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by plandis 3y ago
The part I’m outraged about is that the CEO of Reddit was caught in a lie about how 3P app developer tried to “blackmail” them and when said developer released the audio it’s clear that never happened and now Reddit is doubling down on drag
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by plandis 3y ago
…that’s going to be the next thing they get rid of
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by plandis 3y ago
In my experience the social safety net doesn’t really matter for highly skilled workers making hundreds of thousands of dollars per year. In terms of violence you’re statistically unlikely to be the victim of violent crime in the US as an u
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by plandis 3y ago
> I personally know many people that were once far worse off than that gentleman, and are now doing quite well This sounds extremely callous unless you were the dead man’s therapist or close personal friend. Surely you’re not going to in
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by plandis 3y ago
As someone that works in an open floor plan I _hate_ when my coworkers laptops sound like jet planes because the fans are going full blast. It’s so distracting.
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by plandis 3y ago
If your legal system relies on reading the minds of lawmakers to infer their intent then your legal system is effectively arbitrary since those lawmakers can claim they intended anything.
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by plandis 3y ago
> No. Acting in bad faith is what is wrong. Do you have explicit evidence that Apple is acting in bad faith or are we merely inferring this?
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by plandis 3y ago
> You might want to tell that to multiple judges who rule daily on the spirit of the law. It’s not a judge ruling on a case that is sending this letter to Apple.
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by plandis 3y ago
It seems like a pretty gross oversight to not specify charging speeds if the government truly cares about it to the point they plan to take legal action against companies who fail to correctly read the minds of legislators.
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by plandis 3y ago
Where in Seattle?
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by plandis 3y ago
I have a heat pump and there are definitely days where it’s so cold it cannot heat my home fast enough and it’s rather uncomfortable and I’m in a zone where heat pumps in theory should be all you need. Geothermal heat pumps are comparativel
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by plandis 3y ago
> It's hilarious (in a way) seeing USians American is the term Americans prefer, let’s try to be respectful.
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by plandis 3y ago
It’s the United States of Mexico, which everyone shortens to Mexico but for some reason you’re not okay shortening the United States of America to Americans? Honestly United Statesian is more confusing because that ambiguously could refer t
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by plandis 3y ago
I literally just paid with NFC at Home Depot like 3 hours ago.
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by plandis 3y ago
Can you describe stuck in the 70s? I just use contactless pay pretty much exclusively unless a place is cash only (which isn’t the norm). What are you doing in your country?
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by plandis 3y ago
> We all know that the fair share is a percentage of someone else’s income you feel entitled to and not a fee proportional to the amount of state services you use. So a kid with cancer needs to pay the government for Medicaid? After all,
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by plandis 4y ago
For himself? No. But, a lot of this advice like “take risks” is much easier to do when your failures don’t result in losing everything. If a poor person starts a business and fails they might not be able to afford to eat. If Sam Altman fail
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by plandis 4y ago
Didn’t the BBC recently take a soccer announcer off the air after he was critical of the conservative government?
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by plandis 4y ago
I really hope the US doesn’t agree to give up full sovereignty of its judicial process.
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by plandis 4y ago
Do you have access to the case including evidence? The jury did and voted to indict, how can you be sure that this is legal gymnastics?
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by plandis 4y ago
Looks like someone didn’t realize they had cloud to butt installed lmao
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by plandis 4y ago
> If there’s a shortfall they will charge the banks a little extra in their next insurance payment, but keep in mind we’re talking about at most a few billion dollars spread over every bank; they are unlikely to pass on a small cost like
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by plandis 4y ago
My wife is a fan of these emotional baby toys called Slumberkins and she noticed that they appear to have this problem: https://www.instagram.com/p/CpopLR2OxRU
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by plandis 4y ago
Seems like a great idea… If your intention is to get people to quit without needing to lay them off and pay out severance.
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by plandis 4y ago
> If the queue is not empty, it means that whatever job is consuming from the queue is not keeping up with messages coming into it. You could conceivably have a non-zero queue size that asymptotically reaches some stable size over time.
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by plandis 4y ago
Car registration fees / gas taxes do pay for that?
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by plandis 4y ago
Presumably FMLA would protect their job.
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by plandis 4y ago
You’re not an idiot, the game requires you to understand some rocketry and orbital mechanics concepts which has a learning curve —- the concepts are not difficult but if you don’t understand them you the game can be rough. Thankfully there
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by plandis 4y ago
They did the Kickstarter to crowdfund money to publish the books under his own company Dragonsteel instead of likely using Macmillan/Tor. They didn’t set out to collect so much money, the initial goal was to raise $1M. Fwiw, Sanderso
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by plandis 4y ago
60 employees didn’t seem that wild when you consider they took on the role of publisher for his secret projects kickstarter. 186k backers of which a decent portion are getting 4 physical books over the next year.

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