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by thfuran 4mo ago
What does that actually mean?
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by thfuran 5mo ago
And also not accounting for the other big factor: the probability of getting caught and reaching such a settlement/verdict. If the consequence is a thirty percent chance of paying thirty percent of the gains back in thirty years, malfe
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by thfuran 5mo ago
If you’re cooked because of Microsoft’s willful destruction of property, that just means it’s not a small claim anymore.
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by thfuran 5mo ago
There's certainly a lot of money in ad tech and surveillance, but there's a lot of other software out there too.
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by thfuran 5mo ago
At this point, the government is a megacorp conspiracy.
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by thfuran 5mo ago
Whatever the most popular IDE is for any given language, probably.
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by thfuran 5mo ago
Sure it does. IntelliJ will do that just fine.
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by thfuran 5mo ago
>Prompts like "move the code relating to SQL query analysis into a new file", "look for opportunities to use pytest parametrize to remove duplication in that test", "rename method X to Y". There’s a lot of o
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by thfuran 5mo ago
If it can clean a kitchen, it can cook meth. Probably.
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by thfuran 5mo ago
In the US, 100% of mortgage interest (for the first 750k of loan) and property tax (up to 40k combined w/ other state/local taxes) is deductible. Property ownership gets such favorable tax treatment that it’s kind of ridiculous.
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by thfuran 5mo ago
That claim is both false and misleading.
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by thfuran 5mo ago
It’s misleading because it’s false. But yes, I think false is quite plainly the better answer there.
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by thfuran 5mo ago
How on top of security do you think all the camera manufacturers are going to be? That is, how long until people can sign videos that were not, in fact, shot with their camera?
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by thfuran 5mo ago
In the US, there's a pretty significant capital gains tax exclusion on the sale of primary residence too.
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by thfuran 5mo ago
I'm not sure what your point is.
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by thfuran 5mo ago
If you spend a month working all day every day on something and then you get paid 5¢, was that fair compensation simply because you're materially better off for having received it? BTW, I made $10,000 reselling your labor.
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by thfuran 5mo ago
Blood oxygen saturation is always near 100% in a healthy person. 95% is the low end of normal. Dropping to 90% is considered hypoxemia, and 80% is a medical emergency. So there really shouldn’t be any room to increase it significantly.
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by thfuran 5mo ago
>If IPO makes CEO much, much richer but generally also makes company and workers better off (but to smaller degree), does IPO make workers more undercompensated? Yes, obviously. The bulk of work of the company is done by the workers. Tha
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by thfuran 5mo ago
If someone has a company doing an IPO, it’s extremely unlikely that the company was so small that one person did all the work. Why is it a given that one person should retain nearly all of the proceeds of the sale? To answer your question,
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by thfuran 5mo ago
What percent of the time do you think the average consumer computing device spends fully clocked up, let alone fully saturated on every core?
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by thfuran 5mo ago
Not many workloads are RAM bandwidth limited. Power and latency are much more common bottlenecks, and HBM loses on both of those.
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by thfuran 5mo ago
Sleep apnea can indirectly cause weight gain, but obesity—particularly excess fat on the neck—is the main controllable risk factor for obstructive sleep apnea, so it’s primarily the other way around.
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by thfuran 5mo ago
The purpose of a system is what it does.
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by thfuran 5mo ago
Because the entire structure of the business is designed for approximately the amount of work it currently does and likely has no particular immediate use for twice as much work in most departments.
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by thfuran 5mo ago
"Don't talk about goblins unless they make for a good segue to this conversation's sponsor, Nestle."
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by thfuran 5mo ago
If it even exists.
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by thfuran 5mo ago
You pretty much just need a representation that can be constructed reasonably and interpolated.
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by thfuran 5mo ago
I think that pretty much ended in the 90s.
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by thfuran 5mo ago
I’m pretty sure everything that edits history is an extension in mercurial, so both of those as well as strip and rebase.
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by thfuran 5mo ago
I don’t even think it’s good now. Sure, they’ll often give you a link. But sometimes they’ll just insist there definitely is a page that they’re pulling their made up info from but fail to provide a link, outright fabricate a link, or provi

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