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by tpmoney 3y ago
I can't think of any version of dystopia that would be defined by "working your comfortable office job from your multi-story family home while experimenting with a multi thousand dollar piece of high tech equipment which can provi
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by tpmoney 3y ago
Python has become my goto for anything more complicated than a 3 line bash script, but not so complex it need multiple files to logically separate the code. Argparse isn't perfect, but it lets you get 90% of the way to a nice functiona
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by tpmoney 3y ago
So then I have to ask, if it’s so easy to just sell it off, spending next to nothing and getting more than the tax write off, what if your proposed reason for why they aren’t doing that? Why have they chosen to lose (according to the articl
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by tpmoney 3y ago
Look you’re arguing that they should throw good money after bad. And both of us are just speculating on what the actual numbers are. We all agree that at some point before this, if they cancel the project and write it off, no one cares. So
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by tpmoney 3y ago
>Distribution isn't free but it's pretty cheap for getting to sell tickets in major theaters. Last time I saw numbers on something like this, film advertising costs were generally assumed to be another 50-100% of the production
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by tpmoney 3y ago
> It doesn't make any sense to claim that, starting now, the expenses to release are higher than the revenue they would get. Why not? Distribution isn't free. Contracts that specify payment on gross revenue aren't free. Ju
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by tpmoney 3y ago
No it doesn't work differently and the framing of all of this in the media is terrible. No one goes into making a movie planning on writing it off. They made a movie and decided that it was actually not going to be something worth rele
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by tpmoney 3y ago
That seems even worse for all the people affected doesn't it? Anyone who had residual contracts now not only gets nothing like they were before, but their work is still actually being distributed, even if the studio in question is gett
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by tpmoney 3y ago
That's not how this works though, right? They're not saying "we think this movie was worth $100 million because that's what someone offered us, so we're going to write off $100 million.", they're saying &q
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by tpmoney 3y ago
>A touch screen is unavoidable for very small devices like mobile phones, but whenever any alternative is possible it is better. I have to disagree. I think as with any engineering challenge, it's about what tradeoffs work best for
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by tpmoney 3y ago
I feel like you're missing two very important things: 1) A touch interface is a VASTLY different experience from a mouse / trackball gestures interface. There's a physicality there that simply isn't present when you&#x27
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by tpmoney 3y ago
>I think only some people who carry extra weight claim to battle hunger. I wonder to what extent that's because they've never properly felt not hungry? I've spoken on here recently about my experience with a medication tha
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by tpmoney 3y ago
This is all true, but it's also not really germane to the point I was making. I didn't include anything to account for the fact that as people get older, they also tend to be able to save more towards their accumulated wealth, whi
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by tpmoney 3y ago
None of that is germane to the point though. The point was wealth is an asset that a person accumulates through their life and we should expect that younger people on the whole have less wealth than older people on the whole by the simple f
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by tpmoney 3y ago
Wouldn't we intuitively expect this to be true? Especially given that wealth accumulated over time and is usually measuring capital assets, which young people as a rule do not have yet. As an example, let's say a person starts at
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by tpmoney 3y ago
So last month, I spent probably 1-2 hours on a medication issue. But if you were talking to me last month, you would have the impression that I was working on it for a full week. I needed to coordinate with the pharmacist, and then the doct
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by tpmoney 3y ago
I feel like that's a risk for all software, OSS or not. If the OSS maintainers stop updating your software, it probably stops running on the latest version of your OS at some point. Apple or Microsoft may accelerate that process (Apple
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by tpmoney 3y ago
> How do you plan to continue using photoshop of adobe discontinues it? You can't. Double click the app and start it? Now if you're referring to cloud locks and garbage like that, well that's a risk you take if you decide
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by tpmoney 3y ago
> Open source keeps your options open. Does not mean it will be necessarily free or effortless, but you'll have options. You still have to be able to exercise those options. If you can't, you might as well not have them at all
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by tpmoney 3y ago
>In my experience most regular people first react with "Oh they wouldn't do that", and then after experiencing commercial software for a decade or so eventually realize they all eventually do that. >From there, one can
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by tpmoney 3y ago
This is such a weird sentiment to read given that it's conveyed over possibly the most artificial and de-humanizing communication channel ever invented, the internet. I mean if we want to get all dystopian, what kind of world are we li
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by tpmoney 3y ago
You owe taxes all year round. What you're doing in April is settling up and filing for the year. If you run your own business, you're required to pay a lump estimated taxes 3 times a year in addition to your annual filings. If you
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by tpmoney 3y ago
Tax write offs would be my guess. Every employee of charities that partner with retail locations for PoS donations must die a little inside each time some fool confidently asserts that they never give to those charities because it's al
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by tpmoney 3y ago
I thought his initial incredulity around the firing cap highlighted just how much modern electronics and the energy density (and dischargeability) of modern tech has colored our expectations, even for people into older tech like the creator
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by tpmoney 3y ago
To the best of my knowledge there are no DOT legal LED bulb retrofits. There are some entire housing units but not swapping just the bulb. Whether or not your local law enforcement / inspection scheme checks for this or not is another
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by tpmoney 3y ago
On the other hand, how is the AI plugin different from any other web connected plugin / service in the IDE? Some of this has to come down to being realistic about the choice you made when you bought into a proprietary (even if very wel
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by tpmoney 3y ago
Yes, beta software should be expected to be full of bugs and breaks. I know I'm going to sound like an old man ranting at clouds here, but I really do blame Google for this. Before Google release GMail "Beta" (which it was in
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by tpmoney 3y ago
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/los-ange... https://www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/news/trump-pinata-school/ https://am870theanswer.com/all/la-a
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by tpmoney 3y ago
> He employs partisan and apocalyptic language, calling opponents “cronies,” “corrupt” or “doom loop accelerationists,” and claiming they want to “destroy public safety” and “ruin” or “destroy” the city. Whether it should be or not, this
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by tpmoney 3y ago
Doesn’t the phrase “living rent free in your head” refer to someone being preoccupied with another individual with whom they have a disagreement to an unhealthy degree? You can’t waive rent if you’re the one doing the living, and by definit

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