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by bmhin 3y ago
That is my prediction as well. It's unfortunate as we'll enter the unindexed web where all that helpful content you can find by appending "reddit" onto any search will no longer be getting produced. All of it hidden in
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by bmhin 4y ago
I mean, taxes are a real thing and you have to pay them based on where you (the employee) live and do work. In the US for state income tax, it's a confusing mix of both lived location and worked location in various amounts by governme
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by bmhin 4y ago
Elixir was one of the few languages I saw in companies (albeit, infrequently) that wasn't like Java, C#, Python, or JS (Scala here and there). Was always curious about it as perhaps something that could be reasonably pitched as having
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by bmhin 4y ago
> Maybe it bothers me that using ask as a noun is passive voice, like the request is disembodied. I'm not asking, the ask just appeared there! I think the latter is the key to corpspeak as a whole and it has ramifications beyond jus
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by bmhin 4y ago
> After the 10th "SMS Service" is created, no one knows what any of them do Yeah, that's always been my concern. "Descriptive" is a very precarious strategy because it takes very little to go from maybe descript
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by bmhin 4y ago
It's hard to think about because I feel like when they work I don't think about them at all. And when they don't work I think about and stew about them excessively. So the good cases I forget about completely and the bad on
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by bmhin 4y ago
It likely depends on the broad culture behind it. If someone sends a "Hey" and then is a fast enough typer and immediately can get the context going as I look, that's not a huge deal. Sometimes it's an opening to a mor
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by bmhin 4y ago
Even more relevant to the question: it introduces complexity that harms citizen's basic needs by putting in place knowledge inequities. You can make the tax code as complicated as you want, and the hyper wealthy will still be able to
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by bmhin 4y ago
Choice is the real thing though more than actual value add. I feel like I see it less now, but recall seeing how vendors would only accept certain cards and not others (frequently, not American Express) which was as far as I know stemming
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by bmhin 5y ago
Survivor in 2000, American Idol in 2002, The Bachelor in 2002, The Amazing Race in 2001. That always felt to me like when they found their "reality game show" formula that was then replicated off of those base archetypes into the
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by bmhin 5y ago
> First, a lot of this is in the abstract and the difficult part is how it gets applied in any given situation. A lot of these "genre" of books tend to fall into this camp for me. They feel like trying to hold onto sand: sure
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by bmhin 5y ago
I've used Slack competitor Flowdock in the past which did the more "elevated" approach to threads. Rather than "hide" them from the main branch of a channel, the main branch had every message in the top level and y
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by bmhin 5y ago
White boarding. We had them everywhere and used them often. The big ones in conference rooms were good and pretty standard, but the tiny ones placed near the actual desks for just quick and slipshod thinking out loud type stuff is what I
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by bmhin 5y ago
I heard this in a podcast recently about people's perceptions of the pandemic driven work from home situation. Some folks we're saying they missed the "commute". The hosts argued that they probably didn't miss cra
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by bmhin 5y ago
The inflation argument is one I don't know enough to be able to square myself. Don't fully understand how whatever the UBI is eventually reduces to being below the bare minimum of basic. But, putting that part aside, the idea is
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by bmhin 5y ago
Yeah, we need our TicketFixer to also include the No_Bob 0.2 plugin that figures out that a decent percentage of the time whatever "Bob" is asking for in that meeting is not what "Bob" thinks he is asking for or should b
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by bmhin 5y ago
Yeah, it's important but not some grand law one should obey. I think every technical person has a time in their early life where they come across something that was genuinely wrong or illogical or just bad (in some cut and dry way).
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by bmhin 5y ago
If your "default" reading of any sociopolitical proposal is to assume it is an absolutist desire and not one more nuanced or practical under the hood, you have a wrong default. "Defund the police" meaning "zero fund
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by bmhin 5y ago
I use one and have had a couple over the years. Decently cheap and I functionally just want a laptop form factor and UX for a tablet use case: web browsing, some light app usage (often for casting / streaming), and also being able to
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by bmhin 5y ago
I don't have GamePass but do find it intriguing. The value prop is completely on the other end. It's not wondering if you can play (or replay) some older game that you want in particular. It's when a new game comes out or
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by bmhin 5y ago
I don't know what the 5th highest reviewed title of all time that was made available on a popular platform selling well tells me about the state of AAA as a whole to be honest. One data point, for a game considered a masterpiece of th
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by bmhin 5y ago
There's another side of the coin. For people who's identity was "I am X job" then maybe the comp is a reason to go get better pay and not be so intrinsically tied to it. The other side is people realizing that in many
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by bmhin 5y ago
I feel like many or most places already have the "be cool late Friday" mindset. Emergencies or critical things can still happen, but if possible maybe don't schedule a long meeting end of day Friday. Don't ask for some
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by bmhin 5y ago
The loan burden is on many people who do not complete their degrees. If a college's options are: enroll people in very low margin degrees, with likely comparable costs, or enroll people in the high margin (& high earning) degrees
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by bmhin 5y ago
There has been some concern about their inflating spending for a while. I'm honestly not well versed in if this is some potential disaster or problem like it can be made out to be, but it does seem like Wikimedia will generally find w
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by bmhin 5y ago
To put it a different way: for the 2 year old last week was about 1% of their entire existence. For that 50 year old it was just 0.03%.
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by bmhin 5y ago
> Especially if they show only from time to time and take over the meeting. I do not understand the mindset that goes into thinking that somehow a person is 1. Not required for a meeting and so can only attend on occasion and 2. If prese
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by bmhin 5y ago
Yeah shame is a real weird thing to feel. I've been in plenty of positions where the ask is honestly "a body [who can code]". I fulfill that requirement so it's not a shock they'd want that and be interested and d
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by bmhin 5y ago
> the market has repeatedly shown there isn't much demand for persistent virtual worlds I don't know if you have a more narrow view of this idea or specifically mean VR/AR, but that just sounds like what massively multipla
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by bmhin 5y ago
> propagation of “conspiracy theories” is a symptom of people’s decreasing control over their reality and an inability to understand it. I've always thought "conspiracies" were pretty simply this. Some folks have a deep a

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