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by ashark 10y ago
I wonder what they'd look like if you changed the target to a percentage of global population. Moving target, so it'd be harder to figure out, but say time to 5% or similar. It'd surely make the numbers less dramatic.
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by ashark 10y ago
What's the story on that footprint, anyway? We went from (from memory) ~250-350MB Win98 to ~700-800MB XP to ~10-15GB(!?!?!) Win7, and just up from there. Plus the default settings seemed to starting going really crazy with swapspace&
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by ashark 10y ago
Enforcement would be tricky. Fleeing wealth might be a real issue at that level of taxation, and you'd have to stop all kinds of activities that the really wealthy use to avoid the inheritance taxes we already do have (family trusts,
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by ashark 10y ago
Inheritance of fortunes is no less undemocratic than inheritance of aristocratic titles, estates, and privileges. Doesn't mean we can practically do away with it, but it's a noble (hah) goal.
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by ashark 10y ago
> America doesn't miss manufacturing, it misses unions. A friend of mine has the idea that American politics is about what amount to kaiju fighting on the sides of different factions. Yeah, none of them are great, and your giant
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by ashark 10y ago
This sort of thing happens a lot. There's a TVtropes page for it and there's a not tiny list of affected works. http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/KeepCirculatingTh... [EDIT] though those
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by ashark 10y ago
How much of this is because there's more personal risk involved in cutting a budget than spending too much? Like, who in their right mind would cut any sort of counseling? One suicide and you're in trouble, whether or not it makes
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by ashark 10y ago
Yeah, it's not developers pushing video header backgrounds, ten analytics packages, and form designs that require 2mb of JS, CSS and images to achieve cross-browser. Designers, marketing/growth-hackers. Clients. Developers aren&#x
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by ashark 10y ago
Hopefully the app uses something less power-hungry than JS and a web browser to render the video. Ideally we wouldn't be using those for that task anywhere else either, but that battle's been lost. Also: if they make you install a
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by ashark 10y ago
I think it's a lot easier to understand OO, for instance, when you know what structs and functions are ("oh, a class is basically a struct with functions [methods] in it with an implicit argument pointing to itself, and some sugar
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by ashark 10y ago
It's two event/message dispatchers slapped together. One for "reducers" that take an event/message and apply it to state, one that automagically applies the resulting state-change event to do stuff to your views. Yo
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by ashark 10y ago
She already started asking tough questions about mortality at a disturbingly-young age (like: two). Fortunately she's decided all on her own that reaching old age leads to some kind of reincarnation (she seems certain that at some poin
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by ashark 10y ago
I'm beginning to think there'd be a way to make Redux a helluva lot clearer by sticking everything in a class with a well-defined interface (but: ewwwww, classes, impure, burn the heretic!). Keep all the definitions for an actionc
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by ashark 10y ago
Yep. The universe is cosmic horror. But hey, I've got an alright view of a really pretty tree right now!
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by ashark 10y ago
My oldest is four and I feel this way about everything . They accidentally ask really tough questions constantly . There's no need to go to space for the tough stuff. This morning: "How to people know there's grass?" I
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by ashark 10y ago
My advice to a new Android developer: 1) The way things are done in the docs is often wrong on fundamental levels. Using libraries from the android team for e.g. network comm is often wrong , even if it's "new and friendlier&
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by ashark 10y ago
Maybe it depends on where they are? I think the ones in Iowa and Kansas look great , but that might be because there's not much else to look at. And if the old-and-rural endless plains meet towering-tech-wonder-behemoth aesthetic isn&
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by ashark 10y ago
What the Tiny House and container living and related movements have taught me is mainly that people will pay a premium for small living spaces that aren't considered "for poors", even if they're worse than, say, a single
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by ashark 10y ago
> 1. I can get a new book immediately instead of visiting the book store or waiting for Amazon. OK, yeah, missed that. > 2. I can effortlessly take highlights and notes and then access those annotations through the cloud. I can't
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by ashark 10y ago
> The only shortcoming of e-reading, in my opinion, is the inability to display the books you've read and the books you want to read somewhere in your home or office. You can tell so much about a person by their library. I've b
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by ashark 10y ago
Ah, you mean the entirety of Windows 10, and just... all of Google and Facebook? > Uber Oh. > Then there was Facebook Ah, here we go. > The company doesn’t distort reality—but it often seems to lack the ability to recognize it. Wai
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by ashark 10y ago
My point is you can forgive someone for that kind of error when there are articles making the round from semi-reputable sources that include quotes from sources that appear to back up their claims. Especially when it doesn't seem to ha
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by ashark 10y ago
It's being reported like it is. https://techcrunch.com/2017/04/18/facebook-announces-react-f...
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by ashark 10y ago
Asana (ugh, not my choice) once prompted me for feedback. The whole thing's performance is always worst-in-class god-awful, but the feedback textarea lagged nearly a full second before registering each keystroke. A textarea. A texta
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by ashark 10y ago
I've found it really easy once I stopped thinking about it in the way it's presented at all . The use of the term "action" is especially misleading. Easier to think of it as two event dispatchers hooked together (which
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by ashark 10y ago
> Then imagine to meet a dev from the future telling you that in 10 years anyone will be writing their app routers in Javascript in this way Yeah. The first time I saw JSX presented as something Super Serious and Obviously Fine, We Don&#
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by ashark 10y ago
In... god, nearly[0] 20 years of reading and engaging in Internet arguments and discussions, I don't think I've ever seen a productive exchange with a certain flavor of common-on-the-Internet outspoken and confident market-focus
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by ashark 10y ago
Don't bother responding. As soon as you catch a whiff of "taxation is theft" in a thread on the Internet you can be pretty sure you're communicating with someone who's solved government, coordination problems genera
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by ashark 10y ago
I'm in Safari with I-don't-remember-what adblocking (looks like I have ghostery?). Just pressing BACK when the anti-adblock message shows up lets me see the original page! That was an easy fix. Turns out I'd just been closing
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by ashark 10y ago
A lot of Apple's battery life success seems to be due to the software—both iOS and MacOS. Android's only just now starting to kind of catch up with iOS on power management, and MacOS doesn't beat other laptops because they

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