ehmish

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by ehmish 3y ago
Sure, but it _does_ matter _what_ credentials were leaked, and these creds didn't secure anything particularly critical in the grand scheme of things. Sure it might suck a bit for Atlassian employees who wanted to keep the fact they wo
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by ehmish 4y ago
I've got a friend who went into the trades instead of going to university, he (correctly) recognised that what he was passionate about wouldn't even pay for the degree (composing music) so he figured he'd do it on the side an
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by ehmish 5y ago
Hmm, I am not a botanist, but since watermelons have seeds, and botanically speaking seeds are in the fruit, aren't watermelon fruit botanically speaking?
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by ehmish 5y ago
I think it's pretty normal in most developed countries to have operations happening 24/7, in some there's rules requring extra pay for saturdays and sundays, and a lot have weekly per-worker limits on the number of hours work
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by ehmish 5y ago
Yeah probably should have double-checked that, thanks. You prompted me to double-check my other claim (that land under cultivation didn't increase) and that was wrong too! According to this it's gone up by about 5x https:/&#
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by ehmish 5y ago
I'm thinking if population growth continues to shrink and go negative and automation continues to increase, production will stay constant or even increase, even while population decreases. Which would mean that each individual would ge
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by ehmish 5y ago
I think the thing that this article misses is that per capita growth (the thing that's important for people's experienced life satisfaction) can essentially grow a lot further with fewer atoms under cultivation if you increase den
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by ehmish 5y ago
The thing I don't get about this explanation is that typically (as far as I know) hass avocados are grown in hass avocado plantations. Meaning that while they're technically a mixture of both of the parent plants, chances are a ha
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by ehmish 6y ago
I've found switching jobs to a company that does a lot of pairing helps a tonne, the other person acts as an accountability partner which helps keep you focused.
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by ehmish 6y ago
Out of curiosity did smart contracts gain new capabilities in the summer of 2020?
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by ehmish 6y ago
I've quite liked that the devices are often rootable/usable without an internet connection in contrast to most other internet of shit. It's probably accidental, or at least an outcome of having to cut development costs to und
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by ehmish 6y ago
This image of this guy you're painting doesn't sound anything like Scott Alexander, if anything Scott Alexander is the opposite of "certain he's right"
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by ehmish 6y ago
Yeah but because of regression to the mean everyone has fhe same caliber of engineers
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by ehmish 6y ago
I wonder why the eu didn't suspend the free movement over covid Australia's states did that and it worked out pretty well.
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by ehmish 6y ago
Doesn't worry me too much, presumably conservative religious folk like being conservative and religious so they'll be in their own self made heaven and i'll probably be long gone.
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by ehmish 6y ago
It leads to carnage, sure, but also leads to the United States being a very interesting and dynamic country. If i could live there i would.
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by ehmish 6y ago
Ignoring their conclusion aboutwhat they think it was, it's interesting that _something_ happened in 1971, personally I think it's more likely the opening of trade with china than going off the gold standard. It does a good job o
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by ehmish 6y ago
Yeah but pol swings between being full if edgy leftists and edgy rightists
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by ehmish 6y ago
I agree with your comment, but that article you linked to it seems to have a couple of odd conclusions. It seems to be calling "keeping them emotionally involved" (using alignment of incentives) to be part of the definition of a s
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by ehmish 6y ago
I found it insightful, he wrote it in what appeared to be a refreshingly honest/egoless way he doesn't try to act like he understands everything. I (think) I do understand primaries and such, and while they're better than he
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by ehmish 6y ago
Not sure if it's because I might be a bit younger than you, or because I went to school in NZ, but i think it's come full circle, certainly where I went to highschool, the high achievers (people who got university scholarships an
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by ehmish 6y ago
When I first heard about this process, it threw me into a bit of a depression: Why try to obtain nice things, if the pleasure/enjoyment from nice things are down-regulated to until they become insignificant? However I since learned th
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by ehmish 6y ago
Good data visualisation of co2 emissions over the last 200 years: https://ourworldindata.org/co2/country/united-kingdom?countr...
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by ehmish 6y ago
Yeah I mean the alternative is taxing the 5-day-a-week workers and transferring the money to unemployed people, who while out of work have their skills languish. 4 day a week work-weeks seem like quite a cost-effective crisis response for w
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by ehmish 6y ago
I was there from 2015 to 2019 and I don't recall postit note boards being used much. We (tried) to use them for retros, but the postits wouldn't stay stuck to the glass walls in the meeting rooms. The only thing that stands out is
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by ehmish 6y ago
I recall these services used to be pretty crap, bitcoin added a bit of much needed competition
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by ehmish 6y ago
FYI for those interested this is the announcement of the policy on the site of the organisation that wrote the policy https://www.accc.gov.au/focus-areas/digital-platforms/news-m...
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by ehmish 6y ago
I'd disagree with that, management and HR, sure, but friendship with co-workers is important. Personal relationships are the main way people find jobs, and unlike with management and HR with co-workers at least nominally you're on
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by ehmish 6y ago
I think it's been expanded to 2 children
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by ehmish 6y ago
Disclaimer: I'm someone in favour of all the things I mentioned being legal, but I imagine if you asked the average person on the street I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of them disagreed with me.

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