s your own populous paying that tax - and you no longer have free trade. Your exports will be uncompetit
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by jahewson 3y ago
The price of oil is held artificially high by OPEC so on that front at least I think we’re ok.
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by jahewson 3y ago
“lower foot traffic” would cover work from home, no? Also I’ve been to this store and the area around it is nasty to the point that I no longer take my children there. Yes, retail is having a hard time in general but my goodness just go w
555.
by jahewson 3y ago
Europe was deforested long before industrialization.
556.
by jahewson 3y ago
Fuel in the form of dry trees and wind on the hills are your big fire risk factors. Flat, grassy places are fine. Plus it’s easy to cut the grass. Source: I live here.
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by jahewson 3y ago
If only 27% of ADHD sufferers have experienced childhood trauma then we can be certain that such trauma is not its cause.
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by jahewson 3y ago
Sprinkler does not require power - just water pressure.
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by jahewson 3y ago
Sprinkler does not require power - just water pressure.
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by jahewson 3y ago
I get where you’re coming from but SF is full of busses, it has trams, light rail, (even some cable cars!) and a subway. A couple of years ago it was stuffed full of electric scooters. Bikeable areas are constrained by the hills or practica
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by jahewson 3y ago
Is this not a logical fallacy? “Technology fails at something simple therefore it will fail at something complex.” Humans might fail in that manner but this technology was trained and operates in an entirely different manner. I think you ma
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by jahewson 3y ago
> Network Rail has deaths this way regularly. No they don’t? But they do make the trains late.
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by jahewson 3y ago
> it's not appropriate for the disadvantaged side to be making sacrifices. No it totally is. The entire point in it being a sacrifice is that it comes at some cost and it’s not something you have to do. If you’re basically forced to
564.
by jahewson 3y ago
I think this just incentivises cartels or elaborate corporate structures.
565.
by jahewson 3y ago
There is no consensus.
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by jahewson 3y ago
> Have Dev and Ops collaborate closely That’s what DevOps is… or, was. I remember when it was new; that was the whole thing: dev and ops should work together. A break from the norm of the time that dev throws it over the wall to ops and
567.
by jahewson 3y ago
Rust for web dev instead of Go? I want to believe. What’s the killer app?
568.
by jahewson 3y ago
The event was sponsored by Coca Cola. It earned the Bulls money.
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by jahewson 3y ago
Even something as simple as a blog accrues the author some small reputational benefit. Of course if people do conclude that there’s no benefit to sharing knowledge and stop doing so then those who do share knowledge will have an outsized im
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by jahewson 3y ago
Don’t get me started on those automatic soap dispensers, do they work for anyone!?

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