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by bdw5204 10mo ago
Another major use case for it is enabling students to more easily cheat on their homework. Which is why it is probably going to end up putting Chegg out of business.
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by bdw5204 1y ago
The President can, in fact, recess appoint a Supreme Court justice per Article II, Section 2, Clause 3[0]. Since the George W. Bush administration, Congress has used pro forma sessions[1] to prevent recess appointments. Both the House and S
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by bdw5204 1y ago
It's also worth noting that reliable daily temperature records only go back to the late 1800s. The way you know this is that there are no record highs or lows in 1788 or even 1828. Most likely, at least some of the real records were se
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by bdw5204 1y ago
This is just another reason why dependencies are an anti-pattern. If you do nothing, your software shouldn't change. I suspect that this style of development became popular in the first place because the LGPL has different copyright im
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by bdw5204 1y ago
All the use of real names on social media accomplishes is a chilling effect on speech. Especially if your opinions differ from those of your employer or customers. Or if people who disagree with you are engaging in harassment campaigns or d
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by bdw5204 2y ago
It's perfectly readable on Brave for Android. The text even wraps to the screen size so you don't have to scroll. Which phone browser renders it in an unreadable manner?
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by bdw5204 2y ago
The best thing for Brave to do would just be to build it into their own ad blocker because Google is going to intentionally make it more and more impractical to support older extensions that interfere with their business model.
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by bdw5204 2y ago
I don't think there was ever a time when you could succeed in the marketplace on the merits of your tech. Once the tech reaches the relatively low bar of "good enough", the rest is sales and marketing. In the most lucrative e
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by bdw5204 2y ago
One reasonable compromise would be for video makers to provide a transcript or written article to complement their video. Video is a terrible format especially when you're actually using the video and not just using it as a mechanism t
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by bdw5204 2y ago
I imagine most exit nodes are likely controlled by the US government and/or its close allies. Who else wants to have their IP address banned from most of the internet and potentially get visits from their country's equivalent of t
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by bdw5204 2y ago
I think there's a case for short term copyrights (28 year terms or less) but I don't think patents are necessary for innovation. You generally can't stop people from copying your food products but we still have a ton of new f
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by bdw5204 2y ago
I'm actually in favor of some government intervention to fix the mess it created or where that is politically more plausible than a free market solution. Antitrust action to break up large companies would be great as would banning non-
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by bdw5204 2y ago
Whenever there's something that looks like a market failure, there's almost always a governmental grant of monopoly privilege or some government regulation to prevent competition. Why are prescription drugs unaffordable? Because o
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by bdw5204 2y ago
The specific problem with COBOL is that COBOL is both a language that was badly designed on the day it was created and that there is a stigma against programmers who have worked with it. This stigma is also a problem for other languages suc
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by bdw5204 2y ago
If you aren't already wealthy, you're probably working because "you just want a check". Even if the job you want is to own your own company, you still have to work until you have enough savings. This is how the world has
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by bdw5204 2y ago
For somebody who's unemployed, especially somebody who's been unemployed a while (very common in this market), the main thing you care about is getting employed again. I imagine somebody who's currently employed wants to know
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by bdw5204 2y ago
> In every round, the interviewer should leave with the impression that you answered their questions as honestly as possible because you’re looking for the right fit, not just a job. This is precisely what I despise about "job inter
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by bdw5204 2y ago
It is but "AI" is considered such an "important" technology at the moment that no judge is going to want to be the one that "destroys innovation" by enforcing copyright law. If the perception of the technology
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by bdw5204 2y ago
I think this would be extremely useful in increasing Linux desktop adoption. There's an enormous number of Windows users who hate Microsoft's changes to the Windows GUI and wish they could still run XP or 7. There's also a ne
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by bdw5204 2y ago
There's a long history of "Baptists and bootleggers"[0] pushing for regulations that serve both of their interests. The term comes from the 2 main groups that advocated for laws against the sale of alcohol in the southern US.
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by bdw5204 2y ago
Uber drivers, by any reasonable standard, are contractors not employees. Uber does not, to the best of my knowledge, tell them when or where to drive nor does it force them to pick up passengers. That's the distinction between contract
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by bdw5204 2y ago
Many users will see "contact us for pricing" and assume that means you can't afford it. That's fine if your customers are enterprises but definitely not for consumer products that middle class people might actually buy.
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by bdw5204 2y ago
I suspect most Tor exit nodes are controlled by the US government and/or its allied governments. It doesn't make much sense for anybody else to run an exit node because your IP gets banned by much of the internet and you get unwan
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by bdw5204 2y ago
I personally would not call that a reasonable policy proposal but it is (unfortunately) constitutional due to an oversight by the US Framers in 1787. The appropriate way to stop it from passing would be to vote against politicians who advoc
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by bdw5204 2y ago
Venezuela's Supreme Court was packed by Hugo Chavez 20 years ago[0]. He expanded the Court from 20 to 32 judges. When he did this, he also filled 5 existing vacancies with new judges. In other words, their Supreme Court is controlled b
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by bdw5204 2y ago
One reason why authors should self-publish is to prevent their books from being bowdlerized by the publisher in the future. You can't predict what will cause future "morality enforcers" to faint. Self publishing also means yo
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by bdw5204 2y ago
Your mile may vary but I wouldn't advise looking for new jobs at the moment[0]. The current job market is a dumpster fire so recruiters and hiring managers are on their absolute worst behavior right now. If the money's good and es
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by bdw5204 2y ago
Giving up freedom for "security" is the surest way to end up with neither of them. This situation where the government of Brazil has outlawed VPNs and Apple is collaborating with it to deprive the people of Brazil of their access
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by bdw5204 2y ago
If I'm writing something, I'm writing it once. That "prewriting" stuff they teach in schools just slows down the process and makes you overthink your choice of words. I take the same "1 take" approach with code
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by bdw5204 2y ago
> The second reason is the candidate experience. Some candidates feel humiliated if their interview is cut short and will harbor bad impression of the company for a long time. The company doesn't want that. What leaves a bad impress

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