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by amscanne 6y ago
This is a good parable, but a bad metaphor: no one would open a staffed lending library with a collection so small that the staff could keep everything in their head. The key to a good metaphor is that it should hit something familiar and n
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by amscanne 6y ago
As someone who struggles with contrived metaphors for everything, I think this is a pretty excellent one :) Although I'm not sure dishes are the best. You're not really going to make it a day without cleaning the dishes. Deep clea
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by amscanne 6y ago
I think you're missing the point that I was trying to make. Sometimes more features can make a thing worse. More advanced type systems may not necessarily make a large group of people more productive in a language, even if they are str
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by amscanne 6y ago
Just to get your argument straight: nothing comes close to the level of utility and usability of StandardML, Ocaml and Haskell? So why haven’t aren’t those languages commonly used? The simple answer is that there’s a lot more to a language
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by amscanne 6y ago
Are you joking about the self hosted runners? The fact that you can’t: 1) Apply any security policy for runners (e.g. require a label before running a PR) 2) Have runners quit after a single job so you can build ephemeral runners 3) Build y
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by amscanne 6y ago
Yes, the problem is that GitHub did not seem to consider that “malicious input” can include any content that is provided and parsed in some way. Unfortunately, all of stdout is parsed, and often includes things like issue titles, descriptio
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by amscanne 6y ago
Oh yes, I hate this kind of thing so much. People have so many pseudoscientific explanations and theories to support whatever random products and practices they like. I call these “huh, that makes sense” explanations, since that’s often wha
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by amscanne 6y ago
The contract could include a provision that you can only pursue damages from them after relevant insurance claims.
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by amscanne 6y ago
That may be true, but it doesn’t change the fact that locals share a large portion of responsibility. Money laundering is no doubt happening, but the activity is tiny as a fraction of the market. To give an example of how exaggerated it is:
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by amscanne 6y ago
Well it’s true that my advice is not pragmatic. The market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent. But I wouldn’t encourage FOMO by saying “buy or you’ll be priced out!” since it’s just perpetuating the assumption that it’
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by amscanne 6y ago
A home is place to live, not some magical wealth generator. The cult is that it is seen as such, and people have it in their heads that home ownership is the most important component in financial success. The reason that you note “just wait
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by amscanne 6y ago
Except the reality is that local speculation is also wild and crazy. It's just easier to blame foreigners. I've read stats that indicate that nearly 20% of home owners in the Toronto area own at least one additional "inve
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by amscanne 6y ago
Relative to the cost of purchasing, it does. Buying in major cities in Canada simply does not make any financial sense unless you were counting on continued insane growth (fueled by local speculation as much or more than foreign). Most pe
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by amscanne 6y ago
I’m interested in the specific issues you hit, not just additional metaphors. Bazel, while there’s a learning curve, exists to provide hermetic builds, so I’m surprised that “what it will do” is not predictable.
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by amscanne 6y ago
Care to elaborate? Bazel doesn’t require vendoring the world, and I don’t understand the connection to Nixpkgs.
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But then the correlations with the other 48 states are broken. In that insane scenario, Mississippi now votes for Biden (because I guess he’s suddenly come out as pro-life as well), but Alaska still goes for Trump. The negative correlations
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by amscanne 6y ago
The “misuse” of the term is so common that it is now included without comment in many dictionaries and reference sources (e.g. Wikipedia). The formal fallacy is now the more uncommon use, so it’s probably worth getting over it ;)
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by amscanne 6y ago
In the early summer, the CDC published a study estimating that the confirmed cases were 6-24 times lower than the actual cases. With testing continuing to ramp up, I suspect the gap has narrowed, but some significant multiple is still likel
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by amscanne 6y ago
Medical decisions in the USA suggest that the statistical value of a “quality-adjusted life year” is ~$128,000 on average. Obviously the question of “life years” is critical in this context. Everyone would be in favor of sacrificing more to
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by amscanne 6y ago
That's not an entirely accurate picture of Adbusters. They were never exclusively anti-advertising, it was always an anti-consumerism (and anti-capitalism to a large extent) organization. Advertising is just a manifestation of consumer
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by amscanne 6y ago
I think the word you’re looking for is “utility”. People maximize for utility, which includes all of the terms above. Utility of money also has diminishing returns, etc.
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by amscanne 6y ago
One is a former Amazon worker, who was involved in the activity while employed: > In the course of the conspiracy described in the Indictment, the defendants paid bribes to at least ten different Amazon employees and contractors, includi
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by amscanne 6y ago
> what if an organization has a nodal structure such that at each node somebody can divert X% (say 1 for the hell of it) of what goes through the node? The salary of the top man is then basically proportional to the size of the node, so
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by amscanne 6y ago
There’s a big difference between a parent and the adults in charge at a boarding school, in terms of the emotional support and things that those adults will do for them. I’m sure most 13 year olds plead with their parents to take them certa
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by amscanne 6y ago
The article suggests multiple other interpretations. That does seem to be the most accepted, although “probably” seems like the wrong word.
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by amscanne 6y ago
There are still very few companies that want to hire pure remote, so demand is low. This might all change: supply goes up as people go remote, demand goes up as companies look to hire remotely. It’s unclear what this market will look like,
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by amscanne 6y ago
Labor markets are still local until we have widespread remote working. That’s not the case yet. I’m sure companies remote compensation will become competitive in the all remote market as it evolves, whatever it turns out to look like. I thi
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by amscanne 6y ago
It’s funny: I don’t know where people get the idea that people are paid based on the value they produce. People are paid based on the amount they command in the labor market, and labor markets are local (and if they produce less value than
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by amscanne 6y ago
I don’t know why you’re disagreeing when you’re making the same argument. If you have the money, you build your own thing, which is better .
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The other flaw with that example is that there is obvious social pressure. If you try to cut the line, people will likely confront you. Situations where there’s no social pressure are different. During University, I was a believer in co-o

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