iterminate

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by iterminate 3y ago
A bunch of people will come out of the woodwork drawn to the idea of being able to immediately walk into managing a popular project, but it'll end poorly. If your project has outgrown you, or you've outgrown your project, then you
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by iterminate 3y ago
> The irony? High end home sales require much less work/effort than low end. Far fewer showings. No open houses, ever. That's true of most work. Software engineering is much less work/effort than a minimum wage job. The hi
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by iterminate 3y ago
Mass murder is not the natural conclusion of minor (or even major) untreated mental health issues.
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by iterminate 3y ago
edit: not the place to discuss this.
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by iterminate 3y ago
> Then, the next day, I can listen to the call, pause, increase speed 2x,3x, take notes for myself, write minutes, write summaries for internal use (casual slack message), notice inconsistencies in our thinking, or run an AI note taker a
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by iterminate 3y ago
> How do ownership costs get driven up by profit-making? The cost of owning a home for the average person is primarily reflected in the amount they pay for their mortgage. The cost of a mortgage is based on the value of the property as m
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by iterminate 3y ago
A mortgage. The cost of ownership only exceeds the cost of renting because ownership costs have been driven up by profit making: historically (and still today in some countries) it was cheaper to buy a home than it was to rent. If landlords
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by iterminate 3y ago
Most insurance is invalidated by operating outside of the very narrow boundaries. For example, car insurance is often invalidated by driving for uber. If you're generating revenue from your property (home, car) then you need specialist
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by iterminate 3y ago
If the world wasn't full of landlords, people wouldn't need to use your stuff.
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by iterminate 3y ago
>1,000 employees means a burn rate in the hundreds of millions per year just on the costs of having employees, $260m burned in a year sounds about right for a company of that size.
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by iterminate 3y ago
I'm generally sympathetic to the difficulties of building a sustainable business around open-source project stewardship but I'm not sure I agree with your conclusion that they were justified in this decision. The decision they&#x2
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by iterminate 3y ago
Gell-Bott Amensia.
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by iterminate 3y ago
> A confident GPT hallucination is almost indistinguishable from typical management consulting material... If you're measuring based on output, sure, but... the value of any knowledge worker is primarily driven by the input, that is
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by iterminate 3y ago
Devices are just an interface for a lot of people, they might use dozens of devices during the period we (nerds) own a single computer. From borrowing their friends tablet, to changing their phone, to using a computer at a library or their
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by iterminate 3y ago
There's a temptation to get caught up on quantifiable scores when working on SEO because so much of it can't be quantified, everyone is mostly guessing what Google wants... however, scores are ultimately meaningless and you should
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by iterminate 3y ago
I disagree with the premise of your comment but on a factual note: Russell Brand has been litigious on this very issue, he has threatened to take legal action and taken legal action against people who have spoken up about him. He has been w
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by iterminate 3y ago
Sorry, poor phrasing on my part. I typically make 1 monthly transfer which costs me about £100 with Wise and would cost me £3 with Atlantic Money.
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by iterminate 3y ago
My company pays Wise around £100/month in transfer fees so reducing that to £3/month piques my interest but the headache I would experience if anything went wrong would cost me a lot more than £97. My worst nightmare when using a
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by iterminate 3y ago
Any metric. Pick a country with a well regarded prison system (e.g: Norway) and then compare the U.S. system on every metric to see the disparity. Injury, sickness, malnourishment, violence, education, recidivism, drugs, forced labor, menta
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by iterminate 3y ago
"Even" the US isn't much of a moral barometer for prisoner treatment. The US uses prison labor because the US is one of the worst countries for prisoner (mis)treatment, certainly the worst in the west. > There's a big
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by iterminate 3y ago
I wrote a long a comment theorising why $100/year is a great starting point and then discovered you can toggle between "yearly" and "monthly". So they do offer $10/month -- it's just hidden behind a toggle
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by iterminate 3y ago
I very much disagree with the premise that most of the time difficult engineers have the organization's best interests at heart. Most people (across any discipline) have very little regard for the "interests" of the organiz