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by baddox 6y ago
There’s very little the government does that isn’t resource allocation.
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by baddox 6y ago
That’s a very simplified definition. I don’t think economists consider any market with significant barriers to entry and economies of scale to be a natural monopoly. From what I’ve seen, the term is usually used whenever the market actually
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by baddox 6y ago
That seems extremely short-sighted. There’s nothing stopping people from coming up with a better way to find what you’re looking for than Google’s search engine.
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by baddox 6y ago
In my view, the primary advantage of CoffeeScript was to provide ways to avoid JavaScript footguns. I think that a combination of ES 2015 and wider propagation of best practices have made many such footguns avoidable in practice without usi
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by baddox 6y ago
Not just for the personal finances of the Instagram founders and team. The Instagram acquisition has been, as far as I can tell, a huge success for Facebook.
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by baddox 6y ago
Yes, and component memoization (and PureComponent and shouldComponentUpdate) only prevents re-rendering of the component's descendants. But every component that uses a context value will still re-render every time that context value
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by baddox 6y ago
That myth concerns adding more engineers to a project that is already started. Of course that doesn’t mean that 100 engineers can’t do more projects than 10 engineers.
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by baddox 6y ago
I got the same rabbit comment at the beginning when I drew a generic smiley face.
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by baddox 6y ago
Note that the average or median “quality” of employees isn’t really that relevant if you just need more employees to do more total work.
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by baddox 6y ago
Comments like this show up on all stories about layoffs. I don’t really understand your point. There’s never any reason to have layoffs unless the company deems it a good financial decision, right? And surely all layoffs would hit the lowes
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by baddox 6y ago
What tort would you claim they’ve committed? It’s not reasonable to interpret that claim as literally doubling the amount of engineering staff. No court would consider that for even a moment. And even if you could argue that a spokesperson
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by baddox 6y ago
I don’t understand. The only reason it would be beneficial to ask for the credit card now instead of later is if you’re hoping the customer simply forgets to cancel. It signals to me as a customer that you’re not confident that your free tr
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by baddox 6y ago
All deaths are just people who would have died later anyway.
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by baddox 6y ago
I don’t know much about typefaces, but Roboto Mono looks fairly similar to me.
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by baddox 6y ago
I’ve never had any noticeable issues with that, and I’m almost always running and heavily using VS Code and Slack on my Macs.
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by baddox 6y ago
I’ve had Slack running on multiple Macs for years. I have plenty of complaints about Slack, but none involve performance. What’s the actual complaint? Do people just look at their memory usage and see Slack taking a lot, and if so, is that
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by baddox 6y ago
Flying cars aren’t (as far as I know) being routinely tested in major cities the same way self-driving cars are.
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by baddox 6y ago
I’m not sure I understand the argument. Surely you can’t conclude from the lack of flying cars that nothing will ever happen.
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by baddox 6y ago
There are certainly some overly optimistic timelines being promised by some people and companies, but "several decades" seems extremely pessimistic. There are self-driving cars driving all over San Francisco (and presumably other
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by baddox 6y ago
Considering Facebook engineering has gone into detail about how the new site is much faster and transmits much less JS and CSS, I would be a little surprised if the opposite is true. I tend to not implicitly trust HN comments about things b
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by baddox 6y ago
> That would be expected behavior. That's exactly my point. "Surreptitious" is being used to mean "I think it's bad, and I think it's not expected." The "bad" part is obviously subjective, but
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by baddox 6y ago
Suppose I’m not familiar with him or am not convinced he’s a megalomaniac. I know this is taken as gospel around here, but what evidence would you present to convince me of that claim? Is it just that he wrote a book about ideas he thinks a
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by baddox 6y ago
It's difficult to argue about whether it's "surreptitious." It's certainly no secret. I think this is why you need organizations (perhaps government or otherwise) to establish standards for what is and isn't ac
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by baddox 6y ago
The CAN-SPAM Act doesn’t generally prohibit unsolicited marketing emails, but rather it has various restrictions on the behavior and content of those emails. It’s probably less restrictive than most tech-savvy people think. L That said, the
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by baddox 6y ago
It’s not about locating land. That’s easy. It’s about controlling the land.
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by baddox 6y ago
Try to go build your factory on top of an existing factory. I suspect someone will stop you.
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by baddox 6y ago
The total amount of land is relatively fixed on human time scales. Given that, everyone who owns a factory (or any land) does make it more difficult for you to own a factory.
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by baddox 6y ago
Consider that perhaps new enterprises would not have as high of a failure rate.
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by baddox 6y ago
Surely it’s the other way around. The amount of evilness (or at least willingness to be evil) was probably baked in from the early history of each company. Then, the more evil ones tend to have advantages over the less evil ones, so the big
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by baddox 6y ago
Search Google Books for “external link icon” and you will find several web design books that describe and depict the icon.

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