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by the_local_host 6y ago
It seems like you're anticipating a divergence (or at least communications gap) between the generally-in-office and generally-remote sets of employees. Have you considered that it might be the remote employees that are more productive?
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by the_local_host 6y ago
Even if obtaining old tweets was theoretically always possible, actually facilitating this seems like a combination of poor judgment and obsessive hoarding. If the "smattering of tweets" means everyone's tweets will be public
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by the_local_host 6y ago
I've been interested in recording music using free software on Linux. The exchange above is similar to the cycle I've been in... encountering problems, finding magical incantations that fix things in some ways but often involve s
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by the_local_host 6y ago
I cannot stand the way that albums on an iphone/mac get fragmented into separate albums when there are tracks with guest artists. E.g. for Outkast's Speakerboxxx/The Love Below, I see tracks 1,2,3,6,8,9,10,12,13,15,17,19. Tr
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by the_local_host 6y ago
I think cryptocurrencies are idiotic, but this essay just does not make a case for a blanket ban at all, nor do I think one is necessary. The environmental impact should be regulated, but other than that, governments should just stay out of
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by the_local_host 6y ago
Pebbles and sand might be safer to hold if they are less volatile than BTC. A company like Paypal needs stability, not a directional bet on an asset.
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by the_local_host 6y ago
I think it would be fairly shocking to find that something like dreaming would evolve in two species whose most recent common ancestor didn't dream. To have two non-closely related species implement sophisticated cognition in a way tha
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by the_local_host 6y ago
Can't you just assume that anyone who is pro-bitcoin owns it, and anyone who is anti-bitcoin does not? Anyone who doesn't fit into those categories would (I guess) be unconvinced of their own analysis, but publishing it anyway?
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by the_local_host 6y ago
Wait, what? How are other people allowed to use the content? I mean, I'm sure it happens, regardless of being allowed, but it seems like a content owner would be able to issue a DMCA takedown to stop it.
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by the_local_host 6y ago
How do you get the ship to fall into the hole at the right moment?
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by the_local_host 6y ago
> The impact of synthesizers is already over. They were used far more imaginatively in the 70s than they are today 1970s-style modular synthesis has been making a comeback over the last... 20 years. (It was a slow comeback at first). I
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by the_local_host 6y ago
As far as I know the goal of free software was never "free for those who pull their weight by contributing." It simply meant free to run, change, and distribute, without any obligations except that the right for others to do the
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by the_local_host 6y ago
The reasoning wouldn't be how many people died of the virus vs. how many in a world war; it would be how many people die in a world war vs. how many might die if the adversary does increasingly worse things going forward. The threshol
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by the_local_host 6y ago
Egypt's population is enormous as well, mostly crammed along the Nile; and the PPP GDP per-capita isn't that different the China.
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by the_local_host 6y ago
The software Eric Schmidt co-wrote in the 1970s (Lex) was used for decades . For all I know people still rely on it.
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by the_local_host 6y ago
I suspect that for people who like vinyl, the experience of music isn't just about the sound. Putting on a record, as a ceremony, just seems more appealing than menu-diving down to a playlist on your phone.
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by the_local_host 6y ago
> Only on the FOSS world, because it is the only way to force devs to pay. What about the approach that the Qt library uses, where they have a free GPL version and a paid commercial license? People might pay to avoid GPL obligations whi
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by the_local_host 6y ago
> An asset that cannot be confiscated by the government It might be intractable to confiscate bitcoin by attacking the math, but why wouldn't governments just put people in jail until they pay up? With adequate control over the int
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by the_local_host 6y ago
> Taking mass of few solar systems and building a tiny microscopic vehicle that fits inside the bubble is not practical way to travel. Fully agree. If interstellar travel ever occurs, it seems more practical to simply freeze people for
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by the_local_host 6y ago
How can there be a backdoor in a smart contract? Aren't they necessarily readable in full (even if the behavior is obscure)? If I understand correctly, there can't be any actual secrets; you have to read carefully, then caveat e
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by the_local_host 6y ago
I suspect the algorithm isn't experiencing anything at all. I know I am experiencing something even when I'm wrong or being deceived. I strongly suspect other people experience things.
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by the_local_host 6y ago
> I think subjectivity is an illusion. If subjectivity is an illusion, then who or what is being deceived? It seems like even a false subjective experience would have to be experienced by someone or something, subjectively.
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by the_local_host 6y ago
What's wrong with shilling?
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by the_local_host 6y ago
> If I wanted to have a service that would certify someone uber wealthy or old money and display an icon, I bet it could be done. $1000 isn't enough to charge to establish that someone is meaningfully wealthy; the app should have co
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by the_local_host 6y ago
I have to say the spirit of this fake_contacts app is very appealing. Why stop at defending your data, when you can attack?
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by the_local_host 6y ago
Even if you don't keep them in your contacts, the connection tracking can be problematic if they keep you in their contacts. "But what if you didn’t give Clubhouse access to your contacts, specifically because you didn’t want all
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by the_local_host 6y ago
> Also good luck running a system that operates on few hundred of terabytes of for instance YouTube data locally. Why can't that be scaled down to a few hundred megs of data running through a system, end-to-end, on the local machine
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by the_local_host 6y ago
By "settle", do you mean "visa not required", or permanent residency?
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by the_local_host 6y ago
> How did things progress so far backwards in stability? Because they just changed the foundation that the entire system is built on top of.
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by the_local_host 6y ago
I agree that expecting permanent employment based on passion would be an overly-entitled attitude. But the author's complaint , that employees treat the product as "a tool to advance the employees career, not a passion, mission

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