RyanCavanaugh

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by RyanCavanaugh 5y ago
If you have a "unified 'IP Registry'", as you (I think correctly) posit would be useful, why does it have to be done with a blockchain? Blockchains are useful for decentralized decisions, but decentralization is antithet
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by RyanCavanaugh 5y ago
50% of the developable land in Seattle is designated for single-family homes, and not one single inhabitable SFH in Seattle city limits is what anyone would call "affordable". The fact that it's illegal to replace those SFHs
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by RyanCavanaugh 5y ago
Obviously you're right on the physics, but this is like saying that supersonic flight must be impossible, otherwise we'd all be commuting that way. If you can send a regular signal around the planet faster than you can read a quan
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by RyanCavanaugh 5y ago
There's a massive qualitative difference here. If you're making something that is touted to be a breakthrough technology, you need to be actually doing it! It is well-established from the history of hardware and software engineeri
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by RyanCavanaugh 6y ago
This is every bit as much about email you receive as email you send , and you are not in control of email you receive. If your doctor slips up and emails you about your AZT prescription, it doesn't matter how careful you were about
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by RyanCavanaugh 7y ago
The fact that we just now found out that this is the case, yet would be completely unable to find anyone complaining about it except in hypothetical terms, tells you exactly how important it is.
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by RyanCavanaugh 7y ago
This is paltry nonsense. Gmail and similar host users are used to treating the dots as decorative, and will register with john.smith@ then try to use "Forgot username?" with johnsmith@ instead. They'll end up with three Git
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by RyanCavanaugh 7y ago
Most social networks already have to decide what counts as "adult" content, which has just as much gray area as what counts as "political".
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by RyanCavanaugh 7y ago
The critical distinction here is that a soup kitchen is not a for-profit venture, but Stack Exchange is.
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by RyanCavanaugh 7y ago
Your second paragraph basically posits that 1950's America would have been filled with companies hiring minority workers at lower wages to achieve superior financial results, but this didn't happen to any significant degree. Was l
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by RyanCavanaugh 7y ago
I disagree that the "turning vehicle" scenarios represent false positives. The driver can't possibly know that there isn't e.g. a scooter in front of the turning vehicle. It isn't safe to drive full speed ahead with
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by RyanCavanaugh 7y ago
The author seems keen on things that only work if he's the only person doing them.
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by RyanCavanaugh 7y ago
"This command barely outputs any text; if we display a sponsorship message here it'll get noticed - great idea! Can't believe no one thought of this before." "The city park has tons of grass, but no one is having th
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by RyanCavanaugh 7y ago
It's instructive to take the "What's left over" amount ($7,300) and add back all the things which are actually savings (401k, ~half of the mortgage, student loans): $47,600. This couple has a national household median in
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by RyanCavanaugh 7y ago
Income - Spending = Savings. It's an accounting identity. A common trick people pull in the shitty version of these articles is counting savings as "spending" and then declaring that "At the end of the month, there'
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by RyanCavanaugh 8y ago
Looks pretty similar to a Subaru Crosstrek in terms of size and shape, which is generally called an SUV or SUV Crossover
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by RyanCavanaugh 8y ago
Doesn't always work - if you're not a write-access collaborator on a repo, you can't add labels.
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by RyanCavanaugh 8y ago
What happens if you add a testcase that passes in 5.3.2 (current) but fails in 5.3.1?
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by RyanCavanaugh 8y ago
tslint has no-namespace and no-enum to disallow the two things that create new runtime code
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by RyanCavanaugh 8y ago
If you write type annotations in TS, they're stripped away. If you write type annotations in Flow, they're stripped away. There's no difference. TS has some additional features which are purely optional that don't get pu
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by RyanCavanaugh 8y ago
Since a decent chunk of the observed skill of Scrabble experts comes from points from getting bingos more frequently, it seems you've discovered that Luck is an intrinsic statistic of humans. Interesting!
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by RyanCavanaugh 8y ago
Any list of words will have both inclusions and exclusions that someone finds objectionable. The exclusion of "OK" is hardly arbitrary; it isn't allowed because it isn't pronounced "ock". Compare RADAR / L
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by RyanCavanaugh 8y ago
$30,000/year 43 years from now will be sub-poverty living. Based on prior inflation, you're looking at $6,600/year
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by RyanCavanaugh 8y ago
It's not a free market if you (literally) can't walk away from the transaction. Trying to apply free market principles to non-free markets is what got us into this mess in the first place.
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by RyanCavanaugh 8y ago
People will ask a question like "How long does it take to plow a field?" and get useless responses like "How long is a piece of string?", the implication being that no satisfactory answer could be given because a specifi
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by RyanCavanaugh 8y ago
This is nonsense. Stock vs flow comparisons occur all the time and no one is confused. How often have you heard things like "Don't buy a house costing more than 3x your salary" ? No one objects and says it's illogical to
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by RyanCavanaugh 8y ago
What definition of "superset" are you using?
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by RyanCavanaugh 8y ago
In a 5-4 decision in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyllo_v._United_States , the SCOTUS determined that police can't use thermal imaging on a house without a search warrant. I wonder what the vote would have been i
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by RyanCavanaugh 8y ago
This seems like a conflation. Your repo issues could be stored in a SQLite database, or a flat list of JSON files, or a git repo, or a giant text file, any of which your host might or might not give you direct access to. The thing to consid
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by RyanCavanaugh 8y ago
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