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by bjt 3y ago
Assuming a well regulated market with the rule of law and minimal barriers to entry and plenty of innovation happening, sure. Take those things away through bad/ineffective government and you could very easily end up in a society where
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by bjt 3y ago
I don't think it's about being smarter than evolution or not. We're optimizing for different things. Evolution optimizes for reproductive success. Our society is optimizing for something more like overall well-being. Evol
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by bjt 4y ago
I agree with education and healthcare tending to obscure the effects. In both cases, normal price sensitivity gets skewed because the person selecting which product they want (the patient, or student) isn't directly paying (because of
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by bjt 4y ago
The bank shareholders are not getting made whole, and the bank management have lost their jobs. The only people being bailed out are the depositors, who were not being irresponsibly risky.
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by bjt 4y ago
Poor analogy. Since when is an adblocker a crime?
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by bjt 4y ago
Yes, unless they comply with the takedown/safe harbor provisions in the DMCA. https://copyrightalliance.org/education/copyright-law-explai...
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by bjt 4y ago
Also guessing (my finishing experience is more on electric guitars than cars), but I would guess the other way. A purely flat color will show slight imperfections more than a paint with flake in it, because the flake provides visual noise
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by bjt 4y ago
It's more than that. A market without competition isn't much of a market. We've got more than a few decades of antitrust law and research, and multiple government agencies, focused on preserving competition.
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by bjt 4y ago
I scoured the internet for the answer to this question years back and remember the answer being that they were using LXC containers, at least on the Cedar stack. This was a little bit before Docker launched.
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by bjt 4y ago
The Federal Reserve doesn't print money. The Treasury does that. The Fed does two things: 1. They lend money to banks through what's called their "discount window". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Di
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by bjt 4y ago
Yes. https://www.justia.com/50-state-surveys/recording-phone-call...
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by bjt 4y ago
This is my brother-in-law's app. Wild to see it on the front page of HN. It's been a side project of his for a very long time.
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by bjt 4y ago
Let's save the term "cancel culture" for people getting fired over a tweet. Economic sanctions in response to invading another country is a very different thing, and not a new thing.
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by bjt 4y ago
It's very likely that the UX used by the hospital workers is not browser based.
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by bjt 4y ago
While I see your point, I'd argue with "there's no benefit to doing better." People are motivated by more than money. Mastery, autonomy, and purpose come to mind.
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by bjt 4y ago
What patents does Facebook have on React?
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by bjt 4y ago
If you want to see some great examples of politicians engaging in good faith communication, check out the series "The Constitution: That Delicate Balance" that Annenberg put out in 1984. I wish they'd repeat it with new parti
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by bjt 5y ago
Sometimes. Depends on the boundaries between your code and theirs. I write Go apps and deploy them in the cloud. I haven't done a code review of Linux, Docker, Kubernetes, or the Go standard library. When an independent person puts
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by bjt 5y ago
> It's a stagnant language that will not get more popular, it peaked. I can't speak to whether it's "stagnant", but at least as a percentage of questions on Stack Overflow, the claim that "it peaked" ch
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by bjt 5y ago
This is why Bitwig was recently able to add Ableton project import.
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by bjt 5y ago
Have you ever searched for a recipe in Google? Have you noticed that the top results always go on for a few pages of SEO-optimized storytelling and explanation before you actually see the recipe? I'm sure someone at Google has. They
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by bjt 5y ago
It can be very useful when the work you're doing requires jumping between 2-3 different parts of a file. Yes, you can probably do the same with ctrl-f, but for many people it's more intuitive to have the visual representation.
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by bjt 5y ago
This article is from May 2021.
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by bjt 5y ago
There's something even nicer than advisory locks, as of a few years ago. https://www.2ndquadrant.com/en/blog/what-is-select-skip-lock...
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by bjt 5y ago
Mormons do have a distinct take here in attempting to distinguish Yahweh (Jehovah), who they call Jesus, from Elohim, who they call the father. To say they're two distinct beings, and that all the Old Testament prophets were talking t
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by bjt 5y ago
Knobs have already come back in some contexts. I'm thinking of music keyboard workstations and stage keyboards. The products from Nord have swept the stage keyboard market because of their one-knob-per-function design, allowing for qu
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by bjt 5y ago
What's fascinating to me as that it's happening at the same time as the "X as code" movement. Devops: Infrastructure as code. or dbt's viewpoint on analytics as code (see https://blog.getdbt.com/buil
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by bjt 5y ago
There's one not far from me in the suburbs of Salt Lake City. It's a combination A&W and KFC.
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by bjt 5y ago
How does one contact the NSA TAO and offer to sell a zero-day?
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by bjt 5y ago
OK but, is Google really trying to disrupt the guitar tuner market? This isn't them trying to disrupt an incumbent. It's a neat hack from a company with more money than they know what to do with.

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