In my case, I’ve been disappointed many times at work because some library I wanted to use was GPL. I don’t want anyone to have that experience with the stuff I build.
The parent may agree with you, but they said that in a somewhat obscure way. I believe their point is that companies have many distinct contracts with other companies (good) that contain arbitration clauses, and that…
I think productivity is better conceived as the first derivative of value wrt. time. So productivity growth is the second derivative. It’s good news if that number is positive at all.
A depressed person will find a way to be depressed about religion, eg. obsessing over whether they or others are committing various sins. I think the problem is a type of thinking deeply ingrained in our culture (and…
In the context of this particular case, it sounds like the ruling by the majority protects non-citizens from having their property taken by the police, while Justice Thomas’s concurrence would not. In my opinion, not…
If thoughts like these are making you suffer, there are other ways of thinking. Whether the object you are working on is an engine block or the Chrome debugger, you are working on something designed by humans. If you…
Wonder what happened with that profit in Q1 2018. Odd that the article didn’t mention it. Was that Uber proving to investors that they can turn the spigot and generate cash? Or some one-time factor?
And to expand on that a bit: It seems that transit in the Bay Area serves multiple purposes. 1) Getting you from point A to point B. 2) Mobile climate-controlled shelter for homeless people. My claim is that purpose 1…
After being assaulted by that stranger I thought about him a lot: 1) He probably has been abused and harmed many times, perhaps in his childhood. 2) He probably expects the worst from people, and thinks that everyone is…
I’m just describing an event that happened to me. There are a lot of problems with Uber, but one thing it’s not is the cheapest and most convenient climate-controlled shelter for the city’s destitute mentally ill.
UberPool Express has some things in common with the bus, although I’ve still never been slapped in the face by a homeless man in an Uber.
I’m responding to bookmark this thread and check for any responses later. The article only mentioned a social pressure to buy as a prerequisite for marriage.
Isn’t it a colossal shame that in China we have thousands of empty high rises, and in the Bay Area we have a housing crisis where you can find a dozen people packed into a single family home? Both a result of obviously…
The service Plastiq will send a check to your landlord funded with a credit card for a 2.5% fee. It’s not worth it to buy miles, but definitely worth it to earn a signup bonus where the rewards are worth 10%+ of the…
Wow, sounds like a clearly anti-growth policy. I wonder if they have some expensive accounting in the backend or something.
It seems relevant - if company leadership is attempting to act in the best interests of the shareholders, the fact that the shareholders also own their competitors would tend to bias them against engaging in a price war…
I don’t love submodules, but I think the difficultly comes because they require experience to use properly and you have to learn the gotchas, like everything else in git. IMO a workflow that requires synchronized…
There are so many ways to have fun where your money goes to support creative expression, or fitness, or some other positive end. Gambling is about extracting money from people who desperately need it, at a much faster…
Sure, if you can go once in a while, having a good understanding about how much money you will lose and can keep yourself from losing more trying to get it back, good for you. But the casino’s bread & butter are the…
The whole gambling industry is a really a utility black hole. Human risk-taking impulses evolved so that we could decide to look around that corner, explore that dense underbrush, see what happens if we rub some sticks…
I responded to a particular comment in the thread.
Attorneys who work in civil and criminal law can be defending the powerless, keeping the powerful from facing justice, or somewhere in between. It depends on the particular case.
Civil suits are the main route regular people have to get compensation when abused by corporations. Or just small companies that get abused by big ones. Citizens almost always lose against companies in the executive or…
I think the way git supports this workflow currently is to have a super-repo containing all the other repos as submodules. You can bundle all those changes together as updates to the submodule references in a single PR.
While this may remind some people of the mortgage bubble, solar is nowhere near as important to the economy as home prices are. The potential to take down the economy isn’t there, the numbers are too small.
In my case, I’ve been disappointed many times at work because some library I wanted to use was GPL. I don’t want anyone to have that experience with the stuff I build.
The parent may agree with you, but they said that in a somewhat obscure way. I believe their point is that companies have many distinct contracts with other companies (good) that contain arbitration clauses, and that…
I think productivity is better conceived as the first derivative of value wrt. time. So productivity growth is the second derivative. It’s good news if that number is positive at all.
A depressed person will find a way to be depressed about religion, eg. obsessing over whether they or others are committing various sins. I think the problem is a type of thinking deeply ingrained in our culture (and…
In the context of this particular case, it sounds like the ruling by the majority protects non-citizens from having their property taken by the police, while Justice Thomas’s concurrence would not. In my opinion, not…
If thoughts like these are making you suffer, there are other ways of thinking. Whether the object you are working on is an engine block or the Chrome debugger, you are working on something designed by humans. If you…
Wonder what happened with that profit in Q1 2018. Odd that the article didn’t mention it. Was that Uber proving to investors that they can turn the spigot and generate cash? Or some one-time factor?
And to expand on that a bit: It seems that transit in the Bay Area serves multiple purposes. 1) Getting you from point A to point B. 2) Mobile climate-controlled shelter for homeless people. My claim is that purpose 1…
After being assaulted by that stranger I thought about him a lot: 1) He probably has been abused and harmed many times, perhaps in his childhood. 2) He probably expects the worst from people, and thinks that everyone is…
I’m just describing an event that happened to me. There are a lot of problems with Uber, but one thing it’s not is the cheapest and most convenient climate-controlled shelter for the city’s destitute mentally ill.
UberPool Express has some things in common with the bus, although I’ve still never been slapped in the face by a homeless man in an Uber.
I’m responding to bookmark this thread and check for any responses later. The article only mentioned a social pressure to buy as a prerequisite for marriage.
Isn’t it a colossal shame that in China we have thousands of empty high rises, and in the Bay Area we have a housing crisis where you can find a dozen people packed into a single family home? Both a result of obviously…
The service Plastiq will send a check to your landlord funded with a credit card for a 2.5% fee. It’s not worth it to buy miles, but definitely worth it to earn a signup bonus where the rewards are worth 10%+ of the…
Wow, sounds like a clearly anti-growth policy. I wonder if they have some expensive accounting in the backend or something.
It seems relevant - if company leadership is attempting to act in the best interests of the shareholders, the fact that the shareholders also own their competitors would tend to bias them against engaging in a price war…
I don’t love submodules, but I think the difficultly comes because they require experience to use properly and you have to learn the gotchas, like everything else in git. IMO a workflow that requires synchronized…
There are so many ways to have fun where your money goes to support creative expression, or fitness, or some other positive end. Gambling is about extracting money from people who desperately need it, at a much faster…
Sure, if you can go once in a while, having a good understanding about how much money you will lose and can keep yourself from losing more trying to get it back, good for you. But the casino’s bread & butter are the…
The whole gambling industry is a really a utility black hole. Human risk-taking impulses evolved so that we could decide to look around that corner, explore that dense underbrush, see what happens if we rub some sticks…
I responded to a particular comment in the thread.
Attorneys who work in civil and criminal law can be defending the powerless, keeping the powerful from facing justice, or somewhere in between. It depends on the particular case.
Civil suits are the main route regular people have to get compensation when abused by corporations. Or just small companies that get abused by big ones. Citizens almost always lose against companies in the executive or…
I think the way git supports this workflow currently is to have a super-repo containing all the other repos as submodules. You can bundle all those changes together as updates to the submodule references in a single PR.
While this may remind some people of the mortgage bubble, solar is nowhere near as important to the economy as home prices are. The potential to take down the economy isn’t there, the numbers are too small.