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by acdha 10mo ago
I’d have agreed with you in 2024 but there’s enough of a difference in active support to be significant. Not many of those CEOs have direct personal involvement killing millions of people, for example, but DOGE appears to have managed that
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by acdha 10mo ago
I definitely don’t think that it’s new to the current young generation but I am optimistic that they might have enough political clout to actually make progress. My neighborhood narrowly avoided becoming a highway in the 60s so we have some
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by acdha 10mo ago
> Individuals frequently can chose to not use a car, of course To some extent, yes, but my point was that it’s not realistic for many people because we treat walkable neighborhoods like luxuries. If you wake up in your 40s with a bad bac
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by acdha 10mo ago
It wasn’t perfect but we had plenty of successful sites where most users used dialup. You’re talking small, heavily compressed JPEGs but it was manageable and especially important to remember that people didn’t expect it to be super fast. F
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by acdha 10mo ago
They invented almost all of that a century earlier. Amazon improved their warehouse management and, later, delivery times but that happened later. If Sears management had been earning their pay in the 90s that would have been much harder be
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by acdha 10mo ago
What you gave us wasn’t a chain of reasoning: you just regurgitated the industry’s preferred excuses (“it’s complicated”, “people will use too much healthcare if it’s cheaper”, “liability!”) while begging the questions of whether those are
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by acdha 10mo ago
There are a lot of bad health outcomes built into our society, yes, but by the time people are confronted with the health impacts of cars, agriculture subsidies, for-profit healthcare, etc. it is likely that drugs will be necessary to treat
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by acdha 10mo ago
Don’t do pro bono PR for those companies. Healthcare isn’t so complicated that every other country in the world hasn’t been able to solve it for significantly less money and far less stress for users, not to mention better health outcomes i
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by acdha 10mo ago
I don’t think Democrats will. I did think there’s a non-trivial chance of an Ivanka ticket depending on how the family brand is doing by then. He’s used to thinking in terms of nepotism and his sons have the charisma of floor wax.
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by acdha 10mo ago
I’d also believe that he was able to ride his past reputation and his sponsor’s memory enough to get the commitment to ship Liquid Glass, but that gamble blew up once most reviews revolve around how they’ll probably make it less bad in an u
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by acdha 10mo ago
I agree that it’s a mark of shame that he left voluntarily, but I do think a lot of this traces back to Apple being more of a hardware company at heart. Jony Ive pulled off some industrial design which looked really nice and I think his his
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by acdha 10mo ago
I would keep in mind how much the title communicates your intentions on future posts. The conversation about preventing invalid states has to be somewhat inferred when it could have been explicitly stated, and that’d be really useful compar
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by acdha 10mo ago
Sure, my point was simply that it’s not as simple as the author assumes. This is a common failure mode in FP advocacy and it’s disappointing because it usually means that a more interesting conversation doesn’t happen because most readers d
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by acdha 10mo ago
Yeah, I know Rust isn’t everyone’s favorite but I’d expect at least some awareness that we’ve seen a lot of reliability improvements due to many of these ideas in a language which isn’t focused on FP. I ended up closing the tab when they ha
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by acdha 10mo ago
Think about how much effort they have put into things like Pylance and general python support in VAC. Clearly they think they have enough users that this matters to that a first class experience is worth having.
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by acdha 10mo ago
> Is this increasing complexity in the Web layout world worth it? Anyone who wants to use this is going to drop support for older browsers (and, in so doing, older machines that can't run newer OSes and newer browsers). If you’ve be
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by acdha 10mo ago
In other words, they didn’t shut it down.
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by acdha 10mo ago
Yes, and serious voices have been calling for that since at least the Cambridge Analytica scandal. This is especially true now that the owner of X is openly calling for major political changes in the EU. This only makes sense. People correc
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by acdha 10mo ago
Yes, coverage follows trends for most news organizations but that’s pretty far off of my original point which was that the reason the responsible news organizations weren’t covering this as an anti-Jewish hate crime was just there was no ev
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by acdha 10mo ago
The difference is that they’re charging extra for it, so people want to see benefits they could take to their management to justify the extra cost. The NPM stuff has a lot of people’s attention right now so it’s natural to ask whether somet
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by acdha 10mo ago
I totally support companies charging for things which cost money to make but I think the strategy of saying something is free and later reneging is a very risky strategy. You’ll get some license sales after cold-calling people’s bosses or b
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by acdha 10mo ago
The problem is that most people have many parts of their identities and you don’t know which factored into the attack. It certainly wouldn’t be a shock if it was anti-Semitism but it’s unclear why he would have been singled out from the man
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by acdha 10mo ago
Lying by omission has a specific requirement that the liar knows something relevant and chooses not to disclose it. That’s quite different than refraining from speculation about the killer’s motive.
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by acdha 10mo ago
Did the thief take transit, though? We had a similar NIMBY argument in the area where some totally-not-racist people said thieves were going to bike from a predominantly black neighborhood 15 miles away to steal TVs, and it was so blatantly
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by acdha 10mo ago
Reporters tend to be very careful about this in the context of things like deaths, embarrassing scandals, etc. where they might be sued. If you note, the kind of stories you’re referring to tend to be referencing what someone else said—a so
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by acdha 10mo ago
No, it’s just sticking to the publicly known information. Not listing something isn’t saying it’s not a factor, it’s just literally going with what the police were saying: they didn’t have any information about the motive yet.
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by acdha 10mo ago
You’re trying too hard to make that conspiratorial take: most responsible outlets don’t speculate on motives until there’s some evidence of a connection. For example, the stories I’ve read quoted his neighbors wondering whether there’s a co
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by acdha 10mo ago
Yeah, I think we’re seeing some fallout from how much developer infrastructure was built out during the era where VCs were subsidizing everything, similar to how a lot of younger people complained about delivery charges going up when they h
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by acdha 10mo ago
One thing to remember is that federal workers tend to be older because most agencies have been encouraged to hire contractors for decades. That skews averages up towards the mid-career managers, which will seem high if you compare it to the
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by acdha 10mo ago
It still matters for the popular vote and all of the downstream candidates. People who stay home inevitably complain about local changes which also were on the ballot. I strongly support national electoral vote reform but it’s important to

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