UmbertoNoEco

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by UmbertoNoEco 4y ago
you may well be correct but society would be a lot less advanced if not for the works of 'unbalanced' individuals
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by UmbertoNoEco 4y ago
they are not; this is classic hn posturing at the veryleast this would belong to a second or third class of algorithms for ug( after the usual meat and potatoes: big,small o notation, searching and sorting, dp, greedy algorithms and so on)
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by UmbertoNoEco 4y ago
but we dont have the intelligence even this site filled with supposedly smart educated individuals is filled to the brim with prejudices; jingoism; hate; intolerance; short-term thinking and huge cognitive blind spots
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by UmbertoNoEco 4y ago
with literally hundreds of competitors popping up daily you cannot afford to have an overly sensitive nsfw filter; right now this tool is almost useless
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by UmbertoNoEco 4y ago
the modern western liberal view is to protect all basic freedoms (of speech;of privacy; of representation; of free trade; of presumption of innocence) as long as they belong to the 'correct people'; as for the ideological enemies
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by UmbertoNoEco 4y ago
lucky well connected belonging to the 'right' race;gender;social class; nationality
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by UmbertoNoEco 4y ago
all those polls where people systematically support their national health services probably used tons of americans to influence the answers; i think you are up to something here
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by UmbertoNoEco 4y ago
you are not the average us employee; it seems you are completely isolated from the working reality of most americans; including swe
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by UmbertoNoEco 4y ago
developers are not industrial designers; i would even argue the skillset is at the 'opposite side' of the spectrum
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by UmbertoNoEco 4y ago
'It’s a funny coincidence that the field where we’re seeing the most innovation happens to be the one we regulated least, and that the fields that got worse are the most regulated ones.' because the causation is the other way arou
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by UmbertoNoEco 4y ago
and later the atlantic slave trade and americas colonization several genocides packed in 2
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by UmbertoNoEco 4y ago
like guantanamo ?
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by UmbertoNoEco 4y ago
none of which are exclusive to 'western' countries and even less demonstrated by the actions of the big corporations and governments zuckerberg pelosi liz truss elon musk et al are not paragons of virtue and they are the people b
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by UmbertoNoEco 4y ago
who is 'you'? white people in the 10% of so of nato;anzac countries? maybe the rest of he world is not interested on keep perpetuating the status quo
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by UmbertoNoEco 4y ago
hhahahahahaha i honestly take mark z opinions more seriously ; the best you can say about jack and still be within the norms here is that he is very disingenuous
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by UmbertoNoEco 4y ago
'but the ‘West’ was moving ahead of the ‘rest’ at least by the beginning of the 18th century, and the gulf between them has continued to widen ever since.' this is not true
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by UmbertoNoEco 4y ago
agree but be aware carroll swings way way way way to the other extreme especially about the pet theories he happens to like: multiverses ; the everett interpretation of qm ;boltzmann's brains and so on
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by UmbertoNoEco 4y ago
krugman and mankiw are adversaries in the sense one prefers the current world neoliberal order designed for the benefit of the us to be led by democrats and the other prefers it to be led by republicans to the average citizen of the world
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by UmbertoNoEco 4y ago
'(I'm ethnic Chinese and this is not meant to be a racially charged comment)' that's not a carte blanche to stereotype a whole nation and it makes as much sense as a mailander chinese person badmouthing singapore taiwan
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by UmbertoNoEco 4y ago
the demand for females must be at least 100:1 . even higher if you consider people who are willing to actually pay for nudes it's not even more skewed because of gay guys
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by UmbertoNoEco 4y ago
myriad?
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by UmbertoNoEco 4y ago
All those India/Malasya/Guatemala kids stealing a 200 USD PDE book from Pearson should go to jail... in America... Assange style
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by UmbertoNoEco 4y ago
Did you double check the math?
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by UmbertoNoEco 4y ago
As God has always intended
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by UmbertoNoEco 4y ago
All that can easily be bullshitted a hundred times easier than any leetcode-style question. I am not saying "just use technical questions" but you are extremely naive as a interviewer if you dont think candidates will MASSIVELY o
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by UmbertoNoEco 4y ago
Or you just manage state in the server. With https://inertiajs.com/ you can even afford to not to declare an API and still manage the state back there.
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by UmbertoNoEco 4y ago
What? Dont you like to learn 3/4 almost-useless DSLs, have to modify 3 config files for the smallest change and plumb more breaking things than Mario?
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by UmbertoNoEco 4y ago
> It's becoming pretty common even for good (YOUTUBE) content Fortunately there is still a niche(but not-zero) zone of the good internet which does not resort to this.
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by UmbertoNoEco 4y ago
"Blue" about SOME social issues, extremely right-wing libertarian regarding other topics like economics, foreign policy and the environment. It is pretty much aligned with mainstream Democrats so at the end you are correct.
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by UmbertoNoEco 4y ago
So your point is totally moot. But HN is HN

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