atombum

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by atombum 4y ago
Excellent book indeed. Was monumentally influential in changing my perspective on the world.
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by atombum 4y ago
Well let me be a data point to the contrary for you.
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by atombum 5y ago
How this is that different from inline CSS or e.g. Tailwind? How is writing CSS in the HTML a good thing? Maybe if your site is 100% static.
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by atombum 5y ago
We've opted for colloquial transference (e.g. I had breakfast at 7 => always AM, no matter what timezone) over a standardized measure. It makes sense honestly, noon "feels like" noon no matter where you are in the world. B
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by atombum 5y ago
Absolutely blatant. Almost certainly nothing will happen. Why can the people who make laws and are privy to some of the most private/sensitive information in the world trade on public markets? Let's just ignore insider trading. At
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by atombum 5y ago
I had to disable autocomplete recently, neither autocomplete="false" or autocomplete="off" worked. MDN (source below) indicates using "new-password, but in my experience passing in any random string to the autocompl
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by atombum 5y ago
You're not necessarily wrong but it just doesn't feel like the right context to share this perspective, given the subject matter of the OP. This comes off as extremely insensitive and tone deaf to me.
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by atombum 5y ago
Big government here meaning the intersection between Big Business, Big Lobby and Big "Government". The War on Drugs wouldn't have near the legs it does if it wasn't aggressively lobbied for by private prisons, alcohol di
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by atombum 5y ago
Agreed, and that brings up a very interesting discussion of prejudice in modeling the world. Everyone views the world differently and it seems to me of vital importance that any attempts to model the real world for RL are as unbiased as pos
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by atombum 6y ago
Based on what I've read about working in the games industry, joy is fleeting between ridiculous crunches, which seem to be nearly ubiquitous.
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by atombum 6y ago
I think for companies like Activision, EA, analytics drive a massive amount of their decision making. I would even go so far as to posit that Blizzard (a master of psychological manipulation), most decisions are driven by analytics based op
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by atombum 6y ago
See previous discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2562201 We had everyone on this at work. Have since switched to the Great Discarder. Not quite as good, but still gets the job done.
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by atombum 6y ago
I think there's a tremendous irony in this response. Disregarding the "accuracy" of your claims or my own political viewpoints, it seems to me that you are demonstrating the same phenomenon that was discussed in the OP.
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by atombum 6y ago
Ronald Reagan happened.