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by the_biot 4y ago
So true, but I don't think it's impossible to maintain classification, that's just Amazon. I think they just gave up trying to, probably after they opened up up other sellers. I suspect their search, classification, filters e
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by the_biot 4y ago
They did a piece once on a subject with which I'm very familiar (a fairly controversial thing that happened in my city). They asked for feedback from the public at large before publishing it, and I filled out the questionnaire. What ca
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by the_biot 4y ago
Yup, The Economist are terrible spammers. I tried many many times to get them to stop sending me all that garbage about their events and whatever, and they just don't do it. Fortunately I have an email address custom to them, so I just
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by the_biot 4y ago
Yes, the reading experience is what's so bad. Very often when you're reading it'll suddenly crash, or blank the page, or switch to a random page in the next issue, etc etc etc. A few months ago they broke swiping , if you ca
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by the_biot 4y ago
The Economist is very definitely on the right economically, and on the left socially. In other words it's classic liberal, and they regularly make that clear. They've been going with more opinion pieces in the last few years, whic
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by the_biot 4y ago
> Everyone has free speech rights. No exceptions. Plenty of exceptions, to wit: not in the workplace, and certainly not using your employer's communications infrastructure, as was the case here.
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by the_biot 4y ago
Yup, and it's been like that for a very long time. But I'm sure you could find something like a travel agency to make an arrangement with hotels to just charge room + minibar etc to them, with the condition that the hotel doesn&#x
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by the_biot 4y ago
You seem to be under the impression that a company is some sort of democracy. The now-unemployed organizers of this action were too. That the organizers would get fired was entirely to be expected; any company would. Certainly when you work
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by the_biot 4y ago
Counterpoint: the classic "The mote in God's eye", by Jerry Pournelle and David Niven. It's a great story, but the details aged so badly as to make it super difficult to read. Spaceships that run exactly like 18th centur
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by the_biot 4y ago
I think this is bad advice, frankly. Such things are not unusual, non-tech suits always want blinkenlights and such, because they think it'll impress prospective customers. The stories I could tell, datacenters like circus acts. The ke
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by the_biot 4y ago
But Hetzner is what I'm talking about.
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by the_biot 4y ago
They do not, and I'll never understand why they don't. My impression is they've got plenty of growth, great execution, great prices, but they're super slow in rolling out new products. They have API-driven spinup and man
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by the_biot 4y ago
This may shatter your worldview, but I must point out that Europe is not a socialist continent.
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by the_biot 4y ago
Hence the smiley.
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by the_biot 4y ago
Well, technically it's a bunch of Anglo-Saxons digging up their ancestors' remains, so that's ok. In the case of indigenous Americans/Canadians/Australians it's also a bunch of Anglo-Saxons digging up the rem
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by the_biot 4y ago
It's pretty common for e.g. hosting providers that don't take spam seriously to just forward complaints to their spamming customer. Exactly the opposite of what they should do, and you've seen the result, but some companies j
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by the_biot 4y ago
This isn't just a matter of hindsight. They don't even have that, as demonstrated by the fact they're putting ever more work into their workaround instead of fixing the glaringly obvious problem: it's a monorepo with hal
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by the_biot 4y ago
They made a bad design decision 10 years ago, have been fighting the fallout for years, and will be doing so forever and ever because things will only ever grow. They wrote a blog post on how clever they think all their workarounds are, at
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by the_biot 4y ago
You ever get the feeling cryptocurrency-related companies and a large chunk of their customer base live in their own reality? I think they have seasons now.
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by the_biot 4y ago
This article is an interview with somebody who has no idea what the problem is. He just waffles on about the fact he made a documentary about the factory nine years ago.
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by the_biot 4y ago
That argument really falls flat when you realize that this guy is the co-founder and CEO, i.e. he was already there and in charge when these people decided to join him. If you don't like a company's leadership, obviously don'
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by the_biot 4y ago
Not just Open Firmware, but also its theme song! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8Wyvb9GotM
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by the_biot 4y ago
Why do you do it?
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by the_biot 4y ago
That's true, but it certainly doesn't change the fact that it's wrong. There is no excuse for what they're doing, it's just plain grabbing money because they can, as much as they can, on the backs of an army of unpa
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by the_biot 4y ago
Nobody said sociopath, that's your term. Sandberg was effectively co-CEO, in everything but title. Her and Zuckerberg had divided up responsibilities, it wasn't a matter of strategy vs operations i.e. CEO vs COO. That's prett
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by the_biot 4y ago
The title is clickbait, obviously offensive to approximately everybody. This is just two CEOs of companies you've never heard of, bullshitting on a podcast one of them runs.
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by the_biot 4y ago
I don't think it's surprising at all, especially in a big company like Facebook. At that kind of company, at that level, it's a snakepit. The more you did for the company, the deeper the knife in your back will go.
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by the_biot 4y ago
It's not obvious to work out what exactly the plan is, as the press release has a fairly thick coat of corporate speak on it. However I assume they'll want to take a chunk out of the Raspberry Pi market -- whose hardware always wa
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by the_biot 4y ago
It's not a shibboleth when some considerable portion of the population, including judges, regard it as an inviolate document of absolute truth.
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by the_biot 4y ago
Or Putin's death, whichever comes first. I doubt there are any structures left in Russia which could or would want to dethrone him.

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