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by joecot 4y ago
Relatedly, never, ever do this. "Someone I know" works at a company who hired a guy to help manage their ad accounts, including Adwords. Between Google's account managers and Adword's helpful suggestions for optimizing c
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We can just build more housing. Landlords and home owners in California are addicted to their continuously rising property values. To the point where there was a thing called a "California Refi" where people would just refinance t
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by joecot 4y ago
This economic perspective was not updated for the advent of office and technological jobs. If you're running a factory, reducing total work hours by 20% would reduce output by about 20%. If you're writing software, doing desk job
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by joecot 4y ago
Because the things he says are contradictory, often very vague, and often extremely naive, either intentionally or unintentionally, regarding how hard it is to moderate content. As numerous industry leaders have pointed out, people on the L
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by joecot 4y ago
This might surprise you, but some of us care about other human beings whether or not they're citizens of the United States. My issues with ICE have nothing to do with census numbers and everything to do with them separating children fr
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Asking for sources and explanations of completely obvious things is a great way to exhaust people on the internet. Which I assume was the point given the "both sides"iness of the response.
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I just double-checked with my peers and it turns out it's possible to protest two different things at once, and that petitioning at multiple sources of the problem is often more effective at getting things done.
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I agree. And I would argue that the CIA should also get the boot. Probably about half of AWS's GovCloud should. But all the other heinous stuff that the US government agencies do abroad someone (that's not me) could argue is in
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by joecot 4y ago
This is most certainly targeted towards AWS being used by ICE. And not just in a generic way of them hosting ICE servers, but with ICE using Amazon Rekognition to identify undocumented immigrants (and allegedly AWS had meetings with ICE to
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by joecot 4y ago
Fun story. I showed up at my current company, and some frontend dev had convinced everyone that everything should be written in Elm. Their phone client, the frontend website, everything. Then, their lead dev left and so did the frontend dev
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by joecot 4y ago
There is also this, and it's one of the things that propped up Bitcoin at the beginning. A large chunk of the Chinese drug black market ran on bitcoin. In many ways the cryptocurrency boom was the 21st century's opium war.
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by joecot 4y ago
I would call it something besides a pyramid scheme if the people who got in at the bottom didn't then turn around and endlessly proselytize for crypto -- not because they think it's actually great, but because they can't take
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by joecot 4y ago
As soon as it was clear that Bitcoin was going to be a commodity instead of a currency (why use it as a currency to buy a pizza this week when it could buy you a car next week?), it was clear it was now a pyramid scheme. That's why I d
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by joecot 4y ago
I have a call center. We call consumers who signed up on our site, put them in a conference room, and then if they're interested we transfer their call over to a client who pays for the warm transfer. Additionally we receive incoming c
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by joecot 4y ago
I'm glad there is work on open alternatives to twilio, but I want to either confirm some features are missing or find out where to learn more about them. Is there any solution for: * Conference calls * Call queues * Call recordings
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by joecot 4y ago
The Poison Pill plan was from the Board, to stop Musk from following through with a hostile takeover. But Elon reportedly convinced numerous large shareholders of his plan[1]. Even if the Board isn't a fan of it, the Board of a publicl
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by joecot 4y ago
Firefox mobile supports extensions, including Dark Reader or Greasemonkey (which would allow user styles)
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Dark Reader works so well I'd actually forgotten I had it on for HN until I saw this post.
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And wants them to mostly move to Florida, so they have even more reason to care about Florida politics.
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Importantly, Disney's initial reaction was quite lukewarm. Disney employees were rather upset by the noncommittal bill's response from their CEO, and started staging walkouts. Disney employees slated to be relocated from Californi
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by joecot 4y ago
I deal with the same problem with fullname@gmail. My name is very common, surprisingly so if you're not Italian. I get emails for: * A Joe who runs a lego engineering team at his high school * A Joe who goes to bible study in Utah * A
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by joecot 4y ago
No idea. I'll note that the original post was to /r/Advice, and the removed update was to /r/relationship_advice. No idea why they switched subreddits, but I expect that was part of it. r/BestofRedditorUpdates
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by joecot 4y ago
Here's the same post in /r/BestofRedditorUpdates, which includes the update that was removed by mods https://reddit.com/r/BestofRedditorUpdates/comments/u6a3qp/o...
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by joecot 4y ago
I run a Dell XPS Developer Edition with Ubuntu preinstalled. I have had 0 problems with it. The only additional thing I did was disable the touchscreen because I never used it, but it did work. I think you're likely going to encounter
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by joecot 5y ago
The answer is to talk to recruiters. The job ads that catch your eye are specifically tailored for those results. They're usually posted from flashy startups who are high on their own supply. I had many an interview with those types of
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Because it's a comic. Comics involve both illustrations of characters and those characters speaking, so he draws characters instead of just text. If you follow SMBC this is a pretty normal setup for him, and many of the comics are the
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I greatly miss Hipmunk, and would really like a successor. But I'm confused as to why this needs to be a browser extension instead of just a website. Even if you provide extra features as an extension, show comparisons if I'm flig
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Probably because Bitcoin is significantly more volatile than any reasonable currency. It's far more like a stock than a currency. The issue dispensaries have is that they can't open bank accounts. If the issue was just with only p
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I went to try the Pidgin Facebook plugin, and I couldn't login. There's no more app passwords as the plugin suggests, if you try to login without the 2 factor Facebook sends "Is This You?" notifications every time, but d
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I haven't paid attention to 22.04, so I don't know what major features or breaking changes it has. But I'll give my opinion on in general LTS releases. * If you don't care about the new features, and just want to stay re

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