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by morgante 5y ago
You're right, this actually does vary by jurisdiction. I looked into and was quite surprised that the UK allows something called "compensated game control" to adjust the odds dynamically so the observed payout matches the e
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by morgante 5y ago
The fixed odds do not guarantee that a certain payout will happen. You seem to have misunderstood how it works. The odds determine the likelihood on any individual roll, not some theoretical "payout per hour." Slot machines are
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by morgante 5y ago
It actually makes me feel incredibly optimistic. Nothing snaps me out of a depressive episode as effectively as contemplating the scale of the universe. On a cosmic scale, all my problems are miniscule. Everything that we as a species worry
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by morgante 5y ago
Exactly. One of the first steps of onboarding should be to make sure new hires are set up to fix the onboarding doc(s) themselves.
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by morgante 5y ago
> Honestly? Onboarding is hard. How are you supposed to do it? Everyone who has to go through it isn’t going to fix it, because they’re new and have their actual job to get to. Give them time for onboarding (ie. don't expect them to
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by morgante 5y ago
Separation of concerns is not a legal concept. Zillow does not have any fundamental control over the market. They do not have any obligation to show true prices. They are a private entity who happens to offer price estimates a service.
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by morgante 5y ago
I'm not convinced this is even a problem that needs to be solved. If companies inevitable self-destruct from short-term management, that creates space for new companies to emerge with new approaches. Sure, there will be some noise&#x2F
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by morgante 5y ago
> And in some cases I've just granted PR authors write access and been like "there it's yours now." But none of these end states feel quite right; in all cases I end up feeling guilty and unsatisfied with how it turns
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by morgante 5y ago
Unfortunately my experience is that most PMs are not sufficiently technical. They will often add more work by injecting useless processes and try to "demonstrate value" by coming up with new ideas without actually understanding
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by morgante 5y ago
> People repeatedly demanding help in the github issues without even providing repro steps. This is the biggest annoyance for me. There's a very clear issue template on my repos. It provides concrete, reasonable requirements (for ex
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by morgante 5y ago
What's your workflow for using Codex directly? Are you copying over to the playground or using a custom extension?
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by morgante 5y ago
I think it's perfectly understandable to want to make contact with him, but not necessarily rational. If she doesn't want a relationship with him, why is she trying to make contact? (He's already given her medical info.) It
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by morgante 5y ago
If "impregnating someone doesn't make you a parent" then why does the author even want contact with her biological father? There is zero rational reason for them to have contact or a relationship except that she clearly do
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by morgante 5y ago
Yeah, I completely sympathize with the donor. He didn't want this child and should not be forced to add another family member because the author (selfishly) wants contact with her father. The author is also clearly in denial. If she &q
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by morgante 5y ago
What stops you from just changing your DNS server?
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by morgante 5y ago
I haven't actually printed a document in years, but I export PDFs pretty regularly. When sharing documents with enterprise customers, it's far more reliable to share a PDF than to share a link to a document which is often restri
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by morgante 5y ago
> It does provide value to the business, but to the employees rather than the shareholders. At best, unions provide a redistributive function (transferring income from high-performing to low-performing employees). In practice, their net
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by morgante 5y ago
> Yes, which is the difference between having the time to offboard from your current career and do something else instead of being chucked out overnight and losing your house and everything else, multiplied by all the lost developer jobs
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by morgante 5y ago
> Overall though, not having a contract, recourse and representation in a large company is a pretty big risk factor unless you just toil away in silence. Why? I have an in-demand set of skills and could easily find a new job if I wanted
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by morgante 5y ago
Yes, because it is monopolistic/anti-competitive behavior. In isolated cases, it doesn't seem so bad. But you eventually end up with entire industries dominated by unions where you can't work at all without paying their prote
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by morgante 5y ago
Yes, I always have the option to quit. Which I had in the first place. It's just as possible (in fact, probable) that the union negotiates a worse contract than what I could have gotten myself and I'd be forced to quit a job I lik
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by morgante 5y ago
No. Some union agreements specifically forbid the company from hiring non-union employees. That's what makes it a closed shop. "Right to work" states have it right here. A union should never forbid you from voluntarily tran
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by morgante 5y ago
The business has customers and pays me a salary. The union is simply a parasite, extracting value from the organization. Objectively, if you voluntarily join a union shop, there's nothing wrong with that. I would never do it, but it&#x
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by morgante 5y ago
Yep. That's why I will vigorously oppose any unionization drives. It's incredible that people would acquiesce to being forced to accept whatever contract some union boss negotiates.
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by morgante 5y ago
> But teachers can still do their jobs remotely Citation needed. There's a ton of evidence that learning has dropped dramatically with remote school. Especially for elementary students, I suspect it is near-zero. > We should keep
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by morgante 5y ago
Then we don't owe them a salary. If they refuse to do their job, they shouldn't get paid.
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by morgante 5y ago
I think lots of knowledge workers—particularly ones without kids—have gotten a very good deal the last few years. Teachers have also had dramatically lowered expectations and still refuse to go back to the classroom.
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by morgante 5y ago
Most tools attempt to a mix of both and at least claim that they could detect security violations (especially since you can customize which controls you want to look for). Your site could really benefit from explaining what your differentia
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by morgante 5y ago
The most common reason is being a junior employee, who could still benefit from in-person mentorship.
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by morgante 5y ago
Totally anecdotally, lagging comp and bureaucracy are much bigger sources of attrition than remote work. For the most part, anyone who wants to go remote can.

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