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by baddox 7y ago
Wouldn’t not canceling it when they should have be a better example of them not being able to handle the situation?
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by baddox 7y ago
There's a difference between a can-do attitude and a complete disregard for the exorbitant costs of doing the things you're talking about.
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by baddox 7y ago
Neither one is more real than the other and you really shouldn't need to do any debugging unless there are bugs in the ReasonML parser (and you could just as easily run into a bug with the Ocaml parser, but I suspect both are very unli
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by baddox 7y ago
Aren't the Ocaml and ReasonML syntaxes so similar that you can effectively convert both directions and still end up with clean idiomatic code? That has seemed to be the case when I've played around with the ReasonML, and if it&#x2
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by baddox 7y ago
Yes, but the parent commenter explicitly said the plan was to keep it if they loved it, and they loved it, but they didn't keep it because it was too expensive.
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by baddox 7y ago
I don’t think MWI would explain why particles from different universes should be able to interfere with one another. I’m not sure what that even means. But quantum mechanics and MWI certainly does explain precisely in what ways they do in
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by baddox 7y ago
> The problem here is that there are real people who depend on the security of their messages who would be taking unreasonable risks in trying to get an encrypted email workflow going. But how do you decide who is taking unreasonable r
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by baddox 7y ago
Well, answering those questions is precisely the goal of campaign finance regulation.
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by baddox 7y ago
I bet not that many more.
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by baddox 7y ago
For exercising authority (especially government authority) incompetently? Absolutely.
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by baddox 7y ago
> Supreme Court has ruled money is free speech. It will take a constitutional amendment to change this. It's clearly not that simple, because there are a lot of laws about campaign finance in the United States. The court ruling that
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by baddox 7y ago
It's not at all crazy to imagine laws that simply limit the total amount of money spent on a campaign, regardless of where it comes from.
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by baddox 7y ago
Perhaps. At the time I certainly heard through the grapevine of several companies switching because of this TOS change: https://www.atlassian.com/blog/archives/hipchats-terms-servi...
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by baddox 7y ago
This reminds me of someone telling me that they are using cheat sites for an online Scrabble game because they suspected their opponent (a “friend”) was cheating. It’s hilarious to think that two humans are watching two instances of a likel
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by baddox 7y ago
I just checked, and I have ShowDead on, so I must have had it on for a rather long time since I don’t at all remember hearing about it or turning it on. I also don’t recall seeing a dead comment, or perhaps I don’t know how to identify them
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by baddox 7y ago
That's not how I remember it. I remember Slack being more or less functionally identical to HipChat, but HipChat had some PR disaster about their privacy policy that spooked the valley and "switch to Slack" became the wisdom
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by baddox 7y ago
Surely browsers could already do that without a lazy loading spec. I mean, I’m pretty sure browsers already queue requests so that if you load a page with 10,000 img tags it probably won’t do 10,000 simultaneous requests.
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by baddox 7y ago
I think that's a dangerous game with words. The argument boils down to claiming that customers absolutely need a feature but aren't aware of it, and SaaS vendors absolutely need to offer that feature but aren't aware of it.
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by baddox 7y ago
I mean, I was going to point out that that sentence massively compromises the validity of the author's argument, because I've been in companies with more than five employees for which this was definitely not a core security requir
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by baddox 7y ago
> it'd be hard to ever prosecute someone for fraud if they didn't have to give up their books. I'm pretty sure it's relatively simple for police to break into offices and take financial records. I would imagine it hap
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by baddox 7y ago
Is this confirmation useful? Or stated another way, would you feel less confident about aphorisms like "don't be selfish" and "learn from your mistakes" if a famous astronaut said they were bad ideas?
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by baddox 7y ago
> The point of this post is not some legal analysis, simply the common sense observation that in our society, simply putting some copy up on my webpage that basically says “if you use my website, you are agreeing to not sue me” is Not Ho
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by baddox 7y ago
I was replying specifically to when you said "Also this is a novel virus which means this strain is new and may be unpredictable. Mutations may occur." I interpreted that as meaning that because of our lack of knowledge about this
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by baddox 7y ago
This seems like equivocation on the meaning of "catching it." Isolating yourself so that you either have no close relationships or somehow never hear about any suicides among your close relationships is a fairly nonsensical propos
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by baddox 7y ago
I'm not a doctor or a public health expert, but it seems to be that unqualified uncertainty should not be used as justification for any action other than pursuing more information to qualify that uncertainty. Otherwise we would maxim
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by baddox 7y ago
> You'd pay less in the second case, but not that much less. Given the huge amounts of money that investors will invest in companies that make negative money every year, I think this is (perhaps unfortunately) not at all true in the
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by baddox 7y ago
The fact that very large SPAs are harder to build and maintain and thus easier to mess up isn’t a very compelling argument for the people who have the ambition to build great SPAs. More ambitious projects are easier to mess up, of course.
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by baddox 7y ago
How does that work? From what I’ve heard, gas stations don’t get anywhere near 50 cents of profit per gallon. Even with massive scale and logistics I would be surprised that they can pull that off.
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by baddox 7y ago
It's really not a hard problem to crack. In most cases where history navigation doesn't work it's due to nothing more than oversight. It'll generally just be someone doing a JS route transition in an onclick instead of j
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by baddox 7y ago
When I say "value" in this context I'm just talking about money. I'm not making a moral value judgement about individuals or the company overall. All I'm saying is that employees are clearly creating more monetary v

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