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by ashark 9y ago
Better range/higher velocity with something more aerodynamic, maybe?
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by ashark 9y ago
Ah, his fame, at least, makes sense then. I've definitely seen other mobiles and wire sculpture that I like.
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by ashark 9y ago
Yeah, maybe I just need to look at more of it, though the required travel to do so makes that much more difficult than with most other art forms aside from architecture. Maybe that's part of the appeal of state- and country-spanning &q
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by ashark 9y ago
Is there some well-trod path to being able to appreciate this sort of work? I'm looking at the pictures in the article and wow do I ever not "get" this, to the point that I can't understand how one might "get&qu
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by ashark 9y ago
> Legislation is a tool. It has lots of hangups, a legacy from thousands of years of history. It’s not always the best tool for the job. I’m not an anarchist, I just feel we’re get more milage from better browser behaviour and defaults t
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by ashark 9y ago
> ”Small set of very narrow purposes” or even “data” are too difficult to define legally. There’ll be loopholes to exploit. Eh, not really. I don't see how you can maintain this position without concluding that laws aren't poss
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by ashark 9y ago
Just a year ago I'd have thought it'd obviously land him in hot water, and probably get him impeached in short order if he refused to divest. I no longer think that. Even massive, wholly overt corruption is apparently fine now. Al
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by ashark 9y ago
> So... data science is evil and the only way to stop it is a total ban numbers. Nah. Banning collecting, storing, and exploiting data on people for any but a small set of very narrow purposes would do the trick.
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by ashark 9y ago
Facebook have decided they won't support it (Flow is their thing, so that makes sense) but Microsoft has stepped up with some pretty serious support, including good docs for the process of converting a new RN project to TypeScript:
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by ashark 9y ago
> What are you talking about? Bin Laden took credit for 9/11 immediately Both my recollection and Wikipedia (admittedly neither being authoritative) agree that Bin Laden denied involvement for some time after the attacks (Wiki says
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by ashark 9y ago
Heh, we must be around the same age. Man, I went to Wikipedia because I was curious whether the timeline and events I had in my head for the early let-the-inspectors-back-in demands and the later, infamous leave-or-die "ultimatum"
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by ashark 9y ago
Yeah, by '09 there was clearly no reason. When they originally sold the war they played up Al Qaeda's size, power, and level of infrastructure (specifically in Afghanistan) so, assuming you believed that[1] the original invasion k
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by ashark 9y ago
> the strategic purpose of invading Afghanistan was to demonstrate to every country that shielding those who commit acts of war against the United States is itself an act of war against the United States — and that being in a state of wa
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by ashark 9y ago
> - The JavaScript ecosystem is still insane. Our project has ended up with one of the most complex build processes I've worked with (and I've worked with autotools). God is that true. The JS ecosystem as a whole is actually, n
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by ashark 9y ago
> I run a mobile team of ~30 folks. That's a... big mobile team. RN's been a good move for our smaller 2-3 person teams (2-3 devs, plus part-time designer, QA, various other roles full or part time—call it 6 personnel) though n
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by ashark 9y ago
DRM and webassembly. The end of openness in both cases—though at least WebAssembly means we eventually won't have to write Javascript anymore, which is nice as far as that goes. Sure, Javascript uglifiers and frameworks mucking wit
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by ashark 9y ago
If someone launches a new HTML-based Web with crippled javascript ( no network comm access, for one, including ability to trigger links or forms), some small, restricted subset of CSS, and much better built-in dynamic table and form elemen
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by ashark 9y ago
It's that plus the schools, at least in this city. If we lived in the city, it'd take ~2-2.5x as much money to buy a house with one fewer bedrooms than our current 'burbs house has (two of our kids could have bunk-beds I gues
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by ashark 9y ago
My wife's a teacher. Parents are insane. Schools/admin don't push back much. If you're lucky they're just up your ass—"Why does my kid still have a 0 for this assignment in the online gradebook? They turned in
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by ashark 9y ago
> Not sure if I agree. You mean that, people will have to choose for paying for subscriptions, so the best quality articles after a paywall will get the money by creating better articles. But it leaves less space for everyone else. I&#x2
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by ashark 9y ago
> One site ( a non profit, where donators also complain about how much money they spend on servers and wages), can't be a reference for an online business. The chance to duplicate this is minimal + it has thousands of free employees
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by ashark 9y ago
Wild guess from the highly relevant experience of having played Kerbal Space Program: if you don't actually intend to achieve orbit (which is mostly about going sideways really fast, not up) it may be more fuel-efficient to reach you
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by ashark 9y ago
Removing spying ads for everyone changes the entire landscape, though. What if spying ads weren't an option? Print versions of many of these get by with non-tracking ads (well, subscribers are a little, but nothing like web tracking)
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by ashark 9y ago
> So how would websites earn money? There's so much good content that I just don't care if the ad-supported stuff dies. In its absence, free community-driven sites will have a reason to exist and paid options will stand a fight
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by ashark 9y ago
Exactly. The difference at least some of these tests is measuring between the two is idiomatic modern JS (promise, map, careful variable scoping) with fast & loose old-school c-like JavaScript (for loops, global vars galore). Typescript
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by ashark 9y ago
> 4. PHP, JRuby, Ruby, Typescript, Perl, Python, being massively slow than the fastest languages, for example Ruby being 59 times slower than Rust or C. Take a look at some of the TypeScript code and compare it to the Javascript versions
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by ashark 9y ago
Guess: its output has more lines of JS than the vanilla JS versions, and since a lot of the variation between scripting languages in these things often come down to how fast they can stop running themselves and start running some underlying
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by ashark 9y ago
Other countries usually control prices either through... well, price controls, or by establishing a monopsony on basic healthcare (single-payer). If we're not willing to create price controls (doubt it) then that leaves single payer.
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by ashark 9y ago
Typical features for non-single-payer and non-nationalized European healthcare systems include: insurance mandate, "public option", price lists/controls, insurers must be non-profit, insurance must not suck (see: many expensi
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by ashark 9y ago
Price controls might see more resistance in the US than setting up a government (near) monopsony and letting that reduce prices (single-payer). The idea that price controls can ever, ever be a good idea is heresy to a lot of people here,

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