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by abathur 8y ago
Use Dash on mac, Zeal on NixOS. I see it as a no-brainer for anyone who has more code to write than time to write it. I can't always solve a problem in Dash, but it enables me to work for hours at a time with wifi off. This is even mor
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by abathur 8y ago
I think this is either an over-reaction or a bit disgenuine. I was careful not to suggest (and certainly not argue ) their research be dismissed for any ad-hominem reason. The fact that they are members of some brand-new academic* unit t
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by abathur 8y ago
Anecdata: had to take spouse to ER earlier this year. She had a reasonably run-of-the-mill cold, but the cough had irritated her throat enough that everything she attempted to eat was triggering her gag reflex. She was getting pretty feeble
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by abathur 8y ago
I don't have enough familiarity with this sort of research to evaluate it quickly, but I was a little curious about the authors' backgrounds: > Stan J. Liebowitz is the Ashbel Smith Professor of Economics at the Colloquium for
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by abathur 8y ago
I had this rough question (i.e., while entertaining causes as elaborate as a Dyson sphere, considering that a star might intentionally be used to send a low-information rotating signal like a lighthouse or signal/Morse lamp out along a
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by abathur 8y ago
I suppose the grass is always greener, but I wouldn't reconsider the wisdom of your decision. I took the other path, and am left trying to throw off the burden while I can still take youthful risks, and carpe the damn diem. The window
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by abathur 8y ago
Not affiliated (nor previously familiar) with CodeTriage, but I see a number of "I wish it did X" responses already and thought it was worth pointing out that their About page links to the repo for CodeTriage itself: https:/
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by abathur 8y ago
Toxicity might be hard, but some stats might end up being a fair proxy. Time to PR resolution, PR acceptance/rejection ratios. These probably get more useful as you break them down by the average profiles of who gets accepted and rejec
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by abathur 8y ago
One person's "consequences" have minimal impact when spread across society--but when we talk about society-level action, we're never just talking about "one" person, but are instead talking about ratios. Sure,
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by abathur 8y ago
I found a rock like this as a child (but cream colored, fairly flat, about the size of a dinner plate, and an inch or two thick), though I'd never heard of the phenomena from any other source until now. I think I found it on a trip, bu
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by abathur 8y ago
I don't think it's as much about compatibility as it is about trying to focus effort on easiest cases first.
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by abathur 8y ago
Good point. A thoughtful, digestible source of such updates might even help undercut one source of inter-generational alienation.
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by abathur 8y ago
I regularly have the same experience. When I run into one, I optimistically assume I'd know if I needed it (but, unfortunately, it means I'm very unlikely to remember a specific package if I do eventually run into the problem. If
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by abathur 8y ago
Not sure, but I would guess they're just extrapolating these trends onto places that still have high agricultural employment.
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by abathur 8y ago
They could, but hopefully they'd be interested in considering how a UBI might broadly restructure social and economic dynamics, and whether that broad restructuring has effects someone sees as a fair trade (or even a great deal) for th
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by abathur 8y ago
The Alphabet-scale comparisons are fair wrt to whether this is a "big" bet or not, but trying to minimize this via comparison to total world sales or California registrations less so (given that a primary promise of transit AVs is
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by abathur 8y ago
I haven't looked for work on the price/demand relationship here, but it's also worth noting that price reductions may not just purely be a matter of cutting costs and passing those on at a static ridership and profit level. T
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by abathur 8y ago
I don't disagree that some may be over-estimating how much cost can pragmatically be cut, but I also think you may be glossing over some of the costs and inefficiencies that come with operating a large heterogenous operation comprised
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by abathur 8y ago
There may be more modern projects, but there's also "Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe" at https://www.lockss.org When you say personal archives, I wonder a little about what we'd lose to filtering by people who
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by abathur 8y ago
> For an example of how this can really matter: an acquaintance is embroiled in a legal dispute with an ex-employer. Thanks to Apple's sane implementation of IMAP Mail on iOS, she still has access to all her company communications t
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by abathur 8y ago
I agree that fairness will pose some short-run concerns. But, consider that it probably didn't make sense to early hunter-gatherers to work themselves to an early death in order to accumulate or bequeath hoards of any of the materials
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by abathur 8y ago
Aggregate intelligences don't have to be as well-defined as my initial examples. Consider the goal-setting behavior that might emerge from entire industries, networks of interest/policy groups with overlapping interests/parti
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by abathur 8y ago
7.x billion general intelligences do not think "as a whole" on much. I doubt it matters what even significant chunks of us think, at least not up to the point where pitchforks and torches come out. For the relatively small group o
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by abathur 8y ago
This made me curious about whether there are good lifehacker-style articles/listicles/compendia of creative personal uses of targeted advertising platforms. Not sure if the answer is no, or if it's just one of those ungooglea
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by abathur 8y ago
Curious as well. Particularly regarding: - how do you provision & manage systems/instances? - relative to any other ways you've done this, how much effort goes into standing up the first server, any additional servers, and ong
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by abathur 8y ago
I've been kinda wishing for the past year or so that I'd stumble on a FaaS provider that can handle traffic on arbitrary ports, so that I could serve finger requests without needing to keep up with a VPS.
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by abathur 9y ago
I've wanted something along these lines for a long time as well. I have trouble drawing hard lines and distinctions (this is pervasive; things like having a "favorite" anything, or the desire to debate what genres a song or m
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by abathur 9y ago
For the curious, the "Street Epistemology" movement, which employs the Socratic method, was coined/outlined by Peter Boghossian in his book "A Manual for Creating Atheists" ( https://www.amazon.com/Ma
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by abathur 10y ago
AFAIK most UBI advocates aren't looking to just throw money at people and tell them they don't need to work. It's not called a Universal Comfortable Income, or a Universal Middle Class Income. Unless you're a devout asce
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by abathur 10y ago
It's your prerogative to enforce HN's own rules about political posts, but I think identifying "politics" as a "topic" is a misguided (political) gesture. It's one thing to say pogo sticks are off-topic in

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