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by rhizome 4y ago
Musk's competence has to do with "this" being a thing at all. He started it!
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by rhizome 4y ago
This is due to tax policies reducing the revenue pool. This makes it easier to judge individual divisions of the total because there are necessarily fewer outlets, and since it's a smaller pool there's more reason to fight. The id
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by rhizome 4y ago
I worked at a pizza place Back in the Day, and this was the galaxy brain combination.
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by rhizome 4y ago
Here's one argument: plastics aren't all that recyclable. https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/California-laun...
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by rhizome 4y ago
I've heard of this happening at Apple, and it wasn't portrayed as an unusual occurrence.
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by rhizome 4y ago
The middle-out bubblesort stuff is so they don't have to decide where to put you. You're a cog with a certain amount of learning in you and can be put anywhere someone wants your butt in a seat. It's credentialism at its base
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by rhizome 4y ago
> Managers don't care. It's funny how concepts that get repeated a million times in "how to be a boss" type threads are completely forgotten in "my job sucks" ones. Case in point: CULTURE COMES FROM THE TOP
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by rhizome 4y ago
Create a logging method/function, llog() or something, with named parameters and whatnot.
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by rhizome 4y ago
There will always be performance-enhancing drugs.
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by rhizome 4y ago
My therapist asks me the same question.
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by rhizome 4y ago
Yep. I've written that formulation many many times.
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by rhizome 4y ago
On the other hand, programmingwise dating apps are simple as heck and require almost no staff (source: Match's presumptive development priorities across their apps). Wasn't Plenty of Fish famously one guy for years and years? Heck
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by rhizome 4y ago
I'd like to point the "Twitter suspensions are censorship!" people at this selective-participation filter.
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by rhizome 4y ago
Tomato, tomahto.
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by rhizome 4y ago
I think everybody has a different sense of organization, and the prevalence of organization schemes and apps is in hopes that enough people can relate to a particular app-developer's preferences and patterns. At the end of the day thou
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by rhizome 4y ago
I figure NFTs are an attempt to materialize cryptocurrency so that it does trickle into the rest of the economy. > I’d imagine there is a whole lot of institutional money fooling around with similar projects. If it's your trashcoin
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by rhizome 4y ago
> If you are a startup, you cannot create a popular app in a crowded marketplace by being scrupulous about best practices. > Match owns almost all of the dating-app market, and they have extremely deep pockets to buy/extinguish
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by rhizome 4y ago
One of the most useful features for me, comparing my performance on segments over time, is no longer free on Strava. They give you a greyed out portion of the list showing the last two visits with a link to subscribe.
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by rhizome 4y ago
> positions that are “age appropriate” which usually implies management There are and always have been many many ICs over 50, what a ridiculous stereotype to propagate.
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by rhizome 4y ago
And culture comes from the top.
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by rhizome 4y ago
> If you sell a gun to an unstable crazy who shoots up the neighbourhood then some blame lies with you From the context it seems like a more common analogy would be better to illustrate, rather than using an example of something that al
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by rhizome 4y ago
> This leads to the notion of being taxed for having a brain Isn't this the same logic as used in the US against capital gains taxes, that a person is being punished for being successful?
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by rhizome 4y ago
Though I'd call it "desire," what hobby doesn't fill a psychological need?
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by rhizome 5y ago
I came across this video a while back and though I'm not a wearables hardware guy, the rubric he uses is sound for programmer-y stuff too. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=L1j93RnIxEo
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by rhizome 5y ago
Pro-Googler: changes the subject to attack critics
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by rhizome 5y ago
Grubhub et al promoting their own phone number as a restaurant's is exactly what I'm talking about.
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by rhizome 5y ago
> evidence now emerging that much of the NFT hype was entirely astroturfed I mean, was there ever any evidence that it was natural or even legitimate?
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by rhizome 5y ago
If "welcoming" is a virtue, sure. I don't see what's wrong with that, but I do see a problem with using "virtue signaling" in a way that implies there's no such thing as virtue, or that it is always appare
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by rhizome 5y ago
Parenting is work.
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by rhizome 5y ago
For certain (or certain kinds of) positions, yes. That's the "almost all" part.

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