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by nxc18 6y ago
Some vegans. If you care about the environment at all you’re not going to be demanding every restaurant buy additional grills, expand footprint, or alternatively not serve vegans at all. Demanding separate grills doesn’t have any impact on
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by nxc18 6y ago
Several of the engineers I worked with a few years ago left Intel (for the company I work at) after they switched to hotdesking to save money on facilities. Basically the concept was instead of engineers having an assigned office or desk, t
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by nxc18 6y ago
Is there good coverage of how Intel became so uncompetitive? My instinct is to say this is just the natural result of the presence of MBAs who are trained to focus _exclusively_ on this quarter's results so ignore R&D investment an
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by nxc18 6y ago
What's the question? If you're looking for more content, MMT is kind of a hot topic these days from what I gather. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_Monetary_Theory
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by nxc18 6y ago
Great has not been my experience with forms UWP. Lots and lots of bugs in the UWP components forces you to abandon most of the things you need to make a nice iOS/Android UI. Unless you’re prototyping or really don’t care at all about U
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by nxc18 6y ago
Those gig workers want to do it and the customers want to pay. If the state wants to provide a social safety net, it should provide one. It shouldn’t pass a law that fucks Lyft’s business model into unviability, say “if you don’t want to co
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by nxc18 6y ago
I voted for this arrangement specifically because I think the state _should_ be paying, ideally fully, for maternity, paternity, healthcare, and social security. Having a functional social safety net basically moots the issue of classifying
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by nxc18 6y ago
Disagree with a few points in the article, but I’m here to evangelize anyway. Background: I’m a huge fan of dark mode, I use it all the time, I even have plugins to make things that aren’t dark dark. But I do want to point out something sli
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by nxc18 6y ago
I don't know how common this is, but I was raised to see intimate touch as reserved exclusively for family and sexual/romantic partners. There's a pretty big mental block when it comes to touch, and I think that's made m
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by nxc18 6y ago
I think there’s an assumption that if you’re using your phone regularly you’re never taking the time to have human experiences. For all but perhaps the most avoidant, I don’t think that happens in practice. I walk alone for 1-3 hours a day.
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by nxc18 6y ago
Is it different? You have posted the same ‘intricacies on the Internet’ article several times on this page already, so perhaps you should consider your own advice? Not having money is comparable to not having a phone - my phone is my money
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by nxc18 6y ago
What is it liberating you from? Your own empowerment?
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by nxc18 6y ago
Not as far as I can tell, and I believe they let you do point-in-time copies. I’ve got a copy of mint, formerly electroNow (it was better when it was electroNow) from June 2017 in my collection.
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by nxc18 6y ago
I switched to Tidal for similar reasons and it has been really painful. Unfortunately the competition is so bad that Spotify can do really, really bad things before it outweighs their overall competence at service delivery. I don’t understa
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by nxc18 6y ago
I feel like shit sitting on so many perfectly good computers that I don't use regularly. I'd happily give them away and I've asked my educator friends if they know anyone in need. The response I got just now was that most of
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by nxc18 6y ago
Regulatory capture is a thing. Consider an aircraft company that wants to sell comparably cheap but dangerous products that cut corners and have hacky solutions to core engineering problems. Short term profit for shareholders is the only th
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by nxc18 6y ago
I didn't know Radeon was better with Linux. I'd like to turn my current device into a headless server and build a new PC specifically to run Ubuntu well. CUDA is a key use case for me though - I actually use quite a lot of softwar
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by nxc18 6y ago
I'm running Windows now after trying to switch my primary device to Ubuntu periodically for the last 5 years... I've been experimenting with Ubuntu since 2007 and none of my devices have been able to run it well. If you've go
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by nxc18 6y ago
Lots of inaccurate info in here but also some valid points. UWP sucks really bad and it does reduce the reliability of the system, especially when UWP-type things end up in the shell (e.g. start menu and action center). I will point out tha
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by nxc18 6y ago
I commented on another post below, but tldr I suspect Apple is heavily optimized for earbuds and cheap speakers rather than higher end audio equipment which I typically use (if you count ~$150 headphones as high end). I’m not exactly an aud
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by nxc18 6y ago
When I started using Apple Music (I tried them before Tidal) the music sounded really tinny and sharp - sonic equivalent of an over sharpened image. At first I thought my headphones were broken. I listen with WH-1000XM3 and ATH-M50x and the
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by nxc18 6y ago
That’s fair, Tidal is definitely not as good as Spotify in terms of software quality. It hasn’t affected me too badly, but I definitely miss Spotify connect and CarPlay has been spotty. I’m fully making the switch as protest of business pra
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by nxc18 6y ago
They seem to have a developer program but it requires an application (according to the site). I used a website to transfer my Spotify playlist to Tidal before this recent change. I hope Tidal is prepared to take advantage of Spotify’s custo
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by nxc18 6y ago
I really hope Spotify is listening and prepared to be responsive. I was loyal for years and convinced a few friends to sign up, but now I’m sending people to Tidal or really any other alternative. I prefer my music providers to not be activ
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by nxc18 6y ago
I just switched to Tidal in protest of Spotify’s support of that nonsense app alliance and their constant attacks on the podcast ecosystem. I really miss when they were laser focused on music. If they drop their bad business practices, I wi
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by nxc18 6y ago
As an American who has never really experienced political violence at home, it is really distressing to see how frequently the topic of imminent political violence is coming up. I’m deeply concerned, and I wish I could just say I’m paranoid
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by nxc18 6y ago
Sonos works well and I love it generally, but I’ve been really disappointed with their business practices the last few years. The S1->S2 debacle really shook my confidence and reminded me that I’m tying up a very expensive speaker with c
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by nxc18 6y ago
Not OP but this is functionally true in the US. I was diagnosed when I was younger, made the mistake of letting my prescription lapse (because I give myself breaks and therefore end up accumulating excess), and now can’t get the medication
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by nxc18 6y ago
Do you work for a non-profit in the United States, Canada, the UK, France, or another western country and pay taxes? Do your taxes contribute to murdering foreigners in a desert far away? Are you evil? This isn't a personal attack, I j
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by nxc18 6y ago
Facebook is worse than you think. These abstract 'cancel culture' discussions are ignoring Facebook's substantial body count, role in algorithmically pushing people to hate groups for the sake of engagement, and disrupting at

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