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by sharts 3y ago
So it’s like when “Synthetic” motor oil doesn’t actually mean the oil is synthetic because “synthetic” != “100% synthetic” ? Words have no meaning anymore. Up is down. Left is right.
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by sharts 3y ago
If that is so then the industry has a lot to recon with soon because that would mean most at chasing a shiny new thing for absolutely all the wrong reasons. K8s is complete overkill at best for the majority of companies/workloads and i
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by sharts 3y ago
More than anything the Zimaboard website just turns me off to buying this, ever. For an enthusiast community, start w/ raw specs up front. Not fancy picture of what's possible. We all know what's possible. The website screams
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by sharts 3y ago
> This bill would provide that a rental company is not in violation of unlawful advertising, displaying, or offering a price for a good or service for excluding from the advertised, displayed, or offered price of a rental vehicle charges
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by sharts 3y ago
> Businesses don't suppress wages to strongarm the government, They do threaten to relocate operations overseas. And when they do, the wages paid may indeed be "higher" than average in the new regions.
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by sharts 3y ago
Hopefully this will result in a more conservative approach to tech with a greater focus on immediate needs vs long-shots in the distant future which tends to result in winner-take-all for the victors.
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by sharts 3y ago
Having used airbnb in multiple countries I have never seen the appeal over hotels, except for location/neighborhoods. I also don’t understand the appeal of Kardashians
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by sharts 3y ago
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/07/american-federal-defin... 25up/3down is the definition of broadband.
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by sharts 3y ago
Math has always been taught badly. Kids ought to have been exposed to Calculus concepts by middle school. Anything short of that is a coin-toss anyway.
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by sharts 3y ago
I would take any promise by any tech giant with a massive cube of salt, a glass of bleach, and about a gallon of fentanyl.
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by sharts 3y ago
TLDR: The economics has discovered marketing
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by sharts 3y ago
> the externally perceivable stuff of reality that exists independent of our minds How can any perception be independent of mind consciousness? And how can mathematics reflect anything other than that consciousness?
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by sharts 3y ago
> This is typical of Intel’s weak leadership and focus on short term profits instead of long term success. They're probably just doing what their shareholders want. Unfortunately, shareholders are shortsighted and risk-averse, contr
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by sharts 3y ago
Spinnaker
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by sharts 3y ago
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by sharts 3y ago
That's a similar argument to maximizing GDP. If all we care about is that number rather than the quality of transactions happening, then we can't really make useful or accurate conclusions or predictions about the health of an eco
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by sharts 3y ago
Imagine a worse situation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=618mXzUYc3U
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by sharts 3y ago
It's not cynical. It's realistic. This is a disaster waiting to happen. And a foreseeable one.
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by sharts 3y ago
Seen the autonomy problems with Cruise?
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by sharts 3y ago
Executive compensation is a function of profit/capital allocation for shareholders away from labor. This doesn’t show the full picture. It’s not about redistributing their salaries. Have a look at the excess returns procured BY labor a
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by sharts 3y ago
Typical WSJ hit piece. When capitalist lack critical thinking skills and cry that the rate of their wealth isn’t increasing fast enough, one can be sure WSJ writers will provide soothing words. Even if they are false.
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by sharts 3y ago
Takes money to buy mines. Whether that was a good/bad investment isn’t the point.
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by sharts 3y ago
Nah it's all about Microsoft Access '97 if you actually care about your data
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by sharts 3y ago
>airline deregulation shows just how bad command economies are at planning and allocating resources. Huh? airline deregulation != command economies airline deregulation == free market This statement sounds like it should read: "airl
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by sharts 3y ago
Ironically that website gives me ASP.NET vibes.
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by sharts 3y ago
Hasn't iOS already had this? Or maybe it was OBS.
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by sharts 3y ago
Ah yes, the Jacobin. The most non-left but claiming to be left publication. Liberals don’t talk about these issues because liberals aren’t the left. Democrats are not the left. At best they are center-right.
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by sharts 3y ago
In this feminism analogy the patriarchy would be the bourgeois not the proletariat.
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by sharts 3y ago
Why do people keep parroting these misunderstandings. BlackRock, Vanguard, etc. are majority institutional holders because they are the brokerage houses / custodians that allow people to buy index funds/etfs through them. It’s not
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by sharts 3y ago
You never have to chase growth if continue to improve your products in a substantive way and give customers what they want. This is a far cry from Microsoft that, for every step or two forward, there’s always at least a step backward in som

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