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by manfredo 7y ago
> Malicious or not, they profited, likely heavily, from the lack of communication/transparency. How so? If Apple didn't mitigate lower battery voltage than customers' phones would have been unusable. A customer with a phon
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by manfredo 7y ago
> They covertly slow down your phone yo mask that it is defective and needs a new battery. So Apple should have juts let iPhones with old batteries become unusable? > Or design a phone with removable battery or at least a decent batte
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by manfredo 7y ago
This is like saying my car's gas tank is a design flaw because I want to drive farther than my tank will allow. Increasing battery capacity means increasing the volume of the battery, which results in a phone that isn't as sleek.
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by manfredo 7y ago
On one hand, identification of misinformation is a good thing. On the other hand, initiatives like this often end up highly partisan to the point where the label of misinformation is arguably misinformation in and of itself. E.g. I've
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by manfredo 7y ago
The things described in this article mostly stopped after ~2014-2015 in my experience. Few, if any, of my co-workers (mostly new grad to 5 YOE) stay past 7PM. Calling people ninjas is cringeworthy, and wizards even more so. When previous em
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Apparently this is the main reason why Burnout games had fictional cars.
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This isn't an effective analogy. The Internet is one big concrete square. YouTube and Facebook occupy one part of this big concrete square. You're free to occupy your own section of the square, too. The fact that YouTube and Faceb
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by manfredo 7y ago
What you're describing is illegal. Freedom of speech also means freedom from compelled speech. The government cannot (at least outside of very specific circumstances - like an employer informing employees of workplace protections) make
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by manfredo 7y ago
I don't think the above commenter wrote that all of precolonial Africa had a single culture, only that precolonial cultures evidently did not have cultures with long standing businesses - at least as we understand businesses them today
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by manfredo 7y ago
> People working in the information sector in the Seattle area earn almost five times that -- King County, Washington, tech workers average $5,367 per week, or about $279,000 a year. I assume wages includes equity. Otherwise, close to $3
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by manfredo 7y ago
Small sites would be absolutely devastated because the threat of being held liable for user comments will be way too large of a risk. Small networks don't have the resources to pre-moderate comments or build sophisticated automated sys
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by manfredo 7y ago
Revoking 230 would disrupt big sites, but would likely further cement their monopoly. Liability for user generated content means that sites that feature user generated content need to spend a lot of resources on moderation, because the cons
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by manfredo 7y ago
"The Greeks" were a diverse group of peoples spanning three continents over the course of most of a millennium with varied cultures and social structures. Many of them, including some of the most iconic Greek societies like Athens
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by manfredo 7y ago
Does Patreon prohibit its creators from offering subscriptions elsewhere? If I was a creator, I'd create my own subscription service on my own site and offer the same subscription packages at lower prices. Patrons benefit by getting th
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by manfredo 7y ago
The lambda school struck me as odd due to its very long 18 month duration. Most successful bootcamps I've seen have been focused on 2-4 month programs. They also try to get students that have already taught themselves some coding (at l
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by manfredo 7y ago
> Google does not generally engage in negotiation of benefits on being hired, so this would be a strange reason for women to make less than men in the same role at the company. Yet again, you continue to misinterpret the role of benefits
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by manfredo 7y ago
> It is illegal to discriminate on benefits coverage between women and men, so whether women are using their benefits more is wholly irrelevant. This is like saying that older people should make less because they get sick more--utter non
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by manfredo 7y ago
> In major tech metros, nobody pay close to FAANG levels. Either you pay at FAANG levels (and they compete at that level) or you go down one-tier (Pinterest, Airbnb, etc) or you're the rest. Contrast this with your original comment
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by manfredo 7y ago
> Equal pay referred to between equally qualified men, women and other genders. Not clear why a talented and hard working person of one gender would be opposed that a similar person of another gender get same pay? Because there might not
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by manfredo 7y ago
In a non right-to-work state like NY, it means you have to pay dues to a union that negotiates on your behalf. It can very well end up negotiating for things you don't want, or are even actively against. For instance, a teacher may be
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by manfredo 7y ago
> what is the going rate for developers? Whatever people are willing to pay. > Is it what everybody else is paying you or FAANG level? It depends on a variety of factors like domain and location. But if you're not finding develop
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by manfredo 7y ago
It's harder to account for things like the price of benefits and measuring the amount of time spent on things like oncall. As a concrete example, when Google analyzed their wages they actually noticed that they were underpaying men.
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> The tech unionization movement is full of people who favor open borders and the like In my experience, tech unionists fall into one of two camps: * The progressive camp, which is largely what you describe. Likes open border, diversity
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by manfredo 7y ago
Competition will bring success to the company that fosters an engaged and motivated workforce. Even in national unions, they are still subject to foreign competition. Sure, the free market isn't immune to nepotism or favoritism. But un
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by manfredo 7y ago
And? My point remains: why should software developers willingly work for less pay? People aren't entitled to have software developers work on their projects. If companies not willing to pay the going rate for software development, then
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by manfredo 7y ago
> Sure, unions have bureaucracy, but they have bureaucracy that is incentivized to increase outcomes for the employee and not the employer. You are directly paying the union to represent and fight for you. No, they have bureaucracy that
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by manfredo 7y ago
If they can't afford the price of labor why should the business continue to exist? If the going rate for a plumber is $100 an hour, why should I be surprised if I get no responses when I'm only willing to pay $40?
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Because now other employees have no motivation to put in anything more than mediocre work. The reality is people are motivated primarily by self interest. If advancement and retention is based on seniority rather than merit, people have no
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Libraries might be easier to use, and you can use the same language on the server and hardware.
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> Go is probably never going to run on microcontrollers due to its very big overhead. My employer runs go on micro controllers. Definitely suboptimal, but as long as the cost of increasing hardware capacity to accommodate Go is feasible

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