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by Freedom2 1y ago
It won't really spur the curious discussion this forum is known and loved for.
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I think that's why I enjoy using HN most of all. People generally dive into the article and don't make judgmental or charged comments, not mention then curious discussion to be found every day.
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It's interesting you mention that because I'm being quite charitable to my colleague, who was actually dismissively stubborn, and who ignored my personal experiences about living in a non-wood house. The context is that I was shop
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I once asked a colleague why this was the case, and the responses I got were basically "Wood is cheap, durable and we have lots of it. Other materials will price houses out of most Americans and there's no tangible benefit to usin
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> Hence Leetcode is a reasonably good test for the job. If it didn't actually work, it would've been discarded by companies long ago. This is an appeal to tradition and a form of survivorship bias. Many successful companies hav
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Sabotaging? The candidate learned that their interviewers, and probably the company as a whole, isn't curious about languages or stuff that is outside of their wheelhouse. What if the interviewers decided to ask the candidate about the
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by Freedom2 1y ago
"Fastest algos" very rarely solve actual business problems, which is what most of us are here to do. There's some specialized fields and industries where extreme optimization is required. Most of software engineer work is not
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by Freedom2 1y ago
How else do you describe people who didn't know what a tariff was, didn't care to check how it works, blindly believes that other countries will pay for it (especially after Mexico didn't really pay for the wall the first tim
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by Freedom2 1y ago
> you need to consider (at least) a 15% tip as part of the base cost No, I don't need to do anything. Restaurants are free to charge a service fee and state that plainly on the menu, as many already do. Otherwise it's optional
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> too speculative and inconsistent for me. I wonder if he's a HN commenter as well, in that case. I do appreciate your mention of Stuart Russell however. I've recently been watching a few of his talks and have found them very i
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I don't trust Americans to understand how ranked choice voting actually works, given the education level of most voters here. Not to mention there's probably some way they'll bastardize it and transform it into something even
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by Freedom2 1y ago
Does China use a lot of windmills? The US president has a big concern with windmills, perhaps rightly so, which perhaps explains the rise in emissions.
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> only Categorically this isn't true, I easily found good and affordable public transport in smaller towns. It's definitely less common, but to bluntly say that only first and second tier cities have gold and affordable public
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That's a strawman argument and doesn't really engage curious discussion. GP never said that agents need to be murdered in cold blood, nor did they say that they didn't care about the agents' safety.
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In two weeks we're going to have the biggest, most beautiful lessons.
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Depends if you're the president.
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Someone can be more specific and accurate with this, but in the US, population percentages don't vote. Or in other words, some votes are worth more than others. So relying entirely on % of population isn't a great measure.
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I've lived in over 7 countries and the US healthcare system is by far the worst one I've personally experienced.
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by Freedom2 1y ago
Plase don't post unsubstantive comments to Hacker News. This has nothing to do with anything specific or interesting about the actual OP. That makes it bad for this site. (Disclaimer: I'm not a moderator, but it's what we&#x2
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by Freedom2 1y ago
Do you mind explaining what you mean? I believe some smart HN commenters here stated that this administration would be the most transparent one ever, so I'm not entirely sure where the surprise would come from!
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I don't disagree. My comment has little to do with that. Let's take the fact that sales tax isn't baked into the price in the US, a common criticism of the US. I understand the sales tax is different per state. Not having the
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by Freedom2 1y ago
I hooked up a GitHub repo that's long been abandoned by me and I've just been tinkering with menial stuff - updating dependencies, refactoring code without changing any actual implementation details, minor feature or style updates
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by Freedom2 1y ago
> Every other country can do it, why not the US? American exceptionalism is a real thing, unfortunately. And what I've found is that when confronted with a flaw or aspect of their society that could be improved, Americans tend to wo
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by Freedom2 1y ago
Modern Java is quite good these days, no? Type inference, fibers, text blocks, records... I agree if we were talking about Java 8 (and I have no doubt a lot of people are still unfortunately using that), but I wouldn't mind a modern Ja
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by Freedom2 1y ago
Thank you for calling out my inaccuracy.
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by Freedom2 1y ago
Thank you for calling out my inaccuracy. One thing I'm always appreciative for in HN is the level of pedantry day after day.
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It doesn't help that a lot of skeptics are also dishonest. A few days ago someone here tried to claim that inserting verbose debug logging, something Claude Code would be very good at, is "actually programming" and it's
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Agreed, or like the the inshoku gyōkai in Tokyo.
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If no one wanted to dismantle it, why is it being dismantled?

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