ehmish · HackerTrans

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Sure, but it _does_ matter _what_ credentials were leaked, and these creds didn't secure anything particularly critical in the grand scheme of things. Sure it might suck a bit for Atlassian employees who wanted to keep the fact they worked for Atlasisan a secret, but given a lot of them walk around wearing T-Shirts with "Atlassian" on them, I don't think they do.

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I've got a friend who went into the trades instead of going to university, he (correctly) recognised that what he was passionate about wouldn't even pay for the degree (composing music) so he figured he'd do it on the side and do a trade to earn a living. Unfortunately due to a workplace accident he cut the tendons in his wrist with a box cutter, which means he can't now play the piano for any reasonable amount of time. So i guess it's less "the body wears out" but more "you accumulate a lot of small injuries that eventually prevent you from perfoming your trade"

Edit:typo

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Hmm, I am not a botanist, but since watermelons have seeds, and botanically speaking seeds are in the fruit, aren't watermelon fruit botanically speaking?

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I think it's pretty normal in most developed countries to have operations happening 24/7, in some there's rules requring extra pay for saturdays and sundays, and a lot have weekly per-worker limits on the number of hours worked and/or numbers of hours where extra pay is required, but it's certainly not impossible.

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Yeah probably should have double-checked that, thanks.

You prompted me to double-check my other claim (that land under cultivation didn't increase) and that was wrong too!

According to this it's gone up by about 5x https://ourworldindata.org/world-lost-one-third-forests

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I'm thinking if population growth continues to shrink and go negative and automation continues to increase, production will stay constant or even increase, even while population decreases. Which would mean that each individual would get more riches with less work.

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I think the thing that this article misses is that per capita growth (the thing that's important for people's experienced life satisfaction) can essentially grow a lot further with fewer atoms under cultivation if you increase density. Humanity probably doesnt have much more area under cultivation than 300 years ago, but it has several orders of magnitude more people. The way i see the future going is less people, but each one is a billionaire. Kind of like how when stars run out of fuel they don't just wither away, but turn into very hot, dense and fast spinning white dwarfs.

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The thing I don't get about this explanation is that typically (as far as I know) hass avocados are grown in hass avocado plantations. Meaning that while they're technically a mixture of both of the parent plants, chances are a hass avocado is polinated from another hass avocado tree.

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I've found switching jobs to a company that does a lot of pairing helps a tonne, the other person acts as an accountability partner which helps keep you focused.

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Out of curiosity did smart contracts gain new capabilities in the summer of 2020?

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I've quite liked that the devices are often rootable/usable without an internet connection in contrast to most other internet of shit. It's probably accidental, or at least an outcome of having to cut development costs to undercut competitors but it's made me always go for xiaomi devices when i'm buying new stuff.

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This image of this guy you're painting doesn't sound anything like Scott Alexander, if anything Scott Alexander is the opposite of "certain he's right"

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Yeah but because of regression to the mean everyone has fhe same caliber of engineers

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I wonder why the eu didn't suspend the free movement over covid Australia's states did that and it worked out pretty well.

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Doesn't worry me too much, presumably conservative religious folk like being conservative and religious so they'll be in their own self made heaven and i'll probably be long gone.

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It leads to carnage, sure, but also leads to the United States being a very interesting and dynamic country. If i could live there i would.

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Ignoring their conclusion aboutwhat they think it was, it's interesting that _something_ happened in 1971, personally I think it's more likely the opening of trade with china than going off the gold standard. It does a good job of showing the sheer broadness of the effect on American society.

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Yeah but pol swings between being full if edgy leftists and edgy rightists

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I agree with your comment, but that article you linked to it seems to have a couple of odd conclusions. It seems to be calling "keeping them emotionally involved" (using alignment of incentives) to be part of the definition of a sick system.

Keeping employees emotionally involved doesn't seem to me to be a harmful thing for a workplace, or the workers themselves. Given you spend quite a lot of your waking hours working, feeling like your hard work's going to be rewarded seems like a good thing right?

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I found it insightful, he wrote it in what appeared to be a refreshingly honest/egoless way he doesn't try to act like he understands everything. I (think) I do understand primaries and such, and while they're better than he describes them as, they're a crappy solution to the real problem of a first past the post election system and the "problem" of splitting the vote.

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