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Comment · 3 years ago
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.
Comment · 3 years ago
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"

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Comment · 5 years ago
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?
Comment · 5 years ago
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.
Comment · 5 years ago
Comment · 5 years ago
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.
Comment · 5 years ago
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.
Comment · 5 years ago
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.
Comment · 5 years ago
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.
Comment · 5 years ago
Out of curiosity did smart contracts gain new capabilities in the summer of 2020?
Comment · 5 years ago
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.
Comment · 5 years ago
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"
Comment · 5 years ago
Yeah but because of regression to the mean everyone has fhe same caliber of engineers
Comment · 5 years ago
I wonder why the eu didn't suspend the free movement over covid Australia's states did that and it worked out pretty well.
Comment · 5 years ago
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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