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10111.
by api 8y ago
> I am still not sure how often women simply consider sexual interest to be harassment. In this setting it's at a minimum incredibly unprofessional, especially between people who don't know each other well and are potentially c
10112.
by api 8y ago
The problem with this reasoning is that some heretical ideas are perhaps correct, some are just nuts, and some are both nuts and very damaging. While it is true that moral fashions and taboos of discourse can exclude good ideas, the inverse
10113.
by api 8y ago
Is that true? Gobs of money transformed the Internet from an engine of open communication and information sharing to an engine of privacy invasion, mass manipulation, and disinformation. The web was created at CERN and TCP/IP was creat
10114.
by api 8y ago
Public transportation that runs on the power grid also burns dinosaurs if it's powered by fossil fuels. Edit: why the downmod? Energy is energy.
10115.
by api 8y ago
It's not necessary for most applications, but it's extremely helpful for some. It can also be used to realize deployment scenarios where you cluster across clouds very easily provided you ensure connections are secure between no
10116.
by api 8y ago
There are three competing standards, so everyone will still use curl|bash.
10117.
by api 8y ago
Exceptions are really no less complex than return values, and they do not (easily) play nice with asynchronous and lambda/functional programming models. Witness their near abandonment in JavaScript for example. I like Go mostly the way
10118.
by api 8y ago
Wow, it's like an AI that makes your product for you! Put up a project on Kickstarter and if it gets funded just buy the product from China and send it to your backers.
10119.
by api 8y ago
We passed through a period where shared libraries were a great way to save storage and memory, but now dependency management has become such an incredibly headache that it's driving us back to monolithic binaries.
10120.
by api 8y ago
It certainly seems as if the hype has faded but there's still a ton of zombie coins and zombie projects just persisting at the same valuations with little to no (real, non-spoofed or washed) volume. Some of these altcoins barely even w
10121.
by api 8y ago
Highly regulated environments are heavily biased toward huge and/or old companies because regulation is a regressive corporate tax.
10122.
by api 8y ago
Yes, I think incentives matter. A similar perverse incentive exists in the VC funding world that was parodied in HBO's Silicon Valley series-- namely an incentive against booking revenue early in the game. When you are "pre-revenu
10123.
by api 8y ago
> crypto-legal systems with automated drone enforcement. Or read Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson and experience it today. :)
10124.
by api 8y ago
There are few ICOs that have even resulted in working cryptocurrency things. I for one am absolutely shocked by the hideously poor quality of the stuff ICOs were used to fund. Excluding obvious scams the remainder seem to be solutions in se
10125.
by api 8y ago
Fox could be pushing an anti-AGW agenda for numerous reasons, not the least of which is in response to the affinities of their viewer base. They're a media company, so their job is to pander to some group of viewers to get ratings. The
10126.
by api 8y ago
Yes, they are. Even if they get their energy from fossil fuels for now, it's a whole lot easier to replace a few hundred power plants than it is to replace millions of ICEs and all the associated sunk cost that they represent. It'
10127.
by api 8y ago
I think you just described more than half of all political debate, as e.g. libertarians and socialists define "capitalism" differently. When debating these terms I define them and/or add qualifiers, e.g. "voluntarist cap
10128.
by api 8y ago
There was a bit of a backlash in the Valley against the opposite hubris: that sales and marketing are where all the value is and everything else is a replaceable commodity. This remains the mentality in many places outside SV, and especiall
10129.
by api 8y ago
We are preparing to move to Google. Our app is CPU intensive and a killer feature was the ability to spec nodes with a lot of cores and little RAM. We save a lot of money by not paying for RAM we dont need. Google also had a location in LA
10130.
by api 8y ago
> someone who decides to tackle a very hard problem with very high risk of failure is likely to look less productive on paper. This is the central problem with today's academic research environment.
10131.
by api 8y ago
That's because they don't believe this stuff for rational reasons but to fit into a group or in some cases as a "fuck you belief" directed at "the establishment." "Fuck you beliefs" are a personal the
10132.
by api 8y ago
Bingo. Money does not magically render a person impervious to the same insecurities, emotional reactivity, and other failings as ordinary people. It doesn't magically make someone more rational, more secure, less depressed, less fearfu
10133.
by api 8y ago
I sometimes wonder if I would be any better if you gave me a billion dollars. It seems like effectively unlimited wealth does something to people. I wonder if it's a result of what it does to the people around you. Basically you end up
10134.
by api 8y ago
I didn't post the parent because I agree with this law completely, but to bring up the point. The advocates of this law would probably argue that everyone discriminates all the time, including by gender. I am on the fence. When I was y
10135.
by api 8y ago
Did school desegregation work?
10136.
by api 8y ago
This is absolutely awesome.
10137.
by api 8y ago
> if someone is born from a poor and dumb family that therefore their genetics must be worse and so forth. That particular assumption would be false because of genetic crossover. Two mentally disabled people could give birth to a genius
10138.
by api 8y ago
I've observed for quite some time that determination, charisma, and the ability to sustain focus are more significant than either natural ability or education. If you don't believe me spend some time in New York. It's somethi
10139.
by api 8y ago
The problem is that sometimes the ideas flow from bottom to top while the credit is top to bottom.
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by api 8y ago
Those were "compliance cars," not attempts to seriously invade the mass market with an EV.

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