GavinMcG

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901.
by GavinMcG 7y ago
I think you're reading "is" in a particular (and reasonable) way, but there are other ways of reading it. For example "is" can mean "is essentially " or fundamentally , or it could mean "is current
902.
by GavinMcG 7y ago
I was curious what "micron-optimized" meant but it's just catchy headline copy.
903.
by GavinMcG 7y ago
"Gear" is slang for steroids, hormones, and other chemical aids to muscle development, for those who aren't familiar.
904.
by GavinMcG 7y ago
It's not. Common vs civil law (i.e. where law comes from) is orthogonal to the roles of the fact-finder and parties in a dispute at trial. Most Americans will be familiar with an adversarial model, where each side's lawyer is maki
905.
by GavinMcG 7y ago
There's plenty that's worthy and new-to-me even if it's years or decades old. We're sophisticated enough to recognize that but still find the context valuable.
906.
by GavinMcG 7y ago
Do you know how raw Julia and Nim stack up on those fronts?
907.
by GavinMcG 7y ago
No one is arguing about the definition of adversity. Of course that's actual adversity. The point that you were ostensibly replying to, though, had to do with meaning and being the heroes of meaningful stories about our lives. You zero
908.
by GavinMcG 7y ago
Okay, tweak it to say overcoming meaningful adversity, that satisfies our need for narrative/place/existential order.
909.
by GavinMcG 7y ago
Can you elaborate on the moral principles you're employing here?
910.
by GavinMcG 7y ago
The "power in another industry" part. What part of that wasn't clear to you ? Which market is Google unfairly benefiting/profiting in, by leveraging its market share in search?
911.
by GavinMcG 7y ago
What "power in another industry" is being gained?
912.
by GavinMcG 7y ago
Peter Norvig's Sudoku solver using constrain propagation is a nice demonstration of the mini-Kanren approach.[0] I spoke at RubyConf a few years ago on the basics of logic programming and constraint propagation, and demoed a (poorly-co
913.
by GavinMcG 7y ago
Trauma shears is the usual name.
914.
by GavinMcG 7y ago
Mainstream is often better in terms of unofficial support/learning resources, and by definition better in terms of familiarity/market share. For something like a shell, forcing a niche choice needs justification when it's n
915.
by GavinMcG 7y ago
There's an attitude in the United States that any and all legal restrictions are "bad for business" and should be rejected out of hand. I think this article offers a counterpoint: even with the restrictions the article descri
916.
by GavinMcG 7y ago
But we frequently are better off having others think for us. There are a broad spectrum of examples, from research that we don't have the time or resources to accomplish, to, say, getting advice from a friend, while in a crisis, that
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72 points by GavinMcG 7y ago|15 comments
918.
by GavinMcG 7y ago
I suspect you've never worked in a non-software business environment. Your statements live up to your username. I'm sure you're an intelligent and skilled person, but you're speaking outside your wheelhouse right now.
919.
by GavinMcG 7y ago
Well that's partly why you file a lawsuit. If you have a reasonable belief that the answer to that is yes, a lawsuit provides a process for confirming whether and to what extent it's true.
920.
by GavinMcG 7y ago
I think it seems strange where we imagine that tools are neutral. But they aren't, necessarily, and especially if the organization/developers knew they were building something to be used unlawfully, it's reasonable to hold th
921.
by GavinMcG 7y ago
Related quasi-counterpoint: http://m.nautil.us/blog/impossibly-hungry-judges
922.
by GavinMcG 8y ago
Given that the answer to your "question" is obviously going to be yes, why did you choose that tone? Do you think there's a virtue to being dismissive and rude? Does it accomplish some worthwhile goal?
923.
by GavinMcG 8y ago
Growing up in Idaho I kept waiting for self-sabotaging policies to get so overwhelmingly bad for things to change. The market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.
924.
by GavinMcG 8y ago
The legal concept of corporate personhood demonstrates the issue.
925.
by GavinMcG 8y ago
But failure to escape has the same outcome as turning yourself in, why not make a run for it?
926.
by GavinMcG 8y ago
No, you really don't. Debunking "claims of self-made wealth and reveal[ing] a business empire riddled with tax dodges" isn't anti-Trump. Neither is "uncovering President Trump’s secret payoffs to two women during hi
927.
by GavinMcG 8y ago
For a penalty to be appropriate we'd need to be able to identify a harm to someone. That's a stretch in this case, I think.
928.
by GavinMcG 8y ago
Just the opposite. Doximity is a network for medical professionals; if you Google it they expliticly advertise "no patients, just clinicians".
929.
by GavinMcG 8y ago
> does not necessarily end well Well, no. No one is saying that blind faith is sufficient , and that a good outcome necessarily follows. Blind faith is necessary , along with many other things, and even then there's no guarantee o
930.
by GavinMcG 8y ago
It's absurd how many examples of the collective action problem are treated this way every day, on HN or in media more broadly.

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