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by s_dev 3y ago
I don't believe that but there is some truth or less exaggerated percentage of tax evasion that could be quoted. Cash is also necessary for buying illegal drugs for example which a lot of people do in all strata. Other factors that are
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by s_dev 3y ago
Have you seen the cockpit of modern plane? The number of controls/instruments telling you about the status of the plane for instance is a big differentiator here. That is a major safety flag -- the pilot in that cockpit knows nothing r
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by s_dev 3y ago
>but it took us over 30 years to really understand the implications of legalized opioids. It took the EU all of ten seconds to reject opiates for minor use -- the opioid crisis is very much manufactured and endured in North America and i
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by s_dev 3y ago
He's more 'widely known' than respected in the Irish tech scene and I really wouldn't see him as a spokesperson. I don't disagree with what he said per se but he has been just spouting every opinion that pops in to
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by s_dev 3y ago
I use DDG but actively of thinking switching to Kagi: https://kagi.com/ -- it's a paid service but I can justify it based on the amount of search queries I run everyday. Has anyone switched and not looked back?
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by s_dev 3y ago
>Nearly 14 years in, where exactly is this “ton of real world utility”? People usually qualify this with "moral" or "legal" uses -- crypto currencies are absolutely useful for tax evasion and moving money across borde
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by s_dev 3y ago
>LVT muppets You're attacking the person rather than the idea. Experiments are good, even if they fail to confirm a hypothesis because we can learn more. Sounds like your mind is made up before the experiment though.
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by s_dev 3y ago
Google doesn't 'think' and neither does ChatGPT. I will give you a hard limit on what a machine can't compute -- it will never figure out given a programming script and an input when that program will stop. A human can d
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by s_dev 3y ago
With that much money Apple can just 'buy' banks. Like FTX did.
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by s_dev 3y ago
The cartoon wasn't anti-Semitic as far as I'm concerned. I get that 'pound of flesh' is a anti-Semitic trope but I don't see that connection between the PM operating on himself with boxing gloves but rather it plays
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by s_dev 3y ago
>Once it seems like a company is arrogantly putting itself above "the government"there is the danger that it is perceived as a competitor to the ones deciding public policy which in turn can lead to a swift smack down. I think
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by s_dev 3y ago
Double Irish isn't possible as of 2018: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Irish_arrangement
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by s_dev 3y ago
Thanks for this -- I colour all my terminals manually with option+command+i and then select a dark colour where each shell has a colour coded purpose usually to indicate which machine it is. This link will help a lot!
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by s_dev 3y ago
> Productivity measures, as GDP per hour worked, are highly skewed by things that we don’t think of as “productivity”. The real problem is using a single tool and expecting it to fit all uses. GDP as a metric is simply overused and like
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by s_dev 3y ago
I read this and it's just insane to me -- would be like arguing for svn to come back instead of all this 'git' nonsense. The battles were fought and svn lost. Agile became adopted because waterfall is suited for construction
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by s_dev 3y ago
I think he's alluding to 'Idiocracy'.
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by s_dev 3y ago
>Anyway, at the end of the day, no one cares about privacy. Everyone cares about their privacy especially those who claim not to. What they really mean is they don't care for the privacy of others. Privacy is simply the right to be
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by s_dev 3y ago
>We had this problem with some devops hires who came from a big company. Amazon. All you have to do is look at their status page of green lights when us-east goes down completely to lose complete faith in their status page reflecting any
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by s_dev 3y ago
If anyone is looking for a chilli oil you can buy that's both delicous and available check this out: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lao_Gan_Ma It goes great with, eggs, rice and any yogurt dishes.
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by s_dev 3y ago
Probably reversed over or into him.
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by s_dev 3y ago
The only purely ethical tech company I think of is the Wikimedia Foundation. Perfectly moral product with zero real negative impacts on the world, amenable work env.
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by s_dev 3y ago
>I think we both know what "there are no ads" means...so why be so pedantic about it? I'm just stating I don't see it as an "ad free" site which I understand to be like most of the other websites mentioned.
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by s_dev 3y ago
>- There are no ads Seems a bit disingenuous when the content purely is advertisements. I agree that Craigslist is a unique asset and a worthwhile service and ultimately a well designed website.
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by s_dev 3y ago
Previous Discussions when the list was much smaller: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29627097
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European Alternatives for Digital Products(european-alternatives.eu)
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by s_dev 3y ago
>I'll pass on the industrial byproducts being used in my food, thanks. Is this even possible? Can you define industrial byproduct? Like even if you go to a typical Western grocery store and buy a single apple and then eat it. It was
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by s_dev 3y ago
> I find the push for "back to the office" one of the most astonishing things to come out of corporate America. Surely the pattern here is: Back to Office Announcement --> Employees leaving voluntarily (No severance payouts)
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by s_dev 3y ago
Vulture funds are definitely a thing in the financial world: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vulture_fund
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by s_dev 3y ago
>What happens when the underclasses of the world stop being underclasses? What will you do then? If there are no underclasses in the world then surely the vast majority of problems relating to wealth inequality have been solved -- why wo
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by s_dev 3y ago
Sounds like a good nickname for the Republic of Ireland (It's actually just Ireland but the UK likes to call us that for some reason). We've seemingly dedicated the entire country to cows at the cost of our natural biodiversity so

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