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by potamic 5y ago
Would you mind sharing the companies since you're using a throwaway anyways?
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by potamic 5y ago
Isn't that a contradictory argument that it's okay to "take money" from platforms but not content creators? They are both service providers with the objective to earn revenue. However, I do not believe that blocking ads
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by potamic 5y ago
Wow! They added a markdown formatted code of conduct 40 years ago!!
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by potamic 5y ago
This blows my mind! I knew you couldn't possibly store so much in tanks, but the idea to pump it into the ground is really insane.
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by potamic 5y ago
Warren Buffet's son had something interesting to say about this. > As more lives and communities are destroyed by the system that creates vast amounts of wealth for the few, the more heroic it sounds to “give back.” It’s what I woul
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by potamic 5y ago
I mean, who gets to decide what is correct and what is not? Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, which is why we have adopted law to stand on common ground. Blackmail is most certainly illegal in every jurisdiction.
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by potamic 5y ago
Where do you store that much gas?
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by potamic 5y ago
Well, the customers must have a say in the planning and the tradeoffs that are being made :) But what grinds my gears is when managers do not apply the same planning principles for their own tasks and deliverables.
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by potamic 5y ago
I have the same question as well. Dare say it seems to be anti-go to package such niche capabilities in the stdlib, but maybe their direction is changing?
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by potamic 5y ago
> Brian writes very succinct and clear descriptions of problems encountered inside google, breaks them down to “what worked, what didn’t work”, and then would summarize a design seed in a github comment (of which several such subsystems
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by potamic 5y ago
What thoughts on doing away with income tax altogether? There is already tax on sales. No reason to have tax on source as well. Tiered tax rates based on how much you're buying or how many things you're buying can allow taxing les
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by potamic 5y ago
Another reason you would want a service in front is for schema management. I suppose it depends on the use case at hand. Also, 20 connections per service process seems pretty high. Unless there are many long running queries and clients are
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by potamic 5y ago
Sorry, I must ask. shell?
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by potamic 5y ago
If businesses see their employees making more, you can guarantee that they will reduce wages. Because total compensation is the bargaining chip in this contract between employer and employee, and what determines demand for that job. When th
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by potamic 5y ago
Sharding and failover support is really cool indeed! But I've always struggled to understand the use cases of pgbouncer. In most cases, you want to front your database with a service and don't want many clients connecting to it di
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by potamic 5y ago
Your comment qualifies as a thought terminating cliche! At least I come to this forum wanting to think about the kind of questions OP has asked.
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by potamic 5y ago
What does speed have to do with power steering?
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by potamic 5y ago
Wouldn't it be easier to dismantle the mast and rebuild it?
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by potamic 5y ago
I can't believe this practice is so ubiquitous all over the world. It is such a clear cut case of conflict of interest and should be made a textbook example that ends all discussion but here we are. An organisation that apparently has
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by potamic 5y ago
Shameful? A bit much for what is essentially a gift to the community? They are building a free product and are entitled to their opinion on how to go about building it, and decisions on taking up scope is very much an integral part of it. I
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by potamic 5y ago
Could you elaborate? What's payroll costs?
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by potamic 5y ago
Add Torvalds to the list too - SHUT THE FUCK UP. WE DO NOT BREAK USERSPACE! https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/23/75 This style is indeed controversial but honestly, these kind of situations seem apt for such
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by potamic 5y ago
Many a time I receive multiple challenges on a site despite having selected all images perfectly, and can't help but wonder, "Hey, are they getting me to do more work than necessary because they're running behind on their lab
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by potamic 5y ago
Got blocked by an adblocker blocker. Sometimes I wish sites could advertise their requirement to see ads so you can avoid opening links if you don't want to.
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by potamic 5y ago
Of course in tight knit groups. But one tight knit group shares with another and before you know it, it has spread through the network. Happens more often than you think, even more so with younger people.
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by potamic 5y ago
> Looking at the current job listings on your company's career section will be the very first thing that everyone will do if those salaries were to be made public. This right here I think is the real reason companies do not disclose
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by potamic 5y ago
But salaries never remain private at the end of the day. Employees will anyway share salaries with each other and how do you handle the conflict then?
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by potamic 5y ago
> I get the feeling that investing in a quality company with a solid balance sheet is the better long term risk proposition From a risk perspective, you are better off investing in an index. Any individual company might stagnate or go bu
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by potamic 5y ago
> I am mildly concerned about 'company' attempting to monitor wifi traffic It is possible to do this? Also, would it not be very illegal?
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by potamic 5y ago
The UI is not only more polished, it is a web application packaged natively. Take that all you naysayers who insist you have to go native to write decent mobile apps. It is not only a web application, it uses fucking mithril which hasn&#x27

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