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by salmonfamine 6y ago
> Its about governments powerlessness to control the message from foreign cooperations likely influenced by foreign governments. Fair enough, that is also an issue. > Maybe 0.000001% of it is 'protecting users'. I think we n
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by salmonfamine 6y ago
> So what? You want to ban all websites with a comment section that are for profit? What about non-profits that make the founders rich by simply paying out a huge wage? Do you mean it should only be allowed to run on donations? No, I&#x2
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by salmonfamine 6y ago
Yeah, good questions. I'm not advocating an end to global platforms. And I don't think the democratic oversight should come from the US government. The end goal should be a website like Wikipedia -- non-profit, maintained and perh
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by salmonfamine 6y ago
I think before the advent of mass-media it probably worked reasonably well. A subscription-based revenue model seems to work ok. I think a reliance on advertising is what has pushed things to the degenerated state we have now. And social me
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by salmonfamine 6y ago
I think we're encountering a fundamental conflict between an unregulated free market and a digital economy that doesn't have any notion of scarcity or cost. The old paradigm just doesn't fit. And the result is that a handful
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by salmonfamine 6y ago
This is a facetious reply, but I don't think the government's punishment of free speech violations would have to be totalitarian to be highly concerning. Likewise, I think allowing a handful of tech employees and billionaires to c
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by salmonfamine 8y ago
How do you find non-on-call jobs? Seems like that’s just expected of devs these days. I have a very “chill” on-call policy but it still gives me a ton of anxiety.
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by salmonfamine 8y ago
If you've been on Tumblr recently, you'll know that it's a pretty hands-off place. You get the general sense that Yahoo! fired everyone who worked at Tumblr and now it's just running on a server somewhere.
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by salmonfamine 8y ago
Poorly and never
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by salmonfamine 8y ago
It's a strong word. However, I've found that very few people I know outside of the tech-world bubble have remotely favorable opinions of Twitter, Facebook, or Google. I realize that's anecdotal, though.
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by salmonfamine 8y ago
This attitude of "tech for tech's sake" at the cost of everything human is so absurd on its face that I have a hard time believing that even these SV-bubble VC's truly believe it. But apparently they do. This is why peo
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by salmonfamine 8y ago
I agree that, subjectively, it seems like the popular discourse surrounding the nature of science is not exactly philosophically rigorous. And I agree that some people seem to hold quasi-religious views of science. Maybe I totally misunders
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by salmonfamine 8y ago
1) It’s hard to say “no” to this because it’s not clear what you mean. Do you mean to say that I’m painting religion in the guise of religion? 2) here are several definitions: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/
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by salmonfamine 8y ago
It's hard to actually address this comment since it's such a ramble, but I think you make some disingenuous rhetorical moves that deserve to be addressed. You employ a rhetorical move that some theists have used in the past -- nam
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by salmonfamine 8y ago
This has been explored in linguistics. People do have an innate sense of grammar. However, language use changes over time, of course, and it's absurd to try to prevent that. Here's a good example -- as you said above, "People
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by salmonfamine 8y ago
Anyone know the easiest way to migrate to GitLab?
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by salmonfamine 8y ago
It is skewed by part-time workers, I suppose, although I don't see why they should be excluded, but it explicitly states that it does not take into account non-workers.
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by salmonfamine 8y ago
The National Book Award is pretty prestigious in the States.
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by salmonfamine 8y ago
Anecdotally, it seems that a lot of the 40+ engineers turn into "architects". Not sure if that still counts as a "programmer" by this article's definition.
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by salmonfamine 8y ago
Good points. I have heard that some trades have a hard ceiling, since managers do tend to have college degrees. I don't know much about it, though.
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by salmonfamine 8y ago
It is actually pretty high for an individual earner. According to this ( https://dqydj.com/income-percentile-calculator/ ) which is sourced from the Census Bureau, it's at approximately the top 25% of earners in the
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by salmonfamine 8y ago
Yes, absolutely. And those network effects I mentioned above significantly contribute to high-skill job markets in many cases.
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by salmonfamine 8y ago
It's much more complicated than that. Weather is a huge factor. Network effects are not so trivial or easily displaced. Walkability and public transit are major factors that contribute to those network effects and establish a city&#x27
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by salmonfamine 8y ago
If you don't mind me asking...how? I imagine you would have to be coming from far north to South Austin in order to reach that level of commute.
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by salmonfamine 9y ago
You cited the extension but did not link it. I'm interested in it. Could you provide the link?
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by salmonfamine 9y ago
An investigation is underway and has found the Russian government culpable. Maybe the Russian government should have thought twice before poisoning a British citizen on its own soil and tearing apart their relationship with Britain?
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by salmonfamine 9y ago
I have scoliosis and a chronically screwed up upper back. If I sit at a desk with a bad ergo setup, I will experience back pain within 30-45 minutes. I'm pretty tall, so the majority of desk setups are, by default, too short, and force
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by salmonfamine 9y ago
Not sure what the HN position is on commenting bots, but can we automate this process? Someone has to do it every single time a NYT/WSJ/WAPO article gets posted.
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by salmonfamine 9y ago
I believe they are in the process of sunsetting HipChat. It was not successful.
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by salmonfamine 9y ago
Is this not the impetus behind the "data engineer" title that's been thrown around lately?

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