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elliotec

2,583 karmajoined 12 ปีที่แล้ว
Writing software and building teams.

Personal site: https://elliotec.com Project site: https://mindscapecollective.org

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elliotec
·5 วันที่ผ่านมา·discuss
Agreed 100% - they bricked the thing with official firmwares, and the "community" is the meanest most awful group of so-called hackers I've ever interacted with. It's more than just COA, they're actively aggressive and insular, not just on discord but reddit and less-known places too (which you can't know because you'll be banned for asking where you could find out).
elliotec
·เดือนที่แล้ว·discuss
Again, very rarely. Highly unlikely this particular one does.
elliotec
·เดือนที่แล้ว·discuss
Renaming a Bluetooth device like a speaker permanently for everyone (as opposed to a nickname you give it in your phone or whatever) is difficult if possible at all and usually requires firmware or hardware changes, unless the option is given by the device or its companion app (which is very rare).

So your assumption seems the most likely. I highly doubt a 16 year old kid is firmware hacking a cheap speaker just to rename it for a "joke"
elliotec
·เดือนที่แล้ว·discuss
Who uses those gas and oil repositories? Who drills it out and refines it? Who invests in it? Who uses this distributed wealth and how?

The point here is that human labor is the economic engine and without it, things like this cease to exist or matter.
elliotec
·เดือนที่แล้ว·discuss
This is the "whole thing" in a nutshell for me too. It's useful, speeds some things up, but I've been doing this a long time.

The state-of-the-art or medium-term future of the tooling doesn't feel apocalyptic in itself, but the macro forces, implications of scaling, and general reactions to it on all sides are a different story.
elliotec
·เดือนที่แล้ว·discuss
On average Steven Pinker is at best a fake hyperoptimist-by-aggregate who puts billionaires on pedestals and rewrites history to entrench shitty systems. Sometimes he says smart stuff but he ignores or actively disregards massive problems with a painfully self-serving neutrality.
elliotec
·เดือนที่แล้ว·discuss
Here's a source from 2019 that says: "By 2023, the number of knowledge workers in the world will increase to 1.14 billion, with more than four-fifths of that growth coming from the emerging world."

https://www.gartner.com/en/newsroom/press-releases/09-24-201...
elliotec
·2 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
You can still centrally manage Macs? Look at every tech company.
elliotec
·2 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
"The government" is the same as those lobbying the government. The people in the government get paid to push it, so they push it, and get paid more when it goes through, by the people who want that PII to analyze.
elliotec
·2 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
#0 Is what William James described as consciousness not being a separate substance, but a set of relations within experience itself:

> Consciousness connotes a kind of external relation, and does not denote a special stuff or way of being. The peculiarity of our experiences, that they not only are, but are known, which their 'conscious' quality is invoked to explain, is better explained by their relations — these relations themselves being experiences — to one another.
elliotec
·3 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
Okay, so just to be clear you're not commenting on productivity? Or what does "changes that impact" mean?

I might be missing a lot of self-evident assumptions here but I feel like I'm still missing so much context and have no idea what this difference is actually describing.
elliotec
·3 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
Forgive my ignorance, but what exactly is the vast difference? Who's doing more of what, or whatever you're implying? And how do you quantify this?
elliotec
·3 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
An invoice/receipt is often necessary for booking purposes, reimbursements, taxes, etc. But to your point, just put it in the same email as the tracking number and move on.
elliotec
·3 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
What successful services have you built because of entitled users?
elliotec
·4 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
Exactly. The old Iron Triangle. One of the three will always be most important depending on the constraints. Two of them will be possible.
elliotec
·4 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
I don't know if you're right or wrong, but it is an incredibly common tactic and done all the time by many businesses and people. There are of course ways to do this that are less noticeable by the IRS (as acknowledged in the article) and it doesn't seem like they have the capacity to investigate and audit the vast amount of this practice. My understanding is they are typically focused on fraud and/or folks simply not filing.
elliotec
·4 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
> never the time to short a company

> can be part of a combination strategy
elliotec
·4 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
Kagi has tons of results from Reddit and they're always high and relevant. I don't know if this means they're doing it even though they're "not allowed to" or what but they definitely get it somehow.
elliotec
·5 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
I agree completely. The internet did reset our expectations and tolerance for latency. My observation was not an endorsement by any means, I don't feel one way or another about it. But it sure would be nice to have speed!
elliotec
·5 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
> In reality tax rates go up or down on everyone at the same time, because that's how the negotiations shake out.

This is absolutely false, especially in the US. Progressive tax brackets, breaks for the rich, and targeted changes for capital vs. income, deductions, etc. are the norm. Tax rate change is _always_ selective.