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by wilde 8y ago
More people are renting. Rents are going up. When rents go up, fertility goes down. This is not a mystery. https://www.nber.org/papers/w17485
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by wilde 8y ago
Because calling people is an important GOTV activity. They’re not going to write a law that hurts their ability to campaign.
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by wilde 8y ago
I mean it’s still technically the gaming sector if scalpers buy available stock, hold it and mark it up to the moon.
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by wilde 8y ago
Google is punishing Epic for communicating. Had Epic silently released the patch and not responded to the thread they could have gotten more time to patch. That doesn’t bode well for future security issues.
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by wilde 8y ago
Leaving costs money. Most Americans don’t have the financial cushion to spend time unemployed while looking for work elsewhere. So they stick with what they have even if it’s unsustainable because it’s the only way they can see to keep food
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by wilde 8y ago
This article muddled a few different issues together in a way that made its point less clear. The core questions are essentially: * Does sourcing certain categories of positions from an independent contracting company circumvent benefits no
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by wilde 8y ago
Manufacturers have been notorious for not security patching their forks. Manufacturers have been notorious for altering OS compat APIs to lie about device capabilities. While I wish Google would have used their leverage for a more nuanced s
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by wilde 8y ago
In my experience if your developers were going to make choices that lead to tight coupling in a monolith, they’re going to make the same choices in a distributed architecture. Only now you’ve injected a bunch of network faults and latency t
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by wilde 8y ago
It wasn’t reliable to begin with: https://www.aclu.org/other/whats-wrong-public-video-surveill...
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by wilde 8y ago
Yes. http://komonews.com/news/offbeat/bothell-police-dont-call-91...
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by wilde 8y ago
I have literally this same list of problems on MacOS. Connecting to external screens is apparently hard. MacOS also ignores commands to lock the screen until it’s done changing screens. :(
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by wilde 8y ago
No.
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by wilde 8y ago
More people feel comfortable riding scooters than bikes. There’s a stigma around “I can’t ride a bike”. There’s also less regulation on dumping scooters than on bikes. ;)
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by wilde 8y ago
If management is this bad at estimating the work involved, they’ll probably underestimate retraining and just take the next sucker who comes along instead.
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by wilde 8y ago
Tesla repeatedly claimed that the car drives itself in marketing. https://www.dailydot.com/debug/tesla-self-driving-car-video/
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by wilde 8y ago
They use it internally. It’s equally shitty, but it makes enough money no one cares.
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by wilde 8y ago
People have been investing in stocks, but entrepreneurship is declining. [1] What I think this person is getting at is that the increased economic activity doesn’t seem to be correlated with opportunity for social mobility, regardless of wh
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by wilde 8y ago
How much are you willing to spend per transaction? With Stripe or Braintree it’s trivial but expensive. Are you targeting just the US market and dollars? Going directly with a bank is cheaper but more complex [1]. And unless you’re adding s
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by wilde 9y ago
The legal system hasn’t been effective in many of these cases. Hell, some dude raped a chick with multiple eye witnesses at Stanford and only got 6months jail time. Additionally, the folks abusing people have used career pressure to keep fo
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by wilde 9y ago
Does Mastodon have a fax interface? https://www.vox.com/health-care/2017/10/30/16228054/american...
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by wilde 9y ago
If they play their cards right, this will actually strengthen that part of the universe. Windows was led by people who wanted it to be a consumer operating system in every home. That lead them to do a bunch of stuff that was nonsensical to
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by wilde 9y ago
We have plenty of deaths like this. https://www.theverge.com/2017/10/6/16438444/traffic-fataliti...
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by wilde 9y ago
It’s nice that you’re benefiting, but rent control is relatively well studied and it doesn’t achieve its aims. https://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2015/08/e...
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by wilde 9y ago
Because prior to 2001, it was illegal to clear the money without the physical check present. [0] There’s an effort to modernize ACH, but it’s still years away from wide rollout. [0] https://payment21.com/blog/paper-chec
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by wilde 9y ago
How do you avoid talking about politics when the contentious item is a decision that must be made by the company? And this same item is up for debate in tons of industries. Just look at the Oscars.
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by wilde 9y ago
Word on the street is that Google is over-staffed. Can’t they warn/fire people until they get the message to chill out? They’re already being sued and the employment contracts are at-will.
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by wilde 9y ago
Do executives get to have private views? It’s unfortunate, but the media seems to love using personal actions by executives as representative of the company they work for. So in Eich’s case I think Mozilla had a legitimate concern that his
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by wilde 9y ago
Stripe is on Ruby and Mongo and they seem to be doing OK.
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by wilde 9y ago
IME typically means a software keyboard. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Input_method
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by wilde 9y ago
Try stuff from Baidu. They claim good performance in Chinese.

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