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by aeturnum 5y ago
Thank you for writing it! It was a pleasure to read and I appreciate you contributing to the community.
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by aeturnum 5y ago
I do think that being opinionated about code style leads to code that's easier to read and maintain. I was just delighted to find someone whose tastes diverged so distinctly from my own in a smaller language community.
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by aeturnum 5y ago
I disagree with so much of this! Though I can tell the author is coming from a lot of experience. How often is it that you don't know if you're expecting a map or a keyword list? I don't think I've ever intentionally put
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by aeturnum 5y ago
I agree that only selling self-driving as a subscription is exploitative, but I generally disagree with your analysis of which model is better for consumers. First, the subscription model means that VW has an incentive to maintain the fea
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by aeturnum 5y ago
I totally agree that Bitcoin should not be primarily identified with criminal activity. However, I think it's very easy to understand where it started and why it generally isn't in bad faith. Digital currencies (of which Bitcoin i
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by aeturnum 5y ago
>The man who pulls the lever that breaks your neck will be a dispassionate man. >And that dispassion is the very essence of justice. >For justice delivered without dispassion is always in danger of not being justice. Based on the r
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by aeturnum 5y ago
You can re-use the textures in your own works. You can even create a new original work, using the textures as a reference, and pay nothing. The only thing you can't do is use the reference textures directly in a new work without securi
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by aeturnum 5y ago
"Survivability and lethality in a contested environment now have more to do with stealth, sensors, data fusion, and the ability to network, than just pure turn performance. Unfortunately, it’s difficult to quantify these capabilities i
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by aeturnum 5y ago
It's what I'm calling the phase of the project where you find a particular place that you would like to put it and then go convince the various groups with influence over that place to let you put it there.
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by aeturnum 5y ago
"The exact location of the new reactor is still up in the air." Yah? Good luck. Siting these things is hard. There are some papers about how experts are worse at predicting the success of a nuclear reactor than members of the gene
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by aeturnum 5y ago
I can see why you would say that other investors should do their own research, but many people view a YC investment as a vote of confidence in the company in question. Your view makes me curious about how you think about the role of an incu
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by aeturnum 5y ago
I agree that poor-er people have much higher marginal utility for $1, but I think that observation supports this critique! The 'cost' of spending $1,000,000 on a wealthy person should be measured in terms of how much utility less-
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by aeturnum 5y ago
I do think calling this a "scam" is difficult to defend from an intent perspective, but it does not appear like it has any realistic chance of succeeding. At some point projects cross a line from being optimistic to being negligen
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by aeturnum 5y ago
The COVID relief has helped the rich in the same way that the mortgage tax deduction 'mostly' helps the rich[1]: the majority of the dollars go to aid wealthy people, despite the number of non-wealthy beneficiaries being much high
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by aeturnum 5y ago
Why would you choose to pretend you know less than you do? Things are made by people and each individual person has their own background, circumstances and ideas. The culture of Bell Labs abetted (but did not cause) Unix and the sharing of
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by aeturnum 5y ago
Let's zoom out a bit: in general, do you think companies should be encouraged to promote using their products in a way that's more dangerous that necessary if it looks cooler? I wouldn't support a law requiring skateboard com
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by aeturnum 5y ago
Batteries are getting better, but we'll almost certainly never reach the fantasy of replacing petrochemicals with batteries 1:1. Instead, what we can do is change our patterns of energy consumption and then we'll start to feel the
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by aeturnum 5y ago
I mean, clearly they are public since we are all looking at them. I think this is a good reaction to accidentally publishing information that was intended to be private. Nothing is deleted, but you stop telling new people about it. People w
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by aeturnum 5y ago
I think it is worth thinking about systems which do not have (or need) a single source of truth (i.e. git) v.s. systems which include a mechanism for an arbitrarily number of nodes arriving at a single source of truth (i.e. blockchain). I a
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by aeturnum 5y ago
> these hard statistical realities have increasingly robbed me of the romantic impulse I think you should reflect on how sensible it is to apply population-wide statistical trends to your personal situation (which is not statistical at a
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by aeturnum 6y ago
People have lives outside of work that sometimes intrude into work. Part of running a workplace is making the appropriate amount of space for those intrusions. How "political" your life is comes mostly from factors that you can&#x
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by aeturnum 6y ago
I came here to share the Anthroposcene Reviewed episode on it (2nd half - starts around 12:30 in) https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/anthropocene-reviewed/e...
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by aeturnum 6y ago
At a technical level, I think smart roads are more straightforward. However, I think a purely technical analysis ignores why self driving cars have been so popular. The cost of replacing the entire US road system with "smart" road
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by aeturnum 6y ago
I'm glad their browser works that well for you. It does not for me: https://dl3.pushbulletusercontent.com/dRiiaqbW844ZN3QHGcdWNe...
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by aeturnum 6y ago
Thanks! I'll take a look. I've long since abandoned the browser but I like submitting bugs.
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by aeturnum 6y ago
Yah, I've tried that. If you read the thread I linked everyone in it (who has not resolved their problem) has tried it. Right now I opened chrome back up and it's sitting at 186% cpu with one tab open and no extensions. screenshot
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by aeturnum 6y ago
I imagine Moot wasn't hired for technical skill exactly, but for his years of experience trying to shape a difficult community. I'd be interested in a breakdown of how Moot "fostered" the toxic aspects of 4chan. One coul
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by aeturnum 6y ago
I wish the Chrome team would dig into why my Chrome uses nearly all of two cores all of the time with one tab open. The issue (or something similar) comes up all the time on their forums and they just lock all the topics[1]. Chrome is such
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by aeturnum 6y ago
> [from Dilbert] Will there ever be an engineer who says "that last guy did a great job. Let's keep all of it"? I don't know about other people here, but this is almost always how I feel? I almost always feel like t
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by aeturnum 6y ago
I agree that silicon valley companies are anti-competitive, but I think you are dead wrong about lobbying. Lobbying can be a lot of things, but one of the most common is basically marketing & PR for lawmakers. If you're going to be

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