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by ashark 9y ago
Wow. That's much better. Apparently-idiomatic Haskell reads (or, rather, doesn't) about like line-noise/code-golf style Perl to me.
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by ashark 9y ago
Ubiquitous single-letter symbols mapping to who-knows-what possible things, pnflly abvted fncn nms, and unclear motivations for code are what I've bounced off of with Haskell every time I've tried to dig in. The community seems to
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by ashark 9y ago
The dongle and does-this-monitor-work-oh-wait-I-need-a-differet-cable-huh-that-didn't-help-either-guess-I'll-switch-monitors situation with the new MBPs at our office has been much worse than I expected, and I expected it to be pr
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by ashark 9y ago
You can smack together something that grabs JSON over HTTP and does something with it really, really fast in Node. Fast to write, that is, not necessarily to execute. Reading command line arguments and config files is also much faster/
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by ashark 9y ago
I'd expect multivitamins to have a strong effect on general satiety if that's true. Do they?
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by ashark 9y ago
Our system stabilizes at two parties. Other parties aren't viable until/unless they hit a point where they can eat one existing party, or large parts of both. This happening will in short order kill one or both existing major part
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by ashark 9y ago
We see the alternatives in the handful of cases in which spying on users isn't a viable model (or, at least, just doing that isn't viable). Typically it's directly paying money for services, maybe with a free tier (Github)
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by ashark 9y ago
Free community and paid, privacy-respecting efforts get squashed by the very presence of the spy-vertisers in the market, usually in the idea phase. A world without those products wouldn't fail to have equivalents for most or all of th
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by ashark 9y ago
> So, say goodby to google? No thanks. > Advertising allows people with no means to use the internet, and this value is worth more to society as a whole than ads. Community efforts would step up in a big way if there weren't free
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by ashark 9y ago
The only way for other business models to work will be to ban collecting invasive info about your users. Otherwise we're stuck with the spy-vertising economy forever. Boycotts (Boycott what? Most of the Internet at this point?) won&#x2
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by ashark 9y ago
> I guess I just don't see making money from advertisements as an indictment of an organization. It's not just making money from ads like an old-school newspaper did, it's 1) collecting so much data about people, 2) us
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by ashark 9y ago
High-school-me bounced off several Java and C++ books with their stupid "sally wants to buy flowers and john's flower shop" explanations of objects were before finally realizing, while using an OO PHP library, what was actual
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by ashark 9y ago
The perception would be so. If not the money wouldn't be spent in the first place.
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by ashark 10y ago
> Why is it so hard for each one of us to just reduce our intake by, say, just 15% to begin with? Because if you do it and no-one else does then you're hurting yourself for basically no reason. It's a coordination problem.
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by ashark 10y ago
Some oral b Braun. One without the Bluetooth connectivity(!!!) that even mid-range models seem to have now. I think it's just whatever sweethome recommended at the time. Might just be the 1000. Only feature it has is that it vibrates w
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by ashark 10y ago
> Are you the kind of person who is so worn down by the numbing drudgery of late capitalism that you can’t summon the energy to drag a 2 ounce toothbrush across your gums for 90 seconds a day? Well, the electric toothbrush has been a thi
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by ashark 10y ago
> First, legal problems: you can't have a unisex multi-stall bathroom in the USA. I'm not sure if it's actually illegal (it probably is in many states), but it'll never fly even if it is. Granted it's not the sam
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by ashark 10y ago
> Freedom originally meant that you could deal with whoever you wanted on whatever terms both parties could agree on As defined where, "originally"? (serious question)
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by ashark 10y ago
I've been told we went through this cycle before. A lot of older malls were originally outdoors, in fact, and had roofs added over walkways later. I don't really get the appeal of newer outdoor mall-like shopping areas. They'
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by ashark 10y ago
Yeah. If there's no government but you find yourself capable of consistently, successfully enforcing your own private property rights... congratulations, you are the government. Long live the king/queen.
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by ashark 10y ago
Reliably changing someone's weight for the long term probably requires swapping environment and altering their peer group/friends. Kinda like getting off of drugs.
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by ashark 10y ago
1) A system that can only stably support two parties at a time, leading to really weird combinations of issues under the two parties (imagine a world where voting for a "pro-life" party didn't also mean voting against a socia
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by ashark 10y ago
This comment's a bit flippant, but yeah, I've found a consistent ability to produce a steady string of never-addressed "but, wait, what about...?" questions on my part as a defining quality of writing from the libertaria
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by ashark 10y ago
Don't forget collecting a huge number of really well-framed, massively-metadata-tagged photos of peoples' otherwise-relatively-private bedrooms and closets. I look forward to being denied a loan because people in my neighborhood h
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by ashark 10y ago
It's absolutely brilliant if your goal is any of several things that don't actually involve delivering a valuable service to the people buying the device (if you must incidentally, that's fine). And if you have never so much
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by ashark 10y ago
Giving ammo to companies spending billions of dollars to subject you to non-stop psychological warfare aimed at affecting your spending habits (and any other emotions/behaviors it needs to bulldoze over to get to that goal) is just fin
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by ashark 10y ago
Outlaw the kind of data collection and abuse that keeps these services alive and plenty of reasonably-priced paid encrypted-cloud and/or locally-hosted options for all kinds of these free spying-enabled services would pop up quickly. T
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by ashark 10y ago
I don't use Pinboard—bookmarks are mostly a place I send open tabs I'll never get around to reading so I don't feel bad about closing them—they may as well go to /dev/null. But storing data (and backing it up, and
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by ashark 10y ago
As pointed out in the notes the Angry Birds entry is a bit of a non sequitur since that's more like measuring how fast a given new TV show's viewership increased after TVs were already extremely common, and it's not exactly
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by ashark 10y ago
A cursory search for the briefly-mentioned Tools of the Mind program does not make it seem "promising". However, social science and education research is terrible and lots of organizations conducting research and pushing meta-stud

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