purple_ferret

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by purple_ferret 4y ago
People still pay biglaw lawyers hundreds if not thousands an hr to check for correct comma placement in documents. Can easily be replaced by why hasn't it been?
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by purple_ferret 4y ago
>Programmers have been so high on the hog, earning doctors salaries and thinking they are this special class of people where their jobs are totally unassailable What makes you think doctors can't be replaced too? Just have a PA meas
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by purple_ferret 4y ago
I don't know, but they'r pretty persistent regardless. Almost $9 billion in corporate incentives in 2021[0] https://info.siteselectiongroup.com/blog/largest-economic-in... .
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by purple_ferret 4y ago
It's a design choice to import the functionality of componentDidMount into the hooks pattern
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by purple_ferret 4y ago
I'm pretty sure because it's basically an easy hack to recreate the behavior of componentDidMount.
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by purple_ferret 4y ago
ruby-install and chruby is the dead simple way to go IMO
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by purple_ferret 4y ago
Just in time for Rings of Power Season 3
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by purple_ferret 4y ago
> 0 years is more than enough time to profit from creative works. Are we as a society really saying that 75+ years is how much time people ought to be profiting from creative works? An absurd proposition in almost any other industry or p
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by purple_ferret 4y ago
The policy doesn't mention individual accounts but the platform itself: >we will remove any free promotion of prohibited 3rd-party social media platforms >Accounts that are used for the main purpose of promoting content on anothe
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by purple_ferret 4y ago
There's an exception: TikTok Fortuitously preserving LibsOfTikTok and Elon's good relationship with the CCP
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by purple_ferret 4y ago
The images included have "Trends Blacklist" and "Search Blacklist" tags on accounts which seem to be the 'smoking gun' for Bari Weiss
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by purple_ferret 4y ago
Why wouldn't you want to be part of a union? I am a recent member of the UAW (a more white collar local), and it's been insightful. I think unions are much weaker than people perceive. Their strengths are mostly superficial. Strik
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by purple_ferret 4y ago
How is this surprising? People get things resolved via Hacker News when people comment on CEO account comments (Stripe comes to mind). Nearly every company probably has direct lines of access for resolutions for VIPs, politicians not exclud
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by purple_ferret 4y ago
Well they can get unemployment now too.
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Cryptocurrency Trading Platform Gemini Pauses Earn Withdrawals(twitter.com)
11 points by purple_ferret 4y ago|1 comments
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by purple_ferret 4y ago
here's the way I understand it: -SBF's other pet project Alameda Research suffered huge loses after Luna blew up. -Alameda Research, a 'backer' of FTX was given billions of FTT tokens that they 'owned' by FTX b
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by purple_ferret 4y ago
Scott's Cheap Flights has basically become a lifestyle brand. Really disappointed in it (I see they don't even advertise their pricing) after they moved regular economy deals up to their 'elite' tier, which is at least h
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by purple_ferret 4y ago
Binance continues to amaze. Does anyone even know where it operates out of these days?
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by purple_ferret 4y ago
Milk spikes glucose levels, so I guess it. depends on how much milk you use.
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by purple_ferret 4y ago
Well if not now, then when? Putin is literally moving his nuclear arsenal into position to turn Ukraine into waste and says he's not bluffing.
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by purple_ferret 4y ago
Can't he fly to Ecuador now? He's got a brand new Russian passport.
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by purple_ferret 4y ago
Oberlin's response to students: >Dear Obies, >Today, Oberlin College and Conservatory initiated payment in full of the $36.59 million judgment in the Gibson’s Bakery case, an amount that represents the awarded damages and interes
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by purple_ferret 4y ago
>Allyn was beaten up pretty badly, and the three students were arrested. Seems like a farce. The students were never charged with or convicted of assault or anything close to it. Not defending Oberlin, but Bari Weiss is shameful for lett
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by purple_ferret 4y ago
He said he'd have Trump on prior to the election (with no pre-screen questions, which the Trump team wouldn't agree to). Post Jan 6, Trump is a pariah for anyone not running in a Republican primary.
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by purple_ferret 4y ago
>The Zuckerberg interview he did was probably the most important interview of the last few years, You mean of all interviews done anywhere? Surely, that's hyperbole. What exactly came out of that interview that's worth noting o
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by purple_ferret 4y ago
When your comms director chauffeurs you to an interview, outlines how they went over talking points with you, and then in the writeup gives that assessment...
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by purple_ferret 4y ago
this is the woman who chided twitter employees for concerns about Elon Musk[0] and told them not to come to Substack a couple months it was revealed they are essentially broke[1] [0] https://twitter.com/lulumeservey/stat
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by purple_ferret 4y ago
Isn't the aversion towards consanguinity more about taboo than science these days? I'm guessing modern genetic tests can predict the safety of having children even between siblings (because most of the issues are with recessive ge
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by purple_ferret 4y ago
Is that what you convinced her when she found your tinder profile?
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by purple_ferret 4y ago
It's clear people are attracted to others with similar physical features so... Dating app idea: Matching you with a genetically similar person (of your preferred partner sex).

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