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by lukewrites 3y ago
Thanks. I'm glad nitter still works, and am increasingly frustrated with people who choose to post on twitter instead of somewhere that doesn't lock down content behind a login. Muscle memory lasts a long time, but there's a
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How Michael Lewis Got Duped by Sam Bankman-Fried(nymag.com)
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by lukewrites 3y ago
Hey I'd love to chat with you about tech worker coops. Would you mind?
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by lukewrites 3y ago
I agree. Wordpress powers something like 40% of all websites. 40% of the web having a low friction way of publishing to the fediverse is a big deal. Sure, this doesn't mean that almost half the web is suddenly "on the fediverse&qu
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by lukewrites 3y ago
Why?! This feels like the sort of single issue platforn that could get you and some friends elected to the county council.
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by lukewrites 3y ago
I'll be up there, but should see my kids reach my current age. Hard for me to be optimistic about the world they'll inherit, though; I'm very concerned about the effects of climate change and the effects of things like dimini
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by lukewrites 3y ago
> only 5 went to an Ivy League school or equivalent and 2 of them went to the same high school as Bill Gates and the other 3 were sports recruits We've been touring some high schools that include the one Gates went to. They love to
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by lukewrites 4y ago
So this is his hope-ChatGPT “raises efficiency” (my scare quotes; not a direct quotation) such that the ownership class doesn’t have to pay a bunch of salaries and can make more profit. But don’t worry, this will just unleash innovation and
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by lukewrites 4y ago
"This was a learning experience that will provide velocity in our continued disruption of the finance space for startups. We look forward to continuing to maintain a growth mindset as we ~cash your checks~ earn your trust."
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by lukewrites 4y ago
In my neighborhood (east of Seattle, just south of Microsoft) private equity firms started buying houses in our neighborhood (late 50s neighborhood with tons of parks and trails w access to city and highway) after the housing crisis and kee
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by lukewrites 4y ago
I'm not sure what you mean by "harming companies and the public"; however we can come up with concrete examples of companies harming working people in the US. Wage theft in the US alone costs working people billions of dollar
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by lukewrites 4y ago
Everything is.
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by lukewrites 4y ago
I’ve been talking to my five year old about weather balloons lately and he’s interested in launching one of his own to try to get a picture of the Earth’s curvature. Can anyone recommend resources on this topic? Surely there are hobby group
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by lukewrites 4y ago
I'd be happy to stop working on someone else's projects and work on on things that solve problems I care about. The "you should have a job and it should give you meaning" thing is the societal expectation that needs the
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by lukewrites 4y ago
Little typo in your first bullet: should be reddit.com/r/expertnetworks/
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by lukewrites 4y ago
To follow up on this, something completely overlooked in "teaching English" is being able to do language instruction in a specialist field. I did this for Lenovo employees in Beijing and earned much more per hour than any contract
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by lukewrites 4y ago
I think it's most likely that governments with radar in the area don't want to admit they have it.
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by lukewrites 4y ago
Yeah. I only find Reddit usable (by which I guess I mean "readable") when I'm using Apollo. Going to regular reddit is a horrible experience.
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by lukewrites 4y ago
I think Dvele ( http://dvele.com ) is one option in the US for this. I'd love to hear about others. They build in SD and ship in the lower 48 afaik. Would love to hear other options. Our budget to expand and my opinion of gc&
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by lukewrites 4y ago
What got me hooked on Evernote was its web clipper. It did a great job of grabbing elements from webpages, retaining (or not!) their formatting. This made them easily searchable and nice to read, too. I used this to grab individual forum po
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by lukewrites 4y ago
The article says 2,000 but your point stands that it's a relatively small percentage of the workforce. However, it's also a large number of people to be put out of jobs before the holidays.
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by lukewrites 4y ago
Well then why don’t they go to Snapch…oh, never mind.
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by lukewrites 4y ago
Gore Vidal wrote my favorite summation of Ayn Rand: This odd little woman is attempting to give a moral sanction to greed and self interest, and to pull it off she must at times indulge in purest Orwellian newspeak of the "freedom
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by lukewrites 4y ago
MacOS also has the FOSS app Notenik ( https://notenik.app/ )
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by lukewrites 4y ago
Getting money earmarked to "study a free federal tax-filing website" doesn't seem like "moving closer to...free online" filing. Intuit spends millions every year "lobbying" congress to make sure our tax sy
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by lukewrites 4y ago
[More than Happiness]( https://www.amazon.com/More-Than-Happiness-Buddhist-Sceptica... ) looks at this question a little. Good read.
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by lukewrites 4y ago
While it's a clickable headline it isn't near as inflammatory as it could be; "the data" is a very anodyne way to refer to "Facebook Messenger conversation between mother and daughter".
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by lukewrites 4y ago
That must be quite frustrating. FWIW, I have had the opposite experience - Calibre's always just worked. My various ereaders have been detected automatically, and plugins generally have worked without hassle. For me it's a been a
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by lukewrites 4y ago
> You’d make twice as much coding boring business logic, it’s not “cool”, but you get to sleep at home. And, possibly just as importantly, you'll have time for gaming!
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by lukewrites 4y ago
https://archive.ph/20220531181502/https://www.nytimes.com/20... fwiw the article is a NYT reporter interviewing another NYT reporter about "tech": > I asked my colleague Erin Griffith, who r

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