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by maratd 11y ago
> This sure sounds like an argument that the truth can be bad for you. To me it sounds like the social construct surrounding the truth is harmful. That those with a disability should be coddled lest they offend. That we should be underst
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> If that wasn't working out before we had an EPA, why would it start working out now? What makes you think it wasn't working before? Those same corporations would shit a brick if they had to defend themselves from a 1000 lawsu
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> There's no competitive advantage to not polluting, or we wouldn't ever have needed an EPA in the first place! Why do you need the EPA again? My local government represents my locality. It can easily sue in civil court for any
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> Shrink the reach of the federal government, and we'd be looking at rule by corporations Nonsense. The corporations are given free reign and support by the government. If the government didn't establish favorable regulations
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by maratd 11y ago
That's too much work. It would be easier to just tell them to curl | sh and put all your malicious stuff in the script. That way they won't actually see anything malicious on their screen.
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by maratd 11y ago
Yup, there's a delay. After a while, you develop a knack for picking the right horse. So you pick the right horse, learn it on your spare time ... and then wait. Eventually that new kid on the block will become mature, stable, and a go
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> The issue is the savings in salary costs doesn't go to the consumer, it goes to the executives. This is a bit simplistic. Some of the savings do and some go to the consumer by way of competition among firms. Inflation has been pre
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> Once self driving cars reach a certain penetration level I wonder how long it'll take the remaining human drivers to start taking advantage of that fact by assuming most cars will automatically stop for them when they try stupid m
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I'm describing a dealership. Most dealerships make very little money from car sales. They make their money from servicing vehicles that were purchased there. When you have a brand new car with a warranty, you will take it to the dealer
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> I wonder if there wasn't something more wrong with his laptop caused by letting a worn-out battery sit in there too long. I wonder why batteries aren't easily replaceable on both laptops and phones? You know, it wasn't a
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by maratd 11y ago
Salesmen aren't a substantial part of the workforce in a dealership. Mechanics, secretaries, service coordinators are. You still need those. Finally, while you're OK dropping the equivalent of a year's pay on a website, most
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> it's hard to find big projects as single freelancer. > server side, front end, android/ios app finished in the same time This is not true. The freelancer simply needs to position himself as someone who can build and manage
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> There aren't easy answers here I don't think the circumstances are as grim. Most of the personnel retained at a dealership do useful work. That same work will be required regardless of who runs the show. They may need to appl
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by maratd 11y ago
Even more relevant, should Houston become more preferable to New York, you'll see the same silly regulations and rules crop up to keep the riff-raff out.
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From each according to his ability, to each according to his need?
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This isn't black and white. The options aren't sabbatical or disaster. Time off is not a solution. The problem will simply resurface when the person comes back. The solution is to re-organize the work. Hire an additional person, i
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by maratd 11y ago
You're employed because a specific amount of work needs to be done within a specified amount of time. If you're not going to do it, who will? The work might wait a week or two (vacation), but do you really think the clients will b
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> Auth is something different. You should return a 401 with no additional information indeed. Yup, that's better. > However, the point is that as an API client, you want to be able to distinguish between "this bookshelf does
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Even an internal API should be designed with the same principles as an external one, because through security error, it may end up being exposed. When designing an API, certain conditions must return a 404 with no further explanation given.
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> Overloading HTTP error codes is another interesting problem. If the server returns 404 for a resource, what actually happened? I, the dude who made the API, sent you a 404. I sent you a 404 because that's all I wanted you to know.
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The only way you'll get it on the same day is if you order it early in the morning for evening delivery. It's not a local supermarket, they need to schedule a driver and bring the stuff to you from their warehouse. Most supermarke
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by maratd 11y ago
Disable the Windows Update service. Microsoft will never bother you again and you can have your exact, perfected experience for all eternity.
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A train 20 miles away, absolutely. Trains are by far the biggest noise polluters, mostly due to federal regulation. They have to signal at every intersection. In my humble opinion, completely unnecessary since we already have bells there, b
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by maratd 11y ago
> In the US, 31 out of 33 visited states had audible human noises in their most remote spots I know the article says this, but it could't possibly be true. Most states have massive forests, including the State of New York. Even the
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Thank you for the reference, I'll give it a read!
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> For instance, consider self-checkout machines replacing casheers in shops. In my experience, half the machines are out of order. The other half are working, but they need a person to stand there full-time to help the customers with ite
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That's not evidence. Just more hand waving. Those are ARTICLES. Where is the DATA?
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> Nowadays it starts to provide brains, which makes it replace services. As it continues, where will the human labour go? Is there actual evidence of this? As in, actual statistics rather than grandiose claims of AI destroying the human
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> In a sense, robots (automated machines) are the perfection of capital, where the ratio becomes arbitrarily high: human labour becomes decreasingly needed until it's basically unnecessary. Where is the evidence for this? Your entir
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> and a fingerprint reader. It has a fingerprint reader.

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