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by Lazare 7y ago
> I think employers prefer engineers who are effective and have a past track record of success. I have talked to startup founders who were very explicit that they only hired developers who coded obsessively outside of work. One was ve
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by Lazare 7y ago
Yeah. I quite enjoy programming, and I'm quite good at it; as a result I quite enjoy my job and I get paid quite a lot. I'm very lucky! And to help protect that, I carefully limit the amount of programming I do outside of work
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by Lazare 7y ago
> The irritating thing is that EV is the closest thing to a useful thing PKI can provide If true, that says more about the usefulness of PKI, than the usefulness of EV certs. > And the only reason it's being pushed out is because
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by Lazare 7y ago
It didn't even address the point. It analysed what companies were doing, not what the recipients of the money were doing.
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by Lazare 7y ago
> Much of the money isn't going to other investments. It goes to savings. Savings and investments are synonyms in this context. See, eg, the savings identity ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saving_identity ). Whe
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by Lazare 7y ago
Correct.
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by Lazare 7y ago
> So much of the argument behind the 2017 tax cuts and the Fed's low interest rates was that they would spur real investment (that is, investment which increases productive capacity or improves productivity) that would benefit every
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by Lazare 7y ago
Not sure what to make of it. Certainly having someone in jail kill themselves while already on suicide watch is not a good look for the authorities. And his exiting the scene might be convenient for some. I wonder if we'll ever really
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by Lazare 7y ago
> I believe that the 8chan case still violated what's the defamation/slander bar in the US That's not how libel law works in the US, or indeed, in the UK. It applies to specific statements of fact about specific people, a
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by Lazare 7y ago
There is no law against hate speech, and any such law would be unconstitutional. Many attempts at passing such laws have been struck down. It's an oddly pervasive delusion that hate speech is not protected by the first amendment.
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by Lazare 7y ago
> The freedom to spread cheap hate, fake news and bigotry against minorities? I'm sorry but moderating such offenses isn't a limitation to free speech. For the same reason why, if you start shouting nig or monkey to black peopl
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by Lazare 7y ago
I believe you'll find that this was driven by SESTA/FOSTA, rather than being a discretionary choice by Cloudflare, and if you hang out in the right circles, it gets complained about a lot. (EFF, ACLU, Wikimedia, and many more oppo
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by Lazare 7y ago
They've kicked people off their service before for content based reasons (eg, Daily Stormer), so this changes nothing. In any case: > I thought there was some sort of legal distinction if they were totally agnostic to what travels o
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by Lazare 7y ago
See here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/08/04/three-m... There is an article in the Washington Post about how they're not taking action, and quotes from activists about how they nee
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by Lazare 7y ago
On the one hand, I like the idea of a free, open, and distributed internet, where no one company or government has the power to control what is distributed or discussed. As the great John Gilmore said, more aspirationally than accurately ev
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by Lazare 7y ago
> I am sorry if I misinterpreted you, but that was precisely what you said. If you have the money to spend on tools, but think Linux or VS Code is best, that's fine. If OS X would be better for you, but you use Linux because you c
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by Lazare 7y ago
> The thing I do not agree is that you have to pay for tools in order to be a professional. Absolutely not! You don't have to pay, and there's tons of free tools which are top rate. What I said is that if you're a profe
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by Lazare 7y ago
No. My employer upgraded from PHP 5.4 to 7.0 with minimal fuss (we spent about a week on the migration, testing, and deployment, and it went smoothly), and 7.0 to 7.3 is trivial in comparison. There are a few edge cases out there of course
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by Lazare 7y ago
> at 199 USD yearly phpstorm is prohibitively expensive for small teams and independent devs First, that $200 rate is for teams; independent devs can pay a significantly lower rate (the catch is, you have to pay it personally , not exp
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by Lazare 7y ago
It's not just rich folks. Via pensions funds, this is also about a lot of teachers, social workers, government employees and normal folk. Pensions were funded (or not) based on assumptions about yields. If actual yields are not hitting
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by Lazare 7y ago
> People want higher returns without higher risks, and other people can profit from convincing buyers that the returns are higher, or the risks are lower. That does happen, but what may be even more common (and more important is a slig
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by Lazare 7y ago
> more expensive housing (larger, more luxurious) will be constructed first because it's more profitable, and building companies and homeowners will do all they can to keep less expensive units out of the market as long as they can
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by Lazare 7y ago
1) Give the poor enough money that housing will be affordable. 2) Subsidise housing directly. 3) Change regulations so building affordable housing will be profitable. There's nothing fancy or unusual about housing. The poor might strug
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> However, if the city lends with a lower repayment rate, that's just a subsidy. I think the government needs to spend on affordable housing, but this just seems like a way of doing it inefficiently (but sneaking it by taxpayers wh
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by Lazare 7y ago
Politically, I certainly see the appeal. From finance/economics point of view...I dunno. If I was cynical, I might say it seems like we're being asked why city funds should be parked in accounts making safe, legal, loans which are
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by Lazare 7y ago
I agree. BEVs are, I think, inevitable, and one person or company can only do very little to shift the timeline one way or another. Which impact Tesla has had, if any, is impossible to measure. It's not even entirely clear that the imp
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by Lazare 7y ago
What you're not following, I think, is how little I care about cars and car companies . :) I don't care about Nissan, and I certainly don't care about a company a quarter their size. I care a little about Toyota because th
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by Lazare 7y ago
I agree with you very, very strongly. However... ...I don't think that applies to Musk. This isn't the case of someone making an ill-considered tweet and getting eviscerated; this is about dozens and dozens of tweets, lawsuits, an
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by Lazare 7y ago
> Why do some many people hate Tesla and want them to fail? My feeling is that the overwhelming majority of Tesla critics do not hate Tesla, and do not want Tesla to fail. Rather, they see Tesla as a small, unimportant, poorly run
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by Lazare 7y ago
Internalisers do not "front run" retail orders. That's not even a thing you can do ; the idea of front running is to get ahead of a trade that will move the market, but the internalisers are buying retail order flow because

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