RyanZAG

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by RyanZAG 9y ago
Without native bindings, you'd still need to write all the UI code in C, and then you could use Swift interop to call your C function that does the layout. That's not what most would think of as Swift support if you're writin
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by RyanZAG 9y ago
I'm not entirely sure on which angle you're trying to discuss here. That biological preferences don't impact on the free market choice of employee-employer contracts? Or that biological preferences aren't overridden by a
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by RyanZAG 9y ago
Yeah, it's unfortunate and that kind of uproar doesn't do anybody much good. I chose black female on purpose for that reason, obviously, as it's acceptable to consider such things intellectually in today's world. We&#x27
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by RyanZAG 9y ago
That's right! But the same applies the other way around. The argument that a company that doesn't hire that one guy because he's Malasian may allow your competitor to beat you in a free market is also very much a "may, c
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by RyanZAG 9y ago
That's assuming an internal company culture couldn't be created based on shared understanding that would lead to competitive advantage. Eg, if you create a company with only black women, you may not necessarily get the very best i
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by RyanZAG 9y ago
Most studies on this seem to show that gender based preferences can be at least partially explained from birth before any environmental factors play a part in it. People have been doing these studies for a long time now, but they get ignore
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by RyanZAG 9y ago
That sounds like crowdsourcing the core focus of the business then. The ability of people to point out factual errors should be kept for small details, not the all too common practice of posting articles without first getting them checked b
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by RyanZAG 9y ago
> Do you, like me, consider them one of the most important venues on earth for people to be able to trust right now? How does it happen that the Washington Post publishes a quantum computing piece filled with errors that would embarras
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by RyanZAG 9y ago
These arguments don't seem to fit together. On one hand, technological improvement has deprecated thousands of farm workers over hundreds of years, but you're making the argument that it's only happening now because some fact
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by RyanZAG 9y ago
> Bloomberg should have her fired. She does absolutely no credit to their publication. I don't think calling for everyone you disagree with to be fired is the right way forward.
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by RyanZAG 9y ago
Please don't connect jet engines to the internet and use a REST API to control them.
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by RyanZAG 9y ago
Java doesn't use system memory management by default, but rather keeps its own heap for garbage collection. If you start your java daemon with -Xms5000m -Xmx5000m then java will use 5GB of ram and use that to allocate new objects insid
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by RyanZAG 9y ago
Just because the data exists doesn't mean it is used.
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by RyanZAG 9y ago
I'd guess the correct form of that statement should be: "If a human can't theoretically perform the task with a lot of time and a pocket calculator, then neither can an AI." But it's not really saying much as that a
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by RyanZAG 9y ago
I'd guess he has more profitable and more useful things to spend his money on than Twitter.
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by RyanZAG 9y ago
While I agree and personally prefer IRC, people using slack use far more features than just channels and PMs. That's because slack is more discoverable and the features are generally conceptually simpler and more obvious for the averag
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by RyanZAG 9y ago
It's not the same way though, is it? Trump has the whole 'average American' speech pattern down. Headline grabbing, 'high energy', and a call to action. > FAKE NEWS - A TOTAL POLITICAL WITCH HUNT! He doesn't
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by RyanZAG 9y ago
People often confuse engineering and design. Slack has a very good design team, the UX is far above IRC or competing solutions and everything flows and works in a way that most users expect. The engineering itself is not the strong point, t
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by RyanZAG 9y ago
> PS: In reality you would likely cause a fork, Yes, probably, but remember - you have way more hashing power still. So you just swap to their new fork and beat them out there too, and you keep doing it until they give up and are forced
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by RyanZAG 9y ago
If I buy and then sell $100 worth of BTC a hundred times a day, have I created $100 worth of cryptocurrency trade or $10,000? Note I've only actually used $100 here (excluding transaction fees). If it's the second, then $33 billio
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by RyanZAG 9y ago
Does anybody really hold EUR or USD though? They hold gold or stocks or similar, denominated in USD. You could say Bitcoin is the same as gold (which is also deflationary?), but has gold really been a particularly viable way to store value?
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by RyanZAG 9y ago
Why should rich countries be trying to provide infrastructure and food for the world's poorest? Far as I know, the original reason for doing so was to create strong and loyal trading partners. That doesn't seem to have happened th
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by RyanZAG 9y ago
Java uses UTF8 in latest release for strings without special characters. http://www.baeldung.com/java-9-compact-string UTF16 is not really a curse for languages that require it. String operations in non-English languages ar
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by RyanZAG 9y ago
> Then why do most countries have welfare for the poor? Because of democracy. The rest of your points are good and I agree with them. Just pointing out that "improve the life quality of those born with less potential" is probab
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by RyanZAG 9y ago
> improve the life quality of those born with less potential While a noble goal, I don't believe this is a goal shared by the majority of the population. I think if you ran a poll between "improve the life quality of those born
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by RyanZAG 9y ago
> even then sadly Zuckerberg called them Dumb Fucks, a "thank you" would have be nicer I'd think...[2] Why do you think Zuckerberg telling lies you want to hear would be nicer? That seems counter intuitive to me.
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by RyanZAG 9y ago
It's really unfortunate how the oppressed turn into the oppressor the moment they are given power. It tells us a lot about humanity right there. The very people telling other's to accept they have a different opinion when they are
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by RyanZAG 9y ago
Good point. Still, maybe we should publicize that allegations have occurred without specifying against who? And making it public if an organisation refuses to investigate. That should give the same public result without the need to attack s
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by RyanZAG 9y ago
Agreed, but at the same time I think this matter shouldn't be broadcast publicly until the investigation finishes. If he did do what he said, then the investigation should confirm it, and then he should get blackballed for harassment b
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by RyanZAG 9y ago
Mozilla has been going downhill very fast since Brendan Eich was removed as CEO. There was some controversy at the time and it made sense why he was removed, but it seems clear now that Mozilla took the wrong choice in removing him as it se

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