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New comment by iamaelephant in "New York Times phasing out all 3rd-party advertising data"

iamaelephant — Tue, 19 May 2020 18:31:03 +0000

Because this is an article about The Times.

New comment by iamaelephant in "France could nationalize big companies if necessary: finance minister"

iamaelephant — Wed, 18 Mar 2020 01:26:11 +0000

> 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.

New comment by iamaelephant in "Firm wielding Theranos patents asks judge to block coronavirus test"

iamaelephant — Tue, 17 Mar 2020 16:41:52 +0000

Absolutely, without question, yes.

New comment by iamaelephant in "How Long Will macOS Be Unix?"

iamaelephant — Tue, 17 Mar 2020 00:17:00 +0000

How about in practical terms?

New comment by iamaelephant in "Bitcoin price crash forces miners off network"

iamaelephant — Mon, 16 Mar 2020 20:38:01 +0000

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.

New comment by iamaelephant in "Bitcoin price crash forces miners off network"

iamaelephant — Mon, 16 Mar 2020 19:16:20 +0000

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.

New comment by iamaelephant in "Bitcoin price crash forces miners off network"

iamaelephant — Mon, 16 Mar 2020 19:11:31 +0000

I don't care about the time, but I'm utterly horrified at the waste of resources.

New comment by iamaelephant in "Exceptions should be Exceptional (2016)"

iamaelephant — Fri, 13 Mar 2020 03:56:34 +0000

Can't we all just agree that Maybe/Optional types are actually a great idea that generalizes all of this at minimal cost?

New comment by iamaelephant in "Airbnb’s loss nearly doubles in fourth quarter, before virus"

iamaelephant — Thu, 12 Mar 2020 23:09:33 +0000

Yup I'm utterly fed up with AirBnb and won't consider using them again.

New comment by iamaelephant in "Bitcoin and cryptocurrency prices have fallen sharply over the last few days"

iamaelephant — Thu, 12 Mar 2020 17:44:38 +0000

People still talk about Bitcoin as though it's a real market and not completely manipulated by a handful of key players? Ok then.

New comment by iamaelephant in "Twitter, Elliott Strike Truce That Leaves CEO Dorsey in Place"

iamaelephant — Mon, 09 Mar 2020 17:08:45 +0000

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So you can.

New comment by iamaelephant in "A googol-to-one gear ratio [video]"

iamaelephant — Sat, 07 Mar 2020 07:06:28 +0000

Maybe if you have a very big apple. 1 nM is the force of 1 Newton (1kg on Earth) at 1 meter.

New comment by iamaelephant in "DuckDuckGo is good enough for regular use"

iamaelephant — Fri, 06 Mar 2020 17:40:37 +0000

It's not

New comment by iamaelephant in "Highest French court reclassifies Uber drivers as employees"

iamaelephant — Thu, 05 Mar 2020 22:36:34 +0000

Literally you're describing the reason minimum wages exist.

New comment by iamaelephant in "Companies fret as costs soar for software subscriptions (2019)"

iamaelephant — Thu, 05 Mar 2020 22:35:51 +0000

> 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.

New comment by iamaelephant in "Highest French court reclassifies Uber drivers as employees"

iamaelephant — Wed, 04 Mar 2020 22:15:38 +0000

> 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

New comment by iamaelephant in "PowerShell 7.0"

iamaelephant — Wed, 04 Mar 2020 22:13:36 +0000

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?

New comment by iamaelephant in "Highest French court reclassifies Uber drivers as employees"

iamaelephant — Wed, 04 Mar 2020 22:12:46 +0000

> Does that mean that a taxi driver is an employee? Of course not.

Why not?

New comment by iamaelephant in "PowerShell 7.0"

iamaelephant — Wed, 04 Mar 2020 19:05:14 +0000

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.

New comment by iamaelephant in "Don’t try to sanitize input – escape output"

iamaelephant — Thu, 27 Feb 2020 07:29:06 +0000

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.