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by wtracy 6y ago
eBay makes it easy to filter by location.
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> Are you threatening people’s jobs? Yes. > Do you think you can reliably get away with that? Robber barons did reliably get away with it throughout the nineteenth century. That's the whole reason that you don't get to take
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by wtracy 6y ago
FWIW, I've found that companies outside the valley, particularly those that don't see software as their primary product, are more interested in work samples than puzzle solutions. Try broadening your search to things like aerospac
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> Blackmail doesn’t scale. If elections in my district are historically won by a 10-20% margin, and my corporation directly employs 20% of the people in the district, then I think I could make blackmail scale just fine.
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> Sometimes it feels as though existing problems get a free pass because of tradition In safety-critical systems, known problems are often tolerated because they are predictable. In these cases, mitigations are understood, and there&#x27
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In this case, I imagine that a "hard fork" would entail starting a new smart contract and copying over the old balances.
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Since I'm on mobile and can't test it right now: Do you support export to other platforms/formats? Is there an easy way to get the finished video onto, say, YouTube?
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If it's worth anything, my impression is that the CPU (and probably GPU) performance of chromebooks varies widely between models. It seems to be particularly dramatic when comparing ARM models against Intel and AMD models. I don't
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> Has apple ever blocked or threatened anyone for developing a rival OS? The iPhone boot ROM will only launch operating systems cryptographically signed by Apple: https://support.apple.com/guide/security/hardwar
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I'm trying to do something similar with Orgmode right now, and I find it very helpful. The article touches on something I've been meaning to explore more deeply: Grouping tasks by "triggers". For example, tasks that need
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Thinking out loud: Since handles refer to offer rather than absolute addresses, this sort of scheme should allow for "serializing" data by memmapping chunks of memory to disk. Obviously, this scheme wouldn't be useful for cro
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> wouldn't every website allow everything Legal and be able to just point at the laws and say, "if you don't like it, change the law"? Again and again, industries operated by rational agents self-regulate with the goa
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If that's the reason, it would be nice for Google to come out and say so.
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> Because, let's face it, nobody in their right mind procrastinates if their livelihood is on the line or if it means letting someone down. I see you've never met a person with impaired executive function. It's frustrating
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If all you have to go by is the popular stereotypes, you will be shocked by the number of engineers with ADD.
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There are third-world sweatshops that solve capchas for a fraction of a penny. I imagine they provide an API, so your bot makes an http call and gets a solution back.
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> Bad decision-makers who make slow and thoughtful decisions are still bad decision-makers. They need to make better decisions. Is this gpt-3 output or something? Otherwise, if the best insight this guy can come up with is that you can m
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by wtracy 6y ago
You can silence the alarm by pulling the battery connection. Obviously, that's inconvenient if you want the UPS to be useful again as soon as the power comes back. I personally like the white noise from electronics, so I can't hel
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Opening Medium in an incognito window has so far away been enough for me to get past that. Also, are we due for a snappier phrase than "requires registration"? Loginwall, registerwall, accountwall?
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I think you're overstaying things a bit, but you do have a point. She probably has never experienced poverty, and no doubt believes (probably correctly!) that she could easily walk out and get another job for a similar (or higher) wage
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To build on that: Jobs was absolutely someone who did everything "for the love of the game." It's just that the game that interested him was marketing and design, not engineering. I can't imagine Jobs as someone motivate
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Several people who dislike the term "software engineer" have started using "software craftsman" instead.
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At least one person tried this and found it to be a very hard sell: https://tjcx.me/posts/i-wasted-40k-on-a-fantastic-startup-id...
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I think parent was complaining that there's very little public information (particularly hard numbers) about the incumbents. GP was cruising Wikipedia for information about the apps' parent companies rather than just trying to ide
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Which is why a lot of the real money is in products that have wide appeal for non-disabled users. This is where most of the bizarre "as seen on TV" products come from: The inventor made a tool for people with disabilities, found t
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I'm not so sure about your example. Get a self-driving truck, and add some sort of people-sensing system that allows potential customers to intuitively flag it down. Then add a self-serve ice cream vending machine. Now you can build a
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Who wants to bankroll me if I go create a rural ISP somewhere (probably Nevada/Utah/Arizona, where regulation is lax), become a local hero for providing broadband communication where the incumbents won't, then throttle/c
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I remember Food 4 Less back in the day (maybe twenty years ago) having a sort of hybrid system where the cashier scanned your items and rang then up, but you bagged your own groceries. Are you familiar with any similar systems today? How do
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Understanding a culture is not a binary thing. Five years is enough time to understand a lot more than someone who has never set for in the country. Naturally, there's other things that they still wouldn't understand after twenty
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They "hit a wall" in the sense that they couldn't keep up the hockey stick style growth that venture capitalists have come to expect.

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