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by kortilla 2y ago
A cash register is not required to make cash transactions
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by kortilla 2y ago
The aftermath is that it kills businesses that were just shops adding cost to basic stuff to retail it. Those businesses suck and aren’t the kind you want anyway. The main streets that people like have coffee shops, boutiques, specialists,
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by kortilla 2y ago
> dependency injection is a programming technique in which an object or function receives other objects or functions that it requires, as opposed to creating them internally
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by kortilla 2y ago
Every community is temporary. The folly is thinking you need to find a “permanent” one to join.
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by kortilla 2y ago
But why is that better? If you talk to people in towns like this it turns out the locals buy everything they can online and then are generally mad about overpaying to buy from the local small shops. So they travel an hour every couple of mo
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by kortilla 2y ago
Books are so irrelevant to Amazon at this point that this type of decision would never make it near the C suite or upper management.
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by kortilla 2y ago
The entire business model of Walmart is to underprice mom and pop bakeries.
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by kortilla 2y ago
That means you’re not getting visibility for it. When I say “get visibility”, it means to your manager’s boss and peers.
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by kortilla 2y ago
You don’t need that at all. I’ve seen people temporarily renting in a location act as better community members than someone who has owned a home for 10 years. Look at the communities that form in dorms
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by kortilla 2y ago
That’s anti-social…
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by kortilla 2y ago
This is unrelated to individualism. Individualists still can have strong communities and lots of friendships. Collectivists can just as easily be extremely anti-social. The examples you gave of grocery delivery and overnight prime delivery
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by kortilla 2y ago
Letting a thing implode that you could prevent is a missed opportunity for advancement and a risk to your career because you will be on a failing team. The smarter move is to figure out how to fix it for the company while getting visibility
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by kortilla 2y ago
The company will unlikely make it through a collapse like that. It’s like Netflix going back to DVDs via mail. The market is so tiny that their capex investments into AI stuff would catch them with massive debt that the gaming revenue could
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by kortilla 2y ago
To drive this point home, look at the nvidia valuation in 2010 or so before crypto gave them a non-gaming dominant business line.
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by kortilla 2y ago
Because you’re passing functions to call.
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by kortilla 2y ago
They aren’t failing structurally, they are just in a perpetually ugly state because a landlord doesn’t care about keeping a property attractive that students will abuse. So you end up with worn out carpet, paint flaking, broken door handles
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by kortilla 2y ago
>In Iowa, for example, they are allowing roads to go back to gravel because they lack the resources to maintain the status quo of road infra [7]. A gravel road to a dying town doesn’t seem like a failure mode to me. They don’t build trai
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by kortilla 2y ago
You’re assuming all of the negative aspects require giving up cars to solve
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by kortilla 2y ago
What are you talking about? It works todo with millions of paying customers solving a very real problem of connectivity.
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by kortilla 2y ago
What you’re saying is out of touch with raising a child with a strong personality and you’re either projecting your experience with a docile child or are just really overfitting on a few bad interactions you observed that were clearly cause
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by kortilla 2y ago
No it’s not. It’s having discipline to not pollute unrelated conversations with your politics. I am very against the status quo but I don’t complain about it to a bunch of anonymous usernames on a forum focused on technology. You can believ
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by kortilla 2y ago
>If you take the time to explain the situation to the child you often don't need to convince them anymore. This is not true. It doesn’t work for meltdowns caused by not buying them a toy, not giving them ice cream at bed time, etc.
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by kortilla 2y ago
The main usage of chatgpt I’ve seen amongst non-programmers is a direct search replacement with tons of opportunity for ads. People ask for recipes, how to fix things around the house, for trip itinerary ideas, etc.
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by kortilla 2y ago
Huh? 20 years ago on-prem was the norm and the cloud didn’t exist.
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by kortilla 2y ago
> What leads you to believe that scenario is realistic It literally just happened today.
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by kortilla 2y ago
The market returns today should make you re-evaluate your position on this. Anyone following your thesis would have sold out at the bottom.
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by kortilla 2y ago
The rally back today on just a pause illustrates my point. No permanent fixes at all, just a pause and the market went up 10% in a day.
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by kortilla 2y ago
Fiber cuts are a real problem today even without explicit war. Russian fishing boats have a habit of “accidentally” cutting critical undersea cables that take months to repair. Places in seasonably inhospitable water end up stranded from th
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by kortilla 2y ago
> We should work towards dethroning .com as the default Be the change you want to see. Why do you want the .com version of your family name?
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by kortilla 2y ago
> but it may mean building new standards on top of the duct-taped 1980s-era networking stack the modern Internet still runs on. That’s a path directly into a money burning machine that goes nowhere. This has been tried so many times by f

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