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by abxyz 1y ago
The trope is that an unpopular decision is made within the organization and then consultants are brought in to execute that unpopular decision and absorb the fallout as if it were the consultants decision. The reality is that people within
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by abxyz 1y ago
The trope you’ll often hear in circles like ours is that big 4 consultants exist to provide cover for unpopular decisions. That’s sometimes true. However… Big corporations and governments aren’t startups in which everyone is encouraged to d
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by abxyz 1y ago
There are various tools to mass unsubscribe. Gmail also recently added the option to surface your subscriptions and unsubscribe. Gmail added the various email categories too. You can get back to the world you dream of. Every email I receive
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by abxyz 1y ago
https://www.beeper.com/
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by abxyz 1y ago
The problem with using clinical phrases to describe normal behavior is demonstrated in this post. "Social anxiety" has a specific clinical meaning that is not covered by this post. The post is actually discussing a very natural an
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by abxyz 1y ago
The point I am making in this thread is that there are no mandatory costs, that receiving an angry letter from the lawyers of a deep-pocketed litigant is financially inconsequential. The choice to hire legal representation and pay them &quo
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by abxyz 1y ago
https://www.justice.gov.uk/courts/procedure-rules/civil/prot... The "Defendant’s Response to Letter of Claim" section is very clear that it is actually that simple. The burden is almost entirely on
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by abxyz 1y ago
I think the disconnect between you and GitHub support is that you're positioning this as a problem of proving your identity whereas for GitHub support it is a policy. The GitHub policy is: you lose your 2FA, you lose your account. Veri
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by abxyz 1y ago
> I can't, however, provide any 2FA codes or backup codes because they are printed on paper that has, I assume, been destroyed. The situation you are in is very unfortunate and I am sympathetic but in GitHub's defence, this is
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by abxyz 1y ago
Sure, send me the evidence and I’ll publish it.
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by abxyz 1y ago
You're proving my point. You are catastrophising. A response to a "spurious defamation letter" does not cost "high four figures". Substantive does not refer to the cost of the response. Substantive means that it add
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by abxyz 1y ago
> ...and still cost high four figures to defend You do not need to "defend" against a "spurious defamation letter". The (very profitable) business of sending legal letters is based on the misunderstanding of the law t
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by abxyz 1y ago
You are (wilfully?) misrepresenting these cases. The defence in each of these cases chose to employ very expensive legal teams, the cost in these cases is a reflection of choices made by the defendant, not the cost of defending against a cl
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by abxyz 1y ago
> UK libel law routinely covers up all sorts of things which the public would benefit from having revealed, simply by the threat of an expensive lawsuit. It makes investigative journalism really uneconomic. No. The deference people have
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by abxyz 1y ago
You’ve been repeatedly asked to provide your website but you have not. There is almost certainly a problem with your website, whether it’s a banned domain or robots.txt misconfiguration or something more obscure. You need to either share yo
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by abxyz 1y ago
Blur the people who didn’t give consent. The problem is cultural, not technical. Even YouTube has the native ability to blur out faces at the click of a button.
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by abxyz 1y ago
well, that was horrifying. I’m getting a “Do Not Transplant Pig Organs” tattoo urgently.
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by abxyz 1y ago
Except this is a hot button issue. Everyone has an opinion on brands ruining their iconic logos. Nobody cares about cracker barrel specifically, they care about what the change represents. Real people love dumb low stakes drama, that has be
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by abxyz 1y ago
https://paulgraham.com/before.html "Given this dichotomy, which of the two paths should you take? Be a real student and not start a startup, or start a real startup and not be a student? I can answer that one for you.
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by abxyz 1y ago
it’s like saying you earn six figures, everyone knows that means $110,000.
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by abxyz 1y ago
At my secondary school it wasn't possible to do more than 6 GCSEs vs. many of the most academically gifted independent school attendees who obtained at least double that number of GCSEs. At A level my secondary school couldn't acc
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by abxyz 1y ago
It is a very fair read of Paul's take. I attended one of the worst secondary schools in the country. Less than 10% of my year earned the qualifications necessary to go on to university. I know that many of these people, who have gone o
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by abxyz 1y ago
pg thinks this is because of letting in poor people: https://xcancel.com/paulg/status/1969334665375813679
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by abxyz 1y ago
Canada and Australia are famously invested in how the left wing of the U.K’s Labour Party feel, and how British Muslim voters feel.
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by abxyz 1y ago
For many non-technical people, their relationships with software engineers were producing horrific results. Vibe coding is an indictment of what we’ve been delivering. That a vibe-coded disaster is in any way desirable reflects poorly on us
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by abxyz 1y ago
Thank you for the insight. I think that your blindspot is that you are defining your pricing based on conversations with the subset of customers that are willing to enter into a sales process. Engineers being sales-averse has become a meme
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by abxyz 1y ago
isn’t this self-inflicted in that you’re making the purchase process a sales process for everyone, instead of being self-serve for the little guys? e.g: for teams under 10 people, let them sign up monthly with a per-team member fee. $50&#x2
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by abxyz 1y ago
Exactly. They’re spending millions of dollars on (attempted) viral stunts but fail to mention it in this post. The only information in this post is the self evident claim that only things that people want to see and share can go viral. The
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by abxyz 1y ago
And this post shows exactly why cluely is such a damp squib destined to fail. Zero substance just grandiose claims that hold no water. They’re spending tens of millions of dollars of investor money “going viral” instead of spending investor
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by abxyz 1y ago
My 3TB, 41 billion row table costs pennies to query day to day. The billing is based on the data processed by the query, not the table size. I pay more for storage.

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