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by c3534l 7y ago
You're still making the mistake that legal personhood is literally being a person. People can go to prison. Abstract concepts cannot.
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by c3534l 7y ago
Human beings are allowed to organize for the purposes of political action and whether or not they decide to form a corporation doesn't matter because "corporation" isn't a constitutional concept. Further, "personhoo
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by c3534l 7y ago
Slack can replace email for certain things, namely intra-company discussion where you wind up CCing half a dozen people anyway. But I'm not going to start getting receipts or reset my password over slack.
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by c3534l 7y ago
> So they hired a 3rd party consultant to write down their values and they had these posted all over the walls. That sounds like a pretty big statement of the company's values, regardless of what they actually said.
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by c3534l 7y ago
All of those are H2O, with some contaminants in them. When it comes to water, people mean a material primarily consisting of H2O. There's no other chemical commonly referred to as water.
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by c3534l 7y ago
Is water ambiguous? I can name three different compounds I have in my home called salt. Maybe if you're talking about food its clear what you mean, but we're talking about a whole nother planet here.
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by c3534l 7y ago
Giving up is better than people give it credit for. You can waste a lot of time on hopeless solutions. Knowing when to give up and try something else, something that's a better use of your time, is valuable. There's nothing wrong
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by c3534l 7y ago
10 Falsehoods Every Programmer Should Know (Number 3 will SHOCK you!)
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by c3534l 7y ago
Apple's recent forays into privacy rights has really lightened my opinion of them.
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by c3534l 7y ago
You could have written this same article 80 years ago.
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by c3534l 7y ago
Why isn't this protected medical information?
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by c3534l 7y ago
> The term “anti-pattern” is a derogatory term used to disparage software design approaches that a given developer, or group of developers may not like. So right off the bat you have an author doing the exact same thing he accuses other
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by c3534l 7y ago
I love that Bill Gates thought fake news wouldn't be a problem because Clippy would tell you what to believe.
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by c3534l 7y ago
I'm capable of not clicking on random links in email. I'm not cognitively capable of remembering dozens of passwords and then "forgetting" them (i.e. memorizing that the password you previously memorized is not the passw
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by c3534l 7y ago
The President of the United States, the minister of your local church, the quarterback of the football team, the CEO of your company.
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by c3534l 7y ago
I think it's simpler than that. Humans desire political power because there's an evolutionary advantage to being in charge of your tribe. Primates care about the politics of their tribes, so do we. No need to delve into secondary,
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by c3534l 7y ago
I think it's motivated reasoning. People don't want to write them and it's difficult to put yourself in the mind of someone else and try to anticipate what issues they could have reading your code. You understand it, it see
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by c3534l 7y ago
I'm not so sure. Technically the name isn't Go, since that was already a protected name in use by someone else. So it's "Golang." And if "Golang" is acceptably different from "Go," I don't s
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by c3534l 7y ago
Everyone's upset that Go is Google's language, but no one would have adopted it if it weren't. It's not enough to have a cool idea for a language, even if your cool idea is not to put any new cool ideas in the language.
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by c3534l 7y ago
It's been a long time since I've been linked to goatse.
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by c3534l 7y ago
This... this is just my life right now. Get a contract, spend all of my time doing anything other than actually accomplish anything, and then after wasting time adhering to project requirements that don't make sense, wind up delivering
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by c3534l 7y ago
The approval process for getting libraries okayed for production is a massive pain in the ass, and for good reason. Without a batteries included language, it'd be easier to write all those tools in-house than hope that maybe in two mon
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by c3534l 7y ago
Sure, but how many jobs have you had where everyone needed to make quarterly numbers, to the detriment of building something for something for future generations? Money shouldn't be the sole signal of success in society. We have enough
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by c3534l 7y ago
Because it's a low level system's programming language with Haskell influences (makes it good for modelling a well-defined problem domain) with the "rewrite it in Rust" meme behind it. It's meant to be a replacement
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by c3534l 7y ago
I live in a small studio apartment alone. The open floorplan seems to work for me.
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by c3534l 7y ago
I can't imagine living in a society before they invented the three seashells.
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by c3534l 7y ago
I don't understand how someone can be arrested without first conducting an investigation. They're just taking the word of Hertz that these people stole these cars, and they're letting a corporation that is largely unaccountab
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by c3534l 7y ago
I used to work at a grocery store deli. Every week, without fail, we'd sell 75% yellow American cheese and 25% white American cheese (and that's being generous to the amount of white we sold). I asked my boss why we didn't ju
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by c3534l 7y ago
So the argument is basically "there appears to be free will so long as you don't look at the details, so free will is not an illusion, so long as you ignore the details." Even if you accept the argument that unpredictability
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by c3534l 7y ago
4chan was largely populated by SA users and anime nerds in it's earliest days.

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