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by sebastianz 2y ago
There are electoral laws that state how political advertising can be done, and how it can be funded for an election campaign. Social media companies have to adhere to these laws - for example to say when something is an "Ad" paid
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by sebastianz 2y ago
> The campaign funds were not declared, it looks to be funded by Russians and Chinese, no proof so far but it seems quite credible. Because of what you wrote in this sentence, he was not democratically elected according to the laws of th
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by sebastianz 2y ago
The main issue is he declared his election campaign cost 0. Literally, that is what he declared he spent on his election campaign. The million euros for the TikTok & social media storm that got him elected has to have been paid by someo
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by sebastianz 2y ago
That is indeed very helpful and feels magical. But the fact remains that if you did all those things yourself, although much slower and more frustrating at times, you would have learned and remembered more, and would have understood the tas
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by sebastianz 2y ago
I don't think there's anything "lost" about having a hobby, or passion and love for your pets. I find it endearing and sweet. I'm not sure if english is your first language or you intended it like that but saying th
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by sebastianz 2y ago
How is this different than any other city in the world though?
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by sebastianz 2y ago
> I'd rather be "unemployed" in San Francisco because of a far better culture I like how you put "unemployed" in quotes. I think many unemployed people would love to also have the quotes. The person you replied t
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by sebastianz 2y ago
> Being able and willing to tell the truth has never been the problem. It is indeed a problem if you want to win an election.
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by sebastianz 2y ago
Interesting to see the “merchant of record” market evolving. They are positioning themselves with this release as a “Lemon Squeezy competitor”, while also building on top of Stripe - who I think just recently bought Lemon Squeezy. Interesti
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by sebastianz 2y ago
Would have been interesting for the article to compare with general job satisfaction across other fields. There a single sentence thrown in there about this which seems to have no context or source, just an opinion of the author: > Anecd
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by sebastianz 2y ago
I agree but I fear this is now fading too. '89 was 35 years ago, and for all generations younger than mine (i'm 40) this part of history will be much more abstract and 'out of living memory'.
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by sebastianz 2y ago
You can't NOT have juniors, because that is what seniors evolve from :) Otherwise when all current seniors die there would be nobody left to do programming.
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by sebastianz 2y ago
Last time I was at the doctor's for a bone fracture I have been treated by people with tens of years of experience and education, in a gigantic building, and my bones were scanned by tools that cost millions and were science fiction 2
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by sebastianz 3y ago
His point is that smart and productive people are generally hard working, focused and diligent, which is how they get to be so experienced and productive. Hence not wasting time on social networks. > a 10x only has to put in a 48 minute
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by sebastianz 3y ago
The initialization has to be done in a separate function that you call from the setup code for your end-to-end tests.
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by sebastianz 3y ago
The difference is that the nfl is somewhat regulated. So this would be significantly worse for the humans involved.
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by sebastianz 3y ago
> Comprehend your own business processes and rewrite legacy code? I think the parent’s point is that sometimes this is prohobitively expensive or there is simply noone knowlegeable enough to do it. In those cases, rewriting is NOT what y
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by sebastianz 3y ago
Did this friend also do it exactly when the murdered wife and mother of his children went missing?
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by sebastianz 3y ago
> Most people under 30 with the financial ability to buy a subscription have heard of ChatGPT. That's the only thing that counts in market terms You formulated this as if you are sure of it and it is a fact. Could you link a source?
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by sebastianz 3y ago
> For this guy, maybe it's "do another startup." Great! With $10M in the bank, he can just go do that! He touches on this in the article, he was interested in starting new projects but they went nowhere. So I am reading th
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by sebastianz 3y ago
> At the time Go was created you could choose between three languages at Google: Python, C++ and Java. Out of curiosity, what languages can you currently choose from at Google?
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by sebastianz 3y ago
> Also found an entire building on Bucharest's second busiest street Magheru Blvd for €1.4M. Out of my price range unfortunately but it does include 12 separate 3 bedroom apartments, a floor of offices, and a restaurant, cafe and ar
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by sebastianz 3y ago
> Is 5MB a real problems? Well if you want to make small fast loading html pages with a minimal js library, and end up at a few hundred KB that you can understand, profile and optimize, then that is impossible with blazor. So it's a
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by sebastianz 3y ago
His point is that the average person that walks into a casino loses money by definition, as the casino designs its offers in that way. If the average person would win money, the casino would cease to exist.
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by sebastianz 3y ago
I see. I'm perhaps leaning skeptical most of the time, but it's hard to see how an international consensus can be reached on a topic that does not have the in-your-face type danger & fear that nuclear & bioweapons do. (It&
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by sebastianz 3y ago
> Which is completely irrelevant to the topic at hand anyway. It's not irrelevant. I was implying that you did not specify who is doing this military intervention that you see as a solution. What are their values, who decides the ru
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by sebastianz 3y ago
> With threat of military intervention. I assume you are american, right? Cause that sounds pretty american. Although I suppose you might also be chinese or russian, they also like that solution a lot. Whichever of those you are, I'
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by sebastianz 3y ago
> random thug with a bit of technical skills? Did you actually read the wikipedia page? This is a highly intelligent person with no morals who orchestrated drug and arms smuggling cartel business on the entire planet for 15 years, murder
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by sebastianz 3y ago
> it came with all the batteries included Sometimes you do not want, or need, all the batteries.
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by sebastianz 3y ago
That is the point: there are no satisfying answers and the future is increasingly uncertain and unstable.

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