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doublejay1999
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About doublejay1999
current affairs, parenting, equity markets, cycling, chomsky, justice & equality, cricket, video games, house music, depression, worcestshire, vodka,
probably socialist. friendly at first. please say hi.
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Comment #36211240
It’s brilliant that someone would do this. There is no problem statement, a series of bad design decision and component choices, and a rather silly price. It reminds me a bit of th…
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Comment #36188317
i dont mean to be glib, just concise : capital writes policy, and exceptions are hard fought and rare.
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Comment #27823197
1200 down to 30 even if that rises to 50, or 60, means the link is materially broken. there will always be a death a rate. im not sure what you were expecting ?
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Comment #27813930
> The craziest thing is we keep seeing the phrase "the link between infections and deaths has been broken". Death rates have fallen from a peak of around 1000 deaths per day in feb…
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Comment #27810333
Apple are a patent troll company, often using their size and weight to beat down competition. They have stolen functionality at will to make the product they want, and then fought …
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Comment #27797148
> How it works is that users need to control themselves under provocation. then do so, my friend. then do so.
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Comment #27792088
The nature of the article is hardly in question. It is the headline, and purpose of the piece. My best advice would be to apply your vigilance to submissions as diligently as you d…
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Comment #27789207
The submitted article is a flame war against non-developers and promotes the same attitude in the workplace. Other people have jobs too. It's condescends : "Your non-techie peers j…
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Comment #27788158
People have jobs where they need to concentrate ? and...people prefer not to be interrupted when concentrating ? oh. my. god. The author looks old enough to know better than to pro…
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Comment #27776459
TSLA has far more speculators in the stock than users of the product - which was the criticism levelled at bitcoin by OP You mentioned TSLA has future earnings, which is true, but …
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Comment #27773458
it obviously costs more to produce content than it does to host and stream it. That's why you watch a show costing 10 millions dollars per episode, for 10 bucks a month.
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Comment #27772942
this is the shittiest take. does youtube expect him to keep giving them content free forever ? without contributing to his production costs ?
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Comment #27769058
Seems like the real pressure, rather than perceived pressures, is your Visa dependency. I'm speculating a bit - but the fact that you perceive this job as a pressured environment, …
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Comment #27769003
I don't know if you think its clever somehow, to wilfully avoid the point & attempt a low brow straw man, but I can tell you that it isn't.
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Comment #27766458
so what bitcoin (and of course other crypto) is, is complex and ultimately subjective : it's different things to different people, just like money. It does some things money can do…
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Comment #27766132
like tesla
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Comment #27758833
i'm so tempted.
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Comment #27758738
It's amazing! Hundreds of SciFi writers predicted such surveillance, I dont think many predicted it arrive by invitation - i expect many parents will support this. Same for smart s…
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Comment #27755038
its not naive to think there are plenty of talented 120k devs sitting in faangs waiting to catch a break.
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Comment #27754817
> It is clear, at least to me, that emitting large quantities of CO2 into the air, and heated waste water into a lake, for the sole purpose of enriching oneself i agree, but that w…
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Comment #27749450
It would interesting to surrender the whole process to AI. Let's have AI decide what the productivity requirement should be, given biological constraints of us meat sacks. Feed it …
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Comment #27747556
a lightbulb moment for the author, in which he happens upon the idea that films made for mass appeal are somehow limited in artistic scope & ambition.
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Comment #27732117
Well put. It's not at all dissimilar to walking into a conference of learned and decorated economists, and being disappointed that only a handful know how to administer First Aid. …
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Comment #27690730
omg barely 14 years awa, there's simply no time !
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Comment #27690710
america has a chronic work fetish