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by civilian 9y ago
Nope! I'm a software engineer, but I understand the economics. If companies can get better code from overseas, then they are welcome to do so. I also understand that most of my value comes not from the code I write, but from being able
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by civilian 9y ago
"The cancer is only in your kidneys, not in your whole body". Regional state-owned monopolies are still state-owned monopolies. Oregon also has a state-run liquor store, and it's hours (and service attitude, and selection) su
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by civilian 9y ago
London streets are um... a _legacy_ system, so it's not surprising that it takes more time. I'm not sure if Black Cabs hold a monopoly on London taxis, but if they are competing in a market, then it's just that they are prov
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by civilian 9y ago
Protectionism _destroys wealth creation_, hands down, period. The cost of protectionism is that the service you are "protecting" is now more expensive to your own citizens. It's a tax. The industry also knows that it now has
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by civilian 9y ago
I'm generally in favor of rehabilitation, but in the case of Alex, I thought that the punishment was fitting.
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by civilian 9y ago
Thieves are using force or fraud, and that's obviously wrong. I agree that we should include the negative externalities in any product, and that can be done by adding taxes to products. And that we should have a healthy civil court sys
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by civilian 9y ago
"Humanity does not ask you to be happy, it asks you to be brilliant on it's behalf."
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by civilian 9y ago
You're presuming guilt before guilt has been established. Why do companies make profit? It's because they're offering a product or service that people buy. Why do people buy the product or service? It's because the value
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by civilian 9y ago
Market share isn't immutable! Market share changes based on capabilities. I dropped IE for FF when I got a basic understanding of computers, I dropped FF when it became clear it was a memory hog, and now I kind of toggle between Chrome
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by civilian 9y ago
Hah. I've met a philosophy majors, and most of them just seemed to want to play word games, rather than try to help build understanding or work together in a conversation towards truth. I don't care of the smartness of any group,
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by civilian 9y ago
How much is legalist recommending we take Equifax to small claims court for? $500? 1k?
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by civilian 9y ago
Bullshit. You're committing the fallacy that comes from Marxist thought--- that one's position/class/socio-economic-factors are the determining factors in their values and beliefs. People are not so simple, their thought
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by civilian 9y ago
Aren't you just committing an appeal to authority fallacy? Read her article and judge the merits there. It's the NYTimes, it's not like the article is going to break philosophical ground, it's more of a summary of what h
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by civilian 9y ago
It's also bolded and, at least in the left sidebar of news articles, it was set to be 1pt larger than the surrounding font size.
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by civilian 9y ago
There's a fulfillment center or two 30 miles away from every major city, I'm not sure if that's actually a unique attribute. ;)
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by civilian 9y ago
RunPee is a great app that gives you good times to leave for 3-6 minutes to go pee. But yes, it's a problem, and while RunPee is a solution, it's an awkward solution.
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by civilian 9y ago
It's the quality of movies, and also we're living during Peak Televsion. TV shows have an awesome capability to tell really long stories, that go further in depth than movies can. For a lighthearted take on it, watch "F k Yo
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by civilian 9y ago
Embedded in this article was a kind of uncomfortable clarity: > There lies the terrifying structural boundary of our times — the API. Today, you’re either above the API or below the API. You either tell robots what to do, or are told by
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The Premium Mediocre Life of Maya Millennial(ribbonfarm.com)
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by civilian 9y ago
He's written a lot of great and influential things, and I feel like he's entering the "nerd/intellectual" common knowledge. The biggest example for me is Meditations on Moloch, which is the only thing that's ev
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by civilian 9y ago
You're probably getting downvoted because you're making a casual armchair judgement and this is Scott fucking Alexander we're talking about. //edit: I only just got to this section of the article, but it feels goo
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by civilian 9y ago
Hah, I think your joke got stomped by a mod re-writing the headline. :]
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by civilian 9y ago
My parents read outloud to me and my brother a lot as we were growing up. And now, this is something I really like doing with people I date? I have a couple of books of short stories that I'm slowing working through. Short stories are
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by civilian 9y ago
Got any links for when K. Anders Ericsson slams Gladwell? Was it in a blog post or a podcast or something?
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by civilian 9y ago
> 3 trillion dollars This is why we need a space elevator! Costs would be reduced from $40k / kg to ~$400/kg. I spoke to an engineer at a space-focused company about space elevators. He, unfortunately, burst my bubble. While th
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by civilian 9y ago
But the sun isn't a single point, it is big! In the same way that a pencil can have a sharp shadow but an office building will have a blurry shadow, the satellites would produce blurry shadows. I'm not sure of the dimensions of th
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by civilian 9y ago
Most good engineers are wise enough to ignore the public and philosophers like you. :-P If you look at medical history, it is littered with Doctors who discovered something crucial and revolutionary who were met with resistance. The same st
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by civilian 9y ago
The economy makes benefit of cheap fossil fuels. We are shifting away from them, but other forms of energy are more expensive, or they are inconsistent, and usually both. Increasing the cost of fuel and power would mean making everything m
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by civilian 9y ago
It still takes some energy to maintain. It's passive, but it's low. You might also sell it if someone else thinks that they can do something to ramp up revenue in the business.
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by civilian 9y ago
Cool! It looks like you're doing most of your canvas-drawing with canvas draw commands? You might consider looking into WebGL rendering with regl: http://regl.party/ I've found it to be really powerful.

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