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by twodave 7y ago
I agree that's a valid argument, probably a more sensible approach, even if it does make me a little sad :)
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by twodave 7y ago
I'm actually not sure I expect this much from a search engine. Typically there is going to be a useful word to describe what you want without having to hope it can understand "no" or "without" (for example, without
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by twodave 7y ago
Amazon employees wouldn’t have had any input on a mandate like this. Do any of those other groups necessarily have insight into the organizational complexity at Amazon? I brought up what I believe is a valid argument that this mandate is ha
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by twodave 7y ago
Judging by the reaction to Amazon's response, I'm not sure I can connect the dots that make the French government more knowledgeable of Amazon's internal complexities than I am, to be totally honest. That is why I am assertin
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by twodave 7y ago
Is this really the time? I feel like whatever errors Amazon have made with regard to protecting its employees have largely been realized in France by now, and I have serious doubts in the efficiency of forcing a closure having a near-to-int
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by twodave 7y ago
In the last 15 years, I've worked as a developer: - on site for a non-tech company - on site for 2-3 small tech companies (10-100 employees) between 20 and 60 minutes away (depending on traffic) - fully remote for a tech company 5 hour
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by twodave 7y ago
I think it more likely that both the 360-day year and the base-60 numbering system came from a common ancestor (the Babylonian's study of astronomy). Perhaps they just took the lunar year and "rounded" it to correspond more c
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Why We Are Not Doing Enough to Stop the Pandemic (in Simple Math)(medium.com)
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by twodave 7y ago
I'm not a financial advisor, but the phrase "don't try to catch a falling knife" comes to mind here.
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by twodave 7y ago
I shop for my family's groceries every week, and I couldn't tell you the price of 3/4 of what I buy. I just know what a usual weekly total looks like. If there's significant change I can usually tie it to one or two item
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by twodave 7y ago
Typically an investor of that magnitude would have pretty free access to such financial information. A failure to disclose something like this on the bank’s part would constitute fraud, and a failure by the investor to discover this given f
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by twodave 7y ago
I thought to be classified as a moon you needed a distinctly observable gravity field?
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by twodave 7y ago
For the tax payer who uses a free file option or one of the lower tiers of a product like Turbo Tax, I consider it a crime that the government doesn’t do the tax calc for those people and simply send out either a bill or a refund. The gover
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by twodave 7y ago
From the company’s point of view this seems like a very bad idea. It essentially cripples their ability to attract great talent. In order to avoid drama in the workplace, companies adopting this sort of policy would undoubtedly adopt a stan
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by twodave 7y ago
The biggest problem I have with health insurance is that it’s nearly impossible for either the insurance or a provider to tell me how much something other than a routine visit will cost me until after services have already been rendered. Fo
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by twodave 7y ago
The term in English is "mid-level" though most find it somewhat derogatory.
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by twodave 7y ago
I think a big part of this is just human nature. Microsoft believes they have a superior browser. They have a large amount of influence due to their software platform. It's got to be super tempting to get the word out with your most di
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by twodave 7y ago
I’ve never really gotten into “productivity” apps. Typically my email inbox and calendar combine as my to-do list. Anything in the main inbox still needs to be dealt with. Anything else shows up as a reminder when I need it to. Literally ev
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by twodave 7y ago
I’m not sure how that would be functionally different than the current situation. Instead, simply regulating how contacts are allowed to be used would remove the need to build a logically complex system, and since Apple already reviews ever
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by twodave 7y ago
This certainly would break plenty of valid use cases for a feature like this. More likely they ought to have policy in their developer docs to scope reasonable uses of the full contact list and start rejecting updates for applications that
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by twodave 7y ago
Actually for most things in iOS, once the system dialog has been brought up, the operating system won't allow it to be brought up again. It won't stop the application in question from nagging you, but at least then even if you cli
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by twodave 7y ago
Ostensibly he was extradited because among the victims of the crime were U.S. corporations.
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by twodave 7y ago
I never implied there weren’t.
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by twodave 7y ago
A valuable thing to remember about roundabouts is that they are generally meant to slow down traffic in areas of high pedestrian activity and are, above all else, a safety mechanism.
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by twodave 7y ago
I can respect the sentiment, and I agree your points are reasonable. And I think the problem actually stems from software development culture more than anything. Developers don't want the level of oversight you're suggesting. Many
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by twodave 7y ago
I struggled with procrastination through much of my childhood and young adult life. Like most real-life problems, there is no magic solution, but I've found the most impactful helpers to be: 1. Having others depending on me. Since I&#x
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by twodave 7y ago
I think Microsoft's response time to this exposure (during a holiday even) is more noteworthy than the fact that it happened. We can sit in our ivory towers all day and shake our heads at what an inept organization Microsoft is for all
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by twodave 7y ago
They might, perhaps, be able to date how long it's spent on the Earth, while making wild assumptions about pre-historic conditions that we (by definition) weren't around to observe.
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by twodave 7y ago
I don’t really blame StackOverflow here. We are living in an age where there are exponentially more people attempting to program than their used to be, and with lots of different motivations. Many of those people just aren’t capable or inte
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by twodave 7y ago
I really don’t think this has anything to do with competition (if anything Google is competing with Amazon and Microsoft here, not Epic). The article muddies the waters somewhat, but all the quotes are telling a story that says (not untruth

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