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by rhizome 5y ago
> Is there a third option? Yes: some companies have employees who don't quit as soon as a new JavaScript framework is launched. Do what they do. Yes, large companies operate by different terms than startups, but I assume (big guess
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> encouraging addictive behavior patterns is still encouraging addictive behavior patterns. The companies using them know, and that's the goal. It's all intentional, and many companies have had many meetings over many years ab
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You answered your own question. "Very flexible" is a plus for Amazon because they can cover everybody's use-cases with a single concept. "Very flexible" is a minus for end users because they only need to take care o
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Can they cash it out without getting busted?
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by rhizome 5y ago
Humans are never objective. Ever. Not only that, this inherent and fundamental subjectivity means they could never know what objectivity looks like in order to judge whether something is indeed objective. Because their criteria are subjecti
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With the amount of effort and condescension you put into these comments picking apart a simple sentiment of "that would totally suck," it seems apparent that one thing you absolutely do not do is respect their opinion.
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by rhizome 5y ago
Tolerating disruptive behavior is not a reasonable accomodation.
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by rhizome 5y ago
> Don't know how to message users on hackernews, so posting as a reply here I love this. JWZ eat your heart out!
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I know, but he's still there to mark peoples's receipts.
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by rhizome 5y ago
"Ha ha you're probably right."
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by rhizome 5y ago
A couple of months ago I was in a Walmart...I think it was on a holiday, perhaps July 4...and I was having trouble getting help for something that was in a locked cabinet. I walked allll around the store looking for anybody to help me, and.
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by rhizome 5y ago
Sorry about that, I must have assumed the story was as big everywhere as it is here (I know). This is probably a decent start: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/06/14/bogus-bac...
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by rhizome 5y ago
The only people who get tortured this way are people who are getting interviewed outside of the networking pipeline, where the cool people are.
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by rhizome 5y ago
Would you agree that if Trump thought the vaccine was delayed to make him look bad we'd hear him shouting it from the rooftops?
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by rhizome 5y ago
I don't have it at hand, but in finding that other page I came across something saying, I think, 3-5 generations. It's googlable.
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> dispatch explicitly warns the officer that the guy has said threatening things about police on social media. In which case the dispatcher should be charged with murder too, just like the officer has been. http://www.stanisl
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> These days law enforcement agencies partner up with firms like Clearview Yes, I addressed that with my investigations link. Investigatory data, problematic or no, does not appear in cop car computers.
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by rhizome 5y ago
OKCupid doesn't allow you to sort on anything anymore. It's all part of their business model of preventing people from creating permanent relationships. Yes, some slip through, don't @ me.
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by rhizome 5y ago
That site is inscrutable, have the owners ever used a web browser?
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by rhizome 5y ago
> Class action lawsuits rarely benefit the users financially. ...because courts approve unreasonably low settlements.
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by rhizome 5y ago
Demand wouldn't drive bandwidth prices down?
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Are you sure "a signed request by a prosecutor" was enough to require you to hand over the data?
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by rhizome 5y ago
Well, there's basically no legal way that that kind of information is in the databases accessible via his car computer, so he's already lying by saying "you don't like police" and "it says that when I pull up y
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by rhizome 5y ago
Trucking you can still kill people. You know who I'd like to hear about? The company making self-loading and unloading shipping containers. Now that , I bet, is an achievable goal.
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Rich people generally became rich by inheriting lots of money. https://ips-dc.org/the_self-made_hallucination_of_americas_r...
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by rhizome 5y ago
> I'm happy to give them extra money early given the work they're doing on the chance that it works in the future. You're a good mark, FSD is a mug's game.
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by rhizome 5y ago
I do think "views" in the title and story should be scare-quoted.
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So like the Pomodoro technique, except the break interval is forced social interaction? There truly are a zillion business models.
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by rhizome 5y ago
Google "Chesa Boudin," the current DA, who is ensuring that criminals run rampant throughout the city, if not inviting them to do so, if you listen to certain opinions. Find a news story about the current crime rate in SF that isn
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It's not even attributable to "capitalism," per se, because the US and New Zealand are the only places on Earth where they are legal. I may be blinkered as to global laws, so maybe I'll just say the Western Earth.

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