ashelmire

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by ashelmire 7y ago
It's a term meant to slander professionals and imply that we should constantly rotate in the current political favorites into positions for which they are not qualified.
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by ashelmire 7y ago
As I understand it, taxi companies have done just that - they now have apps as well.
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by ashelmire 7y ago
They probably figure the average person is going to 1) order a whole meal when they come to Wendy's and 2) not likely to go to Wendy's 32 times. Of course, college students are the ones that have the time and metabolic rates to ha
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by ashelmire 7y ago
Yep. The primary way I get to/from drinking events is Uber/Lyft. The other use case is when going somewhere without parking. Taxis were always very unreliable for trips like this; they'd show up late or not at all, especially
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by ashelmire 7y ago
Surely there's a place that sells burritos near you?
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by ashelmire 7y ago
The only politics is when you look at dozens of studies on NIH and say "it's all politics" and counter with your anecdotal experience. This is like denial of climate science. Stop doing it. I'm not part of any tribe but
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by ashelmire 7y ago
> Vegan diets are being proved by lots of studies at being pretty shitty for you. As far as I can tell, this is completely false. Vegan diets do a lot of things well: reduce salt, saturated fat, and cholesterol intake, for example. Veget
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by ashelmire 7y ago
> I have mixed feelings about Beyond Meat: my wife and I love the hot Italian sausage and burgers, but it is really not that healthy. Regular veggie burgers and other products (not trying to imitate meat) are usually really good. They sh
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by ashelmire 7y ago
I think it might be useful to note for other readers here that jq is very powerful for parsing json - you can programatically search, select, map, and mutate parts of any json. If you work with a lot of json, it's worth checking out.
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by ashelmire 7y ago
...why wouldn't it be? Why is a world with effectively arbitrary borders (and a huge amount of money and human effort wasted defending them) preferable to a world without borders?
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by ashelmire 7y ago
What if you continuously invested over that time?
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by ashelmire 7y ago
You don't. You can wait for obvious signs (government interventions), but if you wait for that, it won't be the bottom anymore. Better to just wait until the bleeding stops. Don't try to time the market exactly.
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by ashelmire 7y ago
> We really need mandatory ethics courses in CS. You think the CS grads / devs are the ones deciding to do this? We're not really given true autonomy. We're grunts. Someone above us decides to do the spying and we either d
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by ashelmire 7y ago
You can also do this in Ruby, though the scope is different.
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by ashelmire 7y ago
I agree that we've been given clear signals that losing consumer data won't result in any negative repercussions for your business from government. Unfortunately none of us are customers of equifax - the companies we share our dat
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by ashelmire 7y ago
I use https://downdetector.com/ I've often experienced issues with sites that say "everything's sunshine and rainbows" on their status pages, only to find that many other customers are experiencing the s
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by ashelmire 7y ago
Have you seen the US lately? We're en route to undoing Roe v Wade, the Civil Rights Act, years of progress on other matters, etc, and we've already basically given up on functional democracy by allowing corporations to spend as mu
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by ashelmire 7y ago
For places like this, we need to enforce trespassing laws. Use it as revenue to pay for more enforcement of those laws. For public spaces ruined by the photographers, pass laws requiring licenses to photograph and distribute it (where possi
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by ashelmire 7y ago
You've moved the goal posts a bit, but regardless: > The US has a federal minimum wage of $7.25/hr. This isn't a comparison with the 3rd world, this is a comparison with civilised, livable and comfortable lifestyles in oth
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by ashelmire 7y ago
The reason these paid services are successful in the US is because we have a fully functional and very threatening legal and corporate system that will find and punish people that steal their content and distribute it. This makes it inconve
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by ashelmire 7y ago
> If it works for other cities, the problem clearly isn't the rate of pay. Ok. So if they earned 5 dollars a day, it would be ok because it works for cities in third world countries? I think it's obvious that the local cost of
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by ashelmire 7y ago
These results aren't filtered in some way? I find it suspicious that almost all of the top ~100 results are tech related.
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by ashelmire 7y ago
Which do you think is more potentially damaging? 1) Using a website which has had its server code compromised (slack). 2) Installing and using an application which has had its code compromised (maybe also slack). The installed application i
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by ashelmire 7y ago
You know what's better than installing slack? Not installing it and using it in the browser. If there's a website option for any tool, I recommend using that over native. It's usually more performant and is less of a security
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by ashelmire 7y ago
We have laws about truth in advertising so that people don't get shafted by these big companies. Sure, they could say it was a mistake, but then they might have to fight it... and it really is a drop in the bucket for them. Amazon stil
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by ashelmire 7y ago
The whole point of MTurk is to get data you will use to train your models. Using some artificial means to make money on MTurk would be circular, and probably easily spotted - if not, your model has effectively solved the problem domain anyw
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by ashelmire 7y ago
I know that we use MTurk at the Linguistic Data Consortium (and that others in NLP use it as well). I know that those involved with it put in a lot of work to make sure we get good, useful data - there are many papers and strategies on the
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by ashelmire 7y ago
> The bird (or lime or Voi or...) can be picked up where I need it It sounds like the problem is that it's never where you need it. Unless you had 10x as many scooters as people and they were littered literally everywhere.
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by ashelmire 7y ago
If only scooters could drive themselves to your doorstep... Hey wait a second, that could be it! I'll start my self-driving scooter company today.
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by ashelmire 7y ago
If you can think of every possible failure and create monitoring and reporting for it before it happens, then you're the best dev on the planet.

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