caskstrength

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by caskstrength 2y ago
> For the other "business falling apart", maybe they consider it’s part of the business owner’s responsibility to make sound business decisions when involving someone else’s livelihood. Just like when leasing a shop or taking o
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by caskstrength 2y ago
> These are mechanics that will just create certain kinds of behaviors. Yes, but if platform API allows using customizable third-party clients it is not really a problem for me (e.g. I can just enable chronological timeline, filter out a
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by caskstrength 2y ago
> For everything else, including desktop and mobile operating systems realtime sounds like a good idea. Why on earth would you need real time on desktop? Every time the topic is discussed on internet bunch of confused people chime in wit
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by caskstrength 2y ago
> we don't want to help other countries at our short term cost (even if it is a long term gain for us) It is not even that since what they basically propose is to dial down the war in Eastern Europe but get more involved in the war
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by caskstrength 2y ago
> What crawls on four legs and causes women to drop out of the labour force? "Women earn less due to sexist discrimination" and "women earn less due to bearing the brunt of raising children" are two distinct claims. T
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by caskstrength 2y ago
> Being a manager is about more than just getting people to do their job well. You also need to plan things, you need to know what's changing over time, you need to test whether your processes are working. I use metrics to measure t
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by caskstrength 2y ago
Yes, and suppliers outsource the actual development and testing to cut costs even further.
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by caskstrength 2y ago
> Changing course is a CEO taking responsibility for the company. Changing course and immediately resigning would be that.
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by caskstrength 2y ago
> For now, most countries still have some semblance of control, usually backed by the power of international treaties, DNS blocking and control over payment infrastructure, but I wouldn't be surprised if the prevalence of fast and a
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by caskstrength 2y ago
> Alternatively: it's what users want. So why are they so opposed to adding some toggle in the options to allow chronological feed then?
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by caskstrength 2y ago
> Edit: the 49-euro ticket is great though! As a Swiss person you want appreciate German tax rates that subsidize that 49-euro tickets. The money has always got to come from somewhere.
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by caskstrength 2y ago
Yeah, just went over their pricing and they apparently don't have any lower tier subscription besides 20$/month "unlimited Phind + 500/day ChatGPT" version. I don't need that, what I need is something like 100
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by caskstrength 2y ago
This is true in my experience. Before searching for something I often try to guess whether it will take me more time to quickly go over Google results or watch Perplexity Pro slowly spitting the answer line-by-line.
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by caskstrength 2y ago
> Ukraine. We spent a week being confused because the Ukrainiens expected the electricity bill to be calculated based on the size of your house and how many animals you have. The concept of a domestic electricity meter was completely for
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by caskstrength 2y ago
> I heard that wges are less than 50% but you end up saving more Curios regarding how you came up with that conclusion. After paying rent, taxes and buying some groceries from EU senior engineer's ~80k you will generally have enough
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by caskstrength 2y ago
> I could still buy a car, a house, raise a family, have some savings, etc. You are an outlier. Very few SDEs in EU can afford to raise a family in their own SFH on a single salary while living in a location with any notable IT jobs mark
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by caskstrength 2y ago
A very boring kind.
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by caskstrength 2y ago
Why would it be "a Mac thing"? I only ever close FireFox when updating the system and I'm on Linux.
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by caskstrength 2y ago
If 1/3 of their employees quit over innocuous "no politics at work chats" policy, then it seems to me that the problem is in the hiring process and not communication.
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by caskstrength 2y ago
> Templeton recalls a turning point when being asked about her recent reads felt more like a competition than a shared interest, prompting her to reevaluate her relationship with reading. She argues for a reading culture that values pers
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by caskstrength 2y ago
> Besides (potentially) rehabilitation, prison serves to protect the populace from dangerous people who would harm others and as a deterrent to others who can see what punishment they might get if they do something illegal. It is not lik
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by caskstrength 2y ago
> What could anyone ever do to convince him to not commit fraud again if given the opportunity... IMO 10 years in prison should be more than enough to discourage SBF from repeating it. And if it is not enough, then 30 years won't be
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by caskstrength 2y ago
> Google is also a multi-national company and would need to comply with laws in other countries too. If the individuals are represented as being minors (again, changes with jurisdictions) this gets into further complications in many plac
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by caskstrength 2y ago
Prison should be to rehabilitate (i.e. ensure that convict doesn't re-offend after they are released) as opposed to just punish and ruin people lives for their mistakes for the sake of making random commenters on internet feel good. Al
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by caskstrength 2y ago
Bad faith? Erotic writing "may be illegal" in the US? o_O
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by caskstrength 2y ago
They usually have them in order to not spook the advertisers who don't want to see their ad near anything remotely objectionable. Don't see why they care about somebody sharing a document from their Drive.
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by caskstrength 2y ago
Care to explain what exactly "may be illegal" in this case?
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by caskstrength 2y ago
It is not just 15$ a month. You need to pay someone to develop the website in the first place and then deal with all kinds of issues that eventually arise (updating the underlying framework and/or getting hacked and dealing with the co
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by caskstrength 2y ago
> Although I don't support it, would the internet be a better place with people being identified? I don't believe so. > For this to be a constructive discussion, can we assume companies have a proper and secure way to valida
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by caskstrength 2y ago
You are being downvoted, but as an outside observer I have also always been interested in ethics of security research.

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