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by caeril 5y ago
> Zero would be an even better number. Looking at monetary policy since 2008, I sometimes wonder if taxes are even necessary. It's increasingly clear that central banks can print and fund ~20% of their host governments' budget
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by caeril 5y ago
The VAST majority of the comments here are missing John's point entirely. This is about credentialism, not experience. John definitely meets the listed minimum requirements in terms of experience, but he was too busy inventing an ent
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by caeril 5y ago
I sometimes have the same thought, but it may be more charitable to phrase it this way instead (which is more accurate): "Traveling the world seems like a life goal for extroverts. It is an experience I don't understand the benefi
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by caeril 5y ago
It doesn't work this way. You're also responsible for your poor hiring decisions, including third party providers. There is no absolution in technical decisions, sorry. > "have no idea, datacenter team is working on it. Yo
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by caeril 5y ago
YouTube has a history of banning creators for things they do or say outside of their specific platform. (c.f. Stefan Molyneux) My guess is that since RWW has a pretty active doxxing operation running outside of YouTube, they've decided
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by caeril 5y ago
> has too many rough edges still exposed to appeal to a lot of less technical users This is ridiculous. Not only does Ubuntu LTS work just fine for my incredibly non-technical wife and children, but my wife prefers it to Mac OS. Linux
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by caeril 5y ago
Yes, it's unfortunate, but it's still a far superior position than, say, Google or GoDaddy. In this case, Quad9 is being compelled by a court, with the force of law, to do so. GoDaddy and Google will yank your entire domain if e
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by caeril 5y ago
> People shouldn't have to tour every possible jurisdiction on earth to have something taken down in the jurisdiction they live in. Yes, they should. Or they can save a lot of effort and just block it locally. One sovereign people s
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by caeril 5y ago
> the number of police officers to be inversely proportional to how civilized a place is. On a police-per-capita basis, that would make US East Coast urban areas substantially less civilized than either Middle America or the West Coast
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by caeril 5y ago
> I'm often confused as to why this topic comes up on HN Take a look around, I think you'll find transmen comprise a much larger proportion of this community (and tech communities in general) than the general population. There&
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by caeril 5y ago
There's a large segment of the population that feels actively threatened by trans rights. The two primary components are: 1. Parents and sexual violence victims concerned about the non-falsifiability of trans-identification and the rel
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by caeril 5y ago
Reaction times and spatial reasoning matter very significantly in sports, as well. These are things for which there are also rather persistent differences in distribution between males and females.
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by caeril 5y ago
> Terminals aren’t using more resources Right as I type this, gnome-terminal has 68MB allocated, of which 57MB is resident. My scrollback buffers are limited to 4096 lines and I have 7 tabs open, four of which are sitting on a bash promp
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by caeril 5y ago
Terminal emulation and text editors are the obvious ones, notably because DISPLAYING TEXT should be trivially fast in a world of multicore multigigahertz processors and GPUs with ridiculously fast shaders. Casey Muratori has been running do
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by caeril 5y ago
Not really sure why this is downvoted, as it is absolutely correct. Human beings are still barely-evolved monkeys, with a keen sense for, and penchant to exploit, perceived weakness. Apologies to third parties never make things better. Rath
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by caeril 5y ago
NFC is perhaps two seconds more convenient than a chipped card. Two seconds is worth the price of living in a panopticon?
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by caeril 5y ago
At the level of Heineken 0.0, which is actually 0.03%, it should be noted that the alcohol content of most unwaxed ripe fruit is higher due to natural subsurface fermentation by wild yeasts. To my knowledge, Muslims do eat fruit.
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by caeril 5y ago
Just a fun little aside - Heineken introduced Heineken 0.0 a few years back, and as non-alcoholic beers go, it's the only one that doesn't taste "off". Even Athletic Brewing Company, as nice as it is to have non-alcoholi
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by caeril 5y ago
GP should have said " or with co-morbidities". Digging into the <60yo cohort, it's shockingly uncommon to find one who wasn't obese. A year of largely ineffective masking hysteria and not one noteworthy public health
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by caeril 5y ago
This is certifiably untrue. You should take a look at the "traditional" anti-vaxxers, who are a very small minority, and compare them to the recent ones, who are much, much larger. The archetype of a current anti-covid-vaxxer is o
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by caeril 5y ago
Wickr is almost certainly compromised anyway. Never trust an app that neither charges for its use (like Threema), nor takes donations (like Signal Foundation). Wickr's funding is a huge mystery. Approach with caution.
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by caeril 5y ago
To recycle your phraseology, "what the fuck is wrong with you?" There are plenty of things that are illegal but not immoral. Sounds like you'd have railed against a steampunk app that helped the Underground Railroad operate,
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by caeril 5y ago
Anybody who has used Go in VSCode for longer than two days is familiar with the constant need to restart gopls. That's probably the biggest annoyance. There are a ton of other minor ones, too. To be fair, language servers in general ar
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by caeril 5y ago
You see exactly the same thing in ecology/environmental circles. If you're concerned about climate change and resource constraints but you don't see a problem with migrating or bringing seven billion people up to American con
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by caeril 5y ago
The majority of those schools are suburban, not urban. It should also be noted that nearly all of them are "public" in name only. The BASIS schools, for instance, where my kids attend, are Charter schools, where parents are not te
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by caeril 5y ago
> It will be interesting to see how software has to evolve in order to maximise utilization of the quantity of threads. Not only this, but the PHP/Python/Javascript kiddos will need to learn: 1. Languages that get closer to the
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by caeril 5y ago
Except it was never misinformation. It's always been not only plausible, but the null hypothesis given the location of the lab, the nature of research there, and the early cases along the train line. When Jack banned zerohedge for thei
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by caeril 5y ago
If it makes you feel better, it's now flagged here, too. The reputations of media outlets, social or otherwise, are to be protected at all costs.
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by caeril 5y ago
Cantrill has always said it's for people who want Facebook class on-premise infrastructure but don't have a $900B market cap and a hundred engineers designing and building custom boxes. Oh, and open firmware.
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by caeril 5y ago
> No it isn't. It's a workaround. Sure, but it's a trivially easy workaround. Our focus of attention on matters of regulation ought to be in those areas where working around the problem is not nearly as dead simple as a to

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