dogpuncher

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by dogpuncher 5mo ago
But "they" aren't. So your point is irrelevant.
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by dogpuncher 1y ago
I don't understand your example. > 2) BAD website says “We’ve sent you an email, please enter the 6-digit code! The email will come from GOOD, as they are our sign-in partner.” Does that mean that GOOD must be a 3rd party identity p
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by dogpuncher 1y ago
I've sat through numerous Air New Zealand safety videos over the years and whilst every now and then they hit the spot most of the time they're lame and overly long. It also seems like a waste of money that presumably finds it way
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by dogpuncher 3y ago
The plummet as reported compares the final months of sales that benefited from the clean car discount against 1 month of sales after the discount was scrapped. Hardly surprising there's a large difference - savvy buyers swooped in and
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by dogpuncher 3y ago
PriceOps? Really? The idea that pricing and billing are separate concerns seems entirely obvious to me.
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by dogpuncher 5y ago
There’s no authoritarianism going in here. The New Zealand government did what you should expect of a government: they governed. They made a tough decision and explained their reasons why. Public support for the lock down is high as are com
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by dogpuncher 5y ago
It's not a literal description of what happened. Read the article you linked to, not just the headline. It explains the additional factors that informed the decision. The "1 positive case" narrative is nonsense.
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by dogpuncher 5y ago
> New Zealand just shut down everything over a single case It's maddening to see someone peddling this narrative in a discussion on HN.
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by dogpuncher 7y ago
This squares nicely with my understanding of what "reserves" are when talking about extractive resources. Namely, the known quantity of a resource that can be extracted in an economical viable manner using current technologies. So
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by dogpuncher 8y ago
> The idea is you get a request, you validate it, maybe you do some computation on it, then you drop it on a queue and forget about it. > The next stage of request handling is implemented by services that read the queue a
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by dogpuncher 8y ago
There's a fair whack of poetic license in the headline, but isn't there always? The idea that you can get a meaningful take on a story just from the title seems a bit lazy to me. I reckon, having read the article, that the headlin
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by dogpuncher 8y ago
Aquemini and Stankonia are both all-time classics.
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by dogpuncher 8y ago
> I actually believe that there's a culture war implied in this debate; the question of who deserves to reap the gains of automation is more than just philosophy or ethics. The question "is there inherent nobility in work itsel
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by dogpuncher 8y ago
> Companies are easier to not do business with. Governments only get voted out if enough people agreed to vote with you. Monopolies are hard to avoid doing business, and some form of proportional representation reduces the number of peop