robertpateii

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by robertpateii 2mo ago
Yeah, intentionally misleading consumers should always be at least somewhat illegal. Sure caveat emptor, but consumers having accurate information is implied and a cornerstone of a competitive market.
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by robertpateii 2mo ago
Read the article. It doesn’t even ask if dextromethorphan and phenylephrine should be illegal. It asks if intentionally misleading consumers about their efficacy should be.
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by robertpateii 1y ago
Being physically fit past your 30s is a series of building habits and making hard choices that obviously is a challenge of its own that many in sedentary jobs have skipped or fallen away from. OP may be fit, but yeah for average office work
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by robertpateii 1y ago
Having to select self care and breakfast every morning (and meds on some routes) is a good reminder for me of the importance of those things in the long run of a whole day. I don’t think I’m any farther on the spectrum than the average sof
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by robertpateii 1y ago
Fiction still has ideas to get across and internal consistencies it needs to maintain to be enjoyable and get those ideas across. When characters do things that beggars belief built upon their previous actions, it can ruin the whole story.
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by robertpateii 1y ago
Imo, that quote is clearly a train metaphor. But to your point, I do vaguely recall being unclear plenty when I read Moby Dick decades ago.
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by robertpateii 1y ago
> to see what an individual is working on, what they’ll be working on next, *and what they done recently.* This last bit is useful, but tricky to get reports on in a single assignee system. Say it’s the end of the week and I want to show
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by robertpateii 6y ago
Charity events have always had a suggested donation amount for this reason. If a project doesn’t suggest a donation amount then they intentionally or unintentionally ignoring conventional wisdom. Disturbing a donation pool is interesting bu
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by robertpateii 6y ago
Now we’re back to the opening comment: who’s job is it ethically to ensure people receive a living wage? The companies that employ some people or all of us?
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by robertpateii 6y ago
Ohhh by “it” you mean lifespan not quality of life or standard of living which are the relevant measurements of what we should be gaining from productivity. I didn’t realize you were going to nit pick a couple of very specific examples amon
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by robertpateii 6y ago
Are you saying that right now the quality of life for all Americans has reached a its asymptotic limit in regards to productivity?
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by robertpateii 6y ago
Vain and selfish people probably aren’t going to sit around and live on the basic level. It’s more about providing for the ignored, the sick, and enabling people to take risks in the market without putting their family’s lives at stake.
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by robertpateii 6y ago
I don’t understand how UBI forces you to stop working at your job. Wouldn’t you potentially be paid even more if everyone who does that job but hates it stops? And the compensation to do it increases to compensate?
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by robertpateii 6y ago
Those examples save us minutes but don’t make humans more free or happier or safer. Better examples would be increased lifespans and lower infant mortality. Stuff that ties into the standard of living definition. Which is the point: our s
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by robertpateii 6y ago
A monthly reminder for a person is great. A monthly reminder within a business organization is what? A calendar event for everyone in IT? For the whole company? The nice thing about monthly billing is it comes from the outside and would get
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by robertpateii 9y ago
It's not nonsensical, but it does imply some assumptions about a free market and the social contract. Governments exist to benefit their citzens. A free market is a great benefit thanks to competition forcing out businesses that don&#
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by robertpateii 9y ago
VPNs protect you from snooping by 3rd parties on the way to Bob's site, such as your ISP, anyone on your network, or anyone on any of the intervening nodes between you and Bob's. If you don't want Bob to identify you then yea
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by robertpateii 9y ago
> beginning at 12:01 a.m., Friday, April 21 and ending at 2 a.m., Friday, April 21 ET.
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by robertpateii 10y ago
Definitely! You'll probably appreciate this podcast if you haven't already heard it: http://www.wnyc.org/shows/radiolabmoreperfect
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by robertpateii 10y ago
It's good they're talking about this. But I'm surprised there's no mention of the "more speech" quote, how old this issue is, and how clearly the solution has been declared by the supreme court over the years (
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by robertpateii 13y ago
I'd say the truth is somewhere in between. Closer to a comedian using another comedian's joke.
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10x programmers – 10x more selective(yosefk.com)
24 points by robertpateii 13y ago|5 comments
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by robertpateii 13y ago
I like it.
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by robertpateii 14y ago
I didn't know about this, but it's all I wanted google apps for anyway. I can attest it takes about 5 minutes to setup if you already have web space somewhere and know how to access its email server details.
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by robertpateii 14y ago
I feel like most of the comments are reading the title and not the article. The author is actually suggesting that Thiel and Kasparov are probably wrong, and the current economic situation could be explained by simpler means (results of a f
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by robertpateii 14y ago
You can hover over variables to get their value. There is a quick watch area in which you can add variables. You can't change the source directly, but you can change the properties of an object and change global variables with the console.
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by robertpateii 14y ago
interestingly, Twitter isn't limited to 140 characters just because it is kind of awesome in some contexts. It was (and still is) the only way to publish a feed to the internet from any cell phone on the planet. If you can text, you can twe
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by robertpateii 14y ago
You've already noted this in your previous comment, and now you've included a word that is typically used in anger. I'm guilty as the next internet-person of over-reacting. I can see no reason to be upset about someone else doing the same,
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by robertpateii 14y ago
What do you mean not Valve? Not Valve because they're already doing it every month of the year?
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by robertpateii 14y ago
you can't convert it with calibre?

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