lostcolony

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by lostcolony 4y ago
Not parent, but I like, and try to direct money to, local bookstores that do events and provide spaces for small and local authors to reach the community.
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by lostcolony 4y ago
> That cannot be true. > I know, it's Meta, but they can't be that blind. You've not actually seen the kinds of decisions corporations execute on in the interests of shareholder value, have you? Tech companies are bette
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by lostcolony 4y ago
Yes necessarily, as I'm defining my expectations. If Google has made it so engineering doesn't participate at all in product direction, that means they're not letting their engineers work optimally in accordance with my expec
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by lostcolony 4y ago
Only if you very narrowly define real engineering. Google, collectively, may be among the best (I'm not hazarding an opinion) at solving technical problems. I, however, expect good engineers to help with product vision, understanding a
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by lostcolony 4y ago
So was "abolition". You can decide you -disagree- with the ideas of 'social justice', or the implementation, or whatever, but I think you'll need a stronger case than "it's political" to warrant the d
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by lostcolony 4y ago
Telling the VP to get stuffed, you're only going to do what comes through the proper chain of command, is just going to get you fired immediately rather than PIPed. Not saying there wasn't a way through this that could have led to
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by lostcolony 4y ago
Offering to pay someone for their silence sounds like bribery. Not accepting it, or otherwise ensuring that you're compensated properly for what that silence is going to cost you, doesn't turn that into blackmail. Twitter approach
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by lostcolony 4y ago
Even those that are only open 9-5 M-F are not that hard to keep operational with a 4 day work week. As soon as you have five people, every person gets a different day off during the week. Plenty of people will be happy to have days other th
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by lostcolony 4y ago
I don't think we need that level of density to warrant public transit. Singapore has one of the best public transit systems in the world (highest customer satisfaction rate), at 1/5th the density of NYC.
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by lostcolony 4y ago
You're focusing too much on the specifics of the hypothetical rather than the point of the hypothetical. If you can't get out to the abstraction, then in universe X, programmer B-Z all spend 3 weeks on a feature, and in universe Y
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by lostcolony 4y ago
"Half the job is having fun" You know, having known and being related to multiple teachers, I've not heard any of them express it as -fun-. Meaningful, important, challenging, yes, but not 'fun'. The two college pro
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by lostcolony 4y ago
> Counterpoint: teachers' pay is great, it's just backloaded in pension plans. Yet another counter counterpoint - there are still companies and government jobs with defined pension plans that pay far more than teachers. Even wi
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by lostcolony 4y ago
I did read it. The point is that the mother is being charged with aiding her daughter to have an abortion due to evidence collected from chats they thought were secure, but which were still susceptible to a warrant. Now, there are other cha
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by lostcolony 4y ago
Why is it laughable? https://www.npr.org/2022/08/12/1117092169/nebraska-cops-used...
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by lostcolony 4y ago
They don't ignore much larger sums; larger sums are much harder to automate detection of. So with the limited amount of manpower they have, far fewer are identified. They can send a letter asking for documentation for everything the au
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by lostcolony 4y ago
"We left our gun outside, unsecured, but no one has complained they were shot with it and we didn't detect any fingerprints on it when we finally noticed it wasn't locked up properly"
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by lostcolony 4y ago
Not really. For the same reason that "here's your github login" doesn't equate to you suddenly being able to be effective in a new company. You might be able to look things up in the code and understand how things are be
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by lostcolony 4y ago
I think part of the problem with perjury is that if it's detectable you only have hurt your own case, and if it isn't detected it can't be tried. This might be somewhat unique in that the perjury charges relate to hiding ev
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by lostcolony 4y ago
Sure, if you ensure that every bit of state is going to the ORM, and the ORM caches nothing. Of course, that tends to ensure that what is and what isn't side effect free is massively obfuscated, which seems like you're including s
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by lostcolony 4y ago
Once you start thinking that way, you start wondering why Objects, rather than (from Java) records, or (from most every other language) structs/tuples. That is, why bundle functions with the data and encapsulate it as a new type that t
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by lostcolony 4y ago
>> in both cases the mutation of shared state was just moved to database and its transaction semantics. The FP code itself was about mostly stateless server-side processing. So, FP wasn't doing anything for us on that front. Sure
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by lostcolony 4y ago
>> The big part of rising housing prices or "scarce housing" or "demand exceeding supply" is really about desirable geographic locations. Only to a point. Many desirable geographic locations have a lot of local fac
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by lostcolony 4y ago
You can have a profit motive driving behavior without something being an investment vehicle. Cars are an example of that. Even when scarcity has driven the cost of cars up (such as during the recent pandemic), everyone recognized that more
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by lostcolony 4y ago
Oh, extremely. < 17% of the country is 65 years and older, and yet their interests represent a supermajority in Congress. It's one reason why climate change isn't being addressed; control is held by people who will be dead by t
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by lostcolony 4y ago
Or even long term investment in the company. Look at where IBM is now vs where they were 50 years ago; Microsoft would be in the same place except for Satya Nadella completely reinvigorating the company. Who knows where some of the big tec
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by lostcolony 4y ago
With one caveat - it explicitly calls out additional use grants. It's "please don't use this in a commercial product without paying me -or talking to me-".
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by lostcolony 4y ago
While still meeting most of the OSI criteria for being open source. It basically says "you can use the features covered by this license for most uses, except creating your own SaaS offering of this product", plus some of the typic
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by lostcolony 4y ago
Certainly, but it moves it from a "we just have some legally-should-be inactionable data laying around" to "we don't even have that data laying around". The fact that it's impossible to comply with "who wr
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by lostcolony 4y ago
Yeah. Definitely Streisand effected themselves. Wonder if they can sue their own legal counsel for causing themselves so much monetary loss (given that's the grounds they're using to de-anonymize the reviewers)?
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by lostcolony 4y ago
"The same employee cannot write multiple reviews" - they can create new accounts. But even if you want one account to not write multiple reviews, you can flag that an account wrote a review for a company without tying it to -what-

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