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by mlindner 4y ago
I don't actually believe smart-phones have done much to democratize computing power because phones don't give you much control over computing power. You can't develop software on a phone using a phone. And frankly the vast ma
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by mlindner 4y ago
Do all the people who use computers to browse the internet (the majority of people on the internet) suddenly no longer exist?
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by mlindner 4y ago
> they are interested in the good of their constituents. Supposedly that's the case for politicians as well, and we all know how well that works out. Also I think you misunderstood my previous comment. I was referring to the union p
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by mlindner 4y ago
Paid for by whom exactly? What opportunity are they "squandering"? SpaceX (along with investors) are footing the bill for building out this service. If you suddenly kneecap them and say they can't provide it for more than $50
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by mlindner 4y ago
> Sorry, are you implying that filmmaking is somehow less universal than software engineering? Hollywood filmmaking is indeed not a universal phenoma. There are other centers of filmmaking outside the US that aren't part of this gu
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by mlindner 4y ago
> All professions have a union of some sort that police both the members and the employers - lawyers, doctors ... Given that developers often get paid more than doctors already. There's nothing to gain there.
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by mlindner 4y ago
> you don't choose your managers. You choose your union reps. Which are managers. > your managers are strictly interested in the good of the business, And said extra managers are strictly interested in the good of the union.
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by mlindner 4y ago
Every person I personally know in the industry works less than 50 hour weeks. And often they go home and work on their own projects at home, in effect working a lot more.
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by mlindner 4y ago
You don't seem to understand how unions work. They insert extra layers of management in between the workers (developers) and the management. They create a go-between where all negotiations must be done with the union rather than manage
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by mlindner 4y ago
Yes when you can create a form of in-effect regulatory capture you can engage in monopolistic practices to gouge the customers via creating artificial scarcity. Movies continue to climb in costs. None of that applies to software development
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by mlindner 4y ago
GC languages just move the complexity around. I've never done it but I've heard GC tuning is an incredibly difficult problem.
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by mlindner 4y ago
> One, often omitted, property is also simplicity of the language. If the language is straightforward, then there's a much larger audience who can be potential contributors. With regards to "simplicity" people often seem t
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by mlindner 4y ago
"Hasn't yet"? You do realize that things have completely dispersed at this point and the very transient burn was weeks ago right? The event is long over.
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by mlindner 4y ago
It's being pretty actively done by politicians on one side. I've seen lots trying to somehow blame Biden for it for example even though it's completely irrelevant.
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by mlindner 4y ago
The chemical was especially toxic to certain types of animals (notably fish) but much less toxic to humans. Here's a video on that. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b19lpkjUBrM
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by mlindner 4y ago
Youtube has a lot of them. Here's one about a derailment in Nashville. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dZT7TTQqb4 Here's the one I mentioned about a derailment in middle of nowhere Iowa that dumped tar into the c
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by mlindner 4y ago
A couple months ago I watched an amateur train nerd on youtube cover a derailment that dumped a load of bitumin/tar into a river and destroyed a bridge. This kind of thing happens pretty commonly. No national news covered it, only a co
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by mlindner 4y ago
Correct. There is no one in East Palestine who got sick from this. There's many derailments throughout the country and chemical spills of other sorts have happened many times.
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by mlindner 4y ago
This is one of the most confused takes on EU launch that I've ever seen. Your Falcon 9 success numbers are completely incorrect. The success rate is 100% on current models and overall having only 1 launch failure (or 2 if you count a p
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by mlindner 4y ago
There's many organizations that have proposed Starlink competitors, but it turns out this kind of thing is hard. Starlink isn't the first to try this either, but they're the first to succeed. There's very little hope of
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by mlindner 4y ago
> Can you live on $7/hr? Yes, of course. The income taxes are almost zero (or negative), and for one person living by themselves in a studio apartment that's $400 for rent for a cheap studio apartment and $800 a month in groce
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by mlindner 4y ago
Minimum wages increase the cost of living by making low level services cost more. This is a circular problem. Also the definition of "living wage" varies wildly depending on what kitchen sink people want to throw into it. People s
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by mlindner 4y ago
No, I was very confused why the link was going to an old blog post by mozilla until I read the comments.
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by mlindner 4y ago
Javascript, html, XML, JSON, source code in general of all languages, to name a few. Also it's important to look at the time period. The farther back in time you go the larger a percentage of all data was designed for direct human cons
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by mlindner 4y ago
I guess I quoted without enough context. In my mind when reading in context they were in conflict, but reading again in isolation I agree they're somehow no longer in conflict.
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by mlindner 4y ago
I'm not sure why people instantly jump to unionization when making these types of claims. You assume that every company is cooperating to pay the same price for labor, when that's not at all the case. It may only seem like that at
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by mlindner 4y ago
Legal eagle plays for video clicks rather than correct legal understanding. Never admits he was wrong, and has published several videos which were ridiculously incorrect. He misleads the general public at large by pretending to give accurat
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by mlindner 4y ago
> I'm making the argument that all brands of EV charging network should charge all brands of EV. Anything less is backward, primitive, and simply dumb infrastructure. Okay but this is a theoretical statement and doesn't really
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by mlindner 4y ago
> They dropped from > 70 to 63 last year, and missed sales estimates for Q4. Yes they missed sales estimates, but it was still a substantial growth in sales Year over Year and Quarter over Quarter. > Also, their competition is ridi
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by mlindner 4y ago
Everyone misreading this to imply that Starlink is limiting it's use for Ukraine's military communications. The only thing being limited is the use on actual Ukrainian military hardware, like Ukrainian drones that drop bombs mount

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