Kaveren

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by Kaveren 8y ago
This is a very cynical way to look at it. Some people may just like helping people and sharing knowledge, and maybe they've also received help themselves and want to give back to the community. I don't think this is repulsive. The
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by Kaveren 8y ago
What improvements could be made to Q&A sites to deal with the culture problems you point to?
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by Kaveren 8y ago
You are complaining about someone donating to a children's hospital and being credited for it?
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by Kaveren 8y ago
Simplicity is not the end all be all. Where is Rust, as a language, needlessly complex?
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by Kaveren 8y ago
I place no value in review aggregators. They don't tell you anything useful. It's much better to find your own individual sources that you can trust over time, and they can earn or lose reputation with you based on the quality of
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by Kaveren 8y ago
Referencing my earlier comment [0]. Caplan never says that the arts a waste of time. Refutes your view [1], main points are that this is an idealistic view; that enrichment requires willful participants which many if not most students are n
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by Kaveren 8y ago
This article isn't the full picture of Caplan's view. I haven't read his book, but here's a timestamped talk [0] at The Heritage Foundation where he addresses this argument. To summarize, he says that he loves "usel
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by Kaveren 8y ago
We're talking about protected classes here, and I don't think it's equally unacceptable. On a fundamental level, inherent characteristics (race) are very different from ideas (speech). So I think you can be in favor of anti-d
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by Kaveren 8y ago
Yes, that's exactly what I'm going to do. Your opinion has no right to exist on any platform. Don't like it? You can move off of it. Bring other people to a platform that goes by rules you like. I don't use Gab, I am not
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by Kaveren 8y ago
Just because something has a lot of mindshare doesn't mean you have any business silencing their choices. People who don't agree with the policies of private companies like Facebook can simply not use it. Try Gab if you want a pri
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by Kaveren 8y ago
In the case of Daraprim? Nowhere. It's not a drug many people need. Shrkreli himself has talked about this. It simply wouldn't be able to make a dent because of this, and it didn't. If I'm recalling correctly, and I migh
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by Kaveren 8y ago
From what I understand he only raised prices that insurance companies would pay. He offered the drug for free to anyone without insurance who couldn't afford it. So, not exactly.
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by Kaveren 8y ago
I listen to lofi hip hop or a rain aimbient [0] while programming often. According to "Is Noise Always Bad? Exploring the Effects of Noise on Cognition" [1], this is actually fine. I think the rain ambient is fine, and perhaps eve
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by Kaveren 8y ago
What is a "visit"? Is it executing JavaScript on the page it visits, and acting completely like a normal browser? If not, trivial to detect?
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by Kaveren 8y ago
Let me remind everyone that ProtonVPN is the only VPN service publicly available I know of that owns even a small portion of their own hardware and data center.
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by Kaveren 8y ago
I believe I've commented on this earlier, I remember it being submitted last year. I still think this is a really awful, completely useless product. I really like that HN & Reddit & Discord are persistent. It's very valuab
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by Kaveren 8y ago
> Why the censorship is done by a corporation is so much better than the one done by an elected government? I think that censorship is the wrong thing not who does it. Because a company can censor whatever they want, and you don't h
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by Kaveren 8y ago
This gets parroted out frequently by people who think it's a cute quip. This article, however, explains why the situation was much more complicated than can be explained in a one-liner.
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by Kaveren 8y ago
Completely in agreement. I really dislike when math books don't have solutions to exercises available, since I self-study. Like Diestel's Graph Theory is great, it's the book you want to read if you're serious about the
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by Kaveren 8y ago
What are your particular critiques about this book? There's nothing inherently inferior about a free resource. What makes LADR superior to this book? Finding a teacher isn't at all mandatory, you can do math yourself by completi
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by Kaveren 8y ago
Airtable was really bad for me compared to Notion. The rich text support is the primary but not only problem. I can't speak to the others, but Airtable is a really bad alternative.
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by Kaveren 8y ago
A fair percentage of my comments are downvoted, so it's not about opinion validation. I'm opinionated on a number of topics, and voice those opinions. Sometimes I have a question to pose, or I disagree with the premise of the subm
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by Kaveren 8y ago
Of course not, there's nothing wrong with not posting. My question was just out of curiosity for why people never feel "compelled" (not a great word here) to post while actively browsing quite a bit.
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by Kaveren 8y ago
I don't know if you're willing to make a 3rd comment, but I'm trying to understand the lurker mindset from the perspective of someone who posts quite actively. Is is just that you don't care enough to reply, feel like yo
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by Kaveren 8y ago
This is true, but in practice there's a good chance they will be released if you pay. I don't have statistics on this on hand, but from cursory knowledge I'd be surprised if it was less than 70%-80% of the time a ransom was p
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by Kaveren 8y ago
> "“Police have so far advised the family not to meet the requirements.” This is good advice from their point of view because it lowers the incentive to commit these types of crimes in the future. For the individual person, it is mo
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by Kaveren 8y ago
What do you dislike not just about React, but categorically about that style of frontend development in general? Framework specific distaste I understand, but general philosophy wise I don't.
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Why does it take 3 to 10 days to process results? What's stopping you from delivering results within a second? Edit: I didn't see that there was open ended responses or a programming project on some of the exams because I was loo
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by Kaveren 8y ago
I'd go so far as to question the experience of someone who doesn't see value in React or frameworks similar to it for web applications. There's a large contingent that advocates for bare-bones JS development, but minimalism f
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by Kaveren 8y ago
Yes, the job market is in a fine state. If you're competent, you won't have a problem. You don't need to spend a penny (or too much time) to learn web development if you put in the effort. Mozilla Developer Network [0] is wha

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