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by _huayra_ 6y ago
Private property is definitely one of the things that has benefited society the most, but the reward distribution has skewed in the wrong direction. When one has too much power or capital, the ability for one to rewrite the laws that govern
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by _huayra_ 6y ago
Correct, there is a duopoly with Google, but that's the other side of the same coin.
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It's mainly because Apple (or Google or whatever other monopoly you can think of) has accrued so much power that they can stifle competitors by replicating the competitors' features, entire products (and offer them for free), and
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by _huayra_ 6y ago
One thing that proved very useful for me was to decouple impulse from habit. Instead of immediately jumping to HN or "yet another youtube conference video for some language I'm only tangentially curious about", I use a browse
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by _huayra_ 6y ago
I actually used this tactic to break some habits when I moved. New living place did not trigger the same habits as the prior one, so long as I was careful to not "install" them again...
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by _huayra_ 6y ago
But don't those vendors have to have some sales agreement with Cisco? I'm guessing they don't after reading about it a bit more, but I'm just surprised.
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by _huayra_ 6y ago
> Looks like you can get a hepa filter for £70 that will fix the issue for the most part. True though that may be, I think the main issue is the spoiling of the commons: the air we breathe. I love my indoor air filters, but I sure do lik
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by _huayra_ 6y ago
It may be a meme, but using Gentoo for the first time. I did Linux From Scratch in a VM and it piqued my curiosity. Although I would prefer Nix or Guix due to their interesting declarative approach, I decided to go for Gentoo so I can have
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by _huayra_ 6y ago
Learning when to stop at a satisfactory level is equally hard as learning when to floor it and push against some difficult goal. I think even 100 honest hours learning something will get you further than you probably need to go, e.g. basic
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by _huayra_ 6y ago
This is already the case with bigger companies. As is the usual case with a lot "disruptive" firms, that "growth hacking" comes from exploiting some regulatory loophole that no one else has seen yet (e.g. most things rel
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by _huayra_ 6y ago
Wow they seem to be a super deal for features (e.g. multiple domains, multiple aliases, decent storage) for <1 EUR/ month. I guess some folks group this into "big corp" email perhaps compared to the smaller providers, but
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by _huayra_ 6y ago
home-manager is how I'm getting into nix. Having generations for my dotfiles is very appealing. Maybe I never really got the hang of stow, but I would also get bitten by it when I would rearrange my dotfiles, which would leave dead sym
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by _huayra_ 6y ago
Unfortunately oversight may not always be so great, especially for generics: https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/05/12/7222165...
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by _huayra_ 6y ago
Another point is that beginner-friendly languages don't always make expert-friendly languages. Python is great for beginners, but I have seen its lack of types create heaps of brittle code at companies that no one wants to touch. Some
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by _huayra_ 6y ago
I had the exact same thought. I think these "crazy eyes" come from a predisposition to view other people (e.g. other skin colors, genders, or just other humans) as a threat. It's always that fixed stare, unblinking face, and
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by _huayra_ 6y ago
Yes it is (and cheap!), but I think one needs to be a resident of (or business in) Germany for it. .eu is also cheap, but similar rules apply.
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by _huayra_ 6y ago
I was about 2 months late to someone snatching up {my last name}.dev :( I do recommend .dev for developers if they can get a good one for their personal use / site, for the reasons you mention.
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Good point. The gTLDs I listed are typically cheaper than .com registrations when I look on namecheap, but the governance of the original TLDs is definitely more regulated, except for that damn .org hijack attempt :( However, if I want to h
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by _huayra_ 6y ago
Are there any "safe" gTLDs, i.e. those that are either unlikely or contractually obligated to not rent seek in a few years time? I've been using the 'casa' gTLD (the only others I see that are relatively bargain bin
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by _huayra_ 6y ago
Wow this is wild! I never thought things would get so latency-sensitive that one would have to overlap request and response!
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by _huayra_ 6y ago
Everyone is entitled to their own opinions. Just as a sex worker can choose to engage in their activities because they are of the opinion that it is okay, one can certainly choose to have a negative opinion of their choice. As long as those
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by _huayra_ 6y ago
{part 2} It really breaks my heart in these comments when people say they'd encourage their daughters to engage in sex work if they chose it (or, on the opposite side of the coin, encourage their sons to hire prostitutes or explore the
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by _huayra_ 6y ago
{part 1} I apologize for going too far here. I'm certainly bringing my own bias to bear which is worth mentioning: some relatives of mine have had their marriages blow up because their husbands were engaging in sexual conduct outside o
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by _huayra_ 6y ago
This feminist take was definitely uncalled for in this article. The author's bias about how the women, _who are actually getting monetarily compensated_, are the victims completely misses the costs to the purchasers, who are almost all
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by _huayra_ 6y ago
> We need to change attitudes towards sex work to remove the shame rather than stop entry into a massively popular and universal industry that crosses all cultures. Legalizing, but heavily regulating vices is definitely the way to go. I
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by _huayra_ 6y ago
Emery Berger [0] at UMass Amherst does great work in this, and it made me very wary of a lot of performance benchmarks. A big source no one considers is alignment, wherein things like the executable name as you mentioned or the username or
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by _huayra_ 6y ago
I hope you can see that you're not alone based on the myriad responses in this thread. Always a great read whenever it comes up. Burnout goes back to one's childhood and more specifically its effect on how one define's one&#x
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Do you find this to be one of the more rewarding parts of your career / day-to-day? One of the things I regret most about my time in grad school is not mentoring younger students / interns. I was only frantically trying to prove h
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by _huayra_ 6y ago
I think people substitute a lot of these "flow-inducing activities" (require attention and alertness, often adrenaline-inducing too) because it temporarily stops the mental habit loops that fuel depression. It's hard to think
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by _huayra_ 6y ago
It's always shocking how Apple folks adopt a reality distortion field when it comes to explaining their reasoning. Whether it's avoiding justifying the things they claim they get from Apple ("seamless device interop") or

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