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by donw 6y ago
Wonder why they went with the barrel jack for power over USB, as the latter seems more prevalent...?
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by donw 6y ago
> But what if the historical baseline has always been misleading, and undercounting a problem? Then you create a new metric, but keep the old one around for historical baselines. By the way, this is what the Bureau of Labor Statistics (B
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by donw 6y ago
Inconsistent definitions or methods render statistical comparisons meaningless. You need that historical baseline to assess the current situation. To provide an extreme example, as extremes are often useful in illustrating failure cases, it
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by donw 6y ago
Given that the duopoly is beating the war drums again, I'm figuring "pretty damn unstable" is a lot more likely than any sort of focus on pesky trifles like "national infrastructure" or "healthcare".
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by donw 6y ago
First: thank you for replying, and not just downvoting. > The feeling is that people want to get back to normal, but understand that most of the regulations were necessary given the seriousness of the pandemic. It is highly debatable tha
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by donw 6y ago
Thank you -- that's very kind.
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Ten minutes of thinking gave me: (1) Identification of potential dissidents. Those who violate lockdowns or mask orders are most likely to resist state control. (2) Normalizing control over common activities. It takes four weeks to normaliz
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by donw 6y ago
Singapore and Switzerland both have very low tax rates (topping out around ~ 20%), and both are great places to live. Panama is nice as well, and they top out at 25%.
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by donw 6y ago
I would say that it's just endemic to the region. Countries in southeast Asia tend very strongly towards centralization, for a wide variety of historical reasons.
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by donw 6y ago
I strongly suspect you have never been to Japan. Massive burger culture here.
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by donw 6y ago
> Inexperience grows from the bottom, I've gotten "better" by simply being too stubborn to get worse. That is quite possibly one of the best quotes I have heard on how to approach discipline in engineering.
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by donw 6y ago
Pivotal expects this as a matter of course. The interview involves full-time pairing for a day, and you (probably) won't know one of the programming languages. Pivotal does full-time pairing, and an experienced pairs should expected to
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by donw 6y ago
That's a great share! Didn't know about `asdf`, and not having to load ~4 different language version managers is a solid win. It also looks like `asdf` Does The Right Thing and uses shims, unlike `rvm`, which, as of the last time
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by donw 6y ago
> The rails (or Ruby in general) toolset really impressed me and I’m using Ginkgo at my current job to get my fix for BDD / specs. This is, I suspect, the biggest win from the Ruby/Rails ecosystem. Rubyland went hard-core TDD a
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by donw 6y ago
That's pretty much where I was going. The psychology and underlaying theory looks sound, and is indeed very aligned with the Stoic approach. Problem is that the classroom implementation ended up almost a full 180 degrees out of phase.
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by donw 6y ago
> Self esteem devoid of any underlying achievement is hollow. In the end you're basically manufacturing narcissists, with a fragile falsely inflated self image covering a chasm of insecurity. Precisely. At the same time, I think tha
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by donw 6y ago
Added to my reading list, thanks! I'd wager that the "self esteem" movement, or more accurately, whatever caused it to gain traction in the American psyche, kicked off the downward spiral to where-we-are-now. In a nutshell, s
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by donw 6y ago
The first line of your linked Wikipedia article[1] reads: > "The yellow vests movement or yellow jackets movement (French: Mouvement des gilets jaunes, pronounced [muvmɑ̃ de ʒilɛ ʒon]) is a populist,[64] grassroots[65] protest movem
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by donw 6y ago
The politicians pushing the GND do not care about climate change. We need a clean bill that only reduces or outright zeros net carbon output, including carbon generated from imports and exports. It's no good if we just export pollu
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by donw 6y ago
I'll try and explain the "anti-environmentalist" position as best I can. Consider climate change. Let's take it as given that climate change is an existental threat to humanity, and that it is caused by carbon dumped int
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by donw 6y ago
By all means. That framing has really helped me come to grips with just how psychologically damaging smartphones can be, without proper information hygiene.
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by donw 6y ago
Same here. I like the improved camera, and the poor man's LIDAR would put me over the line to buy as I could totally use that for 3D mapping, but otherwise, a new phone just doesn't give me much. Recently, since us in Massively Lu
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by donw 6y ago
Thanks for sharing a link with context! The quote is a little out of context -- the candidate is arguing for keeping a representative, rather than a direct democracy -- but he absolutely does say that direct democracy is a step towards comm
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by donw 6y ago
If you're struggling with mental health issues, I highly recommend speaking with a qualified professional. This does not necessarily mean you will end up on medication. There are tons of things that you may not know how to leverage t
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by donw 6y ago
The frame that helped me understand things was to start looking at America as a country engaged in a cold civil war since 2015 or so, starting from a state of total information warfare, where the Democrats had a distinct materiel advantage.
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by donw 6y ago
At least in terms of my above comment, the things that Republicans believe, and the things that Democrats believe, are both true. But I wouldn't say that they are both the same. That was true before 2016, but 2020 is a Very Different W
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A self-designed prosthetic aluminum hand [video](youtu.be)
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by donw 6y ago
My statements, above, capture the prevailing narratives from both sides. It is important to note that, at this point, it doesn't matter what is true. Which is stupidly hard to determine right now -- institutional credibility is at an a
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by donw 6y ago
Because I Like Sources(tm), here's the Washington Voter's Guide, where Keller does, in point of fact, advance the claim that H1Bs don't pay social security taxes, which is false: https://www.kgw.com/article&#x
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by donw 6y ago
> "If conservatives become convinced that they can not win democratically, they will not abandon conservatism. The will reject democracy." This is true on both sides of the political divide. The narrative from the Right is some

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