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by mcculley 4y ago
Very cool. I have been wanting some of these features for a while and finally got around to my own implementation: https://github.com/mcculley/WordWhittler I welcome ideas on how to do smarter things around text compos
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by mcculley 4y ago
That does not support the claim that apps are coordinating to restrict usage.
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by mcculley 4y ago
Of course they could. It would obviously be an enormous security problem. Apps would have to know the government ID of children. Nefarious entities could stage denial-of-service attacks against individuals. Obviously China could do this. I
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by mcculley 4y ago
I agree it would be no problem. It would obviously be an enormous security problem. Apps would have to know the government ID of children. Nefarious entities could stage denial-of-service attacks against individuals. Obviously China could d
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by mcculley 4y ago
It is a mesofact: http://archive.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2010/02...
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by mcculley 4y ago
It is still there: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/tree/master/arch/um
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by mcculley 4y ago
I am quite skeptical of this. There would have to be an API. There would have to be documentation for that. There would likely be keys assigned to individual apps.
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by mcculley 4y ago
The question is asking about multiple apps coordinating. Wouldn’t this require a central database and an API for querying/updating time spent in an app per ID? Where is that API?
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by mcculley 4y ago
There is an enormous gulf between most kinds of harm one can do to someone in a different country on the other side of the world and dropping part of a rocket on them. Nobody agrees a priori to China’s assessment of their economic value.
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by mcculley 4y ago
There is a difference between the chance of debris hitting a person and the chance of it hitting any person. Regardless of the probability, there is a problem with choosing that risk for someone else without their consent.
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by mcculley 4y ago
Do you imagine a real-time database that is only available to bartenders? This would have exciting implications.
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by mcculley 4y ago
The current labor market is paying much better than before for scientists with just a B.S. I do agree that there is little economic value in most Ph.D. programs.
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by mcculley 4y ago
I think your assessment is not based on the current labor market. I am aware of scientists with a fresh B.S. making that much. I do agree that there is little economic value in most Ph.D. programs.
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by mcculley 4y ago
Yeah, even without Google+, they compete for advertisers’ budgets. I certainly would not give my email to my competitor.
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by mcculley 4y ago
They could host mail on their own servers or use a provider that is not a competitor.
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by mcculley 4y ago
Amusingly, I am trying to log in to the dashboard to reboot my nodes, but it requires a verification code which was sent to my email, which is hosted on Linode.
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by mcculley 4y ago
I am amazed that Twitter uses Google to manage internal email.
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by mcculley 4y ago
> Voice phone calls are dead I am amused by this blanket assertion. It really depends on the age/type of people involved and the kinds of interactions they are involved in. I am 50 years old and work in both software consulting and
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by mcculley 4y ago
> There's no reason for a random stranger to need to call you I get a lot of calls from people for whom my first introduction/interaction is a phone call. I make a lot of money and otherwise get a lot of value from some of thes
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by mcculley 4y ago
I will try to articulate a coherent answer for this. It will probably take me a while. I appreciate your interest.
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by mcculley 4y ago
I am offering lots in the way of flexibility. This is a very illiquid labor market compared to most industries. There are simply much fewer candidates. My company's biggest disadvantage is that we have very irregular voyages (we colloq
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by mcculley 4y ago
Yes. I don’t expect fixes to immigration to resolve constraints with Jones Act. I do expect it would make other large parts of the labor market more flexible and relieve pressure on positions constrained by Jones Act.
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by mcculley 4y ago
We have researched this a bit. We are working with a staffing company that claims to know how to execute the process. It is not yet clear to me if we should be outsourcing this or trying to do it entirely ourselves.
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by mcculley 4y ago
Pay is not the problem. I am offering competitive pay. Tugboat captains with a Master of Towing require years of sea time. More are retiring than being created. I am currently training deckhands. It will be years before they are ready. Mean
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by mcculley 4y ago
The bigger problem is that we have more people retiring than entering the workforce. This demographic collapse has been forecast for decades. COVID just pushed us ahead on the curve with some early retirements. I wrote about this [0] and we
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by mcculley 4y ago
That’s how I learned to read.
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by mcculley 4y ago
I work in the shipping industry operating tugboats. I have also seen the claims that this will happen. I remain unconvinced. I haven’t seen any infrastructure changes that would indicate adoption anytime soon.
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by mcculley 4y ago
These points are generally true to anyone who ever has to write an email or text message as part of a job. This could be generalized to "How to communicate effectively as a knowledge worker".
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by mcculley 4y ago
I love the description, "whimsical chaotic energy". I would like to meet that man. I'm not sure that is the best way to describe the man who labeled a critic as "pedo guy".
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by mcculley 4y ago
> What are some of those "obvious good policy decisions"? I stated the biggest example in my previous reply: Paying the sick to stay home would have been smarter than the lockdowns. Spending on infrastructure for health testing

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