losteric

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by losteric 8y ago
My team just does "asynchronous stand-ups" - share your status once day in a dedicated Slack channel, whenever you want. We do this on top of a good culture of asking for help and posting regular updates on our internal Sprint tra
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by losteric 8y ago
A share is fractional ownership of the underlying company and all it's assets - that is what gives it value. A "cryptocurrency" is merely worth what someone else is willing to pay (hence speculative).
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by losteric 8y ago
Some bad managers outright encourage unnecessary redesigns. It's a lot easier and often cheaper to change the product's skin than lead a dysfunctional dev team through fixing crippling tech debt or adding meaningful new features.
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by losteric 8y ago
Your position is that anonymous, unregulated, uncredentialed, "non-profit" social media accounts are more reliable than conventional news? Everyone has some biases... but I know which entity is more trustworthy. The one that sta
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by losteric 8y ago
It boils down to one thing: how does the spread of misinformation compare to the spread of a correction? Every subscriber of a traditional newspaper will see their corrections, often published the next day. How does Instagram/social me
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by losteric 8y ago
You're being intentionally obtuse, they said conventional news is fallible but far more trustworthy than anonymous social media.
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by losteric 8y ago
Be sure to investigate the journalist's background, and the article's audience. Articles written for laymen by a general-purpose news source often just pawn off IT stories on their most tech-literate writer. Don't put your tr
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by losteric 8y ago
Sometimes the defensiveness arises because of our offensive media atmosphere... the feeling is some of the journalist's quotes/"facts" may be mis-attributed, taken out of context, or straight up lies hoping to get a resp
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by losteric 8y ago
Fulfilled by Amazon, from one of their 3rd party sellers.
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by losteric 8y ago
What have you done to verify you never received a knock-off? I checked every one of my SD cards when I learned about Amazon's problem with fakes... Turns out I'd bought two fake SanDisk cards. They looked and worked like the real
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by losteric 8y ago
I meant in general. YouTube does makes it less technical but the time investment is still there.
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by losteric 8y ago
In my opinion, spending double the presentation time on editing transcripts qualifies as significant effort.
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by losteric 8y ago
Uploading a video is trivial while captioning still requires significant effort. Most organizations either opt to manually transcribe internally (slow, repetitive, mindnumbing work) or outsource (expensive). Machine transcription is avail
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by losteric 8y ago
Ritalin is just a stimulant, whether or not it increases productivity depends on the individual. Getting into a state of flow certainly does not require any chemicals.
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The change is also changing. The first waves of automation reduced demand for brute and repetitive physical labor - almost everyone impacted was eligible for the less physical jobs made available by automation. This move towards automating
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by losteric 8y ago
12% is 40 million people in poverty. 40,000,000. Progress is good, but it's not victory. America is far from healthy. Medical costs have skyrocketted beyond reason, housing is rising, food costs are rising, and now we're startin
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by losteric 8y ago
I am talking about complaints with the elections of other districts. My representative fairly represents my district's sentiment. The policies we want are blocked by neighboring district representatives - who also fairly represent the
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by losteric 8y ago
Why does the blame always lie with "politicians"? That's unhelpfully reductionist... we are a democracy. Businesses, private citizens, and representives all come together to define our public policy. Those "perverse&quot
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by losteric 8y ago
I think you're assuming those advances in theory are universally available in practice. They are not. My experience as a public school student was far worse than when my parents went to school - double or worse class sizes, no teaching
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by losteric 8y ago
Grade inflation refers to the phenomena of getting an "A" despite having what used to be a "B" or "C" level of knowledge. So, it's possible there's an incidental correlation but there's no causat
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by losteric 8y ago
Certainly, no one gets a view by accident - that real estate is expensive. However, it's still selfish to restrict development in high-demand areas on the grounds of losing a view. The view is of or over other people's property, a
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by losteric 8y ago
OK, but most jobs do not require the use of cellphones. Aside from oncall periods, my software engineering position certainly does not.
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by losteric 8y ago
I've heard the same argument in Seattle, home owners who are "fine" with Parisian-style buildings, however they only came around long after the point where demand started replacing lower-income people enmasse. When we wait to
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by losteric 8y ago
Homeowners bought the land, not the view.
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by losteric 8y ago
An abrupt, significant, and wide-spread regression in quality of life, coupled with cultural and technological stagnation. Something like the Late Bronze age collapse ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Late_Bronze_Age_coll
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by losteric 8y ago
Prior civilizations collapsed after over-exploiting their environment, and we're making the same mistake on a global scale. Our complex supply chains based on fossil fuels are rather fragile - we will likely survive a collapse at reduc
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by losteric 8y ago
Don't forget the Dunning-Kruger effect - sometimes the reader scoffs because they reversed cause and effect, or saw a correlation that doesn't exist ("vaccines cause autism!") Additionally, quality on one subject by on
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by losteric 8y ago
Rich people sell guns, poor people ride trains. Not all of them, obviously, but enough to "guide" the decisions of career politicians.
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by losteric 8y ago
Probably a combination of standardized testing, perceived looming economic/environmental/social upheaval, and feedback loops between blind optimization of social media engagement metrics and unwitting narcissism. I found that soc
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by losteric 8y ago
What functional improvements are fundamentally incompatible with the "old" protocols? Longer lines could have been supported with a minor protocol revision. Giving customers the freedom to use clients that don't render images

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