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by afshin 11y ago
I quit using AngelList when a recruiter confirmed that he'd seen that my profile was actively browsing the site. The old adage about who is the customer and who is the product rang so true with AngelList. I hadn't realized that it
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by afshin 11y ago
Prosecutors and defense attorneys also don't "do anything" except just "make comments". For that matter, neither do presidents or professors.
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by afshin 11y ago
Star Trek, on the other hand, consistently presents an optimistic view of our capacity for civilization. I love science-fiction, even when it's dystopian. But why does so much of it have to be dystopian?
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by afshin 11y ago
The ethics of data retention haven't been fully fleshed out, but it seems pretty obvious that the industry has to start deleting data at some point because user that lives forever is guaranteed to one day be compromised or exploited. I
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by afshin 11y ago
"... perhaps descended from Homo erectus individuals washed eastward atop tsunami debris" Is this really the general consensus about how pre homo sapiens human species traversed bodies of water?
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by afshin 11y ago
I don't have a strong opinion about your larger point. It might be correct, I'm still thinking it through. But the Chevy Nova thing is an urban legend: http://www.snopes.com/business/misxlate/nova.asp
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by afshin 11y ago
npm allows using git+ssh URLs which would work with ssh keys, but I'm not sure if that scales to whole organizations.
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by afshin 11y ago
I find IDEs cumbersome and bloated. It really depends what language you're writing, though. I don't know any Java programmers who can live outside their IDEs, and I don't know many C programmers who prefer anything other
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by afshin 11y ago
SpaceX has been 3-D printing injectors with a titanium printer for a few years. I wonder how much information is shared.
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by afshin 11y ago
I wasn't referring to "pro-life". While that is one of the right's phrases for it, I was specifically referring to the more extreme usage "pro-abortion". Here is an example: http://www.issues4life.or
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by afshin 11y ago
I'm pointing out a parallel with the premise of the original article. The way people describe and name things shapes how it is perceived and shapes its acceptability. If you're familiar with American politics, consider the left&#x
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by afshin 11y ago
In much of the Muslim world, it is common practice to call people who die in war "martyrs". The Arabic word is "shahid" and just like the word "martyr", it literally means "witness". These are people
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by afshin 11y ago
I was wondering that, too. Maybe it means that it's meant for end users and not for scripting and programmatic use.
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by afshin 11y ago
The last two paragraphs about how Grindr is completely different are great.
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by afshin 11y ago
I don't think that's accurate. What I'm saying is "taxes are not collected at gunpoint" and also "you will not be executed for failing to pay your taxes". You might be jailed for not paying your taxes. Tha
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by afshin 11y ago
But that's exactly the point: "point guns at law enforcement and you'll likely get killed" isn't quite as outrageous as "not paying your taxes gets you killed". Conflating those two only clouds the argum
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by afshin 11y ago
I'm pretty confident that the penalty for this crime, which has a name: "tax evasion", is not "men with guns will fucking shoot you dead".
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by afshin 11y ago
It may be that the disagreement you're encountering is based on your acceptance of the premise that taxes are collected at gunpoint. It's extending a principle to an extreme logical conclusion and appealing to a formulaic interpre
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by afshin 11y ago
Regardless of the type of tax, roads have been built by governments using tax revenue since history began. [1] Is your grievance with personal income tax in particular or taxes in general? Because for taxes to work at all, there needs to
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by afshin 11y ago
Just a guess, but it might be that because "for" is a JS restricted word, they picked an attribute name that wouldn't maybe trip up a syntax highlighter or something of that nature.
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The anatomy of a Go project(darian.af)
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by afshin 11y ago
"The second-hand smoke nuisance has been eliminated in public places" only because of "the cult of anti-smoking". The antismoking laws that the Chamber of Commerce is lobbying against are those very same ones that ended
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by afshin 11y ago
I think the biggest benefit of having the same view layer logic on the front-end and back-end is to send pre-rendered views to the client without having to to generate the markup using two different sets of code. Other than that, your data
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by afshin 11y ago
It does not work in the UK.
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by afshin 11y ago
Well, consider your answer to this question: Why should childless adults pay taxes that go toward a school system that educates children, despite the fact that they don't have children? Whatever your answer to that is, it is probably c
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by afshin 11y ago
Believe it or not, on a phone I found it to be a completely reasonable interface.
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by afshin 11y ago
I think by "virality" what was meant was that GPL libraries "infect" non-GPL because the larger work must also be released as GPL. For programming languages, though, this should not be an issue, unless somebody is bundli
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by afshin 11y ago
This is exactly my experience as well. I'm an alright programmer, but it is insufficient, because machine learning and AI are a table resting on four legs: linear algebra, calculus, statistics, and programming. I've also found mys
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by afshin 11y ago
That's an interesting idea, but because Go is garbage collected, it doesn't seem like a language that could be used to write an effective kernel, but I'm out of my depth, so I could be entirely incorrect. Here is the language
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by afshin 12y ago
Bioinformatics might be a great halfway field.

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