iamaelephant

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by iamaelephant 6y ago
Because this is an article about The Times.
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by iamaelephant 7y ago
> with the obvious implication that you're calling the person stupid because they're American and hold some view you view as stereotypically American Actually I'm accusing them of having their brains poisoned by American f
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by iamaelephant 7y ago
Absolutely, without question, yes.
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by iamaelephant 7y ago
How about in practical terms?
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by iamaelephant 7y ago
This assumes that every bitcoin ever mined stays in circulation. We know this isn't true. We know that millions of dollars of bitcoin have gone missing, never to be recovered. And if Bitcoin is the real deal (it probably isn't) th
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by iamaelephant 7y ago
Bitcoin is fundamentally not a cash alternative. Which means definitionally the alternative to holding onto $100 BTC is NOT holding onto $100 cash. In fact cash is intentionally inflationary and BTC is intentionally deflationary (over long
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by iamaelephant 7y ago
I don't care about the time, but I'm utterly horrified at the waste of resources.
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by iamaelephant 7y ago
Can't we all just agree that Maybe/Optional types are actually a great idea that generalizes all of this at minimal cost?
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by iamaelephant 7y ago
Yup I'm utterly fed up with AirBnb and won't consider using them again.
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by iamaelephant 7y ago
People still talk about Bitcoin as though it's a real market and not completely manipulated by a handful of key players? Ok then.
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by iamaelephant 7y ago
> Rinderkennzeichnungs- und Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz About this soundlisten (help·info) (RkReÜAÜG) So you can.
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by iamaelephant 7y ago
Maybe if you have a very big apple. 1 nM is the force of 1 Newton (1kg on Earth) at 1 meter.
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by iamaelephant 7y ago
It's not
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by iamaelephant 7y ago
Literally you're describing the reason minimum wages exist.
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by iamaelephant 7y ago
> Between Office and cloud and HR/payroll and a few other tools I can imagine $1,000/year. Really? You can imagine only #83/mo in software costs for a working professional? I think you're being really rather unimagina
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by iamaelephant 7y ago
> With Uber want to work? Press a button. Want to take a break? Press a button. Want to work again? Press a button. Take as long a break as you want. Work as long as you want. No timecards. No obnoxious coworkers. No intrusive questions.
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by iamaelephant 7y ago
How many non-server machines do you find yourself regularly needing a shell on where downloading it isn't an option? Why does it need to be pre-installed?
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by iamaelephant 7y ago
> Does that mean that a taxi driver is an employee? Of course not. Why not?
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by iamaelephant 7y ago
There's no reason to bake tools like this into an OS or tie them to OS versions. Download the tools you need. If you need to "bake" them anywhere, bake them into your containers.
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by iamaelephant 7y ago
Are you implying that Reddit is concatenating SQL queries instead of parameterizing properly? Because based on the reliability of the website I'm not surprised by this, but it's still hilarious.
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by iamaelephant 7y ago
> Mawakana just hired a new head of fleet operations, Ryan McNamara, who previously worked on product quality for the Google Pixel phone As the previous owner of 2 Pixel phones, this man is the last person on Earth I want in charge of op
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by iamaelephant 7y ago
It doesn't look like it gives me anything I don't get from the vue cli tools.
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by iamaelephant 7y ago
Because of the search results.
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by iamaelephant 7y ago
There is absolutely no way to prepare such an exam without (justified) accusations of bias.
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by iamaelephant 7y ago
This is more or less the model that Basecamp uses with their rewrites. New product with new features and a strong encouragement to come along, but guaranteed support if you can't.
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by iamaelephant 7y ago
Literally my life right now.
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by iamaelephant 7y ago
It's. Not. Inevitable. I'm sorry that that has been your experience, but it doesn't have to be this way.
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by iamaelephant 7y ago
> the answer should be more nuanced. Not it shouldn't. We know that these companies are morally corrupt. When you sell your time to help grow these companies you are also morally corrupt. Simples.
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by iamaelephant 7y ago
Yes, absolutely.
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by iamaelephant 7y ago
Or you could not do that. Did he not just show that his way works just fine?

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