mooxie

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by mooxie 5mo ago
I think the dynamic pricing algo is on to us - I see $13.99 at Amazon and clicked on a Google Play Books link for $1.99 that then became $13.99 magically, same for Apple Books.
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by mooxie 8mo ago
Agreed. While I really value HN's commitment to not becoming Reddit, the intersection of politics and tech (and their effects on our lives) is indisputable. If we can't talk about the government's use of technology as a tool
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by mooxie 1y ago
An enormous part of safe driving is maintaining a mental map of the vehicles around you and what your options are if you need to make sudden changes. If you are not able to react to changing conditions without being unsafe, you are driving
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by mooxie 1y ago
That's laughable. Any human who couldn't avoid a large, clearly-visible object in the middle of an empty, well-lit road should not be operating a vehicle. That's not to say that there aren't many drivers who shouldn&#x27
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by mooxie 1y ago
Agreed. I work for a tiny startup where I wear multiple hats, and one of them is DevOps. I manage our cloud infra with Terraform, and anyone who's scaled cloud infrastructure out of the <10 head count company to a successful 500+ co
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by mooxie 1y ago
> In most cities at the airport I just walk outside and get an old fashioned taxi at the rank vs dealing with all the nonsense Not the primary point of your post, but I am always evangelizing to my friends about this 'hack.' I
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by mooxie 1y ago
This is a far-right talking point that ignores the other concerns of progressives that are bundled up in the argument. Progressives (in the US at least) generally support immigration with protections and fair wages. They also recognize, rig
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by mooxie 1y ago
They are consistently on the wrong side of Chesterton's fence. Many of them were completely blind to politics until 2016 and have suddenly entered the chat with no context or background on what they're talking about. They assume,
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by mooxie 2y ago
>The name is now finally NOT centered around one nation. 'Gulf of the Americas' would make more sense in that case. But that doesn't project the intended message from the new administration. You can justify it however you
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by mooxie 2y ago
I love (read: hate) the concept that people are inherently busier in an office. When I was full-time in office, lots of people spent a good portion of their day wandering about, having convos (one thing that I do miss), browsing snacks, p
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by mooxie 3y ago
But if someone has access to your account information in such a way that they can make purchases in your name isn't that a you, or your bank, problem? Couldn't that same person just spend the money elsewhere? I'm just trying
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by mooxie 3y ago
I feel very fortunate to have been around for this part of internet culture. Chat was so different at the time; this part especially stuck out to me: >Our MC Skat Kat posted from the persona of this fictional MC Skat Kat, regularly refer
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by mooxie 3y ago
Pre-pandemic I started commuting by train and even though it was nearly the same time spent, my attitude and outlook was worlds better than when I was driving in heavy traffic every day. There are multiple workable solutions, and unfortunat
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by mooxie 3y ago
> You should only use ChatGPT for things that you are able to review it's work. This keeps being my argument when people at work daydream about time and cost savings by offloading non-critical business functions to AI. I say, "
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by mooxie 3y ago
Agreed - the issue is the false dichotomy implied by suggesting that commuting itself is the answer. I think that it would be much more honest to opine that DESPITE the tolls on our health and time, in-office work provided a social and pers
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by mooxie 4y ago
> I like sitting down and solving problems with code, getting a brief and build something cool. It's a huge problem in tech that companies traditionally try to force engineers into management positions to allow their careers to keep
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by mooxie 4y ago
Maybe not the average, but millions of people commute to a city like Atlanta every day. From the middle of Forsyth County in GA, where there are many exurbs of Atlanta that feed workers into the city, the drive is slated to be 1-2 hours ove
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by mooxie 4y ago
I have never had cancer of any kind in my family tree, and I had a precancerous polyp found at 38yo. You should get a colonoscopy. If you are at low risk and look totally healthy after, they'll tell you that you don't need another
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by mooxie 4y ago
As someone who lives in the south but has done a lot of traveling both inside and outside of the US, rednecks (or redneck-equivalents) are absolutely everywhere. It's a lot more of a class/rural thing than a regional thing, and c
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by mooxie 4y ago
Also I'm not convinced on the idea that it is unlikely to elicit change. My current employer takes exit interviews very seriously when they lose good people, and tries to fix the situation before losing more. Like you said, if it is ha
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by mooxie 4y ago
I've done a lot of a relatively high-value item (motorcycles, cars) buying and selling on Facebook and Craigslist, and let me assure you: people didn't move to Facebook because Craigslist was a 'robust incumbent.' As a s
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by mooxie 5y ago
I've been upset by this myopic view since the very beginning. We are increasingly learning that viruses can have long-term effects on the body and mind, even prior to COVID. Agreed that we can't all walk around as 'bubble boy
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by mooxie 5y ago
Well the article notes that some amount of user demographic info is revealed simply by interacting with the post, regardless of the information provided by the respondent. Secondly, this is almost like the email phishing paradox: to an educ
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by mooxie 5y ago
Liberal Biden voter here: Totally. Everyone is absorbing media that spends 90% of its energy encouraging them to think that they're being attacked by the other half of the country. Both ends of the spectrum are encouraged to have a vic
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by mooxie 5y ago
Last year(?) YouTube changed TOS to state (IIRC) that if you didn't explicitly mark your own videos as 'not for children' they would be included in search results that included content for young children. Then, if the video w
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by mooxie 6y ago
My understanding from younger colleagues is that entry-level positions are much more competitive than they were when I was leaving college and entering the tech market 10 or 12 years ago. At that time, my experience was that if you knew Lin
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by mooxie 7y ago
Well I didn't expect this to turn into a theological conservation, and I don't really have time at the moment for all of that, but I will say that there is a difference between innocently screwing up and asking for forgiveness and
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by mooxie 7y ago
I keep seeing this argument everywhere (basically whenever anyone is criticized for a past Tweet or FB post), and it's really confounding to me. Perhaps it's that many of the people making this argument have grown up as part of th
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by mooxie 8y ago
> Which might be because we're getting it 2nd or 3rd hand, so we shouldn't necessarily jump to conclusions. Yeah, as a Star Citizen backer (at an extremely modest level) I think that it just wasn't spelled out in the artic
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by mooxie 11y ago
You don't have to shout. With its multiple microphones Alexa is pretty good at hearing you over the music. There is also a remote with a built in mic in case you want to control it from a ways off or there is a ton of background noise.

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