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by aeturnum 6y ago
The article says he started the lease in June 2019, 22 months ago. That means that $160,000 of his spend is rent. I would lay a lot of the blame for this at the feet of the landlord, who had someone who would renovate their building and inc
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by aeturnum 6y ago
I've also got a little side project in Elm and, like a lot of folks here, the experience has been very mixed. On one hand, when Elm is happy, it does just work. It's fast and relatively svelte and generally great. Its errors are
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by aeturnum 6y ago
> I've quit a lot. I haven't lasted anywhere longer than 2 months. I contribute a lot and then quit after I feel like I'm not getting appropriate compensation. Though I certainly agree that I need to stick with a job. I th
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by aeturnum 6y ago
I wouldn't say that it would make it more appealing exactly, but it definitely seems like it might make it more possible for many people. There are lots of folks who could contribute code and, for whatever reason, need to spend their
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by aeturnum 6y ago
> Allowing reported issues to result in zero action is the quickest way to convert your employees, especially your engineers, from enthusiastic company-first workers into "clock in, clock out, it’s not my problem" workers. Mos
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by aeturnum 6y ago
Our current IP system is remarkable in that it is both very complex and, despite that complexity, it is entirely reducible to a system for allocating fees for entities to pay. Using you own IP? You pay your fees to your legal team. Using IP
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by aeturnum 6y ago
I very much agree that unmarked voting systems like HN's do a really poor job of keeping comments "high quality." Everyone has a different definition of quality. I understand that there are UX challenges to adding different k
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by aeturnum 6y ago
I am sure there are many different groups here! But yah, there are definitely folks that will be happy. I was just trying to say that, beyond Twitch being within its rights, people can still yell at them and say they shouldn't (or shou
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by aeturnum 6y ago
> if we care about taking cars off the road, we need to make cities walkable I couldn't agree more! IMO increasing walkability will be key to both increasing density and decreasing carbon impact. The point I was driving at when sayi
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by aeturnum 6y ago
I agree that twitch is within their rights . I also think we're within our rights to pressure them to adopt standards we would like. The law has long recognized different rights for "public figures" and private citizens, and
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by aeturnum 6y ago
I think you're approaching this from the wrong direction (the article's framing doesn't really help). It's about how we allocate funds at a high level, not that every city needs to have an equal amount of cycling. From a
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by aeturnum 6y ago
While I agree that, in practice, programming is most popular with people who like puzzles, I think this is actually the result of bad tools. We will all run into actual real-world puzzles from time to time ("how can we fit this large o
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by aeturnum 6y ago
I think this is the really interesting legitimacy vacuum that hacks like this place us into. The official source on this is silent and may stay silent for a long time. People who wait for an official, safe answer may need to wait a long tim
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by aeturnum 6y ago
I think there are some edge cases where you might want them, but for most situations they seem like they make things worse? When you do have a contract that a computer can execute, the value of having that contract executed on a machine own
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by aeturnum 6y ago
I agree that you could easily design a system where you could have video of everyone dropping their ballots into a ballot box and it would still be impossible to associate a particular vote with a voter. However, that's not the standar
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by aeturnum 6y ago
Sure, it's a good system. But, of course, if you had a camera, voters might reasonably be worried that you would combine the footage with vote order and figure our who voted when.
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by aeturnum 6y ago
An important aspect of voting systems is that, while you want to authenticate that each voter is allowed to vote, you also want strong protections against discovering who voted for who. I understand why it seems like cameras would be a go
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by aeturnum 6y ago
Climate does fluctuate and there is randomness. When you look at the tend you can see how the line has recently taken a dramatic turn. The takeaway is that we've seen these conditions once in the last 1200 years, but based on recent da
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by aeturnum 6y ago
I don't know how things look from microsoft's point of view, but I see lots of "nice to have" aspects of being in charge of one of the popular social platforms. Lots of people cut their programmatic teeth building simple
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by aeturnum 6y ago
> Early on there was not a spike in cases, so that would not have sparked an interest. My understanding on this was that doctors local to Wuhan noticed a surprising and sudden uptick in pneumonia that did not respond to antibiotics. The
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by aeturnum 6y ago
I don't think it's correct and I don't think its correctness is objectively decidable. It's one thing when companies have unforeseen flaws that end up causing injury or death. No one is perfect and, while they should pa
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by aeturnum 6y ago
I love this (ᵔᴥᵔ). It seems like it's gotten less comfortable slyly mock crappy realities and I think that's a shame.
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by aeturnum 6y ago
Oh this is very exciting! Not exactly Nyxt (which looks amazing), but that people are are starting to "emacs" the web. There's a social process whenever humans make a thing where we rumble around a lot and try different thin
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by aeturnum 6y ago
Oh thank you! This is exactly what I was looking for.
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by aeturnum 6y ago
I love that this document takes inscrutable OS X settings and translates them into familiar human-readable settings. I have no idea what "NSGlobalDomain NSNavPanelExpandedStateForSaveMode" is, but I understand what "Expand sa
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by aeturnum 6y ago
I wasn't saying what we should do[1], just saying that if the reason data collection hurts a person is that the data is evidence of a crime then the situation involves more than just that person and we should think about it that way.
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by aeturnum 6y ago
I agree "harmless" is absolutely the wrong word. I also think that data that might be harmful to a user because it could record them breaking a law should be thought of differently than data that could be harmful when used malicio
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by aeturnum 6y ago
I agree with you that the "networking" aspect of social networks is functioning, but I happen to think it is functioning to make the "social" aspect less pleasant. > This means the conversation falls back to tribal bi
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by aeturnum 6y ago
I think there's a good case to be made for amending 230. 230 was written for a pre-algorithmic feed age where user content was displayed in a fixed context setup by the provider. The provider chose the frame, the user the painting. Now
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by aeturnum 6y ago
I support UBI! I also suspect that we need to go beyond universal benefits into grappling with the reality that different people have different needs. We'll need to agree on a way to discern which society should take on and which are i

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