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by candu 9y ago
Another avenue would be emissions / environmental impact limits on various categories of goods. This would incentivize US business to go around the Trump administration's back and do the right thing anyways, just so they can cont
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by candu 9y ago
You may be interested in Mariana Mazzucato's TED talk, where she calls into question tropes about the "sluggishness" or "innovation deficit" of government and highlights its central role in making high-risk technolo
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by candu 10y ago
This. If you have the means - and a lot of us here on HN do - consider going a step further and matching donations from friends and family. Many employers also have donation matching programs, and if yours doesn't now is the time to a
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by candu 10y ago
I prefer to extend respect, trust, etc. to others by default, with the understanding that it can be unearned. This way, I counter whatever unconscious or "first impression" biases I might have about what "respect-worthiness&
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by candu 10y ago
...and hundreds of millions worldwide who have been saved from malaria or lifted out of extreme poverty would likely disagree with you: what good is super-human synthetic intelligence several decades from now (assuming that's even a tr
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by candu 10y ago
Canning / pickling (IIRC there's a course on Instructables), salsa / Latin dance (there's a local café / bar near me that does regular salsa nights), basic woodworking (my wife and I are making a bookcase and coffee
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by candu 10y ago
True, but then you also have to counterbalance that cost with the value of the skills gained by preparing food. It's really, really difficult to evaluate this value, but it does exist, much as if you spent that same time learning to d
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by candu 10y ago
One possible counterargument in this particular case: if the game is balanced such that it's effectively pay-to-win (and pay a lot ), one person who can afford this level of spending could easily encourage less well-heeled players to
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by candu 10y ago
You're cherry-picking one of many possible arguments for the status quo, arguing that this argument should be considered in the particular case of same-sex marriage while ignoring other cases where it might also pertain, and then repea
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by candu 10y ago
Motorcycle owner here. I routinely get 60-80 mpg, depending on smoothness of traffic, terrain, tire pressure, and load. Of course, this isn't a fair comparison. Personally, I'd love to see much wider use of HOV lanes, possibly w
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by candu 10y ago
Already moved back, though not for this particular reason - it was more out of a desire to escape the insane work-life imbalance, endemic tech bro-ism, and skyrocketing cost of living in the Bay Area. (I'm a Canadian citizen by birth,
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by candu 10y ago
^ this. To be fair, though, it is genuinely difficult to gauge which technologies are worth adopting. Clearly some are, otherwise we'd all still be writing hand-crafted assembler to optimize drum memory I/O, or perhaps heaps o
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by candu 10y ago
Well, your statement is tautological, since those are two terms for the same thing :) The real question is how "bad" we should consider copyright infringement to be. For many of us, copyright law has lost its moral footing with d
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by candu 10y ago
I'd retort: do people still think that working 80 hour weeks makes you more productive than working 50 hour weeks? [1] [2] [3] In a startup, your competitive advantage is rarely going to be how many hours you work - how can it be, when
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by candu 10y ago
"I'm not complaining oh wait yes I am see what I did there." More seriously: the many connections between computing and the psychedelic counterculture are well documented. (Markoff's "What the Dormouse Said" i
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by candu 10y ago
...and I know people who aren't working to burnout levels who are doing just fine, so YMMV. Typically these people make deliberate lifestyle choices (avoiding car ownership, renting near work instead of owning far away from work, usin
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by candu 10y ago
I would accept such a reduction, provided the reduced salary was still enough to live comfortably on while continuing to save money. That said, there is another approach: work remotely, and avoid companies that insist on installing time &#x
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by candu 10y ago
...which would be true, if there weren't an obvious and palpable power distance between management and engineering in 99% of cases. It may be in vogue to pretend that this power distance doesn't exist, but it does, and it means i
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by candu 10y ago
I sense a cyberpunk / train heist movie plot here...
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by candu 10y ago
Coming from a background that includes some experience with C / C++, `const` here works as I expect it to. I'd prefer `const` even for the object reference case: I get errors on reassignment this way, and presumably it makes addi
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by candu 10y ago
No, the responsible thing to do is to build tools that do them for you, and then other tools that check they're being done correctly. Failing that: often, products are made or broken on the ability to get the mundane parts done efficie
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by candu 10y ago
And some websites, such as government portals to various departments and services, do have implicit (and often even explicit) obligations to serve everyone. I wonder how well GP would take it if, say, the IRS webpay or DMV sites (or their
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by candu 10y ago
IMHO, a lot of the ideas about competition in society come from a deep (and sometimes purposeful) misunderstanding of natural selection. [1] is an decent taste of this line of inquiry, and America's early 20th century obsession with e
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by candu 10y ago
I don't see where GP claims that the idea is wrong: they're simply pointing out that it's a relatively recent distinction, which implies (reasonably, IMHO) that we likely don't understand it very well yet, or that it may
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by candu 11y ago
It's a reasonable response: that driver isn't delivering groceries to you , they're delivering to your whole neighborhood. As the density of delivery orders goes up, there's more and more opportunity to batch nearby or
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by candu 11y ago
Your intuition is probably wrong: off-the-shelf consumer-grade microphones can typically gather 44.1-96k samples per second at 16-24 bits per sample. That's a lot of potential information. Also, consider that your ear/brain appar
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by candu 11y ago
Exactly. :s
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by candu 11y ago
If there is truly economic value to be had in filtering papers, we would expect an eventual growth in service businesses to help sift through the glut of openly published papers. Since we're currently in a long transitional period fro
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by candu 11y ago
Can we get away from the "programming" == "web programming" fallacy? Building simple CRUD on a RoR stack is but one tiny part of the professional programming world. Hell, I could consider myself a web developer of sorts
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by candu 11y ago
This. We don't need a slew of startups to solve this problem; it's called talking, and it can be done via any of several existing {meat,cyber}space communications channels. (I'm hardly a Luddite; rather, I think there's

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