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by quasse 8y ago
Many places in AK unfortunately have a history of barely-regulated mining [1], which is now being joined by a push to expand and deregulate the oil and gas industry in those areas [2]. Unfortunately remote is no guarantee of clean and in so
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by quasse 8y ago
That assumes most managers are skilled / engaged enough to correctly judge the quality of work put out by the individuals working under them. My personal experience puts that at about 2/4 as far as previous managers go.
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by quasse 8y ago
I think he's saying that he created RescueTime as a reaction to the experience he's detailing in the comment (post Alaska startup).
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by quasse 8y ago
Considering that every aspect of my banking is now online (including depositing checks), yeah, it is actually kind a hassle to have to keep making trips to one of my bank's ATMs just to refill my supply of small bills so that I can buy
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by quasse 8y ago
My experience in America is that the "freedom" is usually a word people use for being able to endanger others, pollute, or otherwise cause external harm without repercussion. In short, it's code for "I don't want to
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by quasse 8y ago
It seems fair to say that there are two stratums to the phrase then. One for the working class, where they can take full ownership of their working lives and one for the super rich where they can ignore or abuse the legal and political syst
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by quasse 8y ago
Let's take a moment to examine a similar incentive system and hopefully learn from it: Civil asset forfeiture by police, who can seize money or other assets and use them for the department. So far, the results have been widespread abus
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by quasse 8y ago
As someone who was that friend, it's greatly appreciated. It's nice to still be able to use a semi-modern phone when you're living on $14,000 a year.
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by quasse 8y ago
> it keeps the defense industry rolling, gives the military something to fly, politicians and the media something to talk about, and it's more or less capable of bombing third worlders who can't effectively shoot back That soun
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by quasse 8y ago
> If you were to raise the speed limit to 75mph, people would just use the same logic to drive 90mph instead. Luckily there are plenty of places that have done just that that we can learn from. WI just raised a lot of its highway speed l
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by quasse 8y ago
My reading of SCOTUSBlog implies that they in fact were fairly careful to imply that today's ruling does not affect stingray use. > "He took pains to point out that the ruling did not “express a view on” other privacy issues,
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by quasse 8y ago
Specifically "rich countries with a contingent of multibillionaire ideologues actively working to destroy public infrastructure". https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/19/climate/koch-brothers-pub...
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by quasse 8y ago
While I agree with you about the inconvenience of most residential shipping services, I think people not interacting directly with the industry tend to forget how absolutely huge the business-to-business market still is for UPS. I expect th
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by quasse 8y ago
Luckily I've seen no evidence to support that claim other than the word of a man trying to sell microchipping services. If anything it's the people around me in their 40s and 50s who are most cavalier about constantly sharing thei
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by quasse 9y ago
> "The company raised an additional $375 million in an initial public offering in November 1999 that valued the company at more than $4.8 billion.[14] Up to that time, the company had reported cumulative revenue of $395,000 and cumu
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by quasse 9y ago
>if you are teen bored in a small town then getting into trouble there with less stuff around that will kill you is very appealing to a parent I don't know what small towns you've been around, but at least where I grew up those
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by quasse 9y ago
I'm possibly starting to age out of the target market, but Snapchat has done a great job of getting me move to Instagram stories for my "social media" type content (vs. individual targeted stuff, which Snapchat still works al
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by quasse 9y ago
Having recently talked to a workplace attorney about this, you are correct and the parent poster is pushing a naive and simplistic idea of how workplace litigation works. It is important that you give the company notice of bad behavior so t
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by quasse 9y ago
>They came from the same background, had the same advantages, and so on Did they really though? Thinking back to my childhood recently, I've come to almost exactly the opposite conclusion. There were some kids who I thought were jus
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by quasse 9y ago
They measure 4 by 5 feet, so we can estimate they are probably made from a solid chunk of titanium that was at least 20 cubic feet or almost 5,000 pounds. That would be nearly $150,000 in raw material and probably another 5x that in process
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by quasse 9y ago
That was actually a part of my mechanical engineering degree. We had almost a half semester spent in one class on engineering ethics. Definitely no such thing covered during my master's degree in computer science.
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by quasse 9y ago
I had no idea that Google Adwords allowed advertisers to run arbitrary Javascript in user's browsers because that just seems so monumentally stupid. Is that their general policy or was this some kind of script injection input cleansing
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by quasse 9y ago
Seriously. As a resident of the state in question, I'd much rather see 4.5B used to directly hire people to work on our roads, state parks, and other public resources.
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by quasse 9y ago
Avoiding having to empty the instruction pipeline when a branch happens and restart. My favorite simple video explaining pipeline is still this old Apple one from back in the early 2000s: https://youtu.be/PKF9GOE2q38?t=237
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by quasse 9y ago
This is how: https://www.forbes.com/sites/eriksherman/2016/03/23/nixons-d... From John Ehrlichman, counsel and Assistant to the President for Domestic Affairs under Nixon: "The Nixon campaign i
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by quasse 9y ago
The create issue button (you know, the one we're all guaranteed to need, always) is also not just an unlabeled "+" in the sidebar by default.
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by quasse 9y ago
I like how "vehicle registrations, insurance documents and time sheets" is painted as an onerous and undue burden of proof for the farm. How dare they require legally registered vehicles and insurance at a business. And they'
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by quasse 9y ago
It depends strongly on the school. I received almost a whole year of instruction on analyzing other people's arguments, spotting the use of logical fallacies, and constructing your own coherent arguments. We spent a lot of time reading
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by quasse 9y ago
A much more helpful title would be "Webext equivalents to legacy Firefox add-ons" instead of "Firefox Stuff".
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by quasse 9y ago
It's written by an Ayn Randian conservative think tank, so I wouldn't be that surprised by the tone.

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