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by s3r3nity 2y ago
This seems to be heavily inspired by Workflowy's "fractal comments" feature: https://workflowy.com/help/fractal-comments/
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by s3r3nity 2y ago
> As a rushed/unfinished product What led you to believe it was rushed and/or unfinished? I agree with the sentiment that it's a _bad_ product with _bad_ choices and _bad_ strategy. It was likely caused by shitty ZIRP-era
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by s3r3nity 2y ago
> But they are also moving openly towards a fascist dictatorship Democrats have been calling on Biden to increase his power through just writing Executive Orders to act on their platform, and bypass all other branches of government...but
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by s3r3nity 2y ago
> after California's rules limiting coal for power generation. Great example & case study for the beauty of the US Constitution's "interstate commerce" clause, and one of the areas the federal government _SHOULD_
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by s3r3nity 2y ago
> Homogeneity also comes with its own problems -- smaller, more homogenous governments are much more likely to discriminate against the "out group", for instance. I discriminately support my family more than my neighbors. You p
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by s3r3nity 2y ago
> They have no policy. They have no plan for governing; they don't like governing. This is an unfair analysis, and is either naive at best or disingenuous at worst. I'm not a registered Republican, but I AM strongly against an
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by s3r3nity 3y ago
> Deterrence Theory is back-justification to make yourself feel good Retribution is a valid component of justice.[1] [1] Stolen from another commenter above
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by s3r3nity 3y ago
Actions have consequences. Billions of dollars of fraud that took years and hundreds of thousands of dollars in lawyer fees to prove should have a sentence that is a strong deterrent to future crime probabilities.
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by s3r3nity 3y ago
Yeah that was a surprise to me as well, and just sounds like one of the biggest grifts I've ever seen. e.g. As Visa/MC, I market a product that literally discounts everything you buy, and make my business partners (the merchants)
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by s3r3nity 3y ago
> It boils down to the fact that iPhone is a pervasive computing device and similar to a "public good" should be regulated tightly. Extremely authoritarian / communist take. A $1000 luxury phone is not a "public good&
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by s3r3nity 3y ago
> Of course I could switch to android, but I dont want to, solely because texting iPhone users would become a much worse experience It's 99% the same experience - except for iMessage users your texts become green instead of blue. On
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by s3r3nity 3y ago
That's copium
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by s3r3nity 3y ago
> ...rest of users should be allowed to leave it whenever they want (at the very minimum at their own risk). You can, though? Just go buy an Android. There are a billion different options there. Heck, you can also still buy old-school ty
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by s3r3nity 3y ago
"Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful"...unless you need to learn about the facts and arguments for voting in important elections, lest you hear about inco
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by s3r3nity 3y ago
This was my initial reaction as well, but in these work environments record keeping is USUALLY extensive by design: parts, tools, even minor acts like tightening a screw or bolt is logged. The fact that they can't reproduce _ANY_ recor
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Boeing overwrote surveillance footage of door plug repair(abcnews.go.com)
40 points by s3r3nity 3y ago|16 comments
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by s3r3nity 3y ago
> Facebook et al aren't banned, they just need to follow the law to be allowed Yes, and by that logic, TikTok isn't banned, but rather foreign ownership of said app is. Just "follow the law" and sell the rights.
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Key Boeing Whistleblower Found Dead from Apparent Suicide(thehill.com)
164 points by s3r3nity 3y ago|4 comments
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by s3r3nity 3y ago
idk ... on the flip side I'm old enough to remember when the shoe bomber was caught MID-FLIGHT and people were rightfully scared.[1] Like, holy shit: you can hide bombs in your shoes?! And that was only THREE months after the 9/11
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Cyberattack Paralyzes the Largest U.S. Health Care Payment System(nytimes.com)
6 points by s3r3nity 3y ago|2 comments
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by s3r3nity 3y ago
Quite an authoritarian take.
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by s3r3nity 3y ago
You could get an iPad Pro (or even a regular iPad) and remote into a cloud Mac. If people wanted what you described, then Surfaces would be skyrocketing. However it looks like according to MSFT that Surface sales are sinking, which might ex
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Snowflake stock tumbles as CEO Slootman retires(cnbc.com)
1 points by s3r3nity 3y ago|0 comments
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by s3r3nity 3y ago
> there is massive cost to moving for any company, especially one that is built on a highly specialized labor force that doesn't want to move. California is banking way too hard on people who want to work for companies that do not w
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by s3r3nity 3y ago
>A lot of hand waiving about how "minor paperwork" for everyone isn't such a big deal. But very little coverage of what benefit that paperwork is accomplishing. I also came here to comment on my concern about this. Only bi
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by s3r3nity 3y ago
I’m not sure this is true. You can buy insurance on virtually any potential loss risk, like how celebrities can buy insurance for body parts: they obviously haven’t lost said parts, but that doesn’t mean the insurer charges $0.
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by s3r3nity 3y ago
Is there anyone with an actuarial / risk management background in this community that could explain how this is going to impact industry insurance rates? e.g. is Boeing going to have astronomically high costs? Are airlines with 737 Max
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by s3r3nity 3y ago
Interesting quote from X (Twitter) the other day: "In Terminator 2, how many people remember that the inventor of Skynet, who was a brilliant engineer and also invented many other important technologies, was a black man? If T2 was made
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by s3r3nity 3y ago
I've seen three different paths over the years from friends and colleagues that moved into SWE from non-coding roles via getting in the door in a "technical role" that can help develop the skills you need: 1) Data Science: th
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by s3r3nity 3y ago
So would the Google Assistant feature (and similar tools) that calls places to make reservations be illegal? Seems like a lousy (lazy) solution to the problem that limits innovative applications of this tech.

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