andrenth

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by andrenth 8y ago
Only with an indeterminate subject. Definitely not the case here.
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How Modern Sweden Profits from the Success of Its Free-Market History (2015)(mises.org)
1 points by andrenth 8y ago|0 comments
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by andrenth 8y ago
> In some ways that may depend too much on noblesse oblige to work Why are you suspicious on the noblesse of people who run companies but not on that of people who run governments? Bureaucrats are not noble angels who came from heaven to
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The New War on Comedy(quillette.com)
42 points by andrenth 8y ago|17 comments
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The 2018 Free Thought Awards(quillette.com)
11 points by andrenth 8y ago|0 comments
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by andrenth 8y ago
I find this unusual because usually the knowledge require to troubleshoot a complex piece of software is much more complex than that required to set it up in the first place. In other words, how can you troubleshoot it if you don’t know how
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by andrenth 8y ago
What's your strategy for handling possible filesystem failure/corruption scenarios without a team that understands the underlying technology?
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by andrenth 8y ago
Yes, in practice the user will either get angry for having to dig for the useful stuff or simply give up.
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by andrenth 8y ago
As I understand it, Google (and others?) rank pages higher if the time spent on them is high. Long text takes longer to read, so it's a way to increase that metric. Another explanation I've seen is for ranking longer texts higher
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by andrenth 8y ago
It's a workaround, but I think the real problem, as you mention, is search engines using time spent on page as a proxy metric for "this page is useful", which in many situations just isn't the case.
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by andrenth 8y ago
Sad and annoying. Top Google results are very likely to include long articles that ramble on and on and never get to the point, in the name of "optimization". Search Engine Optimization is Reader Experience Pessimization.
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The Children of the Revolution(quillette.com)
2 points by andrenth 8y ago|0 comments
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Net Neutrality Repeal: The Internet Apocalypse That Never Came(fee.org)
1 points by andrenth 8y ago|0 comments
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Why Most Academics Tilt Left(fee.org)
5 points by andrenth 8y ago|2 comments
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Sad Radicals(quillette.com)
2 points by andrenth 8y ago|0 comments
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Censorship, Alas, Works(spectator.org)
4 points by andrenth 8y ago|0 comments
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The Counterintuitive Truth about Earth's Resources(fee.org)
1 points by andrenth 8y ago|0 comments
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U.S. Tech Giant Cloudflare Provides Cybersecurity for at Least 7 Terror Groups(huffingtonpost.com)
4 points by andrenth 8y ago|0 comments
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The Demise of Gawker: An Interview with Ryan Holiday(quillette.com)
3 points by andrenth 8y ago|0 comments
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by andrenth 8y ago
Anyone right of Mao is far right these days.
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Academics’ Mobbing of a Young Scholar Must Be Denounced(quillette.com)
18 points by andrenth 8y ago|13 comments
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by andrenth 8y ago
The definition of gender, stated multiple times in this thread as if it were a hard truth (i.e. a social construct), is purely ideological.
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by andrenth 8y ago
Physics is quite a stretch and yet denying biology isn’t... This is an anti-science, ideological stance.
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Smokers Are Responding to DC's New Cigarette Tax Hike Exactly Like You'd Expect(fee.org)
2 points by andrenth 8y ago|0 comments
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by andrenth 8y ago
Cool. Do the pattern matching libraries check for exhaustiveness in the match cases? Do you see this eventually becoming part of the language?
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by andrenth 8y ago
Does it have algebraic data types and pattern matching?
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by andrenth 8y ago
I have really tried to like it. Coming from OCaml, it has many of the things I’ve come to expect in a modern language, but with better tooling and more libraries. I generally do not mind syntax. I like OCaml’s and Erlang’s, for example, whi
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The NYT Reveals the Horrors of Capitalism by Showing China’s State-Run Hospitals(fee.org)
2 points by andrenth 8y ago|0 comments
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Stupid Is as Stupid Writes(quillette.com)
2 points by andrenth 8y ago|0 comments
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The Gulag Archipelago: A New Foreword by Jordan B. Peterson(quillette.com)
7 points by andrenth 8y ago|1 comments

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