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by bdw5204 4y ago
That's why there should be laws requiring large services to provide due process for users who have invested significant time and energy into the platform. Its just common sense that a spam bot should be nuked on sight but a legitimate
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> I have seen stuff like "defendant had TOR installed - a popular program for criminals" in court filings. ...and judges and juries accept that as fact because they just don't understand the technology. For example, having
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by bdw5204 4y ago
The optimal amount of crime in a society is non-zero because a society with zero crime would be a dystopian police state where innocent people sometimes get caught up in the justice system's net to make sure it catches all of the crimi
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It especially comes down to money when you're trying to hire people who don't have a college degree or who can't get a good paying job with their degree. You basically have to be making enough money to live well before you ge
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Corporations as a whole are a financial vehicle to shift value created by employees to executives and investors. Being an early stage employee in a startup with significant equity means betting that your employer will eventually grow and yo
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Much of my understanding of pro-slavery thought comes from Calhoun: American Heretic by Robert Elder. Calhoun was dead by the time of the war but he was the south's most important intellectual and he was at the center of American polit
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by bdw5204 4y ago
That's why you'd probably want to target the homeschool market if you had a startup making educational games. Homeschooling seems to be increasingly popular since the pandemic so that's a growing market and one that is probab
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The US was a slave economy in the south and the south did not industrialize until after slavery was abolished. That was a big part of why the south's political power relative to the north was weakening before the Civil War, was a big
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I think most of today's problems are due to failures of the consensus in the 90s and 00s. The consensus interfered in Russia's 1996 presidential election (alienating Russia from the western world), allowed China to join the WTO on
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> There's not much that's bad on the Net Given the EFF email address, I think that's probably a quote from the same Mike Godwin of "Godwin's Law" fame. In other words, somebody who would have known what he w
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AI generated art seems like a good way to open up solo game dev to people who can't draw. Just run the AI over and over again until you get artwork close to what you want. There are already tools out there for people who want to automa
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The day they shut down "old" Reddit is probably the day a large number of people leave Reddit altogether because the main Reddit site is a dark patterns hell. I think they'll still do it though because most web sites only wan
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by bdw5204 4y ago
> Having to explain yourself long form leads to people attacking you and often being correct. Typically, people just take a paragraph or so of a long form political argument out of context and use it to call the person making the argumen
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by bdw5204 4y ago
Location: Philadelphia, PA (USA) Remote: Yes (only) Willing to relocate: No Technologies: C, C++, Java, Go, Bash, Linux, Git Résumé/CV: Available on request LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brad-
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by bdw5204 4y ago
Public transit could be faster if we adopted Japanese style bullet trains and gave the buses their own dedicated lane. Running more frequent transit service and offering trains that skip some less popular stops also reduces travel time.
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If you save up the money, you can take as much time off from working as you want. The reason why most people can't do that is because they increase their expenses to meet or exceed their income rather than spending less money than they
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by bdw5204 4y ago
The best way to evaluate the productivity of engineers would be to determine if their peers see them as a top performer, a net positive or a net negative. If somebody is a net negative, get rid of them. If somebody is a top performer, make
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by bdw5204 4y ago
> I know it's heresy to say on HN, but it's been my observation that there are a lot of people who run businesses not to get rich, but to enrich themselves. I completely understand this. If you have money, why not run a busines
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by bdw5204 4y ago
It is possible to get a position as a graduate assistant or teaching assistant where the university pays for your tuition and pays your living expenses in exchange for you helping the CS department with various tasks (which can include teac
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Today, the solitary inventor, tinkering in his shop, has been overshadowed by task forces of scientists in laboratories and testing fields. In the same fashion, the free university, historically the fountainhead of free ideas and scientific
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The "blending" of corn with gas is an example of how the government routinely makes policies that are bad for everybody except some politically influential special interest. In this case, corn farmers in Iowa who have excessive po
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by bdw5204 5y ago
The issue isn't that Linux lacks proprietary applications. Its that Linux development focuses on apps that appeal to people who write code and this means Linux has a highly technical userbase that prefers open source software. If Linux
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It wasn't exactly successful in silencing the victim but one of the car companies did this to Ralph Nader when he was investigating their products for Unsafe at Any Speed. I'm honestly surprised that any company would still do thi
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One of the biggest problems we face in the modern world is the excessive confidence in software from people who don't write it. All software of nontrivial complexity contains bugs, this is unavoidable and people need to be taught to th
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The issue is that offering halfway decent internet to people in rural areas would cost them lots of money and there's not much evidence they could get away with a huge price increase to compensate since most people don't have any
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The purpose of copyright in the US is "To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries." This is from the
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I've had a symmetrical gigabit connection for the past year and a half and there's no way I'd go back to anything slower. The peace of mind from not having to worry about something in the background slowing down your connecti
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If Thomas Jefferson hadn't replaced "property" with "pursuit of happiness" when he quoted Locke in the Declaration of Independence, we probably wouldn't be in this situation. People who own land should be free
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by bdw5204 7y ago
Location: Pennsylvania, USA Remote: Open Willing to relocate: Yes, in US Technologies: C, C++, Java, Go, SQL Résumé/CV: Available on request LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brad-westhafer-91449b181 GitHub: