rdiddly

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811.
by rdiddly 6y ago
Interesting take, but I think the compensation only takes it from an act of charity down to exchanging favors, which isn't unethical in itself. The very act of buying a pizza is a quid pro quo. This money for that pizza.
812.
by rdiddly 6y ago
I do enjoy a good stunt, although it's also fun to play while I wait for my bloated-ass executable to upload!
813.
by rdiddly 6y ago
Yeah I like those. Obviously it would be great if there were more of them during the early part of the hype cycle, when contrary viewpoints are hard to come by!
814.
by rdiddly 6y ago
Nice one. I'll cast my vote for $AN_ENGINEER_TOOK_A_MYTHOLOGY_CLASS as "funniest bit." Obviously at some point you're gonna have to do the companion/followup piece, "Why $FAMOUS_COMPANY Ditched $HYPED_TECHNOLO
815.
by rdiddly 6y ago
There's no burden of consistency that anybody needs to meet. I can boycott Amazon because I like purple and they don't have it in their logo. And then tomorrow decide to continue the boycott because it's a cloudy day and my d
816.
by rdiddly 6y ago
The idea is old but not exactly old-world: I wouldn't be surprised to find the phrase in some insurance policies even today for example. But the whole concept of chalking things up to a God is interesting -- basically whether you belie
817.
by rdiddly 6y ago
It doesn't strictly follow, you're right. But this punches a huge hole in the already kind of surprising/unlikely possibility that we had suddenly just discovered the first (or if I'm wrong, "a very rare") vi
818.
by rdiddly 6y ago
Yeah you can pretty much transplant this sentence to any public forum: At the same time, we are concerned by a chilling attitude among some [people], who are wrongly ascribing legitimate disagreements about [issues] to ignorance or to
819.
by rdiddly 7y ago
The ol' reverse psychology eh? I don't want this deal. Oh yeah, well you can't have this deal. WHAT!? I'LL TAKE IT IMMEDIATELY!
820.
by rdiddly 7y ago
Title rewrite: Instagram Influencers Now Have Even Less Influence Over RDiddly
821.
by rdiddly 7y ago
100ºC is boiling though. You would probably smell solder rosin! Edit: Well TIL there is an awful lot of heat to get rid of.
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by rdiddly 7y ago
I mean, could it be as simple as "Learning math is more important to Russians than to Americans?" And before you dismiss this as simplistic, consider everything that's competing for attention with "learning math." W
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by rdiddly 7y ago
"We agree with the overwhelming majority of our Team Members that a direct relationship" [lengthy justification] "is best." OK so if it's not the employees, I'd like to know, in the universe of this quote,
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by rdiddly 7y ago
Why would this be so surprising though, or need corroboration? I would just assume the presence of wild animals in any place where humans aren't. Also y'know wolves aren't really some dark harbingers of doom, heavy with porte
825.
by rdiddly 7y ago
Thanks, just watched two of them... gotta be careful or I will lose my whole Saturday!
826.
by rdiddly 7y ago
The messy debris of a mind fighting itself.
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by rdiddly 7y ago
The funny part about democratizing knowledge is that it happens on the supply side too. In a knowledge democracy, knowledge comes not just from the knowledge elite, but from the knowledge poor as well! ;) No but in all seriousness, the mist
828.
by rdiddly 7y ago
Like many people here I'm straddling the two contradictory opinions that Google's April Fool's schtick isn't funny, yet humor is how human beings cope with crisis and those who would ask you to be serious and pious are m
829.
by rdiddly 7y ago
It's like a diabolical apocalyptic sci-fi plot twist.
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by rdiddly 7y ago
Any private investor would demand the same.
831.
by rdiddly 7y ago
Just gonna come right out & assert what kind of faith is backing the question eh?
832.
by rdiddly 7y ago
If you have to track people to make sure they pay attention during the meeting, the meeting is pointless and too long. Meetings that are short and packed with useful info nobody wants to miss, are well-attended. Managers, try being a real l
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by rdiddly 7y ago
I feel obliged to mention that this assumes a correlation between surveillance and protection.
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by rdiddly 7y ago
I literally thought that, clicked hide , then thought "Wait a minute, do they mean...?" and had to go fish it out of hidden items. "Joining" is an interesting term here... but I suppose it won because it sounds more lik
835.
by rdiddly 7y ago
Not sure what to make of your last line. If someone has a bridge somewhere on their trip path, for most people it's somewhere in the middle, and distant from the start point where the decision of how to travel takes place. Their street
836.
by rdiddly 7y ago
I hear you on keeping our humanity, and that is presumably the basis of the anti-price-gouging measures in the first place, and those are, at absolute worst, probably not going to do any harm. Still in an uncanny way, I think a "free m
837.
by rdiddly 7y ago
If it's crowdsourced GPU compute you want, why not hit up crypto miners too? Maybe slightly less altruistic than gamers, but still.
838.
by rdiddly 7y ago
"I still don't have any idea what Instagram or Facebook stories is." Good news: They're both shit and you don't need to worry about it. Just get back to being productive, mature, calm and focused/disciplined
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by rdiddly 7y ago
Yeah I was curious to have his answer explored further.
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by rdiddly 7y ago
Interviewer: What important truth do very few people agree with you on? Graham: That the axiomatic approach John McCarthy used when defining Lisp is the optimal way to design general-purpose programming languages. Interviewer (silently): Oh

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