kvonhorn

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by kvonhorn 2y ago
Unanticipated "roll for initiative."
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by kvonhorn 2y ago
I'm old enough to remember how companies all tripped over themselves trying to help the government spy on their customers after 9/11. I assume that every company that I do business with has an open pipeline to the government feedi
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by kvonhorn 2y ago
I used to work for a startup called TripIt 15 years ago. Took a double take when I saw your name.
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by kvonhorn 2y ago
The last manager I quit had this problem. I kept telling him I didn't like it when he interrupted me while I was speaking, and he continued to do it.
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by kvonhorn 2y ago
Is that why I'm paying $15/day for them?
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by kvonhorn 2y ago
I remember when I first voted at 18, thinking that I'd be pissed if I were old enough to die fighting a war, but not old enough to elect the people that drafted me in the first place.
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by kvonhorn 2y ago
We could demand amendments or a new Constitutional Convention. In practice, though, the US Constitution is pretty sclerotic in comparison to other nations'.
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by kvonhorn 2y ago
> fast food > everyday needs The cost of a lot of things, dining out in particular, were kept in check for decades because wages for labor were suppressed. The true costs of "everyday needs" were borne by labor to the benefi
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by kvonhorn 2y ago
> Every one of these deaths is on the head of the government of California I can't tell if this is sincere or PhD-level trolling. Bravo.
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by kvonhorn 2y ago
> low-income people with gambling addictions Not to mention the fact that they're now outright _creating_ gambling addicts that wouldn't have been addicts before the legalization of online betting.
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by kvonhorn 2y ago
Supply and demand. If you artificially cap the supply of doctors, then the doctors can ramp up their prices.
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by kvonhorn 3y ago
We see that mass marketing and availability of opioids had a touch of harm that continues to be mitigated, but surely making cocaine widely available won't have any of the messy problems of opioids. Seriously, though, let's stop t
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by kvonhorn 3y ago
> I mostly run in circles that are of not-tech-people, and while the jobs may suck, I get the feeling that finding them is not the hard part right now. I moved out of tech a few years back. I'm responding to ads that claim to be des
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by kvonhorn 3y ago
It feels like everything is noticeably more expensive now than in 2019 and I'm seeing far more homeless people and their tents. Finding a job seems way tougher now, too, even though they're claiming a 3.7% unemployment rate.
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by kvonhorn 3y ago
Maybe we should be giving these tests as part of college admissions. I'd like to know if I can't pass these tests before taking out a six figure loan only to find I have the wrong personality for employment.
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by kvonhorn 3y ago
> I feel something is getting horribly out of balance In my country, they dropped interest rates to near 0 in the wake of 9/11 in order to prevent the economy from crashing, and held them there until the Covid pandemic. It seems lik
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by kvonhorn 3y ago
> that's not a sustainable business model Why not? Trump's 2016 election alone seems to have caused subscriptions to places like the Washington Post and New York Times to increase, and led to a small but fervent industry in cre
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by kvonhorn 3y ago
Maybe the media could all chip in to elect a Donald Trump-like figure to boost revenue through subscriptions and ads? It seems like a model that could be replicated all over the world.
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by kvonhorn 3y ago
In the US, the billionaires are largely buying up legacy media.
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by kvonhorn 3y ago
https://archive.is/8sTWS
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by kvonhorn 3y ago
> Shakespeare in the original Klingon citation needed
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by kvonhorn 3y ago
> I've been reading a lot of commentary saying that most of the posted job openings are fake (which I also experience anecdotally as true) +1. I saw a couple of ads this morning where they clearly state that they're only solic
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by kvonhorn 3y ago
The pro move was to look at that job as a long-term internship that allowed him to save up cash so he could go back to school when the economy went south without taking out student loans. This was something we were talking about in college
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by kvonhorn 3y ago
The "die slow" in this case is a reference to an actual death threat made in a song from the 90s. > it's clearly not a threat No, it's not a threat, it just _references_ a famous death threat, one that Tan regrets tha
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by kvonhorn 3y ago
Quality is best thought of as a process, and that process got pushed out of the SDLC by Agile process and its metric of velocity. The use of LLM-generated code to further increase velocity in the absence of quality process is an obvious res
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by kvonhorn 3y ago
> organized, collective action You can't say those words here without half of the country screeching about the evils of Communism. This country is horribly propagandized and programmed to resist anything to the left of uninhibited f
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by kvonhorn 3y ago
I should have started practicing self care at a much younger age. I internalized a lot of negative stereotypes of what it means to be a man when I was younger, and am still undoing the damage I've done to my health from that. I wish I
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by kvonhorn 3y ago
> screaming for reproduction Y'all mind if I use this as the name of my next album? It's got some long lost Judas Priest vibes about it.
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by kvonhorn 3y ago
> Police in California are inept at stopping this Former long time renter here. I had the same problem with neighbors in an adjacent apartment complex, and police couldn't do a damned thing except come out at 4 am and tell me, yep,
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by kvonhorn 3y ago
People are really into streaming video games. After gamergate, I assume that any conversation where video games overlap with the internet are going to be overheated.

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