drchopchop

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by drchopchop 6y ago
Should child pornography be legal? Falsely yelling "fire" in a crowded theater? Doxing of private information? Those are all "positions", in your view.
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by drchopchop 6y ago
1. If huge swaths of Americans are forced to vote by mail, wouldn't you expect the rate to decrease? 2. Trump is incredibly polarizing, so, sure 3. What was the previous turnout / percentage increase? 4. The GOP specifically passe
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by drchopchop 6y ago
The marketplace is broken. A non-trivial amount of people believe the earth is flat. People are becoming immune to fact-based evidence, because they get to immerse themselves in an alternate universe which tells them that they're right
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by drchopchop 6y ago
Who, then, decides what is true? Random YouTube commenters? Joe Rogan? Rush Limbaugh? The QAnon Twitter-sphere? Perhaps we can just vote on whether gravity exists.
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by drchopchop 6y ago
The Supreme Court already threw it out, and that tweet is 4 days old.
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by drchopchop 6y ago
The problem is the "regular open discussion", which has turned into a cesspool of fact-free ranting, and has created serious societal virality and negative impact. You can rant against the mainstream media, but at least there is
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by drchopchop 6y ago
Well, the article is linked a few threads below, you can be the judge yourself. The whole concept of up/downvoting is based on having some kind of an opinion on a topic, which doesn't necessarily equate to hard censorship.
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by drchopchop 6y ago
Perhaps a deleted article that called HN "toxic sludge" isn't the best topic of discussion? > Though I can’t separate Paul Graham these days from the toxic sludge of Y Combinator and Hacker News
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by drchopchop 6y ago
Depends on how much CS you were exposed to, I guess? Leetcode problems generally involve: DFS/BFS search, memoization, dynamic programming, various types of sorting, hash tables, etc... all baked into annoying edge-case-y problems that
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by drchopchop 6y ago
What happens if you have an underperforming employee and end up having to fire them in the first 3-6 months? Do you really want to give them permanent equity in a company before they've proved at least some value? Some sort of clawback
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by drchopchop 6y ago
One big problem is that companies (especially FAANG) are wasting time having very senior devs do Leetcode-style shit, which is a false negative for people that don't balance binary trees and manually regex strings all day. This especia
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by drchopchop 6y ago
Also, when it comes time to scale, it's a lot easier to bring up a relatively simple (but scalable) infrastructure on AWS than deal with: colo location, buying servers, buying spares, replacing failing hardware, imaging, setting up bac
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by drchopchop 6y ago
They don't get force-rebooted that often, I have EC2 instances that have been up for over 365 days with no issues. Setting up instances, managing updates, adding IAM perms is orders of magnitude faster/easier than dealing with r
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by drchopchop 6y ago
That Michael Saylor tweet is hilarious: "#Bitcoin is a swarm of cyber hornets serving the goddess of wisdom, feeding on the fire of truth, exponentially growing ever smarter, faster, and stronger behind a wall of encrypted energy.&quo
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by drchopchop 6y ago
Additionally, you're penalized for doing it "right", because you're often competing against companies which rarely say that anything's wrong (ahem, Mailchimp). You look worse, because you're being transparent a
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by drchopchop 6y ago
Early adopter hodling causes Reddit-crowd FOMO, which then causes institutional FOMO, and Tether pours gasoline on the fire. Cashing out will be a game of musical chairs.
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by drchopchop 6y ago
Well, I never said Bitcoin is "dead", I said it's a Ponzi scheme. People will be able to withdraw their funds until someday, they can't. (Or the value decreases to a pittance of what they put in) You definitely have a sm
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by drchopchop 6y ago
The world's slowest-moving Ponzi scheme will continue to grow until either Tether explodes, or enough people want to cash out.
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by drchopchop 6y ago
Agreed, Glue turned out to be very underwhelming. We ended up moving ETL flows to self-hosted Prefect ( https://www.prefect.io/ ) instead. In general, AWS excels at a lot of core features (EC2, S3, the databases) but the high
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by drchopchop 6y ago
Perhaps, but: * As the size of the codebase increases, dynamic languages fare worse. Refactoring 10K lines of Python in a sweeping fashion is much harder than 100 * How many of those 1000 lines of Java are boilerplate, and could be generate
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by drchopchop 6y ago
Good points, and I agree that it's a continuum. Ease of development comes at a cost - the cuteness of Ruby is great for enumerables and lambdas, but also allows you to shoot yourself in the foot. Personally, I don't think type spe
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by drchopchop 6y ago
There is nothing remotely close in the OSS world. You might find you prefer a different DAW, workflow-wise, but Ableton is A+ at what it does.
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by drchopchop 6y ago
This illustrates one of the biggest downsides of dynamic languages - refactoring. Compile-time checking saves you from having to detect copy/paste/delete errors at runtime. A good IDE can help, but it's no substitute. This is
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by drchopchop 6y ago
> I'm just trying to show you that you are capable of being wrong That's quite a rude way to try to win an argument. And yes, you're cherry picking. Did you even read the article which contained the first image you linked?
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by drchopchop 6y ago
You'd have a better argument if you left out the first half. >"Mostly peaceful protests", an ongoing gross misrepresentation of what normal people would call riots That's a partisan, Fox News talking point. Statistica
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by drchopchop 6y ago
This is not "totalitarianism", it's the reduction of free newsfeed distribution. Twitter, and society, doesn't have a long-term interest in a newsfeed flooded with false/defamatory information (widespread voter frau
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by drchopchop 6y ago
Additionally, most real-world applications fall into very predictable patterns which can be encapsulated by REST API's with hand-tweaked SQL access patterns for speed. You don't generally need arbitrary query patterns from the cli
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by drchopchop 6y ago
If we knew in advance that the price of BTC would gradually decline from $16K to $100 over the next 5 years, nobody would ever talk about it again. It's an obfuscated Ponzi scheme wrapped in a clever (but extremely wasteful) proof of w
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by drchopchop 6y ago
Yup, and it's the one topic where a subset of HN commenters continue to overlook an incredible amount of technical/product deficiencies, just because it could potentially make them rich. If it had actual utility, people would be
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by drchopchop 6y ago
If cryptocurrency had the "money" aspect removed, we wouldn't be having these arguments, as it's indefensibly bad from a technology standpoint. It doesn't scale, wastes energy, encourages fraud, has buggy/immut

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