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by EpicEng 7y ago
Yet even then, you can turn a profit without pushing gambling on children.
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by EpicEng 7y ago
>I've never understood the cynical way certain people view EA from the outside. EA is a large business (~30B market cap) and subject to the same sorts of challenges of any business at that scale. From my perspective EA is a federati
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by EpicEng 7y ago
>What kind of API would one want tosee here? In C it's almost always Length | error_code
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by EpicEng 7y ago
>Maybe next time RTA? I think it's you that has missed the point. Syllables have a very loose correlation to information. So great; we can stream out 39bits worth of syllables / second. In what way does that describe how inform
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by EpicEng 7y ago
"but your honor, this doesn't fit the legal definition of 'creepy'!"
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by EpicEng 7y ago
I get constant, intermittent stutters when scrolling on FF. On three devices. Sorry, I just want a browser that works. I don't imagine this is a problem for everyone, but I can find reports of it and no fix.
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by EpicEng 7y ago
If they continually lose money on such things then it's a good deterrent. Big IF there.
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by EpicEng 7y ago
And 90% of those posts are made by beginners with a crashing linked list implementation. They're uninformed.
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by EpicEng 7y ago
>which IMO may make it worse than smoking. This stuff isn't subjective. No one with any amount of credibility attached to their name is making that claim, so what's your basis for it?
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by EpicEng 7y ago
Also from the paper >At present, it is not possible to draw a conclusion whether nicotine itself may act as a complete carcinogen If you're going to quote it, include the bits that don't agree with you as well. The paper basica
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by EpicEng 7y ago
It's not a straw man when your case applies to a tiny fraction of the human population and mine applies to the rest. Context matters, I was responding to this: >Ha! People who wear power suits, makeup, expensive haircuts and shoes a
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by EpicEng 7y ago
Which would be a ridiculous use case. Everything is deadly at a high enough dose. No one in their right mind is vaping pure nicotine. It could kill you via skin absorption alone.
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by EpicEng 7y ago
Nicotine is not, in any way, a "well known carcinogen". https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4553893/
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by EpicEng 7y ago
And what percentage of the population do you believe that is true for? Remember, we're talking about people interviewing in general here, not the small percentage of software devs who work 100% remotely on contract. Not to mention yo
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by EpicEng 7y ago
Until you have to, you know, actually meet someone in person.
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by EpicEng 7y ago
I can be disappointed when viewing a web page while simultaneously being disappointed in humanity's collective response to climate change. Context matters.
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by EpicEng 7y ago
Because it wouldn't hurt their competition that way. This isn't altruism.
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by EpicEng 7y ago
of course frequency matters. Yes, it's awful every time, but it's a whole lot worse for society if it happens 10,000 times a day as opposed to once every 5 years
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by EpicEng 7y ago
He also needed wood shavings
590.
by EpicEng 7y ago
Yes that sort of thing happens, but "often"? How often are we talking here? You make it sound like a common occurrence and I'm not convinced that's the case.
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by EpicEng 7y ago
>Do you have any evidence to the contrary or are you just saying that it's equally possible either was happening? Are you really asking for evidence which contradicts a hypothetical that you have no evidence to support?
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by EpicEng 7y ago
>You can also make fire with two stones. I'd love to see that trick.
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by EpicEng 7y ago
>But God help you if you have a prior record and happen to be black or match the description of the assailants... and just happened to be around the bank at the time Seems reasonable that you would be approached by investigators if you w
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by EpicEng 7y ago
>I often see "steep learning curve" cited as a negative about Rust. But I think it is far less of a learning curve than it is to be a reliable C and C++ programmer. Man of us are already competent in C and/or C++, so to ma
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by EpicEng 7y ago
meh, don't mind downvotes. Even PG has said that using downvotes as a disagree button is standard practice on HN.
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by EpicEng 7y ago
Will, you're right; "solved problem" was too strong a term for a complicated issue. What I meant to get across is that a lot of thought has gone into this already.
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by EpicEng 7y ago
Yes, I'm sure that when people run across these[1] they're going to think "pirate booty!" [1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hazard_symbol
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by EpicEng 7y ago
>So you have to properly communicate "Don't go in here or mess with anything, this is dangerous" without words. That's a solved problem already. Skull and crossbones, etc.
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by EpicEng 7y ago
An ever widening wealth gap would disagree with you there. I'm not a doom and gloom tear down the system guy by any means, but wages have not risen alongside the wealth of the rich in this country lately. >Not sure what your point i
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by EpicEng 7y ago
Labor cost mean that that money is going back into the hands of workers. there are plenty of other costs that don't benefit the average person nearly as much.

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