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by adamc 2y ago
Several other books pop into mind, e.g., https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_Live_Forever
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by adamc 2y ago
If you correct for the replacement rate being 2.1, it's actually even worse than this... closer to 5 people.
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by adamc 2y ago
I don't see why written things can't be an asset while other creations can. It just discriminates against writers.
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by adamc 2y ago
I think that's too short. Lifetime of the author or a min. 50 years would make sense to me. Mark Twain, for example, was worried about providing for surviving daughters. I think that's reasonable. The crazy long Disney thing, thou
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by adamc 2y ago
Dogbert on parenting: https://www.tumblr.com/welcometoyouredoom/131691378557
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by adamc 2y ago
Not everyone evaluates books from the point of view of politics. Kim was a great novel that basically earned Kipling the Nobel prize at a crazy young age, and it reads like a love letter to India (until the end, when it becomes a dumb spy n
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by adamc 2y ago
That marginalized, powerless people get screwed is somehow not surprising. Not good, mind you, just not surprising.
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by adamc 2y ago
It suggests to me that women were so low in status as to be effectively invisible in plain sight.
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by adamc 2y ago
Having tried both, I would in fact say that WSL is a huge advantage for Windows over the Mac in many cases. Sure, the Mac is a *Nix, but there are lots of small differences from Linux that cause issues. WSL runs very, very well.
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by adamc 2y ago
Actual headline says 'extremist content'. 'extreem' seems like a typo?
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by adamc 2y ago
That doesn't explain anything, though. If they don't get feedback, shouldn't it make their businesses less effective?
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by adamc 2y ago
This. I mean, Skyrim wasn't perfect. But another 2 or 3 games with those mechanics but interesting new content would have done quite well. Bethesda's weakness has always been writing and content, though. Lots of it, but the main p
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by adamc 2y ago
There are a lot of pages that work better in Chrome than Firefox. I say that as someone who always defaults to Firefox.
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by adamc 2y ago
To the users who use chrome, it will matter. Not clear to me how strong Chromium will be if the Google efforts for Chrome go away.
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Often not true. Often they are just "good enough" weapons, etc.
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by adamc 2y ago
That isn't really what I meant, and yeah, I was ambiguous. When you have a culture where people can't tell the boss things he doesn't want to hear -- of which resignation is an example -- how do companies expect to get honest
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by adamc 2y ago
Yeah, it seems unkind. What is the purpose here? To teach about art, using art that maybe was someone's learning attempt seems like a huge mistake (and is likely to scare away students). If you aren't teaching, why talk about bad
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by adamc 2y ago
It's fascinating and makes me want to know more about how the culture works.
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by adamc 2y ago
There are some externalities that may prevent that, such as large tariffs. Countries are wary of the effects on employment.
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by adamc 2y ago
This is one of the things I dislike about hacker news: People responding to what is clearly emotional hyperbole as though it were a literal statement. The OP expresses disappointment with Apple -- exactly what the cause was is unstated. Peo
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by adamc 2y ago
As a consumer, yes. Old steam games are a big deal. In business... not where I work, but I hear stories of shops that still have lots of old 32-bit COM stuff, etc.
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by adamc 2y ago
You make a good point. It was kind of the breaking point for me when Apple killed 32-bit executables, because it meant even old steam stuff couldn't run. But that's a casual consumer viewpoint. It's valid to buy them if they
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by adamc 2y ago
It is very convenient and makes the code terse and that matters.
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by adamc 2y ago
I don't agree with this at all, and I wonder if it reflects what other languages you use that may have shaped your assumptions. `if mylist` feels very much like Common Lisp to me. In much of the code I've seen, the value would nev
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by adamc 2y ago
I think this needs more explanation to know if this is a good argument or not.
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by adamc 2y ago
You can solve anything with enough scripts, but that in no way invalidates his point that the abstraction level seems a bit off. I'm not sure that his solution is really an improvement, however, because then you have to bake in the sem
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by adamc 2y ago
It's also the best non-fiction book I've ever read. And won the Pulitzer, I think.
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by adamc 2y ago
I think evidence would make this a stronger argument. Most of the people I've known with modest stock grants ignored them, or at least that's what they said -- kind of "maybe it will be worth something, but probably not"
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by adamc 2y ago
Yeah, agree. "Jolted" is not as evocative as "stirred".
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by adamc 2y ago
I'm waiting for it to become octopies.

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