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by ballenf 6y ago
To summarize: jquery used to be best answer to many JS questions. And now it never is unless the question specifies its use. No one should be recommending the introduction of jquery (to solve some discrete issue) unless it’s already part of
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by ballenf 6y ago
Are some of the options discussed more or less secure than the others?
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by ballenf 6y ago
It also bothers me on a pedantic level that "the State of California" is portrayed as a sentient being. I can't think of an equally concise but more accurate phrasing so long as a reference to California remains, but maybe br
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by ballenf 6y ago
Seller B got their hands on the rejected cables from seller A. They were in fact paid to scrap them and instead are selling them after putting a sticker over a label.
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by ballenf 6y ago
Very reminiscent of that Netflix tweet calling out a small group if people for some extraordinary binge watching. “The first rule of the the surveillance economy is don’t talk about the surveillance.”
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by ballenf 6y ago
Bitcoin is far from unique in this. When gas prices fall people have been shown to drive more. And buy less efficient cars and drive them less efficiently (faster, more aggressively). When water prices are lower people water their lawns mor
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by ballenf 6y ago
If the ranking system is accurate (that's a huge "if"), then it doesn't really matter what the bottom x% look like on paper. The question is whether it's ever possible to devise an accurate measure of value quantita
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by ballenf 6y ago
Making a big mistake as a manager can cost the company a lot more than a big mistake as an individual Engineer, Architect or Developer, especially if you consider that the latter roles will catch many of each others' mistakes. The mana
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by ballenf 6y ago
> Probably due to the very poor and misleading article title, which frames the situation as a "demotion", something that happens to us, not something that we decide to do. Not seeing the connection with that and feeling inferio
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by ballenf 6y ago
As someone who reached quite a high rung on the ladder (from outward appearances anyway) in a different career path prior to development, I think it's really healthy to see it as a demotion or step down. If you stay in denial and hang
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by ballenf 6y ago
This is an age old problem in the criminal justice system. A solved problem. After a lot of trials with various approaches, we settled on letting some criminals go free over convicting someone on weak evidence. Second we decided that trials
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by ballenf 6y ago
The ad only ran in two geographic markets, not nationally. So your guesstimate is probably closer to the national rate.
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by ballenf 6y ago
Not only that, no one has a financial incentive to improve outcomes. Surgeons are judged on outcomes, but no one judges them on whether they did the right surgery or just very skillfully gave everyone who came through the doors stents and s
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by ballenf 6y ago
One important caveat to the German system is that if you make over a certain amount and are healthy, the private system will actually be cheaper since it's not tied to income.
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by ballenf 6y ago
So slightly concave mirrors?
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by ballenf 6y ago
I think your advice comes from a good place, but it really depends on the doctor. I’ve worked closely with bunch of primary care doctors and would only trust 1 in about 10 of them to give good nutrition advice. My work involved careful revi
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by ballenf 6y ago
Maybe your plan would work if we had a generous a pension plan that required a certain number of community service hours. One problem would be that most of these speeches are anything but public or open to the community.
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by ballenf 6y ago
> Petrov explains emotionally to the guard that the Russian people wanted peace, and thought the USA wanted to attack them. Good reason for us to personally think about (and investigate) whether our political/societal enemies really
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by ballenf 6y ago
I really liked this idea, until I realized that the net effect would be a post here: "their inferior hardware lost my data and then they tried to extort 5000EUR to get it back." While on paper it seems crazy that offering a custom
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by ballenf 6y ago
Control over it? Good luck figuring out which apps track you much less controlling when. The trackers can change or be enabled programmatically and silently. And VPN is getting more and more worthless. I have to turn it off for more and mor
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by ballenf 6y ago
This is really good. Nice work. Was looking for one of these and was very frustrated with what I found at the time. Was trying to put project logo into a cli Easter egg.
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by ballenf 6y ago
When you have Google's resources and talent, you probably need a reason not to do these kinds of things. If a product has a decent chance of generating revenue or building out consumer profiles or reaching a new demographic and doesn
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by ballenf 6y ago
Such a terrible moniker for this swath of land where assembling a jury for a criminal trial would be difficult if not impossible. "Death" is just related to one of the possible crimes that would be problematic to prosecute. But ev
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by ballenf 6y ago
And this is another example of why Apple is too focused on short-term profit over long-term user experience. I think we all know that the app reviewer's top priority is making sure the monetization strategies in the app are "compl
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by ballenf 6y ago
Your job probably doesn't have the strange coincidence of land you own getting zoned commercial and increasing 10x in value by pure random chance.
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by ballenf 6y ago
Is there an equivalent to short selling for physical goods? Does the question even make sense? If you though gold was overpriced (and there was no gold futures you could short) what would you do? Buy silver? I guess you invent a short by en
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by ballenf 6y ago
Isn't that a first order effect though? A second order effect would be researching a life-saving drug for a lifestyle condition. You research means people have less incentive to live healthily and end up dying even sooner from some oth
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by ballenf 6y ago
What a great example of bike shedding: spending time on naming schools instead of figuring out how to educate children during a pandemic. > The term was coined as a metaphor to illuminate Parkinson’s Law of Triviality. Parkinson observed
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by ballenf 6y ago
Predicting second- and subsequent order effects accurately is basically impossible for any non-trivial issue. Here I'd argue that the effect may instead be that professionals are able to figure out what the amateurs are doing different
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by ballenf 6y ago
That looks incredible and such a cool origin story about a father nurturing his son's idea into fruition.

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