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by axguscbklp 5y ago
The Hacker News guidelines say: "On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's
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by axguscbklp 5y ago
What do you mean by "people's actions"? If you mean voting, well, Democrats and Republicans get about the same number of votes in presidential elections, which does not seem to justify your view that "left" media bi
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by axguscbklp 5y ago
Those links show that out of all Americans who vote in presidential elections, well above 90% vote for either a Democrat or a Republican. However, that does not mean that well above 90% of Americans are either Democrats or Republicans.
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>It's difficult to have civil discourse with someone who says your identify (or the identify of those you love) should be outlawed or otherwise severely restricted by the state. That's been a core tenet of conservative politics
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by axguscbklp 5y ago
Deplatforming targeted one side of the political tribal war much more than the other, it was not just some politically neutral phenomenon that only targeted grifters.
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by axguscbklp 5y ago
I do not see that as a problem. Most news media is at least to some extent propaganda and basically all of it is biased. At the end of the day, if I want truth then I have to evaluate each bit of news media for its credibility whether it co
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by axguscbklp 5y ago
Studies show that "left bias" in mainstream media is much greater than it is among Americans in general. For example: "Compared with 2002, the percentage of full-time U.S. journalists who claim to be Democrats has dropped 8 p
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by axguscbklp 5y ago
Nice, one file of vanilla JavaScript, an HTML file, and a Readme. I know that in some contexts there are advantages to having a bunch of separate JavaScript modules each in its own file, tests, build steps, frameworks, etc. but I like how t
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by axguscbklp 5y ago
Is there any good reason to think that the Tiananmen uprising participants, had they gotten power, would actually have brought about democracy? Given what had happened during the Cultural Revolution, I can understand why some Chinese would
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by axguscbklp 5y ago
I have never seen "bare metal" used to mean anything other than running directly on the hardware instead of through an OS, so I guess the term simply means different things in different communities. The group of people who underst
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I have been saying for years that full self driving is extremely unlikely to be developed any time in the near future because it is simply too hard of a problem for any reasonable near-future extension of currently available technology. I a
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by axguscbklp 5y ago
This reminds me of reading about Africa's size in the introduction to Michael Crichton's Congo back when I was a kid: "Only prejudice, and a trick of the Mercator projection, prevents us from recognizing the enormity of the A
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by axguscbklp 5y ago
>Bayer (same people who sold Heroin over the counter 100 years ago) You say that like selling heroin over the counter is a bad thing.
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by axguscbklp 5y ago
I think that it was beautiful 10 years ago, too, if you mainly used a subset of it, relying heavily on closures and avoiding constructors and "this" as much as possible. I think that prototypal inheritance is elegant but in any ca
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by axguscbklp 5y ago
>Java is disliked on HN because it represent "enterprise" - big long-lived organizations which maintain a codebase for decades and therefore conservative. Yet HN commenters tend to like the React ecosystem, which at this point
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by axguscbklp 5y ago
Hacker News shows me the "Gell-Mann Amnesia effect" quite vividly. When people here discuss topics that I know a lot about, I often quickly realize that more than half of the people commenting are saying nonsense. When people here
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by axguscbklp 5y ago
>Both of these APIs perform quite poorly for what they're doing. When it comes to Canvas, do you mean that it actually performs poorly when putting pixels on the screen using putImageData, or do you mean that it does that fine but i
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by axguscbklp 5y ago
Very rich companies ask for taxpayer money...
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by axguscbklp 5y ago
All the more reason to end the war on drugs. It would be easier to celebrate great cops if they did not go around enforcing bullshit laws about what people are allowed to put in their own bodies. In general, it would be easier to celebrate
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by axguscbklp 5y ago
I am assuming that in the article the $11k/month figure is pre-tax. It is higher than Silicon Valley entry-level, I think, but I had thought that it is not higher by much. However, I just did a bit of Googling that made me realize that
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by axguscbklp 5y ago
Babel is one of the most popular and widely-used tools in the history of web development. Why should its developers and maintainers not make at least as much money as entry-level Silicon Valley developers?
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by axguscbklp 5y ago
$11k / month is pretty close to an entry-level Bay Area salary. Given that Babel is one of the most popular and widely-used tools in the history of web development, I am surprised that all the creators can afford to pay themselves is o
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by axguscbklp 5y ago
Reminds me a bit of the infamous Grubhub ad that came out a few months ago[1] - similarities include the color scheme, the checklist approach to racial diversity, and the attempt to project generic inoffensive "fun". The Grubhub a
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by axguscbklp 5y ago
This reminds me of the mixed anger and surprise that I felt during the Snowden revelations when I realized that internally, the NSA was using a bunch of goofy-looking crude slides to communicate about the Stasi-like domestic spying apparatu
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by axguscbklp 5y ago
Materialism does not have an imperfect explanation of consciousness - it has zero explanation of consciousness. Materialism does have a non-zero explanation of things other than consciousness, but there is no good reason to assume that this
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by axguscbklp 5y ago
Yeah, I do not understand where the author is coming from. One could easily write a helper function in JavaScript that does the same thing that the author's Clojure "cond" does. There is no need to use an IIFE if one does not
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>All available evidence points to the materialistic viewpoint. The materialistic viewpoint has failed to explain consciousness in the sense of describing a mechanism by which material phenomena could give rise to subjective experience.
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>Psychedelics don't numb and distract liked drinking alcohol. They do pretty much the exact opposite. This is only very generally if at all true. Psychedelics can numb and distract. Psychedelics can dissociate people further from th
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by axguscbklp 5y ago
Single generation? Sure. But do you think there are fewer racists now than there were 10-20 years ago? I doubt it. I have the sense that we passed a low point in racism a few years ago and it has been increasing since then. >not really a
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by axguscbklp 5y ago
I think that in general, the market does not want to pay for that.

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