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841.
by saghm 5mo ago
Honestly if this is the metric, I'm not sure anyone has ever made piss-free soup
842.
by saghm 5mo ago
True! "I am a user of this type of product" is a much less strong signal than "I'm going out of my way to solicit more information about what products are available for this and how to use them". This isn't the
843.
by saghm 5mo ago
> Riding a real bicycle isn't just about steering and leaning a bit. You need to propel the bicycle a certain amount. My impression from my vague recollection of learning to ride a bike (and the scattered times over the years I&#x27
844.
by saghm 5mo ago
And even if someone could get time off drive times a month to work "provisionally" at a different job, I can't imagine they'd typically be as productive hopping back and forth at either of them compared to devoting all t
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by saghm 5mo ago
That works when labor is higher enough in demand for that to be possible, and in practice management is most likely to try to get away with lower compensation and poor working conditions.
846.
by saghm 5mo ago
I've spent the last 5 years or so (out of a career coming up on 11 years at the end of this summer) working on early development for products outside of the video game industry that hadn't yet been at release when I joined the tea
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by saghm 5mo ago
"Willingly" is basically just peer/manager pressure. "Everyone else is doing it, why aren't you?" "Do you want to be the reason we fail to meet our deadline?" My experience in tech outside of video ga
848.
by saghm 5mo ago
Given the acquisition, that fits with what I'd expect. 50k individual customers probably isn't going to be making a business worth over a million dollars for a product like this (a margin of $200 per sale seems quite high), but if
849.
by saghm 5mo ago
Yeah, it sounds like there just legitimately are 50K people who are in this niche. Maybe the fact that people might assume there are fewer is why there was a gap in the market for the author to fill!
850.
by saghm 5mo ago
I mean, you have the ability to learn to do stuff better to a certain extent, so it's not like your only choices are "suffer through the writing I'm capable of producing today for the rest of my life" or "give up on
851.
by saghm 5mo ago
I'm very confused by this logic. Why should I care about his output compared to what I observe from the larger group if he's not an outlier, and if he is an outlier, why would the second one be unlikely? The only way I can make se
852.
by saghm 5mo ago
Sure, but no one is trying to force art from most people into about every area in the economy where anyone ever pays for something visual. If you asked professional artists to draw a realistic bicycle, I'm guessing few of them would tr
853.
by saghm 5mo ago
They're not supposed to operate in the US at all. I'm practice I imagine that's mostly aspirational
854.
by saghm 5mo ago
I think that if you embezzled $40M at just about any job, you'd be looking at some serious jail time
855.
by saghm 5mo ago
Honestly I'm just trying to wrap my head around the fact that you can just ask for $40M in gold bars as a CIA agent and they don't have a better way of figuring out if you pocketed it than looking for it later (and apparently taki
856.
by saghm 5mo ago
I can't help but agree here. "Declining birth rate in the western world" just comes across as a dog-whistle to me. I guess I kind of only alluded to this myself with my response that they were being "weirdly cagey",
857.
by saghm 5mo ago
When the past month has been full of headlines claiming that Mythos et al. will be the end of secure software as well know it, it's fair game to emphasize the places we know already are not going to be covered by them.
858.
by saghm 5mo ago
Well, they were directly asked what they meant and replied with a link to a giant Wikipedia article. If they had a more specific point to make, they're being weirdly cagey about it.
859.
by saghm 5mo ago
If we stop chasing clouds, we'll have to go back to local offline storage!
860.
by saghm 5mo ago
> In the aftermath of World War I, birth rates in the United States and many European countries fell below replacement level. This prompted concern about population decline.[8] The recovery of the birth rate in most Western countries aro
861.
by saghm 5mo ago
> But if everyone who can credibly say that is busy trying to block any age gating, this is what we’re going to get. I'm certainly not busy trying to block a bunch of hypothetical policies that no one has proposed when there are gar
862.
by saghm 5mo ago
I don't understand how you can interpret "pure means not adding in stuff to water it down" as "everything that's vaguely similar is the same", because from my perspective that's exactly what the parent com
863.
by saghm 5mo ago
There's also broad popular support for raising taxes on millionaires, legal access to abortion, and cheaper healthcare, all of which are at least as important as the issue of kids using social media without restrictions. If the premis
864.
by saghm 5mo ago
If I recall correctly, in Pennsylvania the government does own the shops that sell liquor, and most states run lotteries, so there's certainly precedent for governments being the ones in the vice business. That's besides the poi
865.
by saghm 5mo ago
Okay, but no kids live in my house, so why should there be a law requiring my ID to be checked even without knowing what I'm going to on my device? I don't get carded at the grocery store when I walk in because there's a chan
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by saghm 5mo ago
> On the other hand, I know several "home-schooled" people [0] who literally can't even read and later married people more than twice their age or had other serious deficiencies in their life potential. The government can
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by saghm 5mo ago
I'm not a libertarian; I just don't get why I should have to prove my age on every device I own regardless of what I access online when I don't have kids. Parental controls already exist on devices, so that's not really
868.
by saghm 5mo ago
How and when did we decide that we were past that point? I don't remember being consulted
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by saghm 5mo ago
> what can I do to keep them away from stuff 99% of people agree isn't for children to see, without something like this? The better question is "Why do I need to give up privacy on my devices that no children ever use and are
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by saghm 5mo ago
Yes, but when I go to the grocery store, U don't buy alcohol or cigarettes (because I don't drink or smoke), and no one cards me. Even if I never accessed a single site like the ones being described, and despite there being no kid

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