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That's because the business owner wanted stability and predictability. He needed somebody to go and fix that server when it crashes due to an update, or to add a new column to the database when the customers request it, at the lowest p
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I would argue that people have a very intrinsic need for the "doing" mode (setting goals, spending effort achieving them, slowly observing the progress). If we don't get enough of that, we start inventing goals. If we don&#x2
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Yeah, sure, buying "physical asset NFTs" from you will suddenly convince major appliance manufacturers to change their ways and part with millions of dollars in profit. Sorry, the problem you mentioned is 100% valid, but the NFT-b
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Yeah, so the company ended up losing the most confident/competent person (since they have the highest chance of quickly getting another job).
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Because the courts are run by the same kind of people as the banks.
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Key takeaway: This conventional formulation, though, omits an important limitation: In basically all states, you can use nondeadly force to defend your property—and if the thief or vandal responds by threatening you with death or great bod
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We will never see this happen, but I wish there was a legally mandated separation of web indexing services from the result ranking services. So user-facing search engines would be forced to rely on independent back-end companies for indexin
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Thank you for actually finding good counter-examples. Come to think of it, the problem is deeper. The first level is that many western societies have vocal groups of people whose joy in life comes from bullying others (getting other people
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So ad hominem attack in its textbook form. "Let's not discuss a specific action and its implications on the society. Let's instead talk how bad the person is because he retweeted a post that was created by another person that
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by matrix_overload 4y ago
Imagine for a moment that the situation was reversed. An LGBT activist would retweet a meme comparing the Catholic church to the devil. A conservative churchgoer would get offended and would report the tweet. Do you think, the police respon
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This is exactly the kind of manipulation that the elites use to divide the population: 1. Look at a large amount of violent crimes 2. Handpick the ones committed against a specific identity. 3. Declare that this makes a huge problem in the
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>like the freedom to speak your mind, or job security Nope, it only works as long as you play along with the political games the University administration is playing. Speak out too much and you will find problems getting funding/equ
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"Investigating" means taking apart and systematically analyzing, exponentially cutting down the problem space. Making hypotheses, validating them, discarding the unconfirmed ones, and navigating further down the causal tree until
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by matrix_overload 4y ago
This is such an ignorant and low-effort post. The author did not bother to check whether the delay comes from the library loading time vs. the actual string formatting. He is complaining about a single millisecond difference (that is near t
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>It seems that the ADCs on the STM32G4 do not like to be turned on in rapid succession, and if they do, bad things can happen like having the prescaler flipped to a different value without it showing in the corresponding register. This s
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If you look at human history, desperation always triggered innovation. 120+ years ago people predicted that the streets would soon drown in horse manure. It wasn't averted by introducing horse taxes and auctioning limited-issue passes
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Counterexample: I publish a book consisting of 100 pages of repeating word "test" and ask the library to purchase 10 copies of it at $100 per copy. Can the library refusal be treated as censorship? What if I give a $50 kickback to
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I don't think sitting on the shelf is ever a problem. What many people don't like is the reading events where the books presenting a complex problem from a very specific and questionable viewpoint are forced into kids' attent
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Am I the only one that finds the censorship angle weird? Let's say, Alice wants to communicate a piece of information to Bob. Both are interested in it. Mike decides that it's against his interest and blocks the communication. Thi
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Toss in dilution, liquidation preferences and other financial engineering put by the people who actually know the rules of the game, and your "tiny sliver of options" will still be worth less than 5 years of FAANG salary.
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Spent a terrible amount of time hunting down C++ bottlenecks. It has almost never been about unintended copying of structs or classes. It usually boils down to someone assuming that a particular collection or algorithm won't be on the
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From Github: > 16K stars, 755 forks, 52 open, 354 closed issues From the linked Patreon page: > 7 patrons, CA$36/month > Next goal: CA$76.88 per month - I can pay all my monthly bills This is why the open-source software is sa
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Crypto used to be the domain with the most "free money" floating around and the most need to outhire your competitors. Of course, they overhired with a much lower bar than the industry in general, and of course the market will now
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Activism is a side effect. Newspapers compete for clicks and eyeballs, so they need massive amounts of content. And who could be the cheapest producer of content without any ambition of owning it? A person with religious belief in self-righ
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The media decline started over a decade ago with the transition from the physical publications to online. It turned out, the limited space and the delay of printed issues forced the editors to prioritize. The newspapers were competing on qu
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From the original article: >Whistleblower awards can range from 10 percent to 30 percent of the money collected when the monetary sanctions exceed $1 million. The incentives work fine in this case. The whistleblower gets a fraction of th
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Firefox has a nasty bug where after running for some days it would suddenly stop making new connections until you completely restart it. It started happening after an update a couple of years ago and keeps happening on multiple computers. I