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by jgust 7y ago
You could summarize and say "edicts cause unintended consequences". Nature (and by extension, humanity) doesn't operate on booleans, and it's lazy to assume so. It takes work to identify positive behaviors and incentiviz
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by jgust 7y ago
Particles with thin films on them, of course.
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by jgust 7y ago
FWIW I witnessed a tweaker perched on top of one those public water fountains on the LFT, washing his bottom. I'd need to be nearly dead from dehydration to drink from one at this point.
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by jgust 7y ago
To bake a pie, you must first invent the universe.
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by jgust 7y ago
Trees, meet forest. Bus depot, power station, factory, Amazon warehouse, sewage treatment plant. They are interchangeable in the sense that you don't necessarily want to live directly next to one, which is why to an extent zoning exist
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by jgust 7y ago
Examples for the curious?
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by jgust 7y ago
Nothing like buying a house and having a bus depot opened on the lot next door a year later. #freemarket
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by jgust 7y ago
All fair points. I was discouraged when I read your original comment, because I took it at face value as "this is what it is, this is what it always will be" but that wasn't your intention.
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by jgust 7y ago
You state this like it's a natural fact. That's how it is in many places, _today_. It doesn't have to be this way. As far as I know, there is no law of physics that has us locked into this way of operating society.
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by jgust 7y ago
Not related to the article, so feel free to downvote. I had to open this in Safari and "capture" it in reading mode before the page loaded fully to read the full article. Sort of anti-user.
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by jgust 7y ago
I took this as an argument for a thin, or at least thinner, client. If something is complicated and costly to maintain - shouldn't it move to the server? What complicated processes are you doing on-device that couldn't be done som
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by jgust 7y ago
Wow. The grid in the US sucks.
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by jgust 7y ago
I imagine a world where the electricity grid is intelligent enough to have a "conversation" with appliances to efficiently spread load across the day, more accurately plan capacity, and do it at a lower cost to consumers and the e
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by jgust 7y ago
> different languages encode different thought patterns I find this so interesting and I want it to be true. The Guugu Ymithirr come to mind, whose directional prepositions are based on cardinal directions. This difference, when compared
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by jgust 7y ago
Just echoing some absurd justifications/arguments for bad design made by diehard Apple fans.
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by jgust 7y ago
jUsT bUy A sEcOnD mOuSe!
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by jgust 7y ago
In this case, CBP is collecting this data without the direct consent of _the people_, so who in this case is accountable? It's not _the people_ who made the decision to collect this data.
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by jgust 7y ago
Piling on to this, customer service isn't just an interaction with an [entity] when something goes wrong. I would fairly categorize the initial shopping & fulfillment experience in the context of Amazon's e-commerce product as
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by jgust 7y ago
But it doesn't work that way now, therefore it can NEVER work that way!
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by jgust 7y ago
There is a very real scenario for many workers that comes down to this: a) continue working this horrible job and survive b) quit working this horrible job and (lose healthcare/don't pay bill xyz/starve/insert outcome he
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by jgust 7y ago
If the US ever manages to separate the safety net (healthcare, basic living needs covered, retirement) from full time employment I can see the argument for a gig economy working. You may actually see "the market" compete for emplo
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by jgust 7y ago
The "rats" will come, be assured.
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by jgust 7y ago
This is the example I use when knowledge workers lose their minds over ML. Do you _enjoy_ menial tasks? If so, I'm sorry; they are probably going to be sucked up by machines. This is an awesome opportunity to offload busy work & im
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by jgust 7y ago
History?
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by jgust 8y ago
Thanks!
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by jgust 8y ago
Just like everything, there are levels to this.
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by jgust 8y ago
This speaks to me. You said this much better than I did. What bugs me about a lot of developers is that they can't see the forest from the trees.
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by jgust 8y ago
The point of standups is to help teams to learn to communicate and to steer the team to a habit of working on the most important things. Once that's a behavior, standups can be less frequent or dropped all together. This is especially
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by jgust 8y ago
> Always do the simplest thing. Can you clarify? If you meant "always search for the simplest solution" I agree. If you meant, "always do the easiest tasks" I don't.
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by jgust 8y ago
Do _most_ companies follow DO-178C requirements? Do _most_ software engineers even know what that is?

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