DenisM

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by DenisM 6y ago
Does anyone still read though? I feel most of what I write goes unread, but people do engage with screenshots or videos.
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by DenisM 6y ago
Do you find it even-handed or skewed? Like, can you think of an article that would be in support of something Trump (or republicans in general) do?
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by DenisM 6y ago
Iteration speed is magic. The faster I can write and deploy code the more motivated and energized I am to do more of it. Compile time, local source control, one-click deployment, phased rollout, monitoring, solid roll-back story, anything t
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by DenisM 6y ago
> I'm curious what the goal was here, since the posts they made almost read as satire. Well, that could have been the goal then?
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by DenisM 6y ago
> "Bad: the defensive rationale for this acquisition is clear: Get ahead of the competition and cut off their access to the target's product" > "Good: The rationale for this acquisition is clear: Integrate the targ
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by DenisM 6y ago
Presumably lawyers who penned these rules understand that one set of words is a lot easier to interpret favorably in court than the other. It doesn't matter what the "feds" think, only the court's opinion is relevant to
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by DenisM 6y ago
> Most of us are hard wired to be emotionally empathetic, that's a 'good thing' Well, it is only about as good as any other animal instinct we possess - when not balanced with norms and intellect they lead to long-term dis
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by DenisM 6y ago
I'm wondering a "by proxy" follow up research is in the works?
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by DenisM 6y ago
Ok, but who and why is spreading the doom and gloom? I just don't see the profit motive.
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by DenisM 6y ago
> Lebanon's prime minister said an investigation would focus on an estimated 2,750 metric tons of the explosive ammonium nitrate stored at a warehouse. > A security source said the explosive power of the stored ammonium nitrate w
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by DenisM 6y ago
It does. Both sides take a hit on intellectual integrity, except that intellectuals put a lot of weight on it so they stand more to lose. When that field is “leveled” rhetoric becomes decisive.
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by DenisM 6y ago
> You don't get to sea-lion me Was this really necessary? You point would be just as strong without it, and the degree of hostility would go down.
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by DenisM 6y ago
In the old days the propaganda was expensive and it came from monied interests and any such interest would have a competitor pushing the other way providing balance and allowing room for the influence of the most informed citizens. We'
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by DenisM 6y ago
Nutters will be nutters, you can't affect that. What you can affect is how the general public perceives the difference between the two camps. They may not know enough to judge on the merit of the arguments, but they understand reputati
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by DenisM 6y ago
Articles like this get published and shared only because you (the collective "you") are overcome with anxiety about the subject. It doesn't tell us if the problem is widespread, only that it's engaging. The comments shar
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by DenisM 6y ago
Discussing Sherman act is a good starting point as it illuminates the spirit of the antitrust law and illustrates the letter. Do you think the EU definition of monopoly is different enough to allow Apple be classified as a monopoly? Please,
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by DenisM 6y ago
All kinds of things could be wrong with this AppStore business, but antitrust law / monopoly violation isn’t one of them.
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by DenisM 6y ago
The local cinema has an exclusive right on selling popcorn within its own walls. Far from being the only game in town, this cinema represents only 25% of the market and thus does not qualify for the Sherman Act definition of "monopoly&
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by DenisM 6y ago
> The US and NATO have intervened in the two civil wars It might have been a civil war at the start, but after that it was a war of the US against two sovereign states. Nothing civil about that.
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by DenisM 6y ago
How far back do you have to go to find a "sane" one? Bush Sr? Eisenhower?
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by DenisM 6y ago
Risky behavior is an inalienable right much like riding a motorcycle or climbing rocks. There is more to life than longevity.
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by DenisM 6y ago
Climbing the mood mountain is highly individual but the basecamp is shared by most - suspend all responsibilities for two weeks, reduce or suspend all media, load up on favorite music, find HIIT You love, disconnect the phone apart from map
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by DenisM 6y ago
Copy paste into email, send to yourself.
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by DenisM 6y ago
Age-related mental disorders are the final frontier for the human species. Heart problems are basically mechanical problems, we're guaranteed to fix them in the next 100 years, if only by printing new hearts and blood vessels. Cancer i
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by DenisM 6y ago
Wow this is fantastic. One feature request? When you highlight some text on the left it should highlight the corresponding text on the right, and vice versa.
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by DenisM 6y ago
I feel it would be more productive to let databases handle any shared state and only write my own code that uses local state. If the databases are falling short I am sure they will catch up in a hurry, and will do a better job than I will h
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by DenisM 6y ago
Anxiety runs rampant among knowledge workers. It appears a good half of all programmers are affected, most of them do not know it. Pretty much 100% of grad students have severe anxiety problems. You're not alone in this. I recommend ag
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by DenisM 6y ago
Make it an iPad app, I'll buy it.
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by DenisM 6y ago
Consider the parent post: >it's easy for everyone here to estimate the actual amount of malfeasance by taken the number of times they've seen police behave inappropriately (dozens) and divide it by the number of complaints they
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by DenisM 6y ago
Consider also that cognitive dissonance under peer pressure can produce stronger result than peer pressure alone.

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