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by ketzo 4y ago
That is a very complicated question, but in short: Russia’s economy is supported by oil. Oil is pretty much the one thing that they’ve still been consistently able to export. China’s economy is based on exporting lots and lots and lots of m
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by ketzo 4y ago
Ooh, I had skimmed the docs but hadn’t seen the best practices section, thanks!
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by ketzo 4y ago
I appreciated this intro to Cypress, but does anyone know of a resource that takes a more advanced dive? I’m looking for pitfalls, edge cases, special features, performance optimization, that kind of thing.
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by ketzo 4y ago
I don't know if that's supposed to be comforting, but "Don't worry -- this weapon is way too large and powerful for someone to use in mere petty crime!" does not exactly put one at ease
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by ketzo 4y ago
I just recently left a job that had a lot of pre-Java 8 still running. That’s legacy Java.
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by ketzo 4y ago
There were players of similar (and higher) skill — but they didn’t want to play with him because he was “annoying” to play against. Which is a normal part of a competitive multiplayer game, except that people got the option to avoid him (
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by ketzo 4y ago
That’s the problem. this player was at the top of the matchmaking ladder that (very small) population had a lot of people who wanted to avoid him he couldn’t get games at his current level, and he couldn’t rise above that level, because the
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by ketzo 4y ago
Most people don’t know how most things work. PR is still a thing.
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by ketzo 4y ago
I know, god damn -- including "networking" as just a single word feels... horrifying.
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by ketzo 4y ago
Oh, hush. The broader point is just that the barrier for entry was very, very low for a brief period. I definitely bought a $0.99 app that you could tip up to your face to make it look like you were drinking a beer. Very, very low.
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by ketzo 4y ago
What about it is a scam?
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by ketzo 4y ago
Why would W4 Games agree to be purchased? That seems pretty antithetical to, like, their whole thing.
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by ketzo 4y ago
I don’t think it’s overly pedantic to sat that you’re comparing your product , your work , to others. That’s different (and probably healthier) than comparing your self
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by ketzo 4y ago
So true — I don’t understand why so many people choose to be poor!
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by ketzo 4y ago
…well played
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by ketzo 4y ago
Does anyone have a similar bookmarklet for adding things to Notion on mobile (iOS, Chrome app)? You can “share to” the Notion app, but you have to type a bunch of info in manually. Would love to make it a one-tap.
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by ketzo 4y ago
> You know what happens at the end of The Boy Who Cried "Wolf!"? There's actually a wolf. Dang, that’s a great little turn of phrase. And a very good point.
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by ketzo 4y ago
https://xkcd.com/2584/ a few delightful examples.
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by ketzo 4y ago
> I have yet to understand why it is “racist” to explicitly prefer one race over another Then I’m not really sure you’re getting the core concept?
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by ketzo 4y ago
"Hate the message" is a huge oversimplification. People don't want Stormfront gone for aesthetic reasons. They want Stormfront and similar sites gone because they encourage physical violence against certain peoples. It is,
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by ketzo 4y ago
The Stormfront decision is, IMO, not remotely a debacle and much more easily defensivly. Stormfront was hosted using Cloudflare, and Cloudflare gave them the boot. If you are not familiar with Stormfront, they actively promote violent whi
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by ketzo 4y ago
> if you come up with a plan that’s explicitly the point of this post — OP is asking what their plan should be. this, and the GP comment, are super annoyingly missing the point. OP is already planning to take 3-4 months off. they ARE goi
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by ketzo 4y ago
Wow, that’s a hilarious stat. How is that even… possible?
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by ketzo 4y ago
thinking about =\= working on I can learn about my company’s deal flow and benefit from that without needing to spend six hours in Quickbooks It’s good for me to know the feature I’m building is important to a prospective customer who has a
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by ketzo 4y ago
Yeah, I think if there's a positive lesson to take away, it's that busyness is very much a tool. Sure, sometimes you really gotta be in the mindset of "I'm gonna dedicate every hour I have to getting shit done, and every
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by ketzo 4y ago
If content-generation AI is given sufficient resources and training input, I think 4>5 is pretty much guaranteed. The recommendation systems that power "algorithmic everyone" are not optimizing for real human interaction, or re
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by ketzo 4y ago
> as if there's a status token that needs to be distributed to have a working social network I mean… empirical evidence would suggest that this is true, no? Has there ever been a popular social media/network that didn’t have
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by ketzo 4y ago
I know there are at least two goat rental companies , because the one I see on my hikes is different from the one in the link!
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by ketzo 4y ago
I used to work at Workday, who has an “unlimited PTO” policy, and they were fantastic about it. A few months into the pandemic, my manager sent me a message saying that he was worried I wasn’t taking enough PTO, and suggested I do a 3- or
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by ketzo 4y ago
Agreed - but by the same token, I don’t think you would call any of that reading “productivity-related,” right? Whereas if I, a software engineer, read 100 articles about micro services and make a bunch of grand plans without ever actually

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