tfigueroa

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by tfigueroa 5d ago
Hideo Kojima intensifies
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by tfigueroa 29d ago
This is the system. I was a juror in a trial against Oakland where they were found to have been doing this - well over a decade ago. Oakland’s police department in particular has been in disarray for a very long time. Employees in any profe
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by tfigueroa 2mo ago
Corporations don’t need to, no. But they are systems, and it’s a beginner mistake to assume changing one part is going to affect the whole in some simple, predictable, logical way.
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by tfigueroa 5mo ago
Precisely. RoS turned TLJ into a mistake. A different sequel could have paid things off. Maybe.
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by tfigueroa 5mo ago
It’s, what, 25 years old? There have been many sequels, prequels, remastering. The economic benefits of this IP are largely exhausted; that it is now leaked to the commons isn’t an alarming thing.
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by tfigueroa 2y ago
I have to go with The Birdcage. Just a silly movie, with Hackman playing a rather timeless portrayal of a politician. The meandering story about “purple mountains” always gets me for some reason.
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by tfigueroa 2y ago
Now imagine how the administration might deport 20 million “illegal aliens”, as they’ve promised.
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by tfigueroa 2y ago
Many would be adjacent to the new ruler. The startup shutters but the VP of Engineering is already starting something new with his old reports.
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by tfigueroa 2y ago
The point still stands that the choice of response should be appropriate, and there are several choices between inaction and deployment of the military.
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by tfigueroa 2y ago
I don’t disagree, but man, a lot of “this will not happen” is happening.
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by tfigueroa 2y ago
Precisely. There’s no wisdom in the approach. “I’ll try refactoring - that’s a good trick!” is a poor approach. You can try it, but the consequences of a poor refactoring? Look to the planned economies and five year plans. The government is
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by tfigueroa 2y ago
What you have here is essentially a tragedy. I totally sympathize with the author as someone who is (probably) neurodivergent but had accommodating parents. Being given space to better understand myself and my value was integral to my succe
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by tfigueroa 2y ago
I used to book Japanese bands for FanimeCon/MusicFest (happening today, coincidentally). It’s frustrating for a single event, as the overhead eats into (already meager) revenue. The net result is a high-pass filter where you either hav
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by tfigueroa 2y ago
Not meaningfully. It’s already expensive to get over the border and line up a tour, so international artists are already far more disadvantaged.
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by tfigueroa 3y ago
Exactly. The problem is the excessive water extraction, not the technology making it cheaper.
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by tfigueroa 3y ago
The decision was already in the hands of the people. We don’t - didn’t - need to elect people to implement our preference. Stepping away from a politically-charged question is still a politicized decision.
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by tfigueroa 3y ago
I thought I was misreading this. It seems onerous to keep track of every nonce, even scoped to a given session. Maybe I’m missing something.
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by tfigueroa 3y ago
It was a random (and facetious and probably bad) idea to include a bullet point that would elicit a “wait, what?” response from anyone who would read it. My resume highlights, as an academic achievement, that a professor once suspected me o
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by tfigueroa 3y ago
> Seems like a lot of unicorn hunting out there, right now. Agreed, and I feel this is happening across job families - JDs seem much more domain-specific, especially around ML/AI. I don’t remember it being like this. Yes, there is a
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by tfigueroa 3y ago
Pretty bad. I’ve got a lot of experience as an IC, manager, and leader, and it doesn’t seem to matter; companies seem much more picky (“you were great but we want someone with more tenure in <specific variant of field>”) or wedded to
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by tfigueroa 3y ago
Mostly correct. Radio, satellite, and internet all pay different kinds of royalties at different levels (or used to, last I checked). I believe radio only pays the songwriters/publishers, whereas [streamer] might’ve also paid the perfo
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by tfigueroa 3y ago
Stephan Guyenet has written at length on the topic and it makes sense to me: the “why” is multifaceted, due to things like availability, palatability, etc. And these changes - like adding sugar - are probably due to marketplace evolution an
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by tfigueroa 3y ago
Reducing controversy could reduce costs. Plus I’m sure Disney would be happy to have fully generated and manipulable actors protected under copyright for decades upon decades. Essentially zero risk of actors making “bad” choices, especially
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by tfigueroa 3y ago
Not to get all “orientalism” but celebrity scandal is a pretty big deal in Japan and South Korea. It can kill a career quite easy, for (by US standards) innocuous things. Smoking pot, spicy selfies, having a significant other - it’s not unc
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by tfigueroa 3y ago
One of my favorite movies. This scene is thrilling, and the montage of the military occupying the country gives me chills.
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by tfigueroa 3y ago
I’d have to do some digging, but these observations are largely moot. The “differences in lifestyle” meme is accurate but incredibly imprecise; hunter-gatherer societies are vastly different than say present-day America, so there’s little p
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by tfigueroa 4y ago
Same; I saw an interview with Steve Jobs in the 80s or 90s where he used it. I was surprised.
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by tfigueroa 4y ago
If this fails, simply tell the cops that your taxes pay their salary. They are definitely no match for that.
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by tfigueroa 4y ago
This explains feelings I’ve had watching Euphoria . I’ve noticed a worsening physiological response just watching the show , so haven’t finished season 2. Initially I felt there was some catharsis to get out of it, but I’ve had to stop my
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by tfigueroa 5y ago
I’ve heard something similar as a “Helicopter”. Can’t find a source, but it was relayed to me as a technique in negotiating a contract for videography. You would put together a contract that includes normal shots and one extraneous, really

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