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by Jensson 1y ago
Yeah, you should apologize before the mob forms. This is much more important for large corporations, if they do a big screwup and apologizes after massive backlash, that is bad, but if they apologize before the massive backlash its much bet
902.
by Jensson 1y ago
> I didn't see anyone (with one exception) pick sides immediately > the accused ended up damning themselves (or not!) pretty immediately when I talked to them about it So you mean yourself being the exception?
903.
by Jensson 1y ago
Europe is not US.
904.
by Jensson 1y ago
That is value transfer not value creation.
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by Jensson 1y ago
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906.
by Jensson 1y ago
It is easy to control for that, just look at the best man from a very small population. For example, the fastest male swimmers in Iceland are still much faster than the fastest female swimmers in the world, and Iceland has 10 000 times less
907.
by Jensson 1y ago
The rules permits posts that are incorrect or unsubstantiated, downvotes handles that. You can see the post was downvoted, so its working as intended. The rules however do not permit personal attacks and name-calling. You can say the same t
908.
by Jensson 1y ago
> Israel has been an apartheid state for decades Around 20% of Israelis are Muslims and they have full rights and get to vote, so no its not an apartheid state.
909.
by Jensson 1y ago
Do you think USA would agree to peace with Nazi Germany or Japan without being allowed to root out all the Nazis or Japanese extremists? WWII was ended in an extremely brutal way, but it did work and effectively ended the genocidal extremis
910.
by Jensson 1y ago
> Two states, stop holding a people in a perpetual refugee camp and you might be surprised and how much less they fight you. And, if you really have two states, then there's a framework for retaliation if it comes to that. This was
911.
by Jensson 1y ago
> Speaking as a Jewish person I feel like our odds of survival are much better in the diaspora You probably wouldn't feel that way 1945.
912.
by Jensson 1y ago
That isn't random though, the news conglomerate hates Google for eating their lunch so whenever Google does something they always write articles to try to generate outrage.
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by Jensson 1y ago
> why does it not know what that function does so it can't optimize? Because that seem to require the compiler to be an AGI. Its very hard to explain why its hard to make a truly intelligent program, but you just have to trust that
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by Jensson 1y ago
> almost all non-bad tech is American The reason is because Americans buy the other tech firms, so its not because they don't make non-bad tech its because USA just monopolizes it via very aggressive acquisitions.
915.
by Jensson 1y ago
Where do you live? I live in Sweden and I have used a lot of not so bad software from Sweden. Maybe its just your country, but at least in Sweden the government can make software for its services that works well, better than what I've
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by Jensson 1y ago
> In addition there is this argument from Torvalds, that you should mind your maximum nesting in a single function, which I also find useful. Note that nesting is a much bigger issue in a language like C where you have to clean up after
917.
by Jensson 1y ago
You should really use 3 since obviously people want a bit more than 2 and a bit less than 4. I use 3 for that reason, as I was most productive at 3. At 2 I don't get an overview easily enough, at 4 indents start to creep too far out ma
918.
by Jensson 1y ago
That is like saying concurrent programming is far superior to sequential programming so lets stop doing sequential programming completely. Many tasks are just easier to do in a centralized environment.
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by Jensson 1y ago
You aren't betting against Nvidia, you are betting against the burden of trillions of profit the hype has put in Nvidia. Can Nvidia really generate that much profits? If not its overhyped and you should bet against it.
920.
by Jensson 1y ago
Most big companies has done that at some point, why would it lead to a death spiral? Death spiral happens when you cut too late, so you are forced to cut but you are still running a deficit and just has to cut and cut and cut without thinki
921.
by Jensson 1y ago
That doesn't include debit cards, most people don't want nor need credit cards. I can count on one hand the amount of times I have seen people use cash the past year, basically everyone uses cards. We have VISA and Mastercard with
922.
by Jensson 1y ago
Read the first sentence for context, they aren't just being shooed away its to help them. > President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order urging cities and states to clear homeless encampments and move people into tre
923.
by Jensson 1y ago
That is just a syntactic sugar difference, you could have exactly the same call site structure if you wanted in a language.
924.
by Jensson 1y ago
> So Java's checked exceptions force you to write verbose and pointless code in all the wrong places (the "in the middle" code that can't handle and doesn't care about the exception). It doesn't, you can jus
925.
by Jensson 1y ago
> You can't return something like Result<CorrectObject,ConstructorError> to handle the error gracefully Throwing an error is doing exactly that though, its exactly the same thing in theory. What you are asking for is just more
926.
by Jensson 1y ago
> does making credit cards a less lucrative business lower credit card penetration? It doesn't, EU uses card payments much more than the US. So end of discussion there, it got cheaper with no negatives, just positives.
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by Jensson 1y ago
> Back of the envelope guesstimating is bread and butter. And that is not done with calculators, that is done quickly in your head by having practiced a lot of calculations manually. This is why engineer students still practice manual ca
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by Jensson 1y ago
To some people gender is basically sex. Simple as that. So a person can see themselves as a woman but others are free to see them as a man, because this isn't a scientific term as you say. Its like how some call men who didn't con
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by Jensson 1y ago
Issue is you can't tell the difference between a man calling himself a woman to harass women and a man calling himself a woman since he feel he is a woman. That is the main reason people are against these things, it doesn't matter
930.
by Jensson 1y ago
But that doesn't apply to Steam.

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