biocomputation

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by biocomputation 9y ago
> I see your point but a perfect safety record doesn't preclude overreacting to fairly minor infractions. But is it overreacting? All systems of regulations are imperfect, but FAA regulations are the product of decades of work by ve
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by biocomputation 9y ago
> Thanks for your response but my tenure on hn is probably the least relevant part of the discussion. Using the word 'sock puppet' implies that you are speaking for someone else and that you might have a hidden agenda. Thus, yo
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by biocomputation 9y ago
<< Welcome to America, where effort and talent win over "I was here first" This is an utterly vacuous and false statement. There are mountains of empirical evidence to prove it if you could spend a few minutes in your favori
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by biocomputation 9y ago
Interesting argument strategy. You pose something that will never happen in Seattle (a million employees of two-person startups) with something that actually has happened (Amazon). If you're a transplant who works for Amazon, then it&#
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by biocomputation 9y ago
This book totally changed my life: https://www.amazon.com/Strategy-Tactics-Pricing-New-Internat...
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by biocomputation 9y ago
This isn't about age, and I'm not sure why you're even framing it that way. The crowding, costs, and congestion in Seattle have increased very significantly with Amazon. There have been very ugly social side effects as well.
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by biocomputation 9y ago
People who have been in an area for a long time have every right to fight back against overwhelming changes that have incredibly serious long-term implications for their quality of life. It's a sign of your argument's inherent wea
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by biocomputation 9y ago
Gentrification disproportionately affects communities of color. This is quite exactly what's happening in Seattle. << TIL that people own the neighborhoods they live in by virtue of being there first, without any form of payment,
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by biocomputation 9y ago
Sadly, it's not!
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by biocomputation 9y ago
You could always refuse to participate in the social and economic destruction of communities by simply not working at places that have a disproportionate impact on the surrounding community. Yes, it's that easy! << A world where
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by biocomputation 9y ago
<< skill/background/age/race/gender to partake in the new orgy. The word for that is injustice.
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by biocomputation 9y ago
TIL software engineers think it's okay to participate in the economic and social destruction of neighborhoods in which people have lived for decades.
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by biocomputation 9y ago
Thanks for posting this. I remain horrified at the changes that Amazon has pushed on Seattle.
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by biocomputation 9y ago
Seattle native who feels the exact same way about Seattle as you do about Philadelphia.
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by biocomputation 9y ago
<< This feels like getting all the disadvantages but none of the advantages. I couldn't have said it better. It's funny because I'm totally cool with having an account provided it does things like gives me access to sof
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by biocomputation 9y ago
Part of it is because several of my family members have worked there, and, for the record, I totally agree with your characterization about them being blatantly about money. I feel like Microsoft is a bit more trustworthy because they haven
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by biocomputation 9y ago
<< You'll never get me to install one of those telemetry devices in the OBD port on my car for any company. I don't care how much money it will save me on my phone or insurance plan. Totally agree. I don't feel like it
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by biocomputation 9y ago
Yes, I absolutely include my phone, and most of the software I use, including FireFox. I was actually feeling quite irritated this morning because I have to sign in to use Visual Studio - in order to have my settings. I don't know what
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by biocomputation 9y ago
I feel like it's a corporate surveillance device. Same goes for similar products by different manufacturers.
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by biocomputation 9y ago
This blog is always worth a read.
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by biocomputation 9y ago
I totally understand that this was not okay, but at least Mozilla apologized and is in the process of making things right. To the best of my knowledge, Mozilla is not a greedy, power-hungry org that serves its own interests first. Every com
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by biocomputation 9y ago
Neat tool - and a lot of hard, careful work no doubt. In one of your articles, you say that your product isn't a 'grandma web site builder' or something to that effect. Any chance you could, in the future, perhaps use differe
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by biocomputation 9y ago
Agreed. I can't believe it even warrants a blog post.
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by biocomputation 9y ago
The most convincing use case that I've seen was the 'Find stuff in Home Depot' example that was maybe shown at Google I/O 2017. Pretty much everything else about AR seems like hot air.
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by biocomputation 9y ago
<< A lot of those cities would give anything for Seattle's problems. This is such a terrible non-argument. If you go to a lot of those cities and ask people 'hey, do you want to be forced to move away from you home' or
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by biocomputation 9y ago
<< Seattle refuses to add density- a common pattern on the west coast it seems. This is utterly and preposterously false. There are huge apartment and condominium complexes going up all over town. Ballard has been strip mined and turn
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by biocomputation 9y ago
>> They're what happens when empathy dies and envy takes its place. Well, forgive me for pointing this out, but what you wrote contains a fairly shocking lack of empathy. Feeling bad or angry about being driven out of a neighborh
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by biocomputation 9y ago
>> but there are many more natives who are uncomfortable to some degree. Seattle native who also grew up on Capitol Hill, and still lives here. As a home owner since the late 90s, the Amazon boom has dramatically increased my net wort
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by biocomputation 9y ago
I've never been a fan of bootcamps because it seems like a lot of them refuse to follow the law with respect to licensing, and because I think they tend to make outlandish claims. These companies can afford the licensing costs, and I t
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by biocomputation 9y ago
You have good comments. << To be sure, that won't work as easily for variable sized collections In another response here I discuss the problems with iterations and notions of algebraic closure. Your remarks about 'variable s

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