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iamaelephant··on New York Times phasing out all 3rd-party advertising data
Because this is an article about The Times.
iamaelephant··on France could nationalize big companies if necessary: finance minister
> with the obvious implication that you're calling the person stupid because they're American and hold some view you view as stereotypically American

Actually I'm accusing them of having their brains poisoned by American free market dogma.

iamaelephant··on Firm wielding Theranos patents asks judge to block coronavirus test
Absolutely, without question, yes.
iamaelephant··on How Long Will macOS Be Unix?
How about in practical terms?
iamaelephant··on Bitcoin price crash forces miners off network
This assumes that every bitcoin ever mined stays in circulation. We know this isn't true. We know that millions of dollars of bitcoin have gone missing, never to be recovered. And if Bitcoin is the real deal (it probably isn't) then we've only just started. If this thing hangs around for decades or even centuries we will see trillions more go missing.
iamaelephant··on Bitcoin price crash forces miners off network
Bitcoin is fundamentally not a cash alternative. Which means definitionally the alternative to holding onto $100 BTC is NOT holding onto $100 cash. In fact cash is intentionally inflationary and BTC is intentionally deflationary (over long enough time scales) so yeah, you'd win your silly bet if there's no major crash. Doesn't mean you'll come out ahead of other strategies.
iamaelephant··on Bitcoin price crash forces miners off network
I don't care about the time, but I'm utterly horrified at the waste of resources.
iamaelephant··on Exceptions should be Exceptional (2016)
Can't we all just agree that Maybe/Optional types are actually a great idea that generalizes all of this at minimal cost?
iamaelephant··on Airbnb’s loss nearly doubles in fourth quarter, before virus
Yup I'm utterly fed up with AirBnb and won't consider using them again.
iamaelephant··on Bitcoin and cryptocurrency prices have fallen sharply over the last few days
People still talk about Bitcoin as though it's a real market and not completely manipulated by a handful of key players? Ok then.
iamaelephant··on Twitter, Elliott Strike Truce That Leaves CEO Dorsey in Place
> Rinderkennzeichnungs- und Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz About this soundlisten (help·info) (RkReÜAÜG)

So you can.

iamaelephant··on A googol-to-one gear ratio [video]
Maybe if you have a very big apple. 1 nM is the force of 1 Newton (1kg on Earth) at 1 meter.
iamaelephant··on DuckDuckGo is good enough for regular use
It's not
iamaelephant··on Highest French court reclassifies Uber drivers as employees
Literally you're describing the reason minimum wages exist.
iamaelephant··on Companies fret as costs soar for software subscriptions (2019)
> Between Office and cloud and HR/payroll and a few other tools I can imagine $1,000/year.

Really? You can imagine only #83/mo in software costs for a working professional? I think you're being really rather unimaginative.

iamaelephant··on Highest French court reclassifies Uber drivers as employees
> With Uber want to work? Press a button. Want to take a break? Press a button. Want to work again? Press a button. Take as long a break as you want. Work as long as you want. No timecards. No obnoxious coworkers. No intrusive questions. No douchebag bosses making your life a living hell. In what other job do you have this sort of freedom without the instability of traditional selfemployment? What more could you ask for? Now it'll all be ruined for everybody because of the greed and entitlement of a few.

Interesting that you forgot to mention the below-minimum-wage rates here

iamaelephant··on PowerShell 7.0
How many non-server machines do you find yourself regularly needing a shell on where downloading it isn't an option? Why does it need to be pre-installed?
iamaelephant··on Highest French court reclassifies Uber drivers as employees
> Does that mean that a taxi driver is an employee? Of course not.

Why not?

iamaelephant··on PowerShell 7.0
There's no reason to bake tools like this into an OS or tie them to OS versions. Download the tools you need. If you need to "bake" them anywhere, bake them into your containers.
iamaelephant··on Don’t try to sanitize input – escape output
Are you implying that Reddit is concatenating SQL queries instead of parameterizing properly? Because based on the reliability of the website I'm not surprised by this, but it's still hilarious.
iamaelephant··on Waymo’s Hiring Binge
> Mawakana just hired a new head of fleet operations, Ryan McNamara, who previously worked on product quality for the Google Pixel phone

As the previous owner of 2 Pixel phones, this man is the last person on Earth I want in charge of operations of a fleet of 2-ton automated vehicles. No offence.

iamaelephant··on Vue.js Documentary [video]
It doesn't look like it gives me anything I don't get from the vue cli tools.
iamaelephant··on Which of these Amazon Prime purchases are real?
Because of the search results.
iamaelephant··on Half of Americans Don’t Vote. What Are They Thinking?
There is absolutely no way to prepare such an exam without (justified) accusations of bias.
iamaelephant··on Avoid rewriting a legacy system from scratch by strangling it
This is more or less the model that Basecamp uses with their rewrites. New product with new features and a strong encouragement to come along, but guaranteed support if you can't.
iamaelephant··on Avoid rewriting a legacy system from scratch by strangling it
Literally my life right now.
iamaelephant··on Avoid rewriting a legacy system from scratch by strangling it
It's. Not. Inevitable. I'm sorry that that has been your experience, but it doesn't have to be this way.
iamaelephant··on Facebook reverses on paid influencers after Bloomberg memes
> the answer should be more nuanced.

Not it shouldn't. We know that these companies are morally corrupt. When you sell your time to help grow these companies you are also morally corrupt. Simples.

iamaelephant··on Facebook reverses on paid influencers after Bloomberg memes
Yes, absolutely.
iamaelephant··on 18-year-old personal website, built with Frontpage and still updated
Or you could not do that. Did he not just show that his way works just fine?
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