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by maximente 6y ago
isn't this basically librem one? https://librem.one
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by maximente 6y ago
i would guess that a hypothetical survey of the software engineering profession would rank "solving intellectually challenging and interesting problems" as one of the top values if not the top. if you buy that, it's no surpri
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by maximente 6y ago
capital can feel free to take a good faith first step by doing things such as sharing salaries, equity control, how much $ you would actually get were the company to be sold for $1B tomorrow, etc., or offering contractual employment (not at
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by maximente 6y ago
you have redirected to a false dichotomy: at no point was fitness ever discussed in this thread. there are probably all sorts of involuntary health conditions that can be exposed via these devices that trying to make this a vice vs non-vice
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by maximente 6y ago
you're well on your way to default-deny mode on uBlock, which is a great way to run uBlock Origin / uMatrix if you don't mind a couple of refreshes and a couple false starts when it comes to ordering stuff on e.g. shopify: h
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by maximente 6y ago
there seem to be alternatives for e.g. non emergency surgeries. this organization has prices listed which include follow ups, anesthesiologist, etc. https://surgerycenterok.com/pricing/ they also seem to have a lower r
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by maximente 6y ago
being able and willing to learn new things is one of the most attractive qualities for candidates when we are hiring. we try not to execute on that in the sense of rewrite it every 6 months, but it is typically a signal for individuals who
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by maximente 6y ago
hopefully the top tier talent at these companies can figure something out
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by maximente 6y ago
this analysis is not that impressive. it is flat out lazy to take huge, disparate groups and act like having a kid or not is a variable we can causally use to evaluate, well, anything. and let's not kid ourselves, it starts at the titl
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by maximente 6y ago
to be fair, that was also Miami pre-pandemic
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by maximente 6y ago
so is the implication that larger and/or less homogeneous populations are more at risk of breaking down? that could definitely be interpreted as not so thinly veiled racism.
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by maximente 6y ago
what are the 1, 5, and 10 year effects on food prices for a carbon tax at a rate of your choosing?
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Wojtek, a bear, helped move artillery for the Allies in WW2(en.wikipedia.org)
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by maximente 6y ago
check out GL inet, which has a (FLOSS) GUI on top of openWRT for easy config. it also has the ability (from the GUI) to act as a wireguard VPN.
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by maximente 6y ago
one can also think of what it means if almost everything is unique, or almost everyone is smart, etc.
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by maximente 6y ago
great point. virtually all AirBnb users espousing "want to live life like the locals" are basically using coded language for "don't want to stay with the 'other' tourists" - as if they are not tourists the
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by maximente 6y ago
it's really hard to imagine someone at age 89, with 2 social security incomes and $2M, who is apparently more frugal than most technology workers, being one "wrong accident" away from "the far side of the line easily eno
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by maximente 6y ago
the agency isn't with "your manager" so much as a large fraction of tech salaries were effectively a hedge against you walking down the metaphorical street and finding a different job. now that that's no longer such a co
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by maximente 6y ago
i really like my GL inet router, which has the ability to be a VPN client or server built in to the router GUI. wireguard, openvpn, and tor (!) are options at the router level. their router's UI is built on top of OpenWrt, so you can a
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by maximente 6y ago
you spoke fairly authoritatively, then hedged at the end ("almost certainly"). have you read IRS form 2555? that's probably a good place to start, as they spend a fairly large amount of time defining terms. for all their faul
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by maximente 6y ago
since you seem to base your self-worth to some extent on your total compensation, what concrete steps (to include interviewing, working with recruiters, consulting, etc.) have you taken to increase your total comp either immediately or in t
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by maximente 6y ago
my guess is that a detailed account of the consumer goods you have purchased - including possibly the device upon which you typed out and submitted this comment to this web property - would indicate otherwise
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by maximente 6y ago
more info on Chile, mentioned in article: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/11/health/chile-soda-warning... it's probably safe to say that this is a global public health imperative, given the sufferin
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by maximente 6y ago
what about "monitors"? i'm not sure if the specs are the same league - i'm guessing monitors are priced at sizes vastly different than TVs - but surely they don't come with android TV
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by maximente 6y ago
first, i think there's a demo, so give it a taste for free if you're interested second, it's similar to how watching a documentary is sort of like knowledge + entertainment. i think you'll find factorio pulls a lot of th
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by maximente 6y ago
Hanlon's razor seems rather appropriate here
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by maximente 6y ago
you're going to have an extremely hard time justifying that this attitude has or will "expedite the decline of the game and online community" given that they've been in early access for 4 years, continue to add sales, ha
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by maximente 6y ago
the US allows exclusion of foreign earned income up to a certain point (~$105k for 2019 filing year) under one of two scenarios: - you spent over 330 full (midnight-midnight) days outside the US + its territories, with some important but cl
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by maximente 6y ago
depends on one's priorities. that "extra" cash likely prevented an even worse pandemic outcome in the US, as paying people to say home (which is what this amounted to, essentially) was among the best public health outcomes th
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by maximente 6y ago
only if you put on the same blinders that the author does, and ignore things such as: - no mention whatsoever of any existential threats e.g. climate change. full faith and credit in Mr. Market to get us out of that rut, i guess - some defi

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