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by purplezooey 3y ago
"Our teams have been working around the clock to address these issues... And we’ll review what happened and make sure we fix it at scale." It's not like this is some mission-critical, large share of revenue generating applica
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by purplezooey 3y ago
The argument in favor of this is that the current tensions are largely economic, and when the North Korean citizens can benefit from something closer full participation in world trade, they will be better off. Iran is in a similar situatio
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by purplezooey 3y ago
I don't think most people would assess the current state of industrial regulations in the US as having "massive regulatory red tape."
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by purplezooey 3y ago
He punts on the timeframe, using examples that occurred over 60, 100, even 200 years. Thus, you could apply the argument to nearly anything.
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by purplezooey 3y ago
wait.. if brakes are 20% of fine particulate matter traffic pollution and tailpipe emissions are 7%, what's the other 73%?
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by purplezooey 3y ago
Post seems to be gone
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by purplezooey 3y ago
I mistakenly thought that the coup would involve both rice and quantum physics.
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by purplezooey 3y ago
There was a good show on this recently, 20/20 maybe?
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by purplezooey 3y ago
David Graeber died too soon. We'll miss him. He would have so much to say about our current predicament.
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by purplezooey 3y ago
It's true, after I ate some, I felt like I was no longer playing ketchup.
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by purplezooey 3y ago
I hope it reaches mass production. The market for residential air conditioners is awful. Most units do not last 10 years without needing major repairs and have negligible efficiency gains over those made 20 or 25 years ago.
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by purplezooey 3y ago
There's a great future in plastics.
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by purplezooey 3y ago
This is just not very interesting. Compensation is far more messed up in the private sector.
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by purplezooey 4y ago
The funding seems excessive. Yet again, more "scorched earth" from VCs and (apparently still?) cheap capital.
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by purplezooey 4y ago
This sounds nice, but the guy is already rich. That makes it a lot less interesting.
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by purplezooey 5y ago
A cheat sheet is supposed to be a 1 page pdf crammed with stuff.
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by purplezooey 6y ago
"life outside the totalitarian microscope?"... exaggerate much?
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by purplezooey 6y ago
This is comical in an environment where pay raises don't even track (or barely track) inflation, and then only if you are in the "top 10% of achievers". All of a sudden HR departments are economists and experts in adjusted l
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by purplezooey 6y ago
I like the way this guy writes. I wonder if the idea that 30% unemployment cannot exist might be challenged by the ability of right wing authoritarian governments, which are on the rise globally, to tamp down dissent.
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by purplezooey 6y ago
If you are telling your employees to "...work harder" this is a failure of management in the product mix and roadmap. But the "solution" is always, as it seems to be here, to hire a new round of tired executive faces an
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by purplezooey 6y ago
Depends on your age a little, at 20 OK, 30 mostly OK, at 40, hmm.
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by purplezooey 6y ago
So much of work life is looking busy.
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by purplezooey 6y ago
Nicolas Cage movies are missing
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by purplezooey 6y ago
A few of the authors are fellows at the Hoover Institution... enough said.
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by purplezooey 6y ago
funny letter. "You have turned your back on common men—on their elementary needs and their restricted time and intelligence, and... you have elaborated.
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by purplezooey 6y ago
Ever since I saw that picture of Linus writing code on a shitty 90s laptop on his mom's kitchen table I feel like I don't deserve any trifle creature comforts.
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by purplezooey 6y ago
Love me some ffmpeg, but would be nice to have some bullet point summaries of updates in the release notes instead of pointing to the changelog dump. I know there is some information loss, yadda yadda
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by purplezooey 6y ago
This post reeks a bit of #firstworldproblems.
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by purplezooey 6y ago
Turning down management roles seems key, nobody wants to be middle management but you're often ushered there by leadership then RIFd when things turn sour. Seen it happen to a few.
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by purplezooey 6y ago
What exactly does conventionally attractive mean, would anyone want to be called that, heh

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