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by robocat 11mo ago
For a perfectly spherical person: * The person's time is worth $0/hr * The person is not disabled * The person doesn't need to carry anything that can't fit in a backpack * The weather is clemant enough * The journey is
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by robocat 11mo ago
From what I could find, working in a presidential campaign is mostly volunteer-based and pretty much full-time. It sounded fun and like an incredible experience, but I was already working full-time and didn’t have that kind of availa
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by robocat 11mo ago
Anyone in avionics software dev to give an opinion? I would presume there's the same issue as parent said: It is so wildly more expensive than traditional development that it is simply not feasible to apply it anywhere but absolute
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by robocat 11mo ago
False comparison... There are also mechanical engineers that design trashy gewgaws. And electronic engineers designing giftcard chips. And creating regulations for the word "engineer" is just a bad idea. Instead the common solutio
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by robocat 11mo ago
> CoC loudmouths Probably means code-of-conduct, and not clash-of-clans.
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by robocat 11mo ago
Make sure to use a good prompt. We are generally rather negatively judgy towards some mistakes (the ones that indicate you're an idiot) versus positive towards others (some mistakes show taste or talent).
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by robocat 11mo ago
> Canada failed to do a payroll system New Zealand tried to do a new payroll system for teachers called Novopay which imploded spectacularly and is still creating grief. The system is now called EdPay (the government decided to take over
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by robocat 11mo ago
Also nothing says survivor bias as statements like: And yet every single one of my friends managed to survive this now-impossible freedom It is nonsense to use your own example and imply it was safe, because you are mostly blind to t
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by robocat 11mo ago
Dirty upsells for recurring revenue. Apple pushes iCloud REALLY HARD. I'm on the free plan but I paid when on holiday and now I get heavy dark patterns from Apple (phone UI, emails, yadda). Android too? Persistently asking "Photos
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by robocat 11mo ago
Student? If you are then to innoculate yourself against these business scams, you need to go along to at least one MLM presentation given by a friend (watch for something sold by a friend as a business opportunity). I wonder what other thin
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by robocat 11mo ago
Internally they profile power usage, or at least power usage regressions. I recall watching a Chromium issue where new code was reverted out because it caused an unacceptably large increase in power usage. I think the power graph was publis
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by robocat 11mo ago
Does Jason think that writing his article was a 10x activity? I can see a personal payoff to Jason, but it is harder for me to see the commercial payoff from the blog. Unless its some meta-payoff: an increase in his own productivity through
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'A's will soon be most common university grade (New Zealand)(rnz.co.nz)
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by robocat 11mo ago
New Zealand too . . . 'A's will soon be most common university grade https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/579974/grade-inflation-t...
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by robocat 11mo ago
> months long wait for procedures The demand for healthcare procedures is unlimited. Instead queues are used to limit access to expensive procedures, because waiting lists are the only solution that is palatable to voters. Although in th
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by robocat 11mo ago
> when the 'extra' funds run out, and benefits will only be covered in cashflows The issue is that the necessary delivered services is a kinda fixed amount that the economy should deliver. The economy can't really "
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by robocat 11mo ago
See sibling comment by eru: they said there isn't a fare increase congestion charge; instead "Every once in a while they experiment with discounts for off-peak train usage"
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by robocat 11mo ago
Your summary is incorrect. From link from link: while the majority of [the savings] consists of traditional transport decongestion benefits, around a fifth are arising from e.g. health, journey quality and safety. Cycling doesn'
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by robocat 11mo ago
I struggle to understand the metaphor. From link: The U.S. federal budget is now 50 percent consumed by spending for Social Security, a social insurance program; Medicare and Medicaid, two of the largest health insurance programs in the
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by robocat 11mo ago
> The correct solution to this is a land value tax, which if implemented correctly, should drive down the price of land down to zero Isn't most land already 'taxed' by a mortgage? Or for a cash purchase it is 'taxed&#
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by robocat 11mo ago
> Swiss cheese model I always thought that before the "Swiss cheese model" introduced in the 1990s that the term Swiss cheese was used to mean something that had oodles of security holes(flaws). Perhaps I find the metaphor weir
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by robocat 11mo ago
https://archive.ph/46HVG
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by robocat 11mo ago
Shows exactly how wire was misinserted (unlike previous article I saw).
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by robocat 11mo ago
It's more disturbing than you think: America’s Retirement Savings in Bermuda entities that lose US protections while making opaque, complex bets: https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2025-america-insurance-pa... ht
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by robocat 1y ago
The connection is not the issue. The issue is that we have insufficient extra generating capacity during a dry year. At the moment we don't have enough [gas] to fully use all our existing thermal plant in a dry year. There are no p
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by robocat 1y ago
> "owners" own only the home and pay an exorbitant land rent each month. So, unlike a traditional home where the land appreciates Isn't this the same as many apartments with body corporates that lease the land they are on?
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by robocat 1y ago
Because there were large corporations using their political clout to make it a number one issue for your administration. Your administration then made copyright law changes a central goal of many agreements - essentially a non-negotiable re
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by robocat 1y ago
Murder and incarceration create jobs too. At what point does job creation change from an excuse to an obligation?
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by robocat 1y ago
New Zealand has its very last census in 2023 and is having no more. https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/in-depth/564560/the-traditional-c... So maybe it has nothing to do with US politics and is just a worldwide trend
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by robocat 1y ago
That's not what I got from the article. Firstly they seem to be saying that they were not seen as phony (hard to judge). Sure they're using tricks, but they were copying tricks off other people! Not all social interaction is genui

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