usea

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by usea 1mo ago
You're right that it's a matter of incentives, but it's because of cost not revenue. It's bloated not because of a sneaky plan to include revenue generation. It's cheaper to make it bloated because quality is costly
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by usea 2mo ago
That's simply not true.
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by usea 3mo ago
Another way to frame that question is: Should we remove the right for people to enter into such contracts?
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by usea 3mo ago
> Getting abused is deserved at this point Nobody deserves to be abused.
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by usea 3mo ago
> It's been kept around because they treat their customers ok, but they absolutely exsanguinate their developers. This is true, but "treat their customers ok" goes a long way. When everybody else severely abuses their cust
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by usea 5mo ago
People routinely overestimate how much can get done in 5 minutes. I ran a live coding challenge at our company's booth at a language conference. 5 simple problems, how many can you do in 5 minutes? We had a PC with IDE open and ready t
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by usea 5mo ago
That's exactly how I do it. Makes the most sense to me.
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by usea 6mo ago
It's common for non-lawyers to write terms and conditions, and other contracts.
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by usea 6mo ago
You can view posts by opening them in a new tab.
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by usea 7mo ago
Press releases are lies by default.
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by usea 8mo ago
The parent was talking about different passwords, not different emails. But I'm curious, what does it mean for a company to consolidate accounts? How would that be done to your separate accounts automatically, and what trouble does it
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by usea 9mo ago
I think this comment is referencing the government's recent announcement[0] to shut down the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder. They do climate research at the Mesa Laboratory there. It's open to the public for v
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by usea 10mo ago
Retribution for acting out of line with those who have this sanction power.
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by usea 10mo ago
Russia.
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by usea 1y ago
In the US, letting your children walk to school is taking a non-negligible risk that you'll be charged with a crime or have your children taken away. Their deaths from a motor vehicle are assumed by all to be a certain eventuality, and
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by usea 2y ago
> But certainly the game Portal (2007) hyped using portals for rendering prior to Prey. They were referring to Prey (2006).
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by usea 2y ago
Europeans having stronger opinions than others about Russia invading Europe is not evidence of a conspiracy.
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by usea 2y ago
I found this context via search https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42254608 It's a straightforward recounting of the events.
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Punch Out Model Synthesis(zzyzek.github.io)
3 points by usea 2y ago|0 comments
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by usea 2y ago
That's not how people use it, such as the person I replied to. There was no consent, explicit or otherwise. They use it to mean "I want things to be this way, so people should be obligated to a rule I made up because 'society
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by usea 2y ago
Imagine you have a strong deference to authority and an incredible fear of confrontation. It would be very easy for someone in a position of authority to take advantage of you. People don't always do what's in their best interest.
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by usea 2y ago
"Social contract" is a term people use to try and bully people into things they never agreed to. Non-imaginary contracts require acceptance. The essential elements of a social contract: - I want it to be true real bad - Other peop
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by usea 2y ago
Burning wood in your fireplace is much more certain to harm you than using plastic in your cookware, and the harm is more severe.
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by usea 2y ago
> You have to be a real pos to not get invites to stuff... The "real pos" is just as often those doing the excluding, as it is those being excluded. Pettiness doesn't disappear at 18 years old. It's hurtful to assume
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by usea 2y ago
Also the Simpsons scene with the Smokey Bear statue: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-q-3fPYw_Y > "Only who can prevent forest fires?" [You] [Me] > Bart selects "You". > "You pressed &#x
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by usea 2y ago
> I’d love to hear how he justifies taking away this engineers’ Sunday? His posts on slack [1] show that he sees it as "either with us or against us", and he's willing to harm users to force them to choose a side instead o
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by usea 2y ago
If the delivery service that transported my vendor's goods to me, suddenly started substituting their own product instead, I would sue them. I think my vendor would be pissed too, especially if the main difference is that their monetiz
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by usea 2y ago
When a user uses some open source software, there is no negative happening. They are not accumulating some debt that should be repaid by "contributing back." If they make a million dollars on it, that makes no difference to the pr
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by usea 2y ago
> There is a social contract that people should contribute back No there isn't. The author gets to decide the contract, not you or anyone else. I am the one who decides how to license my software. If I don't want to require my
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by usea 2y ago
I interviewed at a place whose sprint planning took a full week and was reportedly incredibly stressful. Customers participated. Their product was a website that agile teams used to track their process.

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