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by zanny 8y ago
Which is why the Blue Apron crates were always so ludicrously expensive compared to a regular grocer despite their purported scale. You got the right proportion of green onion but get to pay the price of a whole bundle.
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by zanny 8y ago
The worst part is there is really nothing a normal person can do in a situation like this. You would end up paying substantially more to hire a lawyer to hound the police or pursue the investigation independently, and even if you brought th
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by zanny 8y ago
Of course its "reasonable" to argue when you are on the receiving end of the organ donations and not the end being put to slaughter for parts. This is just the extreme end of it though. All states ruled by those who don't bel
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by zanny 8y ago
China, like Russia, Turkey, Saudi Arabia - any nation that is a totalitarian state - will commit endless atrocities so long as those in power believe they can get away with it. Be it their own people or other nations. And they do get away w
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by zanny 8y ago
I never make memes, but this stupid overused meme is so dang appropriate: https://i.imgflip.com/2ottk6.jpg
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by zanny 8y ago
If you took the doubling of productivity since 1975 and inflation adjusted the median income from then ($7750) you would get about $68,000. In practice wages haven't risen against productivity and GDP so the real figure is $45,000. To
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by zanny 8y ago
Personally am looking forward to 65 when we get webp support everywhere but from Apple. Its all politics, but once 80% of browsers support it, the pressure will be on Apple to finally let us use an image format from this century.
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by zanny 8y ago
I run Lineage on my phones, I always have the option to purge Google entirely and not let them track me. The choice is between spying vs money, its between spying or not being spied on. I sympathize with the plight of those unknowingly bein
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by zanny 8y ago
I haven't used the same phone for 7 years. The value add is that its automatic and remotely archived. I've already been burned by lost / wiped / bricked devices without recovering all the photos / video / data
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by zanny 8y ago
I at least get a substantial value add to my life having Google track me everywhere. It might be overly sentimental but being able to see everywhere I've been in the last ~seven years on Maps feels to me like one of the great innovatio
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by zanny 8y ago
Theres a degree of philanthropy to free software contribution. Yes, there are often hacks and workarounds for problems in code that don't require dedicating the substantial time to learn a codebase and fix the problem forever, but if y
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by zanny 8y ago
At least contextually I will personally complain that the whole business model of making content to then profit off of (be it in $15 3D tickets, $100 blu ray box sets, or 5 cents of Netflix revenue) permanently as being incredibly amoral an
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by zanny 8y ago
Yes okay, its about having the choice and the option. Its rooted in the fundamental instinct to cling to freedom and seek it out. Even if you don't make a choice, having the option to is still empowering, because the absence of a choic
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by zanny 8y ago
Theres a substantial difference in UX between integrating Java software via decompiling class files and having your community use process of elimination to figure out how everything works vs having an actual public and documented API for it
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by zanny 8y ago
The thing is the property bubble is predominantly in cities. And those properties are much more rarely mortgaged - its kind of an all or nothing deal if you can outright buy a multi-million dollar condo or not, banks are much less willing t
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by zanny 8y ago
I also find that Rust drives me to document more - because when I do something "intuitively" that doesn't work and then spend an hour refactoring until it does work I usually leave a comment about it. And those are almost a
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by zanny 8y ago
Assuming everything goes as planned probably the Librem 5 when it comes out or anything that can run Replicant (or any other similar radio isolating fully open OS).
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by zanny 8y ago
I lurk the Matrix room for Rocket and I have no idea where Sergio finds the time to near single handedly develop a huge web framework while helping at least a dozen people a day get into it on the IRC.
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by zanny 8y ago
I've bumped around a site idea I've been working on for five years now. I started with Flask, then Django, then felt bad about page load times so I looked for something faster. That basically made me shelf it for about two years,
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by zanny 8y ago
Turns out another part of keeping healthcare costs down is curing the sick as early as possible. In the US, even if you have insurance, you still often have deductibles and copays that strongly disincentivize you going to the doctor. So you
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by zanny 8y ago
There is tremendous waste in US healthcare. For every doctor there are a dozen accountants, marketers, insurance reps, sales reps, etc. Tons of bureaucracy trying to get a slice of that grotesque money pie. The model you describe, a town su
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by zanny 8y ago
Australia does not have the economy to force such a perverse violation of privacy on foreign business. If they try it, Google et al will be much better served pulling a Spain and blocking access in Oz than by complying. The courts of most n
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by zanny 8y ago
And if your "Only One Messaging App" is a monoculture proprietary product with dubious profit goals than you can count me, and large swaths of tech minded people, out. The only way forward is either Matrix or something like it. An
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by zanny 8y ago
A ludicrous amount of engineering has gone into the Rust compiler, the extensive documentation in RFCs about its design, the huge language docs that took a million man hours to make, RLS is another huge undertaking... I do forsee Rust getti
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by zanny 8y ago
I get terrible headaches if I sleep less than 8 hours and I'm 27. Always wanted to have more time in my day but I get no time if I can't focus or function. I'd hope someone doing something as high risk and important as surger
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by zanny 8y ago
Its always bizarre that they don't have activities involving daylight first so that school could run into the dark and nobody would care because you are indoors anyway. Its basically that society used to require daylight to get anythin
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by zanny 8y ago
The trick is almost all creatives are already paid in the model most fitting the production of information - people that want the fruits of their labor pay them to make it. Very few software engineers, for example, are living off copyrighte
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by zanny 8y ago
Copyright is much like serfdom in my reflection - its a system I have tried to consider both sides of, and no matter how I think about it the ends never justify the means. In my experience its no different than the hyperbolic policy of hiri
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by zanny 8y ago
Its career suicide to sell off a property that ends up successful once independent of your business. Nobody thinks twice about burning something to the ground, though. Thats just a cost of doing business.
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by zanny 8y ago
Yahoo bought Tumblr for completely irrational reasons years ago and it became dead weight. Of course now they can't split it back off to live on its own - they'll just kill it instead.

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