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by macspoofing 2y ago
You're being overly pedantic. But OK, 2G is a bunch of infrastructure that is then rented out creating a cell service. Everything else holds true in that there is a maintenance cost and an opportunity cost.
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by macspoofing 2y ago
That's not a good example of 'planned obsolescence'. 2G wasn't 'planned' to be obsolete, it was superseded by better technologies. Also because 2G is a *service* and not a product, it was a business decision to
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by macspoofing 2y ago
> Imagine devices that don't have built-in obsolescence There is no such thing as "planned obsolescence". The trade-off is price vs quality. You can buy or source a hammer that will last you a lifetime, but will cost 10x t
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by macspoofing 2y ago
>Why don't lawyers and other non-coders use git? Git is a tool built around the needs of software developers. Because git is too complicated and branching, though in principle, would make sense in some situations, is actually pretty
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by macspoofing 2y ago
> Building codes in the US prevent disasters like the one that happened at Grenfell Towers in the UK US building codes are pretty good and well enforced, just as they are in the UK ... but even with that, you have a Surfside condominium
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by macspoofing 2y ago
> The Democrats should have fielded a strong personality in their own right. I think Biden's decision to run for a second term was what sunk them. That was a selfish decision. He then bowed out too late, and Democrats had to scrambl
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by macspoofing 2y ago
>Well, can you think of any reason why those young women didn't want to consider and understand the "opposing view"? Sure - but we're talking about pragmatic considerations. In hindsight, preservation or expansion of
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by macspoofing 2y ago
Are paper ballots and hand counting such a big problem? To me there is something special with the pageantry and ceremony of physically going to a central location to vote, filling out a ballot, physically placing it in a collection box, and
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by macspoofing 2y ago
Announcing is not a big effort. Having millions of people, and thousands of companies (in the territory and outside the territory) adjusting to the announcement is a big effort. If you're going to have DST, you want it to be stable and
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by macspoofing 2y ago
They kind of did it before with DartAngular. Maybe this is a Red Hat/CentOS division, where Flock is an upstream community edition and Flutter is ... I don't know. I asked because it is confusing. My assumption would be that if t
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by macspoofing 2y ago
I'm confused .. is this a Google-led fork? Is "Flutter Foundation" a google sponsored foundation? If not, why use "Flutter" trademark? Also, if the fork is called "Flock", why is this called a "Flutte
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by macspoofing 2y ago
And yet .. they couldn't help themselves and include a 32GB option on their top of the line iMac.
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by macspoofing 2y ago
>Getting all your teammates to quit giving all their tests names like "testTheThing" is darn near impossible. You can do better than "testTheThing". Have your team (or a working group composed of your team, if your te
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by macspoofing 2y ago
Sure - and in principle 'someone' should go and setup this pipeline. I can guarantee you that if this process is reasonably transparent to the marketing folks, they will not care. Or do you expect the marketing folks to go and set
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by macspoofing 2y ago
>It worked for a bit but they still ended up pushing for a Wordpress site. Because they don't want to call you every time the need to fix a spelling mistake, or adjust fonts or colors or layout, or add/remove a section. What if
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by macspoofing 2y ago
>That’s not their job. Their job is to sell stuff (or make it more likely to be bought anyway). Huh? What are you talking about? Marketing is the job of Marketers, which in most companies (certainly small to mid companies) includes the c
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by macspoofing 2y ago
>I'm always confused as to why these particular people get to be the ones who make the choice. Is it really confusing? They are the ones that are supposed to maintain it (from a content perspective) ... unless you want to be called
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by macspoofing 2y ago
>While Redis is "fast" in comparison to traditional RDBMS, it's still a database that you have to manage connections, memory, processes, etc., which introduces more brittleness into the stack (the opposite of what we'
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by macspoofing 2y ago
>Huh, this tacit collusion being legal thing is mind boggling. Not really ... If you're looking to hire workers in a particular region, how do you know what a competitive wage is? Well ... you look at what similar firms are paying t
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by macspoofing 2y ago
>it affects the poorest and least technically literate in society disproportionately. Why does it affect the poorest disproportionately?
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by macspoofing 2y ago
>So it's possible to build more and use less energy, even if you don't reduce the energy cost of building things. In principle I can imagine that being true - but that's not represented in our world, so it is an open quest
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by macspoofing 2y ago
>I'm hoping to see more decentralized/hyper-local power generation and storage With the scale we're dealing with decentralization does not work. You need to centralize for efficiency (i.e. optimize power generation and mai
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by macspoofing 2y ago
>I'm having a hard time getting past the assumption in the article that energy use is tied directly to GDP per capita Why? They are correlated and so are reasonable metric to gauge progress when starting from a subsistence economy (
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by macspoofing 2y ago
So.. JavaScript is slowly reinventing OO class and module access controls?
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by macspoofing 2y ago
Ha! At least OP is honest.
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by macspoofing 2y ago
>You are the one aggressively pushing others to have kids with unproved statements that only a minority is not cut out for this task and that it will surely give them purpose. I think that's a statement of fact backed-up by a biolog
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by macspoofing 2y ago
>You seem to not know anyone who was an unwanted child born because of some secondary motivation Don't you think there's a difference between suggesting that someone start a family (and itemizing benefits of that life path), an
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by macspoofing 2y ago
>It's not universal enough to be advised to someone as a solution Sure it is. And if it isn't, why would the suggestion to seek medical treatment be a more universal solution? >and also exposing both the potential parent and
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by macspoofing 2y ago
It's universal enough. There are people who are not cut out for having a spouse or children - they are a minority.
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by macspoofing 2y ago
>I am absolutely blown away by the number of people who are saying that this person, who is clearly depressed and likely burnt out, can solve all of his problems by having children. You're outright stating OP is suffering from depre

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