RyanZAG

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by RyanZAG 10y ago
There doesn't seem to be any flamewar though, looks like decent discussion. Should the flamewar detector not be turned off when no flamewar is present?
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They can apologize, but a quote from the last line of the article: > For that I will never forgive the New York Times. In 50 years time, what disinformation that they are spreading today will they 'apologize' for?
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There is a massive difference between Twitter banning accounts, and Twitter transparently editing accounts to harass someone else. It would be like you posting a Twitter message that says "I hate Donald Trump" and Twitter transpar
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Hang on a second here: many people comment that murderers seem like really nice people when they met them briefly. You don't really know anything about someone just because you met him for a bit a few years ago. He can be both unprofes
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Unlike in real life where someone can come and distract your full attention, IM gives you the ability to set your status to 'Busy'. Seems far better at dealing with interruptions to me.
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I used to respect your opinions a lot. No longer. This comment has zero use, insight or benefit of any kind. We need to stay focused on real goals, and space is one of them. Not petty insults.
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It was on -4 before I made the edit, now it is on +10. So I'd like to think that the edit at least helped some people try to be a bit more objective which is always beneficial. Or it could be a coincidence. I think it's just that
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Pretty much all of Africa, unfortunately. Dumping from both the west and the far east has destroyed large parts of the economy. To add as well, the free subsidy is definitely a short term thing. If you look at it as an 'education fee&#
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> but the mere concept of restricted trade being more economically efficient is non-sensical to me. If everyone is free trade, and nobody tries to cheat, then free trade is better for everyone. However, when you add in state actors, taxa
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I never said there is no evolution? I said there is no longer a link between positive and negative traits and the ability of someone to reproduce. Whether someone has positive or negative mutations is no longer a factor in their survival, a
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In USA, families on welfare benefits are also often the largest families. Being laid more is irrelevant if it does not result in a child. It's more reason as to why evolution is simply not a factor in the modern world. Also, why do you
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> The evolution process will then cause only the beneficial ones to perdure. This isn't correct and is a common misconception about evolution. The process which does this is natural selection, and it only occurs through the organism
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I think there are actually three types of UI designs. 1) "UI by programmers". Very low use of graphics and animations. Everything looks very standardized. Usually has advanced options panels that let you tweak small parts of the a
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There's always a clever solution to anonymize any data. Post a description of the data and the problems with anonymizing it, and someone out there will always find a clever way to handle it. You don't have to solve everything your
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Sure, the framework code will be more secure. But you still need to solve your problem and your framework isn't going to do it. So you have to write code. The code you do write is going to be more secure if you know what's going o
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You often do though: as in, if each independent problem was handled by a microservice PHP script, it would just be a 50 line script. But if you've built it on top of a huge framework then you can end up with all the separate parts stuc
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If its under 50 lines of code for some simple processing, I don't think another developer who comes in would have much trouble. Of course if that 50 lines of code is now 250 because it tries to get around a framework, then instead of f
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You may be drowning in the kool-aid. It is very easy to write tiny secure code in PHP without a framework. Of course if you're building a social network, then it will run into some of those potential security issues. But for most of th
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Careful with this one too. Usually adding new features to adapt to a changing marketplace can have new requirements across many of your services that need to be finished quickly. If those services are each in a different language, it can sl
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It's never really as simple as just deciding a big percentage of the world's population are 'enemies'. Or that massive shadowy organizations are 'friends' just because they say they are. Our view on the world i
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I agree with you, but there's a caveat: not every passion can be monetized easily. Some passions are so difficult to monetize that nobody has yet found out how to monetize them. Simply because everything can be monetized does not mean
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> That's a valid and important concern, and one that I don't have any answers to right now. One possibility is keep capital fixed while making people mobile, i.e. very tight capital controls combined with very loose immigration
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Except the value of labor - especially labor such as marketing, or government gruntwork such as FDA approvals - cannot be done by robots. At least today, and probably not in the next 50 years. So there is still a lot of labor that will have
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UBI comes from tax money though. If the idea behind UBI is that people don't need to go work, and won't go buy McDonalds anymore, then tax income is going to plummet. If tax income plummets, what pays for UBI ? UBI can only succee
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Faster? To quote the author of Cap'n Proto: > https://capnproto.org/news/2014-06-17-capnproto-flatbuffers-... "With that said, my intuition is that SBE will probably edge Cap’n Proto and FlatBuffers on pe
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I don't think this is true. There's nothing new or interesting about Pokemon Go that we haven't had for years. The only new thing is the branding. The lesson is more that to get mass appeal, it's the story that counts, n
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They're not going to need support for themselves with either STEM degree - but they're not going to be able to support a husband and children on a low paying STEM. And nobody would expect them to support a husband. Meanwhile a man
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How is there any absurdity? If a person is expected to only choose a high paying field, but has two options open: 1. High paying field they don't really like. 2. Low paying field they'd love to do. Then if there are social expecta
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> compare the career earnings of graduates with the present-day cost of a degree at their alma maters, net of financial aid Woah, what? So a degree that cost $1 but raised your career earnings by $100 would be at 100%? 1000%? Not sure
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It will get extremely meta when golang's infrastructure gets good enough for other languages to want to use. Then they'll split it out into a 'GoVM', or I guess 'GoRT', and then you'll have a 'GoVM&#x

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