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by jrockway 3y ago
I don't really believe it. The companies would just offshore to a country with more preferential immigration treatment. Remember that plan for a boat in international waters where programmers who can't get visas would work for c
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by jrockway 3y ago
The complexity is added to achieve a complex goal. In the case of airlines, it's so that you can walk up to the ticket counter 45 minutes before a flight, slap down a wad of cash, and get on that flight... while still ensuring that ev
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by jrockway 3y ago
The ID check is revenue management, the magnetometers are to make you feel safe against terrorism. They happen at the same place in the airport, but they are totally different things instituted for totally different reasons. Since restaura
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by jrockway 3y ago
These clients never fly commercial? I am not inventing a new system here; I'm stealing revenue management from the airlines. Same exact problem; you lose money if all your seats aren't filled, and you can charge some people more
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by jrockway 3y ago
You have to prove residency in that state as well. This would mean a utility bill or voter registration, most likely. If you live completely off the grid and don't vote, you could probably not get a state ID in some states. The US is
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by jrockway 3y ago
I really don't think Big Tech is using H1-B and greencards to buy fake loyalty or cheaper labor. If your current employer applied for a visa for you, your future employer will too. (To some extent, startups get screwed here, since no
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by jrockway 3y ago
Yeah, I clicked that link in the article and was surprised. I had never seen it before, but I guess I just assumed given how often-counterfeited anything Apple is, that it's something I'd never look for on Ali... em... Amazon. M
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by jrockway 3y ago
I'm not sure that makes sense. You now have to pay someone to maintain a reservations book and be available at any time to receive the phone call. Meanwhile, the reservation companies can just have ChatGPT make the phone call for yo
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by jrockway 3y ago
I had no idea Apple got preferential treatment. I have never seen what I thought to be a genuine Apple product on Amazon. I assumed Apple was taking steps to prevent anyone from selling anything Apple-branded there. The fact that they&#x2
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by jrockway 3y ago
I'm fine with that. They should do it for concerts, too. A little bit of inconvenience is often better than paying market price; you can easily fill every restaurant in the city every night with people that make more money than me.
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by jrockway 3y ago
So, there are a lot of comments saying that reservations should charge an up-front fee and apply that to the food, but I don't think that will work. First off, plenty of restaurants in New York do that and the problem persists. The u
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by jrockway 3y ago
Is this "data collection" or a backup feature?
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by jrockway 3y ago
Because the evolution of the topic branch is largely irrelevant to future analysis. If you write tests firsts, then you have a commit in the repo where tests can never pass; fun for bisecting. If you write the code first, then you have a
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by jrockway 3y ago
They can, but pretty much everything will reverse lookup to Cloudflare or AWS.
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by jrockway 3y ago
I think the best analogy I can come up with is your kid touching a hot stove. You tell them not to, but they do anyway, and then when they learn that it really hurts, they stop doing it. Regulations are like that. Regulations are a SUPER
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by jrockway 3y ago
I have a kind of off-topic NASM story. I think I was using it circa 2004 for a class, and was taking another class that required us to find 10 exploitable security holes in existing software. (This was DJB's "Unix Security Holes
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by jrockway 3y ago
That's smart!
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by jrockway 3y ago
Why risk it when you can write a risk-free loan to the federal government at 5.35%? (Maybe it's not risk-free if Congress forces them to default, but the Fed has some plans for that, and the stock market is unlikely to have a great da
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by jrockway 3y ago
Stick your cash in a high-yield savings account. Now that's passive income!
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by jrockway 3y ago
This sounds approximately like acquisitions I've been through, except working at Google you get paid 3x as much. There are many, many huge enterprises buying startups; few have the pay scales of Google. (The general inability to act
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by jrockway 3y ago
Insurance involves having a large pool of good drivers to subsidize the bad drivers. So the money they spend to make the pool larger could make things better from you; more good drivers, they pay out less claims, they charge you less. It&
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by jrockway 3y ago
To some extent, serving ads is like owning a money printer. I can't really get upset that everyone wants to own a money printer. I just hope that there is a backlash against ads someday, where they start having a negative effect. &q
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by jrockway 3y ago
I don't think they care about HA at all, but they do care about Amazon not going through them to get access, and from the API server's perspective, both look identical. Personally, I hope that Amazon doesn't play ball. You c
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by jrockway 3y ago
Yeah. I have to say, I've never needed to give money to someone my bank doesn't want me to give money to. As someone spending money, I don't want guarantees like "this transaction cannot be revoked". I want to re
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by jrockway 3y ago
yaml2json | jq ...
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by jrockway 3y ago
All I'm saying is that there are viable alternatives. Oracle and SQL Server being successful doesn't really force anyone into using either of those things. Similarly, sure, .NET and Java are popular enough, but they have alterna
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by jrockway 3y ago
I feel like "Edge only exists so I can download Chrome" is a meme that many, many people outside the software engineering field relate to. Go post it to Reddit, instant 100k upvotes every time ;)
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by jrockway 3y ago
It's always hard to tell. Is this "No Wifi. Less space than a Nomad. Lame.", or is it NFTs? You can never tell until the hype train either crashes or takes over the world.
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by jrockway 3y ago
Meanwhile, everyone is just using Go and Postgres for free.
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by jrockway 3y ago
Probably a problem fixed by time. We laugh a little when we hear the ENIAC took up an entire room and required an entire staff all for 500 floating-point operations per second. Sure, maybe it's difficult to scale current lithography

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