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by bird_monster 6y ago
When I hear community, I generally think there's some kind of connection or interraction setting a group a part from something like "a set of people that walked into a building at the same time." I don't really think of
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by bird_monster 6y ago
> Sure, but we don't know much about long-term morbidity tied to COVID infection I would say the same about the vaccines though. It seems like a lose/lose but one of which has a much greater sample.
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by bird_monster 6y ago
> We can't exactly know the risks from letting COVID-19 doing its thing unimpeded, either. Really? We've got a lot more data on COVID than we do on the vaccines.
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by bird_monster 6y ago
I work at a small startup. My boss comes from only enterprise level companies. My boss believes literally everything we touch has to be custom, and we have to make it. It's an incredibly exhausting process of getting in front of and&#x
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by bird_monster 6y ago
> Compare to ~22000 dosed in trials; two of the vaccinated died from causes that don't look related to the vaccine, and four of the placebo group died. This mostly lets us exclude a high death rate from the vaccine. Several in the p
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by bird_monster 6y ago
> that you may be spreading it to other people who may contract it. Yes, but, given my age/health, wouldn't the people already at risk already have been offered the vaccine? And if they opted against it, they also made their c
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by bird_monster 6y ago
> I’d like to sit down all university professors who teach compiler courses and teach them a course on what’s relevant. I'm sorry if you've already answered, or if it comes up a lot, but could you toss up some buzzwords/mo
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by bird_monster 6y ago
> similar broad brush claims about government are completely lacking in content. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_government_respon... Or, specifically: > Due to the slow response to the hurricane, New
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by bird_monster 6y ago
I posted below, but yes, agreed, a private business managing itself however it deems appropriate is one of the most american things it can do.
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by bird_monster 6y ago
I would argue that YouTube is behaving _more american_, in that they're a private business that's doing whatever they want within their rights (taking down content they deem inappropriate). The government isn't censoring YouT
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by bird_monster 6y ago
As someone else already pointed out, my claim was in fact "government is massively inefficient", with a wealth of evidence to support this claim.
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by bird_monster 6y ago
First, I appreciate you having a legitimate conversation about this stuff instead of dismissing my arguments for the aforementioned political issues. I think skepticism is fair on both sides. > But we've bounded the risk to be much
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by bird_monster 6y ago
Not sure why you're telling me what I mean? At risk populations have the same choices I have. I will choose to wait because I am not at risk. The risk level is obviously a factor that should play a part in making an individual's c
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by bird_monster 6y ago
Sorry, you're right, I'm speaking about my country explicitly.
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by bird_monster 6y ago
I will take it after a year or two. The US did a great job at politicizing the virus such that I don't really trust that pharma companies actually did their due diligence with regard to testing and safety measures. I accept that doctor
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by bird_monster 6y ago
Not sure why you would think a vaccine being managed by the government will be rolled out in a sane and consistent manner? edit As was correctly pointed out, I should mention I'm speaking purely about the US and not any other country
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by bird_monster 6y ago
??? You literally posted that using a statically typed language prevented breaking changes?
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by bird_monster 6y ago
Complaining about both sides isn't really a take, is it? "I don't like any available option" isn't really worthwhile writing, is it?
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by bird_monster 6y ago
I've worked in the mobile games space for several years now, currently at a mobile games startup. Some advice: - You're biting off quite a bit of tech you've never used, it sounds like. If you want cross platform mobile + web
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by bird_monster 6y ago
> I see no evidence that this harms consumers at all. Quite the opposite. You don't see how a lack of competition keeps prices unfairly high? > I like the walled garden and have no interest in it going away Competition does not m
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by bird_monster 6y ago
In practice that's very not true. Plenty of room for undefined behavior in statically typed languages like Java, C# etc.
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by bird_monster 6y ago
As a person that uses Go and is quite fond of the language, I think it's kind of a misnomer to suggest that Go projects will be sane/built well due to the language. I think that Go invested a tremendous amount of time into making
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by bird_monster 6y ago
> I am genuinely curious how you were able to work 8 hours a day on it and also work your regular job. Fulltime jobs usually aren't fulltime in that they take all of your available thinking capacity, nor do they quench a person&#x27
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by bird_monster 6y ago
That's interesting. In my experience, Java is one of the easiest languages to turn the best of intentions into actual unusable code. I personally have never seen or heard about a large Java application being easy to work with or having
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by bird_monster 6y ago
> What would be then? Newspapers? Gossip? I think anywhere that libel and slander are enforced. Any random person with any random agenda can write on facebook or make youtube videos advancing that agenda. > News sources are always bia
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by bird_monster 6y ago
> The downside of Clojure is that you need good, wise developers... Is there a language that, for a sufficiently large application, you don't need wise developers? What is it? How?
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by bird_monster 6y ago
God would I love to live in a world where Youtube videos, facebook comments, instagram stories weren't the _actual_ source of most people's news (and by news I mean baseless things people with obvious biases and insidious motives
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by bird_monster 6y ago
Devs are bad at code review, in that devs are bad at being fair, thorough, appreciative, clear. All too frequently code is "reviewed", when really it's just "marked as okay or not". Also, all too frequently a review
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by bird_monster 6y ago
Most of the data I've seen around music streaming and revenue still applies the out-dated mindset about plays. In the past, an album on CD sold for ~15 dollars. With that, a purchaser owned unlimited plays as well as the ability to cop
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by bird_monster 6y ago
I have a rule that if stylistic decisions matter enough to reject a PR over, they also have to be enforced by a linter or code formatter. If they are that big a deal, we should enforce them via automation, not review. And if they're no

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