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by candu 7y ago
...and now we've touched on a fundamental philosophical question: is freedom of speech a natural right or a legal right? There's also potentially an assumption here that free speech is overall reduced through restrictions on i
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by candu 7y ago
I've seen both opinions, and many more nuanced variants thereof, argued in a well-reasoned, persuasive manner here on HN. Adding my voice to the "good riddance" side of the aisle: thanks to what freedom of speech, association
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by candu 7y ago
IMHO, this means the average driver shouldn't be driving in cold, wet conditions. If you're going to use something that can kill people if mishandled, you take on a lot of responsibilities, one of which is to maintain attention &#
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by candu 7y ago
...no, but it bears remembering that many cities in Europe were effectively bulldozed by two world wars, not to mention centuries of smaller wars. Just because you can raze entire cities, displace their populations, and embark on "cl
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by candu 7y ago
Or: what would it take for everyone to have part of a copy of the index, according to their capacity / needs / etc., and for them to be able to easily search the parts of the index they don't have? To pre-empt the "you&#
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by candu 7y ago
School also never had navigability of past questions / answers as its explicit objective.
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by candu 7y ago
This is the part that often gets forgotten in these discussions: it shouldn't be "SPA for everything" vs. "vanilla HTML / CSS / JS for everything"; rather, we should be using the most appropriate set of to
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by candu 7y ago
(Usual disclaimer: IANAL, just a person who's worked / consulted several places and signed several NDAs in his life.) Here's the thing: the NDA you sign when you go onsite covers the company's intellectual property. It
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by candu 7y ago
...which, sadly, is true of many larger organizations: "security" ends up as just another middle management approval committee whose only job is to apply byzantine security checklists dreamed up by some Certified Security Architec
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by candu 7y ago
I was just going to say the same - and $18 / day * 21-ish working days per month is...$400 / month. Hey, that's roughly what a coworking office space costs! Except sitting in a parking spot, you don't get free wifi, cof
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by candu 8y ago
And will that network include undersea cabling, satellites, or some equivalent means of global connection? I doubt it: these are all extraordinarily expensive. Even the cheapest approach imaginable - say, a series of network repeaters on
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by candu 8y ago
You...post updates to your study via the same channels? Also, this assumes that all "errors" are alike, but a methodological error in a study is very different from "new evidence has come to light that questions the hypothesi
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by candu 8y ago
Ah, the good old "MapReduce is basically functional programming 101" trope, usually resulting from a fundamental misunderstanding of the problem the framework / tool in question solves.
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by candu 8y ago
I hope it feels different from San Francisco, which is a total unmitigated disaster for anyone coming in from an international flight on weekends, and not particularly efficient even for domestic flights.
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by candu 8y ago
I'd definitely agree that it's overdramatic, but not that it's unthinkable / un-speculatable. After all, it's not like societal collapse is without precedent in human history. Our latest global financial crisis arg
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by candu 8y ago
> Urbanists hate cars because they hate cars There's a great 99% Invisible episode that's relevant here: https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/episode-76-the-modern... That's right - before cars beca
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by candu 8y ago
IMHO, this is what Notion gets right. At heart, it's less of a todo/work tracking app per se and more of a database with user-friendly views, many of which can be tailored to todo/work tracking, and many of which come with r
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by candu 8y ago
(For context: not a dataviz expert by any means, but I've done a bunch of work in that space for the last several years.) For sharing information professionally? Not much - but you have to remember the context. Du Bois and his team w
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by candu 8y ago
Meanwhile, in Canada: http://wiki.scouts.ca/en/Sexuality ...which goes to show that you can run a chartered organization, even one otherwise substantially similar in content and procedure to BSA, without being discri
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by candu 8y ago
Here's the core argument of the article, rephrased slightly: housing cannot both outpace inflation and remain affordable indefinitely. This is not incompatible with some people being able to find affordable housing that is a good inv
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by candu 8y ago
As summarized in [1], whether or not they should be held liable is still up for discussion. How the law works and how it should work are two different things, the latter being subject to continuous debate. IMHO, we can at the same tim
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by candu 8y ago
Hell, most less-developed countries see that differently.
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by candu 8y ago
Surely you must concede that, in this particular instance, it's clear-cut that the workplace culture is toxic, and that there are a couple of orders of magnitude in severity between it and this hypothetical non-smoker-excluding office.
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by candu 8y ago
It's not clear that this is true, though. Psychologically, your average human is likely to assign equal weight to the bad idea and its refutation, which is exactly what you don't want. Moreover, this assumes that people hear bot
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by candu 8y ago
Yes: see redlining, racial profiling, etc. All of these can be "justified" by appealing to measured risk, but we consider them very discriminatory from both an ethical and a legal perspective. Think about it, though - what is rea
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by candu 8y ago
Or we could give up the illusion that individual production is easily measurable, especially where it comes to highly collaborative / creative industries. (See: any number of debates on "10x" engineers, C-suite compensation,
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by candu 8y ago
There's a pernicious assumption here in equating "recreation" with "laziness". All of us deserve to have fun once in a while, regardless of socioeconomic status. Recreation can improve mental and physical health
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by candu 8y ago
Shaming applicants publicly on your blog - not classy. I've no doubt this will deter many otherwise skilled candidates from ever applying to work with you, and it opens you to potential liability besides. (If you don't understan
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by candu 8y ago
Yeah, I wish it were common knowledge...although, if you ask 10 different devs, you'll get 10 different answers on what "ought" to be included in a basic CS / developer education. (You don't know the minutiae of poi
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by candu 8y ago
I've also seen: SELECT * FROM DATA WHERE x > 12 where there's no corresponding index. There's also the infamous N+1 query pattern: // get list of ids for each id in ids r = SELECT * FROM DATA WH

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