legitster

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by legitster 5d ago
It's not a "ban"; from what's described it's a disclosure requirement. It has always been required to have these in the rental agreements - but you have to publicize them so people see them before they pay an applic
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by legitster 6d ago
But I mean, they are. The Chinese government is effectively giving all manufacturers 0% financing and raw materials at cost. And even still, BYD executives have come out and said their pricing is not sustainable. The Chinese market is engag
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by legitster 7d ago
The goal is to get a seat at the table, not tip the scale. Even if the government is unethical, it's still a good idea to push for good policy (unless you're an accelerationist). Obviously we're talking about businesses here
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by legitster 8d ago
This is more about the Office 365 admin configuration settings than about Microsoft's products themselves. "Why do people still buy Microsoft?" Because admins can make weird configuration settings.
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by legitster 10d ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stagflation
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by legitster 10d ago
Having a calculator add numbers for you is having a machine think for you. Your computer is doing an awful lot of creative problem solving on your behalf to serve this page to you. It sounds like you don't see a difference between thin
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by legitster 10d ago
???? The whole point of tractors, trains, and casting iron was to remove effort. Asking an AI to do your bookkeeping for you is not any more lazy than driving a car or sending a voice text. I think generative LLMs and their usefulness is
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by legitster 10d ago
Nearly all new technologies go through a "slop" era. You see this in the industrial revolution itself - there was nearly a 100 year gap between the introduction of low quality coke fired pig iron and the introduction of the Bess
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by legitster 12d ago
Sketchers invests in comfort the way that Nike invests in performance. If you're not a pro-athlete and are not fashion obsessed, why not just buy the most comfortable shoes available?
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by legitster 12d ago
> In my entire life it felt like the Nike/Adidas duopoly was unbreakable, and then it felt suddenly that Hoka was everywhere. Man, I'm in such different circles than everyone. I've never heard of Hoka and I don't know
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by legitster 14d ago
Matt. Give this up. You're literally astroturfing threads about yourself. This could not be a more clear case of projection - you are being the exact monster you tell people your enemies are being. Give this up and seek help. You'
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by legitster 14d ago
- The Wordpress Foundation has one Chairman (Matt) and until last year had one publicly known employee (executive director, Matt) - Founded several orgs... that contribute solely to WordPress Core. Which is basically his. - Made Thesis give
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by legitster 14d ago
Prevent anyone else from profiting off of the ecosystem. Wordpress might technically be GPL, but the code itself routes most of the key features of Wordpress through Automattic. If you have a massive technical moat around the ecosystem, it
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by legitster 14d ago
> There is one PDB per day > Acting like the amount of information presented, especially to someone with extensive executive experience as the governor of Texas, is somehow overwhelming, is beyond disingenuous. First of all, the vast
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by legitster 15d ago
The thing missing from these briefs is the context. We're not seeing the hundreds or thousands of other daily reports that are mixed in and have to be acted on. It's easy to cherry pick after the fact. Case in point, just going of
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by legitster 15d ago
> WordPress is still GPL licensed. Only because it's forced to be because it in turn was a fork of a previous GPL license. It should be noted that Mullenweg has regularly weaponized the GPL license in the past - using it to take out
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by legitster 15d ago
I mean, I'm currently working a job where I'm here for the paycheck. I fantasize about a buyout. My feelings are not "boy I wish I could get back at that grindstone". It's "this is the ride I signed up for&
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by legitster 15d ago
True to form, he has already been on Reddit ( https://www.reddit.com/user/photomatt ) and Hacker News ( https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=photomatt ) to engage in comment wars.
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by legitster 15d ago
If you followed his months of mad ravings, he made it clear that Wordpress is not a true open source project. He has direct control over the project via Automattic appointments in the community, everything is designed to route through his c
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by legitster 15d ago
The first buyouts happened before the job market fully tanked. I'm sure there are people who are stuck and have a house payment, but it was pretty obvious the shenanigans were only going to get worse. Also, if you're just there fo
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by legitster 15d ago
Anyone who wanted to get on with their jobs would have taken one of the buyouts. Everyone who still works there has to be committed to Matt.
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by legitster 15d ago
> WordPress founder and a key advocate for the open source community This should probably say self appointed advocate. He really hasn't advocated for much beyond collecting payments to Automattic.
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by legitster 22d ago
This is especially funny when you realize how much money IBM dumped into Watson over all these years.
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by legitster 23d ago
Even if you're pro-AI, there's a reason calculators are banned from math classes until a certain point. It seems like a no-brainer to have people learn on hammers before moving them to nailguns. I can't help but think of this
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by legitster 28d ago
> This stuff is beyond the wildest fantasies of East Germany's Stasi I feel like that's a bit of a false equivalency. The soviet secret police had surprisingly little hard evidence on anyone - part of the terror of these regime
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by legitster 29d ago
I know this is an extremely hot take, but it's not the license plate reading service that bothers me. A license plate is specifically a tracking number to identify a registered vehicle on a public road. The 4th Amendment gives you priv
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by legitster 29d ago
Founding father. Singular. I can appreciate Jefferson as much as the next guy but thank goodness his voice just one amongst many.
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by legitster 29d ago
> Then I think there's Adam Smith's ideal form of capitalism People have this idea that Adam Smith "idealized" capitalism or that the Wealth of Nations is some sort of manifesto. It's much more of an empirical re
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by legitster 1mo ago
There's not really an alternative that also lets farms be independent. If a GSPs really wants that level of control over farms, they might as well start buying them up. The reality is that the documentation is like software T&Cs. Y
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by legitster 1mo ago
The reality is in a lot of prison situations the people are bored and the money is going to non-essentials from a commissary. It's definitely an extremely exploitative situation and overall icky, but the people who jump in to compare

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