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by dnomad 9y ago
Voting is certainly the biggest problem in America at least. The two party system means nothing, people don't vote for parties they vote for individuals. The last election demonstrates that it's certainly possible for even fringe
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Yes this is HN so expect relentless and ignorant anti-China sentiment. Just ignore it. What's happening in China is extraordinarily interesting. Nationalization is not the goal. The government has invested enormously in tech. And it&#x
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I think that's exactly what any real system would do. This sort of widespread event encryption and forgetting is crazy. It is a very bad idea to delete events from the immutable event log. There is no telling how downstream consumers w
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Yeah, everything you said is ridiculous. Journals are very much a profit center for the publishers. Scientific journal publishing is a wildly profitable business[1][2][3] and it is not all the clear that these profits are commensurate wit
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I2P works well enough.
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In fact it's very accurate. This is what distinguishes a true senior/10x engineer from a "ninja" or a "rockstar"; they are force mulitpliers and they make everybody around them 10x more productive. This als
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SO sucks for the most part. I've certainly given up on it. It's certainly not that I think I could do a better job. Managing such a large community is more than likely a losing game. It's only going to get worse, I suspect, b
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I always wonder why nobody asks why this sort is happening. There's a kind of willful ignorance at work here. Are the highly educated and the knowledge economy moving to cities because they like the beach? Or is there something else
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There are N^2 sets of rules. At the end of the day you have two counterparties engaged in voluntary exchange. Everything is negotiable, anything is possible -- you just have to ask or pay. What people don't seem to grasp about modern f
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Yes the author is kinda silly. People have been writing these sorts of silly articles about Amazon for nearly 20 years. Yes, Amazon is wasting investor capital. No, investors don't care as long as the innovation and growth train contin
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When people talk about California regulations driving away business it's always an immediate sign to me that they either watch too much Fox News or they're simply talking the book. First off, $800 is probably too low . It's
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I don't know if this isn't blindingly obvious by now... but Google already changes its search results to match an ideological agenda. The days of naive algorithms ended with the 2016 election. These days malicious actors will deli
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There's a ton of it. This should be beyond obvious. The purpose of Takeout is to let you retrieve all the data that you have uploaded to G. You can take this data and then, perhaps, move to a competitor or even good your search engine.
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You keep repeating this falsehood: > Does the average person with an Android phone really know their location is being uploaded minute by minute to Google? It doesn't seem like you have any idea how Google actually captures user&#x
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To your point I think attitudes have recently shifted a lot. As little as 10 years ago my experience was that many Taiwanese regarded themselves as Chinese even though they regarded the PRC as wholly illegitimate. It's still the case,
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Yeah, this is dumb. From China's perspective Taiwan is as much a part of China as Florida is part of the US. How would the US react if Florida declared itself independent and began negotiating treaties with foreign governments? In fact
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This blog post, like much of the HN discussion, is full of baseless speculation. There's really nothing here except "LIDAR should've seen it." Duh. The idea that Uber should release more data which won't be analyzed
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Yes, the Constitution implicitly permits bail by prohibiting excessive bail. (That's at least one way to read it.) The courts have also asserted that bail is somehow "fundamental" to the system of law (it's not to be que
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Isn't that convenient? The only sources that document this widespread, omnipresent bias against right-wing are far-right "news" organizations who themselves engage in endless propaganda. BTW, that forbes article doesn't
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This is not the point of bail. Bail is not some sort of speculative conviction that you can pay to avoid. The only purpose of bail is to hold somebody if they may be reasonably judged to be a flight risk. Bail is, btw, almost certainly unco
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Yes I find these sorts of comments as GP to be hopelessly naieve. It speaks to somebody who has never worked on a large project (think 4 teams of 10-20 developers spread across NYC, London, Tokyo, and Hong Kong) or a long-lived project (thi
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What on earth makes you think they "targeted friends"? What does that even mean? Did they spam friends with unwanted emails and phone calls? Did they try to propagandize friends with ads targeted to certain demographics? Did they
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The only thing that changed here is you swapped one type of money-like asset for another. Previously you owned bonds and now you have cash. Anything you could do before you can still do. (You can pay for stuff like factories with bonds.) I
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QE is just repricing risk. It doesn't really have any real economic impact. But when you're in a severe depression people will try anything. BTW it's not true at all that economic growth requires a surplus. In fact often the
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There's nothing common sense about this. It's just stupid. But do few Americans understand economics that I can see the majority falling for it. People will happily vote to cut their own throats in order to punish some out group.
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Ironically there was never any real legal threat. The whole world freaked out over one totally fabricated story by a rag like The Register and everybody thought Flight Recorder was somehow going to let Oracle sue them. In reality the "
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I think you're very confused. The idea that rational people have to engage thoughtfully with irrational bigots is pure nonsense. It is not the duty or obligation of anybody to engage with those who hate them. The reason we get bigots i
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This is ]conjecture. In reality the CPC are technocrats in every sense of the word. Many of them are engineers and they possess an engineer's faith in innovation. The idea of them squashing innovation is silly. Look at the enormous i
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Looking at simple percentage deltas is rather misleading. It's important to understand the context and the causes behind those numbers. In Kansas, for example, education funding has been deeply cut in non-obvious ways. It's so bad
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That code is much more scannable. The ability to scan code, to quickly glance at a method or a class and grok it in under 30 seconds is paramount. In large projects I've worked on any code that fails the 30-second test is immediately r

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