winfred

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by winfred 6y ago
I don't think people would prosper under such a system. Free health care, yes, free education, yes. Retirement for all, take care of the disabled, yes. But in my opinion, in today's society, if you take away the need for people to
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by winfred 6y ago
The way I see it, we already have that world, with capitalism functioning as a filter. I worked my ass off to reach financial independence, now I'm dedicating the rest of my life towards helping other people. I've proven to be cap
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by winfred 6y ago
>I've been to plenty of interviews where my CV hasn't been given more than a glance. I have a fake programming language on my resume, has been there for years. To top it off, I used a well known video game cheat code. I've
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by winfred 6y ago
>Also, you can't really "manage" your boss if he/she is gaslighting you. This is a criminal offense (or should be, depending on where you live) and must be punished accordingly. It scares me that you can write these t
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by winfred 6y ago
That can't be right, can it? That's the equivalent of me doing my job for 6 weeks. Here, looks like the legal minimum is 1500: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilot_certification_in_the_Uni...
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by winfred 6y ago
At some point, I tried this as an experiment. Instead of doing things myself, I tried to hire people to do it for me. I tried a few different things, data labeling, custom sewing work, custom car modifications. Turns out that the work was e
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by winfred 6y ago
The era of asking for cookies has already become a thing of the past for me, it's gone the way of autoplaying videos, advertisements, tracking cookies and paywalls. All things to look back on with a feeling of nostalgia. I think this i
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by winfred 6y ago
>For that matter, Arduino seems to somehow have stayed profitable in spite of getting murdered from every angle by the clones. The clones are fine for simple stuff. But they really cut every corner possible, so even the chip is counterfe
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by winfred 6y ago
> The way it is described (workers have 6 days on, 1 day off) That's not what it describes. > Eighty percent of the workforce were told to go to work; 20 percent to stay home. The continuous week began as a five-day cycle. Every
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by winfred 7y ago
That wasn't on that page when I opened it, you think I'd miss that? They were reading the comments here and updated the page after I wrote the comment. The price was $4700 something, now it's $4945. They simply smooth over it
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by winfred 7y ago
>I didn't read all their math but I expect their final result to be off by a factor of 2-5x. I looked at their parts list and it's obvious they aren't serious. CPU is missing, memory is missing, SAS to SATA cables, but no
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by winfred 7y ago
I prefer mid week days off (Wednesday, but I'd settle for Tue/Thu). I love to have work weeks of two days. I can imagine there are plenty of other people that prefer the same thing.
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by winfred 7y ago
Do you have any idea how much can go wrong with a human body and in how many different ways? And we're not even close to figuring out all the illnesses. Sure, brain cancer they can detect just fine, but try to go to a doctor because yo
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by winfred 7y ago
Harder than you think. It means you need consistent 6% returns (2% inflation, 4% return). There's nothing out there that I know that gives you a consistent 6% return and the stock market is a fickle mistress. 2007 to 2009, VTI dropped
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by winfred 7y ago
It's called "housing", seems to me that the core functionality is to house, not to gain wealth. We might have comingled it with investing, but there's no need for that. Also housing can't rise faster in value than i
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by winfred 7y ago
The tale of the Chinese emperor and the picture of the rooster Once upon a time, there was an emperor who was extremely fond of roosters, and so one day he commissioned the most famous painter in all his realm to paint him a picture of a ro
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by winfred 7y ago
That goes for all cathedrals though. Just two random examples, Notre Dame took about 100 years for the main structure, Cologne Cathedral took 600 years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notre-Dame_de_Paris https:/&#
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by winfred 7y ago
>Let's be honest with ourselves. The best way to make your content last for a long time is to host it on a platform that is free and very successful. For example, whatever photos I posted on Facebook 12 years ago? Still alive and ki
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by winfred 7y ago
Devops means different things to different people. I'm a devops guy surrounded by devops guys and we all are operations people that develop, which day to day is completely different from a developer that performs operations.
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by winfred 7y ago
Newer Dells like the R640 take minutes to boot, not seconds. Here's a random video of a guy booting a R740, it takes 1:51 just to get into the bios: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSJNTdKdTJI
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by winfred 7y ago
It's got an actual name: Whataboutism. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism
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by winfred 7y ago
Don't have to cancel it... All that debt is in US dollars. Just print so much money that you have 20% inflation per year for four or five years. Problem will be fixed. It's a scam you can only pull off once (after that the dollar
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by winfred 7y ago
If over time, you change the way you measure inflation[0], to manipulate government bond rates and Social Security payouts[1], then it's not surprising you end up with a world where inflation is not directly related to central bank act
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by winfred 7y ago
Fixes most paywalls: https://github.com/iamadamdev
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by winfred 7y ago
Sounds like a James Bond plot to me.
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by winfred 7y ago
Here you go, works great. https://github.com/iamadamdev
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by winfred 7y ago
I wish. But the reality is that if that regulation comes, it's going to be state regulation and not federal, so the effect would take years to unfold and be state by state and never reach 100%.
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by winfred 7y ago
All those drivers would just start the next day driving for Lyft etc. Most drivers already drive for multiple platforms, so it would be a mostly seamless switch. Just losing one platform in the gig economy doesn't remove either the cus
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by winfred 7y ago
I understand that, but China is still industrializing and has an enormous abundance of labor. They have over 425 million farmers (and a decade ago, that number was 700 million). At achievable efficiency, that could easily be done by as few
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by winfred 7y ago
I don't think that calories production per unit of labour is a big concern when you don't export produce and you've got access to so much labor and a socialist economy where food prices are fixed and jobs are all but guarante

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