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by z9znz 4y ago
As long as Google doesn't mistakenly add the nonexistent airport to their maps, it is harmless to some and amusing to others.
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I fear your obvious sarcasm will still be missed... or overflown as one might say.
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Pull enough cards out, and the house will collapse completely. Ironically, an exchange may not be in actual danger at this moment, but they may recognize the coming (what's a word for worse than a winter?...), and they may decide to cl
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by z9znz 4y ago
Indeed, my assumption was probably wrong. In one of the two articles I read, I didn't see the quote about it being 1:1 analysis against customer holdings. I believed it included general hedging assets of the exchange. As long as the
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FTX is just one input. Seeing that Crypto.com has 20% of their reserves stored in a pointless sh-tcoin (SHIB) is just further proof that people running cryptocurrency exchanges are idiots or greedy fools. One or another variation of this s
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Most people don't care about abuse in general, as long as they don't see or experience it directly... and especially if they get some benefit from it occurring. How many people knowingly still shop at places (like Primark, which i
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Your point being? Are you suggesting that horrible animal welfare is bad, and that it adds to the negative feelings that you already have because of inflation? Or are you suggesting that a business closing down is bad because we're al
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While this is true, it is utterly infeasible for a company with tens of thousands of employees to consider the individual employee in their decisions. They can perhaps consider actions which will result in large impacts to large numbers of
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> where you sell the majority of your earthly possessions, property, cars, etc. I think this bit is actually a good thing. The rest of the story is indeed unfortunate, but having to eliminate possessions is probably more positive in lif
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These scenarios don't just apply to being laid off. Another scenario which happens is that company ownership or control changes, and some key promises which were made to prospective employees get broken. I relocated to a big unpleasan
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I don't really understand storing lots of common media. Storing your own photos I get, since only you have them. But how many times do you watch the same movies/shows over again? Storing music makes a bit more sense, at least if
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This is the typical hyper-reactionary behavior of many companies, not just SV. They are playing a game that is more about pleasing investors than actually building performant companies. That's why you'll see insane hiring phases
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An interesting thing I learned in the interview process was that the AI and automation that was supposedly powering the new efficient global shipping was actually 95% humans doing the normal human work, not some great technical system. But
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I'm not a frontend guy, so maybe someone else here knows how to effectively benchmark the current system. I would be very curious to see how the current system performed versus a new React FE. Surely MS will do this themselves, but I
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I think the real issue is that there are practically an infinite set of unique circumstances (the time, the economic situation, the current company atmosphere, and dozens more variables) which all can impact hiring. One very simple example
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> “The environment for these specific octopuses is such that they have this interaction between individuals,” she says. “It’s communication, in a way.” It seems naive to assume they don't have communication (more frequent and more c
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by z9znz 4y ago
They really should have said "inaudible" rather than undetectable. It is detectable (as they note)... just not as what we think of as sound. [edit - fix; how did I leave out words?] I don't know how common this is now, but a
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by z9znz 4y ago
The point which your parent post made, and which I was implying in my original post, is that if the committer was willing to commit such a clumsy "fix", what else might they commit in other places? Nobody said the committer was no
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by z9znz 4y ago
One might be inclined to go back and review all commits by the person who chose to commit this sledgehammer solution.
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I did formally relocate to Colorado and start paying their local taxes. Later when I moved to Amsterdam, I started paying Netherlands taxes. There's no dodging, at least if you are able to setup residence somewhere. If you are unable
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True, but DNs often pay a premium for many services which locals do not pay. And DNs often spend a lot more than locals do just by virtue of having more to spend. In places which thrive or depend on tourism, working DNs are a blessing. Th
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Interesting experiment. This can only work once (in a great while), so cheers on being the one who did this lately. However, as Facebook has proven, online connections are quick and fleeting (and largely meaningless). Good intentions and w
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In most countries you are not technically allowed to work. They don't have a tax arrangement for you. You could not pay taxes if you wanted, because there is no system for you to be working. You are paying taxes to your home country
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This is really enlightening to read. I had no idea people held such notions about digital nomads. I started my DN life 14 years ago while living in the US. In my company we had a number of remote workers around the country, and servicing
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Digital nomads almost always have a home base in some domain which has tax laws. Since we're on a US site, I'll assume many people here are American. And as Americans, we are required to file US taxes regardless of where we live
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This is a fluff piece. While there probably are some people making the claims he refers to, it's not a common thing. If you go anywhere, you can probably find some people making some stupid and wrong claims about some other group. Th
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> Gopher Now I know what being old means. It means you can make references to things, and younger people will completely overlook them. Of course I can do a small bit of internet search to get the answer to my rhetorical question. But
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I'm not sure I buy your definitions for errors and exceptions. In practice, many errors are rare cases and are essentially unexpected. They are exceptions in terms of being exceptional results compared to most results. The biggest ch
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I'm sorry. We're all on the internet, and I could have looked it up myself. It was really a rhetorical question as well as an opportunity to enjoy a memory of the Monty Python nudge nudge wink wink skit: https://youtu

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