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by octodog 6y ago
Can you give me some examples of tools that are better? Genuinely curious. I've used JIRA at multiple workplaces and really enjoy it. I like Github issues and Trello for my personal task/issue tracking but I don't think they&
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by octodog 6y ago
1. Not every support request is the result of a bug. 2. Not every bug is directly related to the product owner/team. Bugs can be introduced from different teams/processes. 3. Requiring senior engineers to do L1 and L2 support is l
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by octodog 6y ago
No, it wouldn't. The government has placed a (mostly) hard limit of 3000 people per week entering per day. An arrival tax might raise revenue but it doesn't guaranteed the policy goal - 3000 people a week. Now, why the Federal Gov
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by octodog 6y ago
Not an insightful comment. Airline travel is particularly bad.
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I quite enjoyed this article and found the author's perspective on the inherent internationalism of art resonate with me. However, I'm not sure that the issue he is discussing is mostly caused by algorithms. It seems to me that th
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by octodog 6y ago
> the free market of ideas will dispatch of them efficiently This is a bad concept that is far detached from reality. Participating in public discourse is not like selling wheat or steel. Sticking with the theme, a "free market of i
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by octodog 6y ago
If the source is a comment on HN from someone who says they overheard it in a bar then I wouldn't worry about it too much.
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by octodog 6y ago
You are missing the point. They are smaller than the big tech companies but they are not objectively small. In my country a company is generally deemed to be large if it employs more than 500 people, which is easily surpassed here.
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by octodog 6y ago
The whole point is that Uber isn't actually treating its drivers like contractors. Any theoretical benefit to being a contractor is not really relevant if they don't have those rights in practice.
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by octodog 6y ago
I don't really know anything about ULA or the space industry in general so I find this to be a particularly unhelpful comment. According to you, what makes their business model like this? Could you explain why this is fundamentally dif
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by octodog 6y ago
I find this comment a bit odd. It seems clear to me that code that is easier to write, reuse, test and maintain saves time and money that can then be spent on building a better product. Do you disagree?
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by octodog 6y ago
https://www.accc.gov.au/focus-areas/digital-platforms/draft-... PDF with draft policy here.
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by octodog 6y ago
That's not reasonable at all. If their product doesn't work, you are entitled to a refund. Whether or not their systems allow them to refund you in a manner that _suits them_ is irrelevant.
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by octodog 6y ago
Your comparison isn't fair - blowing the whistle is supposed to be a last resort. Internal disclosure and attempting to fix the issue collaboratively is always the first step. This attack is indiscriminate and is without warning, so it
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by octodog 6y ago
There are a lot of factors at play. There are issues with anti-democratic governments in Poland and Hungary, COVID-19 has hit Southern states hard and obviously the UK has left. On the other hand, they did just agree to issuing collective d
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by octodog 6y ago
Russia doesn't care about the technical difference and why would they? The USA uses satellite infrastructure to exert influence, including in regions that Russia is active in and considers critical. From a Russian perspective, it is im
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by octodog 6y ago
Personally I have had many good experiences with chatbots, although they don't replace talking to a real human about complex issues. Effective chatbots tend to triage requests and point users to further information, rather than fully s
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by octodog 6y ago
Having a chat bot and a good website work hand in hand. Sometimes users don't immediately find the page they are looking for, or simply prefer to ask the bot and then be directed to the right place, rather than investigating for themse
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by octodog 6y ago
My understanding (and personal experience) is that even for people who can fall asleep quickly after drinking coffee late in the day, the quality of the sleep is not as good, so you still feel tired the next day. Of course, the solution to
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by octodog 6y ago
I agree, pocket is awesome for mobile use and I would recommend it to anyone. My only complaint is not being able to turn off reader view by default in the browser.
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by octodog 6y ago
It gets even crazier to think about when you realise that cities like Detroit are overwhelmingly Black. The police there are just not providing good value for the people who live there. Brookings had a great post about this the other day:
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by octodog 6y ago
> This ranges from heroin addicts somehow always finding the daily $$$ to fund their dose, to people mildly grumbling about the price of cigarettes yet buying them anyway. You should disavow yourself of this notion. Taxation on cigarette
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by octodog 6y ago
This is a brilliant but absolutely heartbreaking article. It is so sad to think of all the children who have had their lives changed by such cruellness.
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by octodog 6y ago
As a counterpoint, I am apart of a "Good Karma Network" Facebook group centred on the suburb I live in and it is extremely wholesome and pleasant. The posts range from re-homing old furniture, organising exercise groups, posting l
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by octodog 6y ago
This is really cool, what you have just described is actually a pretty important concept in macroeconomics and is described in the Solow-Swan model [1]. As you say, infrastructure (and all physical capital) depreciates, so some amount of sa
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by octodog 6y ago
You're right that Walmart is massive but Amazon is the biggest ecommerce player in the US and it's not even close. 38% Amazon to next closest Walmart at 5.8% [1]. Pre-COVID Amazon was about 44%. [1]: https://www.marketw
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In a similar vein, when I start to feel like that I try to remind myself that I should be "questioning my knowledge, not my self". I think it's quite a powerful idea. Questioning your knowledge can lead to positive introspect
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People (typically) buy house insurance to manage their risk to a level that they will tolerate. This creates security and allows for greater investment in something. It's actually completely different to sports betting...
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Whether you choose to trust them or not, they have a history of publishing content that is false and serves to advance and protect Russia's interests. One such example on the Skripal poisoning: https://www.rt.com/news&#
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by octodog 6y ago
That's just wrong. News Corp has for years allowed its newspapers and editorial divisions to lose money or operate inefficiently while it can cross-subsidise them from cash cows such as Foxtel. It is quite clear that Murdoch highly val

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