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by toyg 10mo ago
I'm a big believer in this. I called it "let them marinate". It works particularly well in the modern world of IMs, where a lot of people see a problem and go "oh, X will know why this is happening, let's ask him!&q
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by toyg 10mo ago
No, this is not that. The Napoleon approach is intentional, borne out of belief that a lot of communication is actually meaningless waffle produced by people whose first instict, when faced with an issue, is to talk about it with someone, r
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by toyg 10mo ago
The verdict significantly hamstrung their internal developer processes. Yes, IE didn't go anywhere, but the path of tight integration of web and OS was effectively abandoned for several years, and they generally toned down integration
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by toyg 10mo ago
'90s Microsoft was like early christians: harshly persecuted, only for everyone else to eventually adopt their ways. In this metaphor, emperor Constantine is probably Steve Jobs.
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by toyg 10mo ago
Can you "shame" a product , though? Obviously not. So you're shaming the people who built Gmail, the organization - hence the plural form is acceptable.
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by toyg 10mo ago
Is zfs really worth the hassle, for someone who does not have time to play "home sysadmin" more than once or twice a year? I've just rebuilt my little home server (mostly for samba, plus a little bit of docker for kids to pla
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by toyg 10mo ago
It's not just that, it's that the topic was extremely actual. Between the Russian Revolution and the general state of European countries at the beginning of the XX century, a lot of intellectuals were working hard on the concepts
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by toyg 10mo ago
European laws are stricter on paper but more loosely enforced. US laws are looser on paper but viciously enforced.
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by toyg 10mo ago
> Web apps are primarily DRM I've been saying that for decades at this point. Web apps trade post-release support issues with slightly higher development costs upfront (dealing with browser compatibility), but the real kicker is t
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by toyg 10mo ago
I think the meaning was "people are now targeted even in the EU ".
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by toyg 10mo ago
Considering it's the only medium that needs literally nothing but ourselves to work, I disagree with your statement. But to each its own.
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by toyg 10mo ago
AI summaries are actually rather good, in the general case. I know they take away traffic from source sites, but they work well for search users. Videos, on the other hand, are a cancer.
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by toyg 10mo ago
Oral transmission of complex culture is one of the things that separates us from "the state of nature". As we lose it, we move further away from the beasts that conquered the planet and closer to the squirrel.
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by toyg 10mo ago
Listening to someone talking is how humanity transmitted culture and stories for tens of thousands of years. The fact that "we" cannot tolerate it anymore, is a sign of how badly our brains are being reshaped (or maybe damaged) by
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by toyg 10mo ago
This is more like using a sauce that someone else made.
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by toyg 10mo ago
> good genetics This moral judgement whereby losing weight is "good" in absolute, is such bullshit. For most of history, humans have fought starvation literally every day, and often had to make do with minimal caloric intak
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by toyg 10mo ago
Shrinkflation is typically a retail issue, where pricing per unit is a massive psychological factor and competition is fierce and immediate (literally the next shelf). For restaurants it's much easier to just raise prices, or to bulk u
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by toyg 10mo ago
> he doesn't have the humility of accepting when he's wrong Isn't he pretty far on the autistic spectrum? It can be very difficult for that kind of personality to re-evaluate something, once they think they have reached
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by toyg 10mo ago
.... That also works? Unless you believe that your entire chat history is magically encoded in a QR code...
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by toyg 11mo ago
yeah, that sounds like a bit of blackmail...
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by toyg 11mo ago
> I don't understand how that kind of clause can be legal. Arguably they promote a chilling effect around acquisitions, which does help competition: "don't try to buy something unless you're prepared to deal with a
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by toyg 11mo ago
> Taxes on property are something they cannot avoid though. Yeah, definitely nobody ever "avoided" stamp duty... /s There are plenty of loopholes and corner cases, you just need skilled accountants and lawyers (companies
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by toyg 11mo ago
It's not an easy call. Sometimes, one or two dedicated and competent people can vastly outperform large and bureaucratic consulting firms, for a fraction of the price. And sometimes, somebody's cousin "who knows that internet
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by toyg 11mo ago
No, it's designed to maximize what they can raise without pissing off too many voters. Even as it is, it's going to raise barely half a billion pounds, which is relatively insignificant in a budget worth hundreds of billions; bu
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by toyg 11mo ago
Regardless of agreeing with the advice, a 41yo giving advice on surviving the 40s seems a bit arrogant. Being 41 is different from 46 which is different from 49, and he just doesn't know yet. The right title should be "how I feel
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by toyg 11mo ago
Relationship with fathers are not easy even at the best of times, there are a bunch of factors that complicate things. Somewhat ironically, having a relationship with a stranger can be much easier and liberating. It's a bit like talkin
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by toyg 11mo ago
The thing is: even ignoring that campaign, Garibaldi was successful elsewhere and mostly coherent in his political positions. So really, the nostalgics of Bourbon rule are just the Italian equivalent of American Confederates: they just neve
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by toyg 11mo ago
Ok about Che, but Fidel and Stalin were nothing to write home about. That obviously didn't stop them from having loads of women, of course.
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by toyg 11mo ago
Considering how he was a thorn in the side for Austrians, the pun is almost apt.
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by toyg 11mo ago
He's a unique figure. Running across the world, finding himself constantly drawn to battles for the freedom of this or that group, he had a penchant for winning military campaigns that were then politically squandered by the people he

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