stone-monkey

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by stone-monkey 7y ago
>the "deep state" (for lack of a better phrase) The deep state AKA someone watched Yes, Minister and wrote an American adaptation.
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by stone-monkey 7y ago
>The adult world, even at the highest levels of authority, largely consists of the same petty cliques, backstabbing, lying, and whatnot that you'd experience in high school I'm not a fan of claiming this type of behavior is chi
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by stone-monkey 7y ago
>I’m convinced that the government doesn’t believe citizens are any more loyal or hard to bribe than other people, but insisting on citizenship would make it easier to charge us with particular crimes if the need arose Hm.. I definitely
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by stone-monkey 7y ago
It's not about brand marketing - it's about having cheaper options. I don't know where you go shopping, but at those prices I just listed, those name brand products are still cheaper than comparable products, local or otherwi
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by stone-monkey 7y ago
It seems to me like their reach might be exceeding their grasp with their expansion intentions, but I'm hoping they just see a hidden opportunity that requires this large cash infusion to handle. What I'd like to see them do is us
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by stone-monkey 7y ago
Totally different business model - more like the grocery equivalent of Ross, Marshalls, or TJ Maxx. Kind of similar to Aldi if you're familiar with that chain. Basically buy overstock or items near expiration date for bargain basement
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by stone-monkey 7y ago
A heads up: your home icon links to localhost:3000
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by stone-monkey 7y ago
https://italki.com
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by stone-monkey 7y ago
I think the indirectness of the payment makes it acceptable somewhat. In your example, I wouldn't take the 5 dollar job either. But the difference there is in the directness of the relationship - the person receiving the benefit isn&#x
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by stone-monkey 7y ago
However, there isn't an infinite amount of advertising spend and consumer time on the internet - people who spend those things in Amazon and Facebook's + etc's ecosystems can directly and indirectly chip away at Google's
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by stone-monkey 7y ago
For me, one of my biggest hurdles was self direction. Trying to commit to hitting the gym twice a week always floundered even though I was following a relatively well defined course (Starting strength). I go to martial arts classes now and
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by stone-monkey 7y ago
> Slack isn't markedly better in any area than Teams from my testing. Is it markedly worse in any area? Seems like for any business that's already entrenched in slack there isn't much incentive to move off. I'm assumi
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by stone-monkey 7y ago
Food delivery and bike sharing work well in China because of the scale of the cities and lower cost of living. When you have millions of people densely packed together, dumping a ton of bikes everywhere may be feasible. Even then, there&#x2
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by stone-monkey 7y ago
>>it's mind-boggling how removed from reality people can get, even people with a supposed science education. There's an old adage that science advances one funeral at a time - The scientific community is far from immune to t
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by stone-monkey 7y ago
> if I am looking to join a group of 3-4 people and they have a code of conduct already defined - I am just not going to come, simple as that. I don't see why this is bad - groups shouldn't necessarily reach out to as broad an
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by stone-monkey 8y ago
That's basically what happened with S3 a couple years back. Mistyped command caused an outage for large parts of the internet in the US. Now, I dunno if they could make a big enough mistake that would bring down the whole company, but
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by stone-monkey 8y ago
I'm sure politicians get as embarrassed as the next person by public shaming, but forgive me if I'm inclined to believe they won't act much on complaints by non constituents.
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by stone-monkey 8y ago
Even if they flexed their employer muscles, that would only affect local officials. Why would a republican senator from Kansas care if they're going to cut jobs in Virginia?
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by stone-monkey 8y ago
Edit: that should be "baccarat or slots", not poker. My point is that poker, specifically Texas holdem, isn't strictly a game of chance.
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by stone-monkey 8y ago
It may still be gambling in the sense that there's a large element of chance that dictates the game, but it's not the same as something like Baccarat or poker which is strictly a game of chance. The element of skill can cause vari
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by stone-monkey 8y ago
Obviously they must know it's a problem, but it seems to be a constant arms race fighting with the counterfeiters, especially with their current business model. It seems pretty clear Amazon is moving away from being a direct retailer o
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by stone-monkey 8y ago
>There is nothing "toxic" about the internet except for the centralization of communication on a handful of corporate controlled social networks that have perverse incentives to censor anything that might impact their advertisi
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by stone-monkey 8y ago
Isn't comparing the scale of the two like comparing apples to oranges? I think most wordpress sites are self hosted. There's wordpress.com hosting, but I'd guess that most of their sites are self hosted for the explicit purpo
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by stone-monkey 8y ago
I just recently bought a pair of ANC Bluetooth headphones and received the same email. One interesting thing to note is that I received the email from an outlook address instead of an address affiliated with the company. It was already flag
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by stone-monkey 8y ago
> Experts were consulted, and ignored. This led to my point, though I made it in a roundabout way. None of these laws are made in a vacuum. When you get a law that seems to cause undue harm to industries or to general consumers, it'
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by stone-monkey 8y ago
To be fair, this is basically the software developer's dilemma in reverse. You're building out systems for areas of business with no domain expertise. End users constantly wonder why the developers built the software in such profo
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by stone-monkey 8y ago
>testing whether someone is willing to prepare for a thing is a relevant work skill test too. Is it, though? I could understand if algo questions had some relation to the work you're doing, but your comment on why they're good
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by stone-monkey 8y ago
Not OP. Also not saying it doesn't happen, but the incentive structures are different in both countries. A lot of private industry in China is defacto government owned due how business works there - You can't build a business ther
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by stone-monkey 8y ago
Cheap swipes like this article really bug me. It's fostering snide comments and continuing the negative connotation with the manji symbol which was a religious symbol predating its nazi appropriation. If a company were to have the angl
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by stone-monkey 8y ago
The second is my favorite by far as well, but I find it funny how it's described as amazing Sci-Fi when I have to describe the plot. Half the book is spoilers The result of granting a nerd all the resources of the Earth at his dispo

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