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by burke 9y ago
And yet, looking at the way Twitter has been used as a tool to accelerate the divide of American political discourse, it’s hard to see this in quite as negative a light as I used to.
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by burke 9y ago
It's interesting to try to imagine how a break-up like the Bell breakup would even function with Facebook or Google. Unlike previous uses of Antitrust law, it's not really plausible to simply split along geographic boundaries, sor
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by burke 9y ago
“Earned” conveys an even stronger opinion in the other direction. I can’t think of a less loaded word than “took” for this context, though it could have just been phrased differently.
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by burke 9y ago
> compiler is always into machine readable code The frustrating bit is that this is absolutely not true . A compiler is anything that parses some text according to some grammar, manipulates it, and emits it in a different format. While
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by burke 9y ago
I get that we've lost this battle, and some people seem to think there's a useful distinction being made, but man, does the word 'transpile' grate on me.
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by burke 9y ago
I tried to find a source for this, but just ended up bewildered. There seems to be a lot of conflicting information on this. For example: https://www.litigationandtrial.com/2010/09/articles/series/s...
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by burke 9y ago
Corporations literally have a legal obligation to attempt to pay as little tax as is legally possible (really, to maximize shareholder value, which might even mean paying less tax than is legally possible, as long as the expected value of t
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by burke 9y ago
I wonder whether it would carry an increased risk of disease transmission. Could a factory worker with influenza infect "human meat" and transmit it to consumers in a way that wouldn't be possible with non-human animal tissue
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by burke 9y ago
It seems to me that there are a few ethical dimensions to analyze this on: 1. Suffering caused to conscious beings directly to produce a meal; 2. Suffering caused to conscious beings indirectly (e.g. crop monocultures impacting biodiversity
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by burke 9y ago
* zsh-autosuggestions: https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions * zsh-syntax-highlighting: https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-syntax-highlighting * My zshrc, for what it's worth: https
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by burke 9y ago
There's nothing major. I maintain a set of POSIX and fish scripts as part of my job and, given that I have to know both relatively well, I find I end up preferring the on-average-slightly-more-terse POSIX syntax. One thing that can be
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by burke 9y ago
I used fish twice for about a year each time, but I keep switching back to zsh, because: * The main things I like about fish are predictive history completion and syntax highlighting, both of which work about the same with a pair of zsh plu
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by burke 9y ago
Canada has a good rule for this: There's a special class of company called Canadian-Controlled Private Corporation (CCPC). When exercising options issued by a CCPC, the tax burden is deferred until disposition. https://www.c
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by burke 9y ago
`kill(id, sig)` sends signal `sig` to pid `id`. `kill(-id, sig)` sends signal `sig` to process group `id`. `kill(-1, ...)` would signal pgid 1, which would be the process group of init. From a quick scan of the issue, it looks like maybe ni
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by burke 9y ago
I've listened to a number of fiction audiobooks at 3x. I find it takes a couple of minutes to adapt to a new narrator/speaker at 3x, but it's not really a big thing. I'm not sure I'd retain much from a technical con
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by burke 9y ago
I’m not even peripherally involved in the IC but I think this is being used to refer to e.g. cryptographic protocols, rather than source code.
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by burke 9y ago
People keep saying this, but I've never seen any evidence provided... he was flying from Hong Kong to South America through Moscow, because none of those nations were likely to interfere on behalf of America. His passport was pulled wh
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by burke 9y ago
> I don't like apps/hacks when it comes to mindfulness and meditation. Humans have been successfully meditating for thousands of years without them. Gamification of mindfulness totally misses the point. I take a bit of issue wi
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by burke 9y ago
LibreSSL is a fork of OpenSSL that declared it was worthwhile to remove a bunch of legacy code to incrementally fix OpenSSL. It's not a rewrite.
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by burke 9y ago
> It seems feasible that it could be developed and deployed in ≈25 years at a cost of a few trillion dollars, <0.5% of world gross domestic product (GDP) over that time. Much more optimistic numbers than I had previously guessed.
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by burke 9y ago
I'm not sure what those "few occasions" were, but I think there's another category of problem that these could fall into other than would-be accidents: If the car over-cautiously decided it didn't know what to do, c
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by burke 9y ago
The quote doesn't claim that you can't do things with a lot to cause it to appreciate less, just that a building won't appreciate more than the lot it stands on. I don't think what you said disagrees with that thesis.
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by burke 9y ago
Yeah, this is a really simple insight that's not obvious at first. I like the way it's stated in The Wealthy Renter: > The Golden Rule of Real Estate:... Buildings never go up in value. Ever. Period. ... Only land can go up in
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by burke 9y ago
The underlying problem here is that the ICO model as most-frequently implemented is pretty broken. It's kind of a like a hybrid between an IPO and a Kickstarter, but: 1. With kickstarter, the reward has roughly constant value with resp
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by burke 9y ago
I also read it as Paris, but correctly interpreted "stars" as celestial. It was a very confusing two seconds.
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by burke 9y ago
So did coal mines, baseball, and slavery. That doesn't mean they're inherently relevant or worthwhile constructs.
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by burke 9y ago
The reason Pascal's wager is bullshit is that it rests on two assumptions to convince non-believers: 1. Infinite badness of hell; 2. Infinitesimal possibility of religious truth. Reasoning about climate change doesn't really invol
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by burke 9y ago
I can't believe I hadn't though of this. Could be a really useful idea!
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by burke 9y ago
load path caching should; compilation caching won't, for now at least.
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by burke 9y ago
Yep, you're probably using linux. The cache backend for compiled artifacts is filesystem extended attributes, which have a maximum size of 64MB on darwin, but as little as 4kB on some linux configurations (if they're even enabled,

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