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by jdminhbg 4y ago
They don’t come with built-in chains or snow tires, either.
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by jdminhbg 4y ago
The point is probably to check that changes they make aren’t accidentally politically biased.
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by jdminhbg 4y ago
Twitter circa 2010 was gaining active users. Mastodon today is losing active users: https://mastodon-analytics.com/
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by jdminhbg 4y ago
A Bolt is more likely a second car for a family that does pay taxes than a primary purchase for one that doesn’t.
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by jdminhbg 4y ago
I'm not trying to use a trick. It's just pointless to compare Iceland to a country that's three orders of magnitude bigger. Lots of bad things and lots of good things happen in the US that don't happen there. Places like
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by jdminhbg 4y ago
> There are no school shootings yet here there's almost one a day it seems. I promise you it's very easy to find sub-400k person communities in the US that have never had one either.
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by jdminhbg 4y ago
> Coinbase can hire lawyers for that until they are certain they can defend themselves in court. This is exactly what they’re doing. You think they just fired off some press releases in response like some kinda half-informed HN comment?
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by jdminhbg 4y ago
A settlement where you can't testify at a trial is just witness tampering. It's not legal.
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by jdminhbg 4y ago
I have owned a Hyundai, and I have zero idea why everyone is so convinced that their physical buttons reduce driver distraction. In the six years I had it, I never managed to totally figure out where the HVAC buttons were and in what order
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by jdminhbg 4y ago
> It seems like you have to buy software to do anything on macos more conveniently. > Why can't I write a script in python? or a gui script in python? it's the top language. You definitely don’t need to buy Python, it’s F&#x
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by jdminhbg 4y ago
post from 1965 Note to AI dorks: This doesn’t apply to neural networks. If neural nets could be more useful for most applications than what already exists (expert systems, human intervention), we would know it by now.
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by jdminhbg 4y ago
> A degree from an accredited university is a real valuable thing Uh… sometimes.
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by jdminhbg 4y ago
How good would it be at letting business users attach photos and emailed documents?
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by jdminhbg 4y ago
5X is a gigantic underestimate of how much developer time has improved. How long would it take a good assembly programmer to implement a CRUD web server connected to a database? Way more than 5x longer what a mediocre Python programmer woul
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by jdminhbg 4y ago
Right, the difference is that there's an enforcement mechanism here.
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by jdminhbg 4y ago
That might be a defensible position to take, but it's simply false that "no one is saying that." AB5, which this ballot prop is a response to, absolutely says that: https://www.investopedia.com/california-asse
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by jdminhbg 4y ago
You can get that at fast food places or corporate coffee chains in the US as well. What you can’t get is PTO for working 10 hours a week whenever you feel like it.
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by jdminhbg 4y ago
It’s possible that Uber and Lyft drivers are simply not dumb enough to believe that the legislature is going to magically conjure a 401k match and PTO for their 10 hour/week driving side gig.
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by jdminhbg 4y ago
US salaries don’t include employer payroll taxes, unemployment insurance, health insurance, retirement matching, etc. Total cost can easily be 2x advertised salary.
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by jdminhbg 4y ago
> the high end of a distribution What a dev costs is not the same as what an advertised salary for a dev is. This is closer to the middle of the distribution for dev costs in the US.
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by jdminhbg 4y ago
Tweet from the author [0]: > My debut at @Slate: Venture capitalists are parasites who couldn't be trusted with the financial institution that held up their industry, let alone the direction of our technological development. Euthani
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by jdminhbg 4y ago
> Savings. Those savings are gonna grow at a pretty slow rate if you can't lend with interest.
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by jdminhbg 4y ago
> There’s not an acre of open land between San Jose and SF that doesn’t have a building structure on it. Fortunately we have the technology to tear down crappy post-war single family homes and replace them with multi-unit buildings.
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by jdminhbg 4y ago
The Bay Area isn’t remotely “packed in.” It’s good that the state of California is starting to take steps to prevent its current inhabitants from pulling the ladder up behind them.
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by jdminhbg 4y ago
> And this was long before Zoom existed. Can someone explain to me why Zoom is such a big thing? We were using video conferencing in the last century without it. a) Zoom is very good at reducing the number of clicks between a link in you
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by jdminhbg 4y ago
I'm not saying it's completely impossible, I'm just saying it is, contra OP, more likely that if you are in an office and take a conference room every morning at 10 for 15 minutes that you will be caught, versus working two j
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by jdminhbg 4y ago
I really think it would be a lot easier to get away with taking part in two Zoom standups per day from home than from an office.
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by jdminhbg 4y ago
$10M / 8k = $1250, so I guess they could have kept each of those employees on another day and a half without the McConaughey contract.
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by jdminhbg 4y ago
> I love taking a "day trip" to Chicago, a thousand miles away. I can arrive at 10am Out of curiosity, what time do you have to leave to arrive at 10?
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by jdminhbg 4y ago
This theory seems a lot more convoluted than "it's hard to scale production of a new vehicle and they haven't figured it out yet."

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