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by peder 5y ago
My initial take is that this article is trash. To build up their empire, the Romans literally conquered people that weren't like them; you could probably argue they should have had more conquering zeal and xenophobia. Also, why does
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by peder 5y ago
Could it be something as simple as ignoring that we're all touching our masks, our clothing, our eyes. Basically, did we optimize one part of the problem while ignoring all others and the net effect is basically zero?
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by peder 5y ago
This is one of the most privileged takes I've ever read. OH GOOD HEAVENS. You were sick for a whole 2-3 days. Best lockdown the country to avoid what most people experience 1+ times per year.
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by peder 5y ago
> Civilization 1, 2, and 3 had "stacks", but if you kill one unit in the stack, you kill ALL units in the stack. As such, "death balls" were incredibly fragile, one well placed attack kills the whole stack. That'
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by peder 5y ago
>I can still catch it Yes, you can still catch it regardless what we do with NPIs. Stop living in fear.
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by peder 5y ago
Exactly right. The parent poster you replied to is another in the long list of people that flippantly disregard the harms of masking. Good luck dealing with a generation that has developed unhealthy phobias and has severe emotional attachme
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by peder 5y ago
Once a system is in place, it'll be repurposed and never go away. Also, "Once Covid is gone". By what metric will it be "gone"? Are you talking zero COVID? That's never ever happening.
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by peder 5y ago
That seems like a remarkably poor hereustic
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by peder 5y ago
Tech companies won't move in lockstep on this. Battle for talent is too intense, not many companies can call shots like this like Google can. Some companies will be glad to differentiate to try and attract Googlers that do not want to
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by peder 5y ago
I really want a browser flag like "I DO NOT CARE ABOUT TRACKING" that auto-accepts.
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by peder 5y ago
Or the other players work in different ways that are less visible. Cyber espionage and propaganda is enormous, and I think the average American is only slowly beginning to understand the depth of impact of bots, paid trolls, phishing, and d
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by peder 5y ago
You're assuming that the UK, Germany, Israel, Russia, and China are not all doing the same.
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by peder 5y ago
What are the aims of the CIA? Are all the divisions within the CIA rowing in the same direction? Is it possible there are multiple CIA operations in direct conflict with each other, without any awareness of the others' involvement? Wha
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by peder 5y ago
And potentially bribes!
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by peder 5y ago
Cities are full of crime again today. Is it a problem with lead? Or is it a larger condition of cities in the Americas?
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by peder 5y ago
I've written a number of front-end projects that used URLs for state, and yes, lol, IE was a hard no for such efforts.
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by peder 5y ago
And this 3 days in the office business won't work well either. If not everyone on the team picks the same 3 days to be in office, then what are you gaining? How would it make sense if there's barely any overlap among team members?
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by peder 5y ago
Big-time survivorship bias in this article and thread. Just yesterday we learned that Verizon is dumping Yahoo and the related media brands. Those acquisitions were a major failure. The reason that Big Tech got so big is that they're r
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by peder 5y ago
But the flu has always been here, even when our country was significantly less populated, when we were significantly more rural, and when people were significantly less connected in many ways. Like, how did we get flu pandemics in the 1700s
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by peder 5y ago
This type of design would work well with "shape-changing" displays: https://appleinsider.com/articles/17/03/21/apple-patents-sha...
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by peder 6y ago
There's a chicken and egg situation. Companies do choose to locate in California because of talent, but talent also chooses California because of great companies. If enough great companies leave, the talent will leave, too.
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by peder 6y ago
If you want to distort the statistics, you can do this the other direction, too. It's common for people in Seattle to point out that they don't file police reports for theft because it's a bunch of work waiting on the police
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by peder 6y ago
I'll be the asshole here. You're probably making some critical mistakes that are holding you back. What is it that you are specifically trying to achieve and what are the reasons that you haven't been able to achieve those go
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by peder 6y ago
Obviously the next step here is a fake SSH agent that allows logins to a little sandbox.
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by peder 6y ago
I think the era--to the grandparents' point--was a significant factor. Back then we still believed in immediately transformational technology. There was a widespread belief that an aviation or space-travel breakthrough was imminent. Th
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by peder 6y ago
There are already people and companies lowballing offers, with Redfin and other algorithmic players joining the game, it actually increases prices and improves the liquidity of home ownership.
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by peder 6y ago
Lyft and Uber are disproportionately impacted by coronavirus news, and the remdesivir drug trial seems to have been a success, so Lyft and Uber are up more than the rest of the market.
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by peder 8y ago
That last point is simply working software _over_ documentation, meaning that in a world of finite resources what would you rather have? A pile of requirements and technical design docs _or_ a working product? All teams need to determine th