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by wastedhours 6y ago
I guess because the more it looks and feels like a public service, the more it feels like a tax. Or the more it feels like a non-profit, the more it feels like charity. Each of those concepts has had a long time to become embedded, but the
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by wastedhours 6y ago
> more to a product than the underlying technology Back when I was just hacking about on some SaaS ideas I looked into both Linode and DO. The positioning of both seemed quite separate to me, and DO "felt" more like the product
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by wastedhours 6y ago
> LastPass on the other hand is a tool you use because the world sucks I feel like this gets missed a lot when questions about price/value come up. Just because something's useful doesn't mean you want to buy it, and thi
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by wastedhours 6y ago
Whilst completely ignoring common second-order effects that have been shown time and time again to be true. The point made is 100% valid: men are more likely to work in the office than women, and if there's a systemic bias toward offic
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by wastedhours 6y ago
> I really don't understand why anyone anywhere in the modern world would want someone to rule over them There's currently a government in Westminster making laws and dictating to us that the vast majority of the country didn&#
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by wastedhours 6y ago
> nor forcing them to claim sole right to income and assets that should belong to the nation In theory, it'd then be shared as belonging to the nation. In practice, you'd get the political class lining their pockets in the shor
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by wastedhours 6y ago
This depends on what we're defining as documentation vs access. My interpretation of the start of the GP was more about passing over actual login/access information, which especially for assets and finances really shouldn't b
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by wastedhours 6y ago
So a PaaS + app framework?
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by wastedhours 6y ago
Would also expect there to be some kind of "drive in" vaccination points, like there are in some communities for tests.
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by wastedhours 6y ago
I did mention rental, 100% agree owning two would be absurd. For rentals, it might end up being more expensive now, but that's not really my point, the daily practicality (both in fuel savings lugging around a huge car for 50 extra w
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by wastedhours 6y ago
I mean, impressive mileage - but you must definitely be an outlier with those numbers in single trips I'd imagine. Also, if you're only do those kinds of numbers a few weeks a year, you could have an electric car for 50 weeks of t
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by wastedhours 6y ago
I don't believe the OP is offering a rebuttal to the article, but is adding additional flavour to the current state of the art in research.
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by wastedhours 6y ago
Exactly the same - the community around Rails is what makes it shine. The resources, the tooling (so many well maintained gems out there in the Ruby-sphere, even if a lot of them being Rails-oriented makes other frameworks second class citi
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by wastedhours 6y ago
Smart money saving pots, Open Banking, calendar view of payments, graphs and calculators for different transaction types, paperless statements, paperless loan applications, rewards with specific merchants. The actual useful stuff and none o
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by wastedhours 6y ago
I appreciate fintech companies as a number of them are FNACs [0] driving new use cases, combined with my actually quite good legacy bank taking inspiration from these, I can get the benefits of fintech, with the stability of an existing pro
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by wastedhours 6y ago
I think you're arguing at cross-purposes. Terminus House is social housing (no-one's arguing that it's not, and that it's not bad), what they're describing in SF is different as it's commercial, and certainly a
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by wastedhours 6y ago
> It wouldn't surprise me if the effective opposition eventually comes from some sort of grass roots movement towards open hardware and open software Would be nice to see, however I see it coming more from one of the major players s
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by wastedhours 6y ago
All of that makes sense from a user perspective, but why take 30% of a wide base of consumers and businesses when you can take 100% from the most profitable ones? They want to sell you an Office365 subscription for each user, whose computin
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by wastedhours 6y ago
I completely get all of those points - however almost all of them aren't really exclusive to homeworking. It exacerbates them, for sure, but all are based on underlying presenteeism and imposter syndrome. Most would be present were y
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by wastedhours 6y ago
Yes, "downtime" in this context being "non working time". Whether it's "relaxing" or not is a different question - and, again personally, commuting certainly isn't contrasted as being relaxing compare
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by wastedhours 6y ago
> It was just a long delayed admission that you can't make a lot of money on offline boxed software sales today. Well, yeah. That's the turnaround. And it's worked. It's not easy to get a large company, fat off the pr
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by wastedhours 6y ago
> being harder to control how much we work at home I find this really hard to relate to though, I know the lines do get blurred and overworking by a bit is easier (personally, I maybe close the lid at 6:10pm rather than 5:59pm), but I ca
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by wastedhours 6y ago
I don't quite get your flippance - you weren't doing it before, and are now doing it. What's changed? Why are you working extra hours at home when in the office you wouldn't have? What's the externalities here? Wh
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by wastedhours 6y ago
Same, I believe, for Switzerland - you need to have (and be able to demonstrate if asked) owned the item for a set period of time before entering.
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by wastedhours 6y ago
Oh most definitely - it's neither an efficient or ideal way to learn those things. Unless there's dedicated thought to teaching them though, it could be an issue as well. I'm certainly not defending the way it worked out, but
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by wastedhours 6y ago
> the parts of school that are social are not necessarily good Most definitely - however it's also worth bearing in mind that if you happen to fall into a more traditional life path afterwards, those social elements will rear their
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by wastedhours 6y ago
Just a flag that says "This answer was submitted N years ago - it might still be valid, but please check compatibility etc...."
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by wastedhours 6y ago
Why's it being downvoted? > Apple is already on it's way to the trashheap. That's why. Even if they're lost some of their lustre (and, if we're being literal, could be "on it's way" in the sense th
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by wastedhours 6y ago
The "problem" (and I use the term "problem" from the perspective of the network, I don't believe it actually is a net problem for the world) - is that limited the reach of content would potentially reduce the amou
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by wastedhours 6y ago
I was with you in not understanding what they do, however, it seems there are a lot of people who do [0]. As far as I've understood, it's a game with a game builder inside that allows users to create their own games, that can th

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