mojzu

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by mojzu 4y ago
I understand your point and largely agree with the idea that corporations shouldn't become de-facto governments with regard to morality/free-speech/etc. However I think it's important to acknowledge that there's a r
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by mojzu 4y ago
I did a short evaluation a while back (while support for desktop/web was still in beta so much has probably changed), ended up going the PWA route. Developer experience was fantastic, code completion/debugging/documentation&#
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by mojzu 4y ago
Buying/storing disks requires a lot of space and hardware many people do not own anymore though, plus if you want to rip them to a personal media server you still need to break the DRM which depending on the country can be illegal
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by mojzu 4y ago
Even without the standard deviations I think averages are an often abused tool. If you take any statement following the lines of "group X is better at task then group Y on average", while it might help you win in the long term in
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by mojzu 4y ago
I think legalisation could help in this regard as long as companies are required to measure/label products appropriately. Similar to how the most popular alcohols during prohibition were spirits, whereas now there's a massive rang
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by mojzu 4y ago
I'm a little confused, on the one hand you appear to be arguing that victims of rape and incest should be required to bear their abusers children but on the other arguing that pro-choice people aren't holding themselves accountabl
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by mojzu 4y ago
Often the same groups opposing abortion also oppose the most effective policies to reduce abortions (proper sex ed, free birth control and family planning services, etc.). So while I agree there is an impasse on where the human life line is
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by mojzu 4y ago
I think that's an unfair characterisation, I doubt most people making the statement are arguing that people are stupid, but more often that they have been lied to/duped by people seeking to use their support for policies they migh
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by mojzu 4y ago
I've not found vague estimates to work very well at all in this scenario. Managers will just continually ask for something more specific, they want a particular date they can remember/write down/enter into some project manage
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by mojzu 4y ago
Often followed in my experience by some kind of complaint later on that "we were promised Z by this time why is the estimate bad". It's something I've struggled to find any good solution for too, particularly if you&#x27
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by mojzu 4y ago
What specifically have the verge reported on to make them lose credibility in your eyes? Personally I've got a bit tired of how often he comes up, but it's perfectly understandable considering he's a very public personality w
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by mojzu 4y ago
Their speech is less likely to be publicised/reported on though, so they have arguably lost some potential audience. In the same way that being banned from Twitter does not restrict your freedom to speak (e.g. you can go to another web
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by mojzu 4y ago
Not sure if the linked articles covers it due to the paywall, but according this article [1], the estimate that carbon emissions to build it would exceed emissions is possibly overly pessimistic. Such as predicting that air and car travel w
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by mojzu 4y ago
There's also an argument to be made that piracy increases sales in some cases, most of my music/game/tv/film tastes as an adult can largely be traced back to content I pirated as a teenager who didn't have money to
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by mojzu 4y ago
I think this is good advice, I'd also start finding and backing up any emails, call logs and other documents that discuss your contract/agreements for remote work as they're likely some of the first things a lawyer would ask
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by mojzu 4y ago
I'd imagine it won't replace the entire supply chain in one go (although I think quite a bit of semiconductor tooling is already manufactured in the EU), but I think it's a step on the path towards that. Which is probably a g
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by mojzu 4y ago
I agree, I also think the original point doesn't take into account burnout and employee retention. Even if the premise that people were doing 80% of the work were true, how does that stack up against how long they're willing to do
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by mojzu 4y ago
In my experience I quite enjoyed async Rust, there was definitely quite a bit of yak shaving required to get tokio and various other async/sync libraries to play nicely together, but once that was done I haven't run into any signi
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by mojzu 4y ago
It does heavily depend on what form those regulations take though, I think there are valid reasons to ban users from a platform or prevent them from using it in particular ways (either for safety reasons or making the platform a more pleasa
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by mojzu 4y ago
Perhaps incentivised is the better word? Improving tolerances and repairability so that products last beyond the common 1-2 year warranty periods costs time and money, and potentially means that customers aren't buying newer versions o
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by mojzu 4y ago
The vape that managed to get me off cigarettes was the Juul2, I'm still tempted by the real thing occasionally and Juul has its share of issues regarding cartridge disposal and advertising to kids. But the experience is significantly b
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by mojzu 4y ago
Personally I'm happy when good things are happening for family, friends and other people, but depending on my mood it can also trigger feelings of FOMO/anxiety (why isn't that happening for me, what am I missing, etc.). My gu
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by mojzu 4y ago
My understanding of the design of private relay is that Apple cannot see this data as it works with a third party relay (Cloudflare I think?) to blind themselves to it That complaint by the telcos is what convinced me to turn it on, the ent
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by mojzu 4y ago
I'm not sure this is true, at least I haven't come across more than a handful of people advocating for pay equality. My experience has been that people increasingly believe the systems we have now are not meritocratic or very comp
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by mojzu 4y ago
It's also only a couple of paragraphs in a long post and offers some evidence of parts of the agile methodology (retrospectives and code reviews) being used to harass people so it seems unfair to knock the article for those reasons in
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by mojzu 4y ago
I'm a recent-ish convert and found this to be true, there's definitely plenty of rubbish on the app store similar to the play store and trying to avoid subscription services where it shouldn't be necessary can be frustrating
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by mojzu 4y ago
Generally for different reasons though in my (anecdotal) experience The left thinks silicon valley/social media has taken too light of a touch dealing with hate speech, racism, conspiracy theories, etc. and has enabled more radical&#x2
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by mojzu 4y ago
Are high level sports teams the best comparison? Google tells me NFL players make $400,000+ per year, if I was being paid that much I might accept that level of control from an employer over my life. But otherwise if I'm getting my wor
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by mojzu 4y ago
I'm sympathetic to the argument that Facebook/Twitter/etc. are too large and have too much power for lobbying/influencing public discourse, although I think if anything making them a public utility would make that situat
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by mojzu 4y ago
And very easy ways for people to create their own platforms/blogs with their own rules too, they almost certainly won't have the same reach as the larger platforms but it seems to be a common view that Facebook/Twitter/e

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