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mandelbrotwurst··on Standard Notes is a safe place for your notes, thoughts, and life's work
I just thought the implication of the copy was funny, wasn't really making a serious comparison of every possible use case and threat model for pen and paper versus this tool. Each has its own advantages.
mandelbrotwurst··on Standard Notes is a safe place for your notes, thoughts, and life's work
How do you know I'm not burning the notes afterward?
mandelbrotwurst··on Standard Notes is a safe place for your notes, thoughts, and life's work
> Find out what it feels like to write with total privacy.

This made me laugh. You mean like on a piece of paper?

mandelbrotwurst··on US bosses now earn 312 times the average worker's wage, figures show (2018)
They said the former, you’re saying the latter.
mandelbrotwurst··on 34% of remote workers would quit rather than return to full-time office work
Warehouse workers were never working remotely, they got laid off.

Re: your last point:

1. That 34% would quit rather than return doesn’t mean the other 66% would prefer to, just that they might not quit over it.

2. It’s possible to employ both remote and on-site workers.

mandelbrotwurst··on An Apology to COBOL: Maybe Old Technology Isn’t the Real Problem
It is at least according to the law, i.e. that you don’t discriminate against protected classes, regardless of why.
mandelbrotwurst··on Remote working: Is Big Tech going off work from home?
Is “encouraged” here also optional or is this a euphemism for required?
mandelbrotwurst··on Signal adds a payments feature with a privacy-focused cryptocurrency
I would say yes, at least to the extent that owners are aware that they exist and potentially become more likely to use.
mandelbrotwurst··on Stop Calling Everything AI, Machine-Learning Pioneer Says
Yeah, I once had an employer offer a dental plan from a company who sent us all wi-fi capable toothbrushes complete with a mobile app with the promise of discounts in our group rate in exchange for letting the things phone home.
mandelbrotwurst··on Why do interviewers ask linked list questions?
Yes. You also may have missed the part where the author describes trawling through forum posts from decades past in an attempt to gather data on past hiring practices in addition to today's.

It's also possible (likely, even) for the time that a topic starts showing up in textbooks to be different from when it starts showing up in job interviews.

mandelbrotwurst··on Canadian property bubble nears systemic failure
One reason might be so that you have the option to live in the place yourself on short notice.
mandelbrotwurst··on America’s bald eagle population continues to soar
Animals categorize as well, e.g. food or not, threatening or not.
mandelbrotwurst··on Cryptography behind the top cryptocurrencies
They're built on Ethereum, not stablecoins. The stability of the network currently relies on stablecoins only in the sense that people use stablecoins to store wealth in situations where fiat is more stable than crypto.
mandelbrotwurst··on Tesla orders its first 8k-ton Cybertruck casting machine
This is a bad comparison. "Duck hunting at the playground" is more similar to driving your truck through a playground than it is to hitting a pedestrian who enters a roadway full of active traffic.

Why should it be the driver's fault if someone else puts them in a situation where a negative outcome is unavoidable?

mandelbrotwurst··on Cookie Consent Speed Running Game
So if the site operator has a contract with someone to tell them all your data the you’re out of luck?
mandelbrotwurst··on Calling for public input on our approach to world leaders
Some of them do, but others go out via Tweet, advertisements, physical signage, websites, email, and a variety of other channels.

The government has to fight the meme wars just like anyone else who wants to compete for attention.

mandelbrotwurst··on Can We Stop Pretending SMS Is Secure Now?
Do you not have to pay a network provider in order to use it to make calls and send messages? How does this work?
mandelbrotwurst··on Why in the world would you own bonds?
The wealthy generally keep a very small fraction of their holdings in cash, also you can have accounts with multiple banks.
mandelbrotwurst··on Show HN: Web app that blows water out of your phone's speakers (warning: loud)
It is possible to obtain the tools and skills prior to the accident.
mandelbrotwurst··on Success depends on emotion management
Stating “your attitude determines your success” is not the same as saying “your attitude is the only thing that determines your success.”
mandelbrotwurst··on What used cars tell us about the risk of too much inflation hitting the economy
The definition of the index, what does or not get counted in the baskets of goods, various “adjustments” etc. allow for plenty of manipulation of the headline numbers irrespective of whether or not the calculations themselves are being done honestly.
mandelbrotwurst··on Understanding Coinbase
Sure, although you are comparing the rate to that of stock trades while the person you’re replying to is comparing to currency exchanges.
mandelbrotwurst··on Bitcoin's Climate Change Impact Is Under Scrutiny
It’s not guaranteed that the value of securing the network will be worth its cost even if the value it provides is very high - the cost could be many times higher still!

I don’t say to this to argue that the energy consumption either is or is not worth it, just calling attention to a gap in your logic here.

mandelbrotwurst··on The new browser-based puppeteer REPL, and how we built it
In what sorts of ways would they fail?

Was it definitely not that there were inconsistencies in the pages that you were interacting with?

Curious as someone who has done some browser automation, but not in a while and never with Puppeteer.

mandelbrotwurst··on Pipe – Instant access to your annual cash flow
It's a B2B product.
mandelbrotwurst··on Popular YouTubers who are building their own sites
Whichever the platform operator disapproves of.
mandelbrotwurst··on Number Unemployed for 27 Weeks and Over
It would incentivize them to get jobs, but it wouldn’t necessarily mean that they’d be able to. They might even become less likely to find work as they’re less able to meet their basic needs.
mandelbrotwurst··on Killing TurboTax
Cool, yeah just wanted to clarify so the comment didn't confuse any non-dependent students.
mandelbrotwurst··on Rent controls have split housing in Berlin into two distinct markets
I don’t think so, why would that happen?

I would expect it to actually increase the market rate because setting aside some amount of the supply at below market rate / subsidized means that there is a smaller remaining supply than if they hadn’t done that.

mandelbrotwurst··on Killing TurboTax
By “and a student” do you mean claimed as a dependent by someone else?
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