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by viridian 4y ago
In most cases, you can keep a platform going for a tiny fraction of the manpower that it takes to keep stuff alive while building new stuff. If Twitter hasn't dropped its killer feature by this point, they can probably make do without
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HR ultimately exists to provide some massive amount of value to the company, otherwise they wouldn't exist. The question then is what value do they deliver? If the low-level humans serving as resources don't know what that value i
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by viridian 4y ago
"A WAVE OF PEOPLE ARE RISING UP AGAINST THE LATEST..." Article references three tweets from literal nobodies, each with under a dozen likes
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by viridian 4y ago
This whole saga has been a real eye opener and should be the textbook example for why you need to document everything and always CYA.
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Ask HN: Are you experiencing Amazon service quality issues?
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by viridian 4y ago
Consider reading the article before you spend multiple paragraphs criticizing the source, because the actual outcome was that Heather Wallace is now barred from her career field and is considered a danger to children. Also, for all of your
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by viridian 4y ago
No, his experience isn't necessarily very unusual. You are comparing apples (deaths) and oranges (guns drawn) here. I'm willing to bet an order of magnitude of people more have had the police draw on them vs. shoot them. No one in
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by viridian 4y ago
It appears that Microsoft's acquisition of Zenimax hasn't curbed the bad behavior of Bethesda at all, and in fact may have given them some sort of bravado that wasn't there before. The audacity of responding to the saga of an
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by viridian 4y ago
Lemmy can do what they want, but they are both being bad stewards, and hurting their own chances of success by rejecting what is typically a core tenet of federation: maximizing interoperability by default. The nature of federated networks
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I'd second mint for anyone who wants a "it just werks (TM)" experience with minimal configuration to throw on anything except a server. For servers, these days I'd recommend Alpine on ARM architecture for a very good mix
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by viridian 4y ago
Strange, I still get them as of today.
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by viridian 4y ago
Nah, the difference is that nitter doesn't stop you from using it with a modal and a force stripping of the browser's progressively loaded content if you aren't logged in. I've used nitter for a couple of years now inste
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by viridian 4y ago
This article is incredibly barebones, there's almost zero actual content here, just some handwaving about studies and surveys that aren't even linked to.
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by viridian 4y ago
There are certainly some stage performers over 55, but it's a small minority. Patti LaPone is 73 and is still on the stage.
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by viridian 4y ago
This is a crazy level of absolutism that seems only to exist to force a "with us or against us" reaction. I think everyone where I live should probably be supplementing vitamin D in the winter months because it is damn near imposs
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by viridian 4y ago
You should seriously look in to changing companies. I'm not trying to denigrate you in any way, I myself switched from working at $BIG_BANK to a more lithe type of company and 90% of that bullshit went away. Agile + Scrum stuff are min
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by viridian 4y ago
It's a strange form of biological essentialism where someone is considered perfectly as they are, and not in need of any changes, but also that person must be rejected from the group based on certain characteristics. We don't invi
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by viridian 4y ago
I don't trust any youtube video that claims to be a source of information but hides comments or likes/dislikes, it's a strong signal that the video's ideas don't hold up to even the most surface level scrutiny.
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by viridian 4y ago
That book seems to be an actual for "dummies book", written by a doctor of business analytics who teaches at Santa Clara University, for what it's worth. She also authored "DeFi for dummies". If I had to read any of
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by viridian 4y ago
The intersect of supply and demand is necessarily the price equilibrium. Value is only equal to price if the buyer and seller both have equal information and neither is operating under any sort of constraints that force certain market behav
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by viridian 4y ago
> After all, in OK or MS you need a car, which is a $2000+ asset, just to even access any public space or resource or make yourself visible at all. Nah, you may need a ride every once in a great while, but in most counties you can get by
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by viridian 4y ago
You can toss up a stick built or modular house for like 100k these days, and they can build these prefabs near instantly, at a better quality than a lot of stuff built during the 80's/90's.
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by viridian 4y ago
The GOP didn't so much make abortion a wedge issue as much as evangelicals captured a big chunk of the party's lame duck platform during the various positional realignments of the 60s-80s. The GOP, by almost sheer luck, managed to
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by viridian 4y ago
Depends on how those votes are distributed, in both directions, but I doubt either would make a huge difference. One thing to remember is that rural areas are less red than cities are blue. A 75/35 split seems to be the most common rur
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by viridian 4y ago
In the vast majority of cases these days I'd rather have a dumb document database to shove my data into rather than fretting over relationships between tables with a RMDBS where complexity grows at best, quadratically. I don't use
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by viridian 4y ago
There's something I find literally evil about describing firing people as reducing the workforce, or rendering a position redundant, but I can't quite put why to words. It downplays human suffering to a degree that's almost u
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by viridian 4y ago
Of all the forums, websites, social media, etc I've used, never have I experienced worse moderation than reddit. I've never been banned, but I've had comments removed for some of the most arbitrary reasons, and the average mo
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by viridian 4y ago
Why not just use something running on the activity pub protocol? The fact that farcaster isnt even interoperable with various fediverse projects makes me doubt their intentions in this space.
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by viridian 4y ago
Sounds very much like a lot of predictive analytics places like walmart do. Walmart has spent hundreds of millions on solving the problem of getting stuff into stores just before it's needed, and some of their work on weather modeling,
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The big unaddressed issue is that conclusions based on empirical data can only be as good as the observations. If the data is biased, manipulated, "massaged", etc, there can be no good output from that poisoned tree, and other per

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