rablackburn

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by rablackburn 6y ago
Fair point, I was looking up pay withholding breakdowns and that's all that's directly paid to Medicare. > Point being it's incorrect, and quite misleading, to assert that 2% of your salary 'is for medicare', as
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by rablackburn 6y ago
> Imaging paying 10%+ of your salary just for health insurance I decided to actually look at my budget from the last year and see how this compares to my costs. In Australia I pay about ~28% of my salary in tax. 2% is for medicare, and I
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by rablackburn 6y ago
The problem is always forgetting what is uncommon jargon and what your readers probably already know. We all have our bubbles (tech folk notoriously so). Ironically the solution already exists but no one uses it because of the editorial ove
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by rablackburn 6y ago
I'm trying to set this up at my current job and my expectation is that those extras hours get to be 'focus time'. As I become a more senior developer and have to take on more managerial responsibilities my time to actually ge
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by rablackburn 6y ago
You and me both. It's hard as a layman to keep track of what's happening in real-time. I love going back to things in ~1-decade intervals and seeing lists and articles etc showing what's happened "in-review". Usuall
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by rablackburn 6y ago
> I'm not sure I understand your pessimism. Are you legitimately concerned that, unchecked, flat earthers might actually "turn" the entire population? Not at all, but the fact is that these beliefs are growing at all t
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by rablackburn 6y ago
Fair point. I wonder if my prioritization of the echo-chamber/fake news balkanization problems the web is facing now is purely because it's a more novel threat than authoritarian government overreach? But it seems like there shoul
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by rablackburn 6y ago
Now this is the kind of comment I was hoping to find in this thread. I'd like to highlight what I think is one of the more insidious "challenges we have to prepare ourselves for": bad-faith communicators. I have faith in the
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by rablackburn 6y ago
> Within this network, you may have a pocket of users who espouse Flat earth theory, but I believe if you were to rely on such users for trust ratings, the picture of the world created would be so incoherent, it would simply be unbearab
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by rablackburn 6y ago
I've never heard anyone use the Rwandan genocide as an analogy for what's going wrong with the modern web but I think you've hit the nail on the head. It seems that the most ardent supporters of unrestricted free-speech are t
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by rablackburn 6y ago
I agree that it seems like the problem is more a lack of reputation and trust than decentralization. But how do we build trust in a decentralized network the size of the human population? How do I know if this username on my screen is publi
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by rablackburn 6y ago
> Just spare us the long description of how other people are lesser human beings that should have their rights restricted for their own good That seems like a particularly uncharitable reading of the post. From the article: > Many of
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by rablackburn 6y ago
I still remember the furore it caused when I asked for a copy of the 業務規則. (because the new overtime pay policy was paying ~$3/hr worked after 10pm and I wanted to see the section that covered that calculation) I just wanted to read th
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by rablackburn 6y ago
Yep, one of the core value propositions for bringing in consultants is “they tell the exec what your staff already know. But because it cost a lot of money to have them say it people are more likely to listen” It’s a real service that provi
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by rablackburn 6y ago
Agreed, I originally thought this might be an older project from a couple of years ago because of the ES5. “Vanilla” doesn’t have to mean “supports IE11” in 2020 (before anyone jumps on me, yes, depending on your users you may very well sti
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by rablackburn 6y ago
Is there a jurisdiction somewhere where using plastic straws has been made a criminal offence with jail time as a punishment? Here (Australia) it was implemented as a civil fine and I assumed it would be similar elsewhere. But if that were
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by rablackburn 6y ago
Personally I (a developer) use it most as a metaphor for business people explaining why we need to schedule time in-sprint for work that isn't explicitly tied to a new feature. We have debt, we need to service it. Repayments come in th
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by rablackburn 6y ago
and if you don't want to go that extreme, just using a different virtual desktop can work wonders. Ironically one of my todos is to hack my xfce to swap out panels (and maybe somehow browser profiles?) when changing to certain named wo
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by rablackburn 6y ago
I think they're referring to this thread itself. I've been lurking on hacker news for years and I've never really seen anything quite like it.
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by rablackburn 6y ago
It's a different phenomena. I experience the running out of RAM problem that you describe as well and take basically the same approach to you. That's much closer to how I read code. My issue really is just a tendency to keep readi
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by rablackburn 6y ago
There definitely seems to be a balancing act between: * stopping all progress until you fully understand the point * continue moving forward so you don't get stuck and give up Interestingly I've found that leaning towards 'ju
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by rablackburn 6y ago
>The single most helpful thing in figuring out what to write down was noticing when my reading was slowing down (...) > If I have one piece of advice, it’s “learn to recognize the subtle drag of something requiring your attention.” Th
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by rablackburn 6y ago
I like that physical button solution. Do you have a github repo or blog post documenting how you did it anywhere?