jwie

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by jwie 3y ago
A lot of words spent on the ocean. None on wine and the practicalities of epic verse. The thing to understand here is that the ancient people who would have heard these words from a poet did not drink wine as we understand it. Wine was a co
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by jwie 3y ago
There was an opportunity here to explain why this isn't a big deal. This entire article is devoid of any synthesis or value added information. If I saw this on DNYUZ I wouldn't give it a second look, but CNN has lesser aspirations
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by jwie 3y ago
The pandemic hiring blitz was more like seasonal hiring in a sector that doesn’t normally do that, and nobody had the vocabulary to describe the phenomenon. Combined with talent hoarding the whole thing became a luxury companies can’t affor
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by jwie 3y ago
Being in the middle Mux wouldn’t be able to offer more substantive changes to the service problem. A neat operational fix to a tough event driven problem. The root cause here is “sports streaming services are garbage.” Mux can’t do anything
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by jwie 3y ago
Turning your life into a checklist is missing the point.
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by jwie 3y ago
There’s an easy way to do this. Buy out the contract. Companies offer foolish lifetime packages all the time. I think it was American Airlines offered lifetime unlimited first class flights. They can’t claw this product away from the few re
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by jwie 3y ago
The engineers learned from Scotty. There was a great scene in TNG where Scotty reveals to Geordi the estimates were rigged all along. But then again, it’s a TV show designed to produce tension. Star Trek: Drydock wouldn’t be as exciting. Bu
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by jwie 3y ago
Don’t need a philosophy. Need a destination.
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by jwie 4y ago
The whimper of the end.
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by jwie 4y ago
If you can convince everyone else at your shop that nobody perceives pizza parties as valuable they’ll stop offering them. Until then, these sorts of low cost rewards deliver value. Only you can fix this. Only you can ruin pizza parties for
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by jwie 4y ago
They have no other abilities in the first place. The adjectives are just as meaningless. "Ask" it about academic articles and their authors for {topic} and to summarize a body of research. The names might even be real people, but
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by jwie 4y ago
Small objective differences create vast differences in outcomes. Those things where that isn't true have already been automated away or commodified so there's very little margin left anyway. It might be true in a misleading sense
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by jwie 4y ago
Porn is a hyper reality. It’s obscene, but more it’s really just produced a lot. Normal sex resembles porn about as much as a show about high school resembles high school. There are some specific harms of pornography, but it shares a lot of
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by jwie 4y ago
The problem with VR isn’t complicated. People get sick when they use it, and there aren’t any killer apps for it. These limitations have been known for decades as every VR attempt has run into them. Oculus and The Virtual Boy ran into the e
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by jwie 4y ago
Garbage in. Garbage out. Just like anything else in this computer thing.
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by jwie 4y ago
The fact that I have to file the return is itself part of the problem. This process should be “irs gives you a refund or tells you what you owe and then you either dispute it or take it”. The audit practice invites mischief into a system wh
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by jwie 4y ago
Family is everything, and we should be willing to make sacrifices for our own. However, for the generation that plundered their children and grandchildren, less than care is merited. They will receive care in proportion to the care they gav
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by jwie 4y ago
I meant more, it’s not like people aren’t using as much as they can. It’s that there’s some tactics used against workers. This happened to an in-law who works for a soft drink distributor, but this kind of thing happens often in decent wage
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by jwie 4y ago
There’s likely some nuance here. Lets say a worker has nominally 10 days off per year. What the company does practically is if you take more than 6 days off is start writing you up. Theoretically you could take 10 days but any infraction wo
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by jwie 4y ago
We can only imagine what the lightbulb world would look like if the Phoebus cartel didn't hamstring R&D. Some might be tempted to believe that we'd have discovered what technology they suppressed, but they are insufficiently p
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by jwie 4y ago
It’s gone from a kind of commission on service to a specific person to a voluntary overcharge for anything because why not ask if the customer is willing to pay more. I’m not tipping in the drive through. I equally hate the charity “round u
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by jwie 4y ago
Ah yes it’s a “labor shortage” not high labor demand and wages of course.
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by jwie 4y ago
No one is allowed to state the actual reason they oppose high density housing, so any will do.
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by jwie 4y ago
Or we go back to physical forms for important things and call it good enough. We could call it revolutionary air-gapped physical security strategy.
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by jwie 4y ago
Reading aloud in an odd cadence is effective.
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by jwie 4y ago
The benefit of a system not understanding what it’s saying is that it can’t understand what not to say. We can only hope this feature is endemic to the technology.
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by jwie 4y ago
You can’t sell non-action. It’s a broken window problem. It’s difficult to measure the value of leaving stuff alone. The line on the chart doesn’t go up. We intervene because it allows us to sell product. There’s no commission on discretion
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by jwie 4y ago
There’s a simple reason for them not interviewing. No upside for the pilots, and the information could be used against them. I find myself agreeing with the union’s reasoning. There’s no justification for recorded audio. Stenographers are f
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by jwie 4y ago
All cause mortality is lower among light drinkers than non-drinkers. Small doses of harms are typically beneficial. Not all harm is bad, and safety is not always desirable.
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by jwie 4y ago
I hope they do it. It would be fun to trick it into generating highly brand inappropriate product placements.

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