blasphemers

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by blasphemers 12d ago
It's not like pension funds are forced to invest in VC funds. It's the unions decision too, so ultimately if they are bad investments, it's average joe union workers fault they voted for shitty leadership.
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by blasphemers 3mo ago
Wasn't Bernie saying the government should confiscate half of OpenAI and Anthropic. This seems like sama is just trying to get ahead of it.
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by blasphemers 5mo ago
Yea, I've seen this a few times now on here where people are acting like ICE is going to arrest them for being here legally for a conference.
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by blasphemers 8mo ago
Visa/MasterCard take like 0.3% the rest of the interchange fee goes to the issuing and acquiring banks.
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by blasphemers 10mo ago
Ruby is strongly typed
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by blasphemers 10mo ago
I feel like there used to be a time when wired magazine was worth reading, but I can't even remember when that was at this point.
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by blasphemers 10mo ago
GitHub hasn't been moved onto azure yet, they just announced it's their goal to move over in 2026
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by blasphemers 10mo ago
Is the cost of a dining room socialized if a restaurant does take out? It's a business cost that was from it's inception sold as a way to increase potential customer base and reduce risk, which is still a valid and correct way of
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by blasphemers 10mo ago
What payment provider is allowing payments without accessing the customers current funds? With a CC, you can charge $1000 with only $100 in your bank account. That is not something you can do with ACH, check, cash, etc. Pay Now Pay Later p
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by blasphemers 10mo ago
Visa's fee in the US is also only 0.3%. Most of the interchange fee goes to the issuing bank and is used for cardholder rewards/benefits.
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by blasphemers 10mo ago
Except the networks are not forcing their morals onto anyone, they are not payment processors.
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by blasphemers 10mo ago
Visa/MasterCard are essentially a network of banks, they only get a small percentage of the interchange rate. Most of it goes to the issuing bank which they use for rewards. This line of thinking also ignores an important aspect of cre
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by blasphemers 10mo ago
Besides a complete stranglehold on labor markets in a number of industries where the government is required to use union labor for infrastructure projects and they limit the number of laborers to drive up price. Or how about the Plumbers un
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by blasphemers 10mo ago
Russia defeated the Nazis, so everything they do and have done from that point is good right?
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by blasphemers 10mo ago
The thing holding back unions in the U.S is the unions themselves and the laws around them. Once a union forms, they have entirely too much power.
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by blasphemers 11mo ago
That's not the case at all. His blog is his personal blog, not 37Signals, and he has never said employees were not allowed to share political opinions outside of work.
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by blasphemers 11mo ago
Isn't rubygems distributed as part of Ruby
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by blasphemers 11mo ago
He was brought back for the last RailsConf since DHH started RailsWorld after he was removed as a speaker for previous conferences.
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by blasphemers 11mo ago
The us government is heavily involved in healthcare, so that's a terrible example.
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by blasphemers 11mo ago
The IRS was literally caught targeting conservatives less than a decade ago.
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by blasphemers 1y ago
Part of Satya reorg in 2018 moved windows into a weird leadership structure where it was part of bing iirc. I think they recently finally fixed that org mistake and hopefully they quickly push an improved windows 12.
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by blasphemers 1y ago
This makes no sense. He never said employees couldn't discuss politics outside of work through personal channels.
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by blasphemers 1y ago
She has some PRs merged in, but nothing that shows me she should have elevated rights in the repo. https://github.com/rubygems/rubygems/pulls?q=is%3Apr+author%...
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by blasphemers 1y ago
People are hit by trains all the time.
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by blasphemers 1y ago
Microsoft has the most used operating system in the world with a default browser that defaults search to Bing. How is that working out? Being a default doesn't matter when the other options are better and easy to switch to.
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by blasphemers 1y ago
The judge ruled against Google for ideological reasons and then realized what the consequences of his decision were after the fact. Google's monopoly is in the ads space where they control the buy side, sell side, and exchange. The ide
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by blasphemers 1y ago
Chicago unions forced the installation of lead pipes for so long because of the higher labor cost of installation that the federal government had to step in and force them to stop installing lead pipes.
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by blasphemers 1y ago
Payment Gateways don't actually process payments, they are built on top of payment processors and can only process payments if the underlying processor is willing to. You need to find a processor that supports your risk profile and the
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by blasphemers 1y ago
Maybe read the article before commenting on it, it's not that long. "Big chunks of RDNA 5, or whatever AMD ends up calling it, are coming out of engineering I am doing on the project"
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by blasphemers 1y ago
They tried doing this before but ran into anti-trust issues over it.

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