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by chasing 8y ago
Words in the English language are not the same as computer code. I'm not sure you can fully define most words in terms of other words -- hence the variety. Dictionaries generally only provide rough sketches of the meaning of a word. Ev
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by chasing 8y ago
Okay, but I'll happily judge the people who exploit that desire to feel content by lying to people for money.
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by chasing 8y ago
It's hard. And science gives really unsatisfying answers to many big questions. What happens after we die? What does it all mean? Does my pain have meaning? Am I special? What is consciousness? Will I ever be able to talk to my dead gr
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by chasing 8y ago
"Our goal is to organize all of the world's information." Funny how this seems much creepier in 2019 than it did in 2005...
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by chasing 8y ago
This is interesting, but I'm suspicious of the rosiness of the 1.15x return math when it implies that if this business starts on day one with a $1 ad buy they'll have $84bil in revenue after about six months.
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by chasing 8y ago
Eh, looks pretty gimmicky to me. Like Samsung is desperate to find uses for its folding screen technology.
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by chasing 8y ago
Actually, my understanding is that it is in fact illegal to have unpaid interns do work that you would otherwise pay someone for. Internships are for the edification of the intern, not the company. That's the reason they're allowe
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by chasing 8y ago
There are extremely obvious negative externalities, though. That's why minimum wage laws exist in almost every country in the world.
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by chasing 8y ago
Nope. Unpaid workers depress the labor market when people who need to be paid to work have to compete against people working for free. That's one reason it's illegal.
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by chasing 8y ago
I'm not physically disabled. But I've been very curious over the years about how modern video games can allow disabled gamers to step momentarily out of their condition. Even single-player games. Red Dead Redemption 2, for example
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by chasing 8y ago
80s colorized movies looked pretty terrible. That was at least half the problem. I’d say we’re actually more open to black and white media these days. It doesn’t have the ‘stink of the old’ that it had in the couple of decades after color T
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by chasing 8y ago
Because people want what they create to be seen by other people. And today that means they have to use Instagram or Twitter. Or maybe Medium. Or something else very highly constrained. So you see a fucktonne of creativity within the very na
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by chasing 8y ago
> and when you make art you aren't necessarily looking for the precise. Some people just throw random objects on their patches and wire them almost randomly until it sounds good ; writing the patch is entirely part of the artistic p
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by chasing 8y ago
It's interesting that a lot of sound programming environments are primarily visual -- I'm thinking pd, Max/MSP, and Reaktor. Probably because many audio synthesis concepts trace back to when people literally had to wire hardw
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by chasing 8y ago
If your coworkers are unionizing, maybe it would be polite to at least attempt to understand their reasons and goals before dismissing it outright as something you don't want or need.
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by chasing 8y ago
> At whose cost? Do developers even less productive than that next tier deserve stability? Does the worst employee deserve stability? Yes. They don't deserve the best jobs at the fanciest companies, of course, but every single human
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by chasing 8y ago
> Unions don't automatically make working conditions better. They need to have good people working in the union to achieve that. I see it everywhere, this weird argument that "shitty unions are shitty." Well, yes. "Sh
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by chasing 8y ago
You're very fortunate. But I'll note that even engineers who are less productive than you deserve stability and some level of control over their work lives. So maybe consider it part of your moral imperative as a "winner&quot
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by chasing 8y ago
"If Parliament is unable to decide which foot should be shot, then the default option of shooting themselves in the head will be enacted."
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by chasing 8y ago
"The people have voted to shoot themselves in the foot. Parliament rejects proposal to shoot themselves in the right foot, but proposal to shoot themselves in the left foot also seems destined for failure."
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by chasing 8y ago
That fact that public schools are a shambles in this country is fucking insane given how much we purport to value education. Also, it's fine to bitch about unions. They're not all perfect and there are certainly trade-offs. And (l
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by chasing 8y ago
I see "censorship-free" and think "BitPatron is to Patreon what Gab.ai is to Twitter, the 'censorship-free' alternative."
533.
by chasing 8y ago
http://davidlansing.com/an-irish-joke/
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by chasing 8y ago
It reveals character. And we all have the freedom and luxury to decide how we want to react to that revelation.
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by chasing 8y ago
Wow. Some of these are downright haunting.
536.
by chasing 8y ago
Very glad to hear it!
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by chasing 8y ago
Okay, but she did write it up and it wound up on Hacker News, so I do feel it reasonable to comment on. Don't assume I didn't think about the piece. And I cringed hard specifically because of my empathy for the child in that sit
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by chasing 8y ago
The tone of my original comment had a bit more "shouting at the TV" to it than it should've. Apologies for that. It's tough to comment on people's lives and kids even if you know them -- much more so if you don&#x27
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by chasing 8y ago
> Meanwhile, our relationship grew more acrimonious. He clearly no longer trusted me and this was beginning to poison all our interactions. > Finally, I had this moment where I felt that my efforts to ramp up the pressure to force him
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by chasing 8y ago
1) Not thieving. Jesus Christ. 2) Ocasio-Cortez brought up a 70% tax on income over $10,000,000. Literally no one is seriously talking about taxing a straight 70% of anyone's income. Except for the people who are trying to confuse you

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