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by thaway2839 4y ago
A random selection of benefits that I see on an almost daily basis: Combining multiple accounts from multiple providers in the same interface is a lot easier. Alt + Tabbing to your mail client is a lot easier. It's absolutely brilliant
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by thaway2839 4y ago
I still don't understand the lack of Mozilla's support for Thunderbird, right as the mail client space was hitting peak hotness. This was the time Google and Apple were paying millions to buy the likes of Sparrow and Inbox, etc.
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by thaway2839 4y ago
Road deaths in the US increased during the pandemic (2020 over 2019) despite fewer miles driven. And it seems 2021 then saw another 10% jump in the number of vehicle deaths.
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by thaway2839 4y ago
I have never seen any of those claims being made. 1) The 9% was surprising because everyone believed Musk had not taken any steps, because he was legally required to publicly declare when he acquired 5%. Which he did not do until much later
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by thaway2839 4y ago
It's consistently 1/10th of a cent below the peg. That's not maintaining its peg. That being said, it has been stable at that price for several days now, but let's see what the next few weeks hold.
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by thaway2839 4y ago
Distributed Finance: > Deus Finance reacted by halting the redemption process in order to try and stabilize the coin The Aristocrats!
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by thaway2839 4y ago
Except the 49C here is not a weird microclimate of some small part of New Delhi, but rather is the average temp across the city. Which means that places with weird microclimates that were 49C when the overall temp was 46C are now 52C and ab
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by thaway2839 4y ago
Wasn't Amazon's increase over a year ago? And I have never heard of Amazon being a low payer. I guess the people I know worked at AWS and maybe that was an outlier in terms of their payments, because they are paid as much, if not
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by thaway2839 4y ago
I think this is increasingly true of us as a society. We have been consistently elevating "ease of use" over every other objective and/or subjective quality. We've reached the point where easier is better, even if it is
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by thaway2839 4y ago
I thought RPis were extremely power efficient. Is that wrong?
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by thaway2839 4y ago
Tesla was basically a fully government funded entity for the first decade of Musk's ownership. His greatest skill with Tesla lay in promoting it (and doing an even better job of promoting the myth of Tesla being hand built by himself a
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by thaway2839 4y ago
But why is anyone else buying Tether at above $1 if the entire strategy is based on selling above $1 and buying below $1? You can't just sell something. For someone to sell something someone else needs to buy the same thing. So to be a
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by thaway2839 4y ago
Lol, sounds like the mortgage backed assets before the housing crash. "Back it up with enough securities that are backed up by enough securities that are backed up by enough securities, you will turn the literal shit the eventual secur
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by thaway2839 4y ago
Even that never really happened, did it? Madoff was never not able to make a payment. His kids reported him to the police before they could be found out by anyone else. Of course, as part of the reporting, they also got immunity from the co
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by thaway2839 4y ago
And that's because a lot of such mergers/buyouts fail. That's why the price is never on parity. Putting everything on hold until the merger closes is a severe dereliction of duty.
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by thaway2839 4y ago
The point of analogy is that it's very different from the actual issue. In fact, an analogy will always be different from the real situation, otherwise it wouldn't be an analogy, it would be the thing in itself. There is nothing c
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by thaway2839 4y ago
None of your analogies make any sense whatsoever. What does a President having "skin in the game" mean? That is the kind of talk you would make when talking about an investment. From the perspective of a sovereign nation, it'
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by thaway2839 4y ago
The destruction of RSS greatly damaged the Blogging ecosystem. It used to be that if I followed a /. link to an article on a blog that I enjoyed, I'd immediately subscribe to their RSS feed. I'd made a collection of a few hun
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by thaway2839 4y ago
Exactly this. The EU may be the greatest red tape destroyer ever created. The single market has led to many many landfills not being filled due to the paper that trade before the single market would have generated.
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by thaway2839 4y ago
I get the feeling that there's a bunch of people working for, or being paid by, Microsoft who really love functional programming. Some of Microsoft's best outputs comes from those teams/folks. It could just be a coincidence&#
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by thaway2839 4y ago
Removing a credit or a reference is probably the worst way to add succintness to an article. It's literally saying "the contributions of people whose work I based my work on is less important than the least useful sentence in desc
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by thaway2839 4y ago
Yes, those people usually speak out before the end of the meeting. That's not whom I'm talking about. And it's very easy to tell the difference between someone who is thinking and waiting to speak, and someone who is trying t
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by thaway2839 4y ago
Since you're clearly using "spending" in a more economic sense, but most people will read it from the perspective of household finances and therefore interpret spending as morally wrong, I'll add that the spending you&#x
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by thaway2839 4y ago
So (a) it's not a sleight of hand by the article, and (b) Welcome to HN (and almost every other discussion forum), where the commentary almost always has nothing to do with the article and has everything to do with pet peeves of the co
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by thaway2839 4y ago
IF you want issues like these to be fixed then you should support the paring back of features. It's the sprawl of features that leads to those features being poorly implemented.
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by thaway2839 4y ago
One of the greatest challenges I'm facing running team meetings virtually is getting input from the less extroverted team members. When we had a meeting in a physical room, if I noticed someone hadn't said much, I could go "H
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by thaway2839 4y ago
Game theory shows that systems involving multiple people making decisions without coordination can very easily settle into subptimal equilibriums. And that's almost certainly gonna be the case here.
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by thaway2839 4y ago
I honestly don't understand some of the ideas people have about remote work. Remote work may be great, but there will be challenges associated. For example, so many people are going about saying that they should be paid the same whethe
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by thaway2839 4y ago
White collar careers outside of tech are not as stable as you're indicating.
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by thaway2839 4y ago
The incompetence could also be a result of the fact that a lot of shit is happening at the same time. I suspect that the world after WW1, where they also faced many similar situations at the same time (pandemic, financial crash, etc), also

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