sidfthec

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by sidfthec 3y ago
> I can take it home with me. I own part of Google. I can't take it home with me. I don't even know what that would mean. > If I own it, I can get a permit to build on it. It is indeed possible to get a permit to build on&#x
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by sidfthec 3y ago
> I don't own the USPS nor do I own the national parks. Yes we do (if you're a US citizen). You even get to vote for the "board of directors" so to speak (the legislative/executive branches of the US gov). As for
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by sidfthec 3y ago
I'm not sure what you mean. What would the alternative world look like in this case? Less safe / a lack of tires until we confirm every chemical used isn't dangerous? I don't think that's a good trade off. We still
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by sidfthec 3y ago
Strange tone to the article. Very adversarial and doomy. Sounds like 6PPD is essentially required for modern tires. People are researching alternatives but haven't scaled any yet. Other emissions from modern tires are also bad. People
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by sidfthec 3y ago
> I did not read the original paper, so maybe they accounted for this Then why say it's an issue?
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by sidfthec 3y ago
Putting the annoyance aside for a second, I think this is partly a difference of viewpoints when it comes to what constitutes being a "slave to your device" as you say. Having the phone on vibrate or the ringer on all the time fee
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by sidfthec 3y ago
> but since our phones are ad-delivery platforms, they only give you the minimum amount of flexibility to solve it. Three actions (volume button, tap, tap) on my Android to turn my phone from ringer on to silent isn't that bad. And
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by sidfthec 3y ago
It annoys me either way. Just put your phone on silent (unless you have certain contacts that need to get through in an emergency). It's especially annoying when you don't look at your phone because you're just making noise f
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by sidfthec 3y ago
I know some folks that do this and indeed I do hate it. But not because I'm a slave to my device. I hate the buzzing because you should just put it on silent if you don't care about the notifications. It's pretty annoying to
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by sidfthec 3y ago
Could have just been someone going around with a bomb sniffing dog while they were assessing the package. I'm guessing they weren't searching everyone's hotel rooms afterwards...
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by sidfthec 3y ago
> Numerous agencies have been documented using this sort of dishonest and dubious tactics, so I do not think that possibility could be dismissed at the start. The wording of this is similar to conspiracy theorists that spout off lots of
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by sidfthec 3y ago
But that's not the type of story that's being claimed from the person I responded to. Of course the lead developer waved you off. You wondered why things took forever, and the lead developer knew it was a complicated system and fi
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by sidfthec 3y ago
What FAANG have you seen this at? I've been at big tech companies for most of my career and I've never seen anyone deny the existence of a technical bug. I've seen plenty of teams mark a bug as lower priority and never fix it
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by sidfthec 3y ago
It's not an example at all. It's just as baffling to use it as an example when there are much better sources. Pre-Elon, you have financial statements showing the strength of the company. Profitable before Covid before they hired a
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by sidfthec 3y ago
> Aliens have super sophisticated tech that is hardy enough to travel millions of light years through space but it crashes so easy on earth? Selection bias. We don't know how many crafts fail to make it to Earth. Maybe the trip is e
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by sidfthec 3y ago
The irony being that he presumably wants more information on the mailing list to keep a good archive, while not giving enough information for people to understand that and follow the advice later.
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by sidfthec 3y ago
What do you mean? Those who follow absurd conspiracy theories, like the theory that mask mandates would never go away and that it was somehow solely a power play by government leaders, cause massive damage to society. And it's true tha
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by sidfthec 3y ago
> I don't think I nor anyone should be held accountable at work for comments made on Hacker News. > FWIW, nobody needs to worry about me. I do not have a boss. Great, but now bring it back to real life, because a ton of people ar
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by sidfthec 3y ago
I can't help but think that the author of the book as an artist, who I assume is not in a 9-5 job and whose work necessarily requires unusual uses of their time, can't possibly relate to normal folks here. Every day I need to: 1.
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by sidfthec 3y ago
It's completely missing a huge part of the equation though: comparison to cheaper options. Something might not sound so expensive if you frame it as $0.50/hour of use. But it certainly does if there's an alternative that meet
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by sidfthec 3y ago
I would? I don't see how those have anything to do with the price. The newly announced Pixel Tablet screen is 4 times larger than the newly announced Pixel 7a, and they're the same price. Is the Pixel Tablet supposed to be $2k bec
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by sidfthec 3y ago
> If you use your phone an average of 5 hours a day for two years and then throw it in a junk drawer the hardware would cost less than 50cents per hour of use. I don't understand this type of justification. My fridge would cost arou
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by sidfthec 3y ago
> If they believe it will increase profits without longterm harm then layoffs/salary freezes are the right thing for them to do as a company even if they are wildly successful. And that doesn't need to be the case. Many of thes
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by sidfthec 3y ago
> Is it not better/preferable to freeze salaries than to cut more staff? Hint: Neither is needed for most of these big tech companies.
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by sidfthec 3y ago
The money has to go somewhere. Why don't you want it to go to the employees?
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by sidfthec 3y ago
Flip two coins. If they're both heads Trump wins. That's approximately what Silver's team was saying. No idea where this "sure thing" idea of your's comes from.
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by sidfthec 3y ago
I played before and after the GE was introduced. You're right, but it kind of leveled the playing field in a lame way. The GE made merchanting much more difficult. Prior to GE, I'd buy as much as I could of an item in the morning
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by sidfthec 3y ago
> In my experience rich people are very 'outcomes focused'. They almost always expect something in return. That's a pretty sad way to live. I mean, I guess when I'm back home and the "rich" person in the roo
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by sidfthec 3y ago
> It's weird people actually have the gall to complain about this move like they feel they deserve to get things for free. That's a strange thing to say, when Netflix blessed the behavior: https://twitter.com/ne
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by sidfthec 3y ago
Yeah because that's not what "relapse" means. Some definitions I found: - suffer deterioration after a period of improvement. - a deterioration in someone's state of health after a temporary improvement. - to slip or fal

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