mxskelly

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by mxskelly 6y ago
When will people realize that slapping yet another startup's tech stack onto yours isn't going to magically fix anything and in fact just adds complexity and points of failure. I've always done my best to err on the side of &
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by mxskelly 6y ago
So the more empty promises a CEO makes, the more valuable a company? And they say capitalism isn't broken. Have fun holding those bags I guess. I swear this is the logic of a small child. Dangle some candy in front of them and they&#x2
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by mxskelly 6y ago
I frankly can't see how this is inciting a flamewar. Tesla has a pretty good record of being terrible at manufacturing. I've seen innumerable comments on this site where people make similar "what makes you think that..."
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by mxskelly 6y ago
What makes you think that Tesla would be able to do that, given their reputation of not being able to manufacture cars that don't fall apart immediately upon rolling off the factory line? They kinda have to be able to build cars in the
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by mxskelly 6y ago
So you still think it's a good thing that a private company should be handling important infrastructure and be able to say, on a whim, "Nop, we're not going to handle this because reasons. Sorry not sorry." How can you s
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by mxskelly 6y ago
They're not literally saying to people, with no notice, that "no, we won't accept this mailpiece" so yes, I think they're doing better. Privatizing the mail doesn't magically prevent delivery mistakes from happ
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by mxskelly 6y ago
So, anyone here still think it's a good idea to privatize postal delivery?
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by mxskelly 6y ago
Damn, my point went impressively far over your head huh.
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by mxskelly 6y ago
Ah right, because using other tried and tested methods like providing everyone better mental healthcare options are boring. Just make an app! Apps solve everything! Apps! Apps! Apps! Oh right but providing better mental healthcare doesn&#x2
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by mxskelly 6y ago
Yeah just keep throwing apps at every problem, that'll fix things eventually. lmao
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by mxskelly 6y ago
You make it sound like the companies who run this shit are penniless, they're not, they're making millions of dollars of actual cash. There's no charity going on here.
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by mxskelly 6y ago
Yes, actually.
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by mxskelly 6y ago
> I feel like either I have gone crazy, or the world has. Occam's Razor time: capitalism doesn't work!
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by mxskelly 6y ago
Who cares. That's where capitalism is now because letting it run rampant created and caused this. The bed was made, and now we all get to sleep in it.
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by mxskelly 6y ago
So it's not real capitalism even though this industry is, quite literally, called "Venture Capitalism" okay.
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by mxskelly 6y ago
Exactly this. You can't take "well this is happening but it's not real capitalism" even though everyone's calling it capitalism. It's capitalism. Capitalism is busted and rewards greed and concentration of we
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by mxskelly 6y ago
This is just capitalism working as expected and - wow news flash - it is a broken system.
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by mxskelly 6y ago
"If you’ve ever ... peaked at the dash of your obnoxious neighbor’s new Tesla…you’ve used OSM." 1. peeked, not peaked 2. Teslas do not use OSM for the on-screen maps. They use Google maps. Tesla only uses OSM for the data regardi
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by mxskelly 6y ago
Sorry but "rich people are miserable because they have too much money" is not a real problem and I feel exactly zero sympathy for anyone in that position.
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by mxskelly 6y ago
The fact that it comes down to "the RIAA continues to have power" versus "we have to trust some billionaire to stop this" is disgusting, imo.
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by mxskelly 6y ago
The only reason you'd think that's what communism is is if all your ideas about what "communism" is come from capitalist propaganda.
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by mxskelly 6y ago
> Vimeo can be a good idea if you don't care about discoverability and just want to put your video on the internet without self hosting. That's a fair point yeah.
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by mxskelly 6y ago
Don't talk to the cops about anything, ever. Especially not this. Lawyers are paid to keep your best interests in mind. Cops will investigate the shit out of you and will do nothing to help, at all.
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by mxskelly 6y ago
Some weird ones I'm seeing: Airtable doesn't seem to be an alternative to Google Sheets, it seems like a much different application than a generalized spreadsheet that can do math operations. Vimeo isn't really a replacement
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by mxskelly 6y ago
I'd love to know how you expect a computer to navigate a blizzard on an unpainted country road when even adaptive cruise control systems can't handle a bit of snow on the sensors. Sure this stuff works fine in Arizona where there
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by mxskelly 6y ago
What? I have never used Twitter in any serious capacity. There are plenty of ways to get all this information and thinking that Twitter is the de-facto place to get emergency life or death situation notifications is downright laughable. As