shapefrog

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I use a decoy phone that doesn't contain evidence of any crimes, its basically a get out of jail free card.

Doing a jam session while the crowd are "networking" and exchanging linked-in tier anecdotes about how they thought they were missing a meeting with the CEO because they were helping a homeless person is not a good creative environment.

If I could download a car, I would.

If I squint really really really hard they both have "com" towards the end of their names.

We are special and unique, that is why we were chosen not them.

> If these customers do not have access to Raspberry Pi, then they are likely to "go to the wall". 'Should I zero some of those customers or constrain them so heavily that they go out of business or take very serious damage?'

The CEO of Raspberry Pi disagrees with you.

This is not the point of the raspberry pi. It is to provide a very cheap computer for companies so that they can access more money.

I set out to save the world, but then a corporation that was built on my product, because it was much cheaper for them than the alternative, said they would make less profit if they didnt get all of my product.

Morally I had to support the corporation at that point.

The No-ADHD diagnosis was done by a professional whos pay depends on dispensing a No-ADHD diagnosis, while the 3 professionals offering a Yes-ADHD diagnosis depend on positive diagnosis of things to get paid.

Furthermore, why does a 2023 released game, in development since 2018, run like utter garbage on said spec hardware that is orders of magnitude more performant than last years specs ...

Please enter a plead - Not guilty by reason of its a prank bro.

Ethical vegetarians who eat fish are my favourite kind of hypocrites.

The "trap" in the meat fields being a refrigerator.

Ryanair did it >10 years ago, coin slot not contact payment terminal however.

NY to LA is ~ 5 hours, which is about as long as you get on the continental USA. Do you really need to eat? Chicago to NY is just over 2 hours - not really enough time for a 3 course meal.

If you are doing the 19 hours from NY to Singapore ... the food is pretty good!

> the biological defenses that plants have evolved to defend themselves and their seeds from undesirable predators

Hunting and gathering meat doesnt traditionally involve going out into a field and picking up a strip of meat wrapped up in plastic.

My experience is very similar. I am neither a great writer, not a great coder, not a grammar nazi - but still have to make major corrections to the output of such tools.

I came to the sad conclusion that perhaps what I write and what I do is not as repetitive or as generic as others. Over the years when I have had to do more repetition, writing once well and ctrl-c / ctrl-v.

When writing goes to 120 characters or you regularly write "thread" / 1/n at the bottom of your tweet, you lose some of your ability to think

I hate that everyone benefits from GDPR and hates GDPR and Europe for daring to try.

> difficult it is to predict policy outcomes

Are they really - or are they pretty obvious to anyone who casually glances at the headline of the policy, but the consequences are a problem after the next election. If you win you can always just blame the other side and if you lose you can blame the other side as well.

> be distributed among the parties in cahoots: the Microsoft employee(s) involved in the scheme, the partner, and the decision maker at the purchasing entity

Fraud.

> In the government had paid $5.5 million for Microsoft licenses for hardware they did not possess

Microsoft being paid for something doesnt sound like Microsoft bribing someone.

> Qatar’s Ministry of Education was paying $9.5 million annually over seven years for Microsoft Office

Microsoft being paid for something doesnt sound like Microsoft bribing someone.

I too have a Microsoft 365 subscription that keeps autorenewing that I never use.

> The price of a seat in the House of Lords is £400,000

The price to buy a seat from Boris was nearly an order of magnitude cheaper - but he also sold a lot of seats that he can not fulfill.

> I want certain favours from the current UK government, I can give a friend of mine an interest-free loan for him to donate significant sums of money to the current ruling party (Tories). You get away with this as long as there is no written record

Having seen this in action (UK, Tory government) ... you are taking too many steps and too much complication. You donate publicly, on the register, to the party, candidates, (leadership candidates) etc. They give you things you ask for. The entire "scheme" is far more transparent than you think. It is also much cheaper than you think.

The expensive path is to literally hire a sitting member of parliament to your company and then you also get things you ask for.

The system works(/worked) extremely well because the people involved had some class and would only ask and take within reason. If you know, you know.

> the history

You dont need to go beyond yesterday for history. The foreign aid budget for example is litteral bribery with a less icky name.

I see your $300M "least impactful" Harvard donation and raise you $4.1 billion Presidential candidates raised and spent in the 24 months of the 2019-2020 election cycle.

For the replier that wanted a more substantive response; my comment can be expanded on by pointing out it is ultimately a commentary on the motivations involved in the employee-manager relationship within the bureaucracy of the mega-corporation, within a society where financial success drives including but not limited to comfort, mate selection, breeding, health, longevity and day-to-day basic survival itself - factors with the importance of which has been determined by millennia of evolutionary biology.

Ultimately the result can be that an employee chooses health, survival and the social status that a job title brings and ships a product or feature that they can sell to their manager as innovative / disruptive / greatness reimagined.

It didnt pick up the bug in the else of the calculate function, presumably it is only running along the path that the script is running based on the inputs.

> imagine the energy savings if Firefox users switched to Chrome

This is why I left firefox.

They are not the intern anymore - they are senior vice president of battery draining, this feature absolutely killed it at the end of year review.