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by lr 4y ago
250,000 people (includes student employees) at the university of California can just go online and look up their co-worker’s salary, for the past 10 years! Yet, it doesn’t cause problems. In fact, salaries are public for all government work
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by lr 4y ago
And then you end up exactly where the company I work for ended up, and where a ton of other companies end up: The same people, doing the same work, with very similar experiences, getting paid drastically different salaries. It can get so ba
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by lr 4y ago
People can’t seem to get enough of science fiction, but every time something is presented that would move the needle in that direction, the detractors line up in droves. With attitudes like this, it really will be the 25th century before hu
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by lr 4y ago
As Cory Doctorow once said, “It is only a matter of time before a computer kills us.”
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by lr 4y ago
Given the number of upvotes this has, and I would guess, too, that people who upvote a story don't always comment, I would say there is pretty strong agreement with posting salaries. Like, everyone, just get over yourselves, and post s
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by lr 4y ago
Even though I have not "posted" to it in years, I still maintain my https://posthaven.com/ account.
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by lr 4y ago
Alternative headline: After 12 years, Twitter finally decides to do something with Posterous
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by lr 4y ago
Why not WFT: Work From (a) Tesla? Of course, it would have to be, "at the office," (read, parking lot) otherwise the worker would get fired.
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by lr 4y ago
How about in wet, hot environments (or even cold ones), like on a boat? Watermakers are very expensive and use a lot of electricity. If one could do this on a boat to generate clean drinking water, that would be pretty amazing. Especially i
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by lr 4y ago
I’ve started referring to my “phone” as a “palm pilot” because, well, it’s hardly a “phone.” Long live the PalmPilot!
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by lr 4y ago
This is why I still use LDAP. And I spend my days at work happy.
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by lr 4y ago
https://www.billionoysterproject.org/reefs
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by lr 4y ago
I think you just answered the question: All of the categories you note have both high-end and, sadly, mostly low-end options. What is surprising is that, in the world of computing, there is very little at the high end (Apple -- from going b
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by lr 5y ago
This is amazing, and superimposing it over other land masses really helps to illustrate the point. I think it would be incredibly helpful to compare it to interstellar events from comets, especially to the (supposed) impact of the comet fro
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by lr 5y ago
You highlight the biggest problem: humans simply must change/adjust/whatever you want to call it, if humanity is to survive. The only technological out is fusion power. Without that, humans must learn to do with less (of everythin
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by lr 5y ago
Robinhood currently has the Genentech description attached to Ginko Bioworks (DNA)!
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by lr 5y ago
1000% agree! I sail and Windy is great for an idea of what is going to happen, but no substitute for what is actually happening on the water, i.e., the fine-tuned weather that is necessary to sail a boat. If you want to know a hurricane is
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by lr 6y ago
Facebook, allegedly, has an "army" of moderators. Parler, on the other hand, relied on voluntary "flagging", and they admitted (quoted in some other article from today), that they had a backlog of some 26,000 posts to re
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by lr 6y ago
Honestly asking: Does this mean you prefer it to come up at 4:00 AM (as that would be the option if you are in a place where it is going down 9-10pm)?
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by lr 6y ago
The interesting thing is the person sponsoring the bill is from FL, where I don't think it matters to them which time to keep as much. For more Northern latitudes, both have issues for particular times of the year (like the sun coming
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by lr 6y ago
Being someone who has been in the tech field for well over 20 years, I always look upon any legislation that deals with tech, with suspect. Sadly, I venture that people in other fields feel the same way when legislation is geared toward the
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by lr 6y ago
This is the choice quote: "Thankfully Apple is not yet making cars, otherwise, to change Engine oil, we may have to dissasemble the headlamps, engine, transmission, differential, etc." Of course, an Apple car would be an EV and th
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by lr 6y ago
Thank you so much for bringing up WeWork. I get PG's point, but let's not delude ourselves into thinking that all billionaires are good because they simply must have made something that people actually want. Soooooo many people go
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by lr 6y ago
I do agree, but I was referring to all of the comments from people who are saying that CoCs are worse than the problem they are trying to solve. I don't agree with that. As for building things fairly and prudently, well, that, sadly, i
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by lr 6y ago
To all of the people who hate CoCs: Just don't patronize any forum, software repo, or conference that has them. Not so easy to do, right? Same thing with people who get harassed all the time: It's not so easy for them to complain
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by lr 6y ago
That was the committee at the time of writing. If anyone refers to this in, say, a year, they will have no idea who was responsible. As an analogy, transaction histories, if done in a DB, are not normalized because you wouldn't want th
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by lr 6y ago
I use Splunk (our organization pays lots of money for it, and yet it just sits there because people would rather use Excel). There is also Tableau and other products like it. Most of these tools have a free version, as well. They take some
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by lr 6y ago
This would assume people (many who have over a decade of experience using Excel) actually know how to do that. The largest problem with Excel is people.
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by lr 6y ago
People love to use Excel to look at (with their eyes, or a screen reader, i.e., non programmatically) all kinds of data. They use it to list exports from data stores, and then take notes on what they discovered, show and hide data using the
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by lr 6y ago
First off, I “hate” Excel, but only because people misuse it. It, like so many other products of its kind, are for numbers! Yet I would be hard-pressed to find someone actually using it for numbers. People absolutely insist on using it as a

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