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by babesh 6y ago
I think that negative votes on Hacker News are an indicator of people denying the truth. Bring it on.
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This is obviously just a tactic by the Trump administration to distract people from the US economy tanking because of the mishandling of covid-19. If you haven't noticed, the US has much bigger problems. How about covid-19, the economy
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Trump is signaling that Microsoft is his lackey and Microsoft is signaling in the affirmative. That cloud business from the Defense department sure is lucrative.
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The Californian analogy is that we let the brush grow and grow so by the time someone accidentally started a fire, it became a conflagration instead of a regular small fire.
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I’m just waiting for the vaccines or herd immunity at this point.
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A person trying to make a living by being picked up at a Home Depot parking lot or picking fruit has covid-19 rather far down the list of concerns. That person is also living in packed housing that greatly contributes to its spread. The var
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by babesh 6y ago
It’s all about the opportunity. If you are competing with someone for a promotion, the easiest way to win is to deny them the opportunity to excel. Have seen this again and again. That is why there are always battles for projects.
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by babesh 6y ago
How would this work? Splitting off US users would probably result in that part slowly dying because the non US part will / is going to be larger? Will US users be blocked from the non US TikTok?
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by babesh 6y ago
The hypothesis that we are in stagnation is flawed since it looks only at the lower socioeconomic levels in the developed countries. What happened with globalization is that the lowest socioeconomic levels in other parts of the world were l
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by babesh 6y ago
This distinction is not hard and fast even in the physical world. Just go to original department stores in Paris. They have a mix of stalls for merchants and the general store. Also many landlords (airports, arenas, etc...) charge a percent
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by babesh 6y ago
Not sure about Vietnam but Southern China is very big on fermentation, pickling, and salting and doing that to most every food: fish, vegetables, eggs, etc... It’s quite possible it came from Rome but the basic techniques are deeply embedde
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That is basically what happened in the 1980s in the US with SEMATECH. I remember a computer tv show in the 80s talking about government participation. I didn’t hear qualms about it then. I think it was fear of lost of the memory business to
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The short term thinking was exacerbated by historical discrimination. There were cases where black businesses became successful but then were forced out by whites who wanted what they had. Such a system doesn’t promote long term thinking.
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I think understanding each issue makes sense. Then you can trace each issue into their side effects. It’s possible that the issues have a common side effect that can be addressed with a single solution. For example, unequal understanding of
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I mean that there are two groups of people involved. The first is the person or people who is/are potentially the first of a particular ethnic group to achieve a position. If you are that person or people, you will need courage to not
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by babesh 6y ago
I have already seen that video. I think not having a first doesn’t have to be discriminatory. The courage to not be dissuaded by that is actually a positive character trait. See this interview https://youtu.be/3RG5pXTpLBI 1
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by babesh 6y ago
There is both a pipeline problem and a bias problem and they are intertwined. Historical discrimination has left black families much poorer than they would otherwise be. Poverty discriminates in myriad ways: lack of good role models and men
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That just won’t work. Just target the attack in the middle of the night or lunch hour. Furthermore, the next attack will probably be automated and be against far, far more accounts.
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by babesh 6y ago
Not going to take sides but Europe does have innovation. It’s just not necessarily commercial or they have been bought out. JetBrains, Minecraft, Python, Linux, HTTP/HTML, ARM, DeepMind.
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- It is good that fewer people are dying. - Some of the most vulnerable have already died. That is probably an additional reason the death rate is now lower. - The more vulnerable do seem to be much better protected than before. ------- - P
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The problem is that it is all too common for these tools to not be sufficiently prioritized in these organizations. They are usually slapped together without security or much else in mind. They are barely maintained. Security concerns as th
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by babesh 6y ago
A lessor version of this happens in the US where previous phases of a development pay for later phases. A cash strapped developer may offer initial phases at especially low prices.
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There seems to be a concerted effort from both China and the US to create sides. It feels like a new Cold War is looming. Stratechery is playing on one side. The reality is that US companies are quite willing to censor and manipulate inform
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by babesh 6y ago
Fair enough.
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You need to call Swift's bluff with AnyObject. That's unsafe and was only necessary to bridge to Objective-C where you can call any method on any object. I think we are in general agreement?
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by babesh 6y ago
You can’t safely call a method on a nil value in Swift. You need to explicitly force that in your code with an exclamation point to assume that the variable is not nil. Looks like the server passed empty value in JSON which got converted to
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by babesh 6y ago
There is more complexity in this. Proximate Issues The app makers cannot easily prevent the crash since it is happening in Facebook provided code. Perhaps the only thing they could do is to code in kill switches. Another possibility would b
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If it isn't a goal (or a subgoal) then why measure it? Groups have many goals but what usually happens is that certain goals are prioritized. Unfortunately, because of incentives, the anointed goals (or the metrics) get over prioritize
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It destroys public trust. What do you now say to people who refuse to wear masks? Do you say "I was lying to you earlier for the greater good, but now I'm not." Why should they ever listen to you again? You could be lying aga
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It is spreading fast amongst the Latino population and more slowly amongst other populations. In SF, Latinos are over 50% of the cases now. In San Mateo, it is closing in on 50% of the cases as well. A couple of weeks ago, the number of Lat

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