drewcoo

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by drewcoo 3y ago
1. That is not a question. 2. Yes, there is a burden. But why should it be borne by young people instead of the wealthy? (That's a question.) Their wealth increased greatly on the backs of the workers who'd like to retire. (A stat
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by drewcoo 3y ago
Textbook victim blaming. A+
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by drewcoo 3y ago
Most of our planet is underwater and barely explored. And most of the region isn't really claimed. By countries or individuals in those countries. The long-term benefits of exploration are often in the tools to solve the problems with
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by drewcoo 3y ago
Code with no users seems roughly equivalent to writing with no readers to me. Or possibly unpublishable writing. There are repos everywhere with code about as useful as this author's writing.
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by drewcoo 3y ago
I'm "auditing a book right now?" That was the original sense.
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by drewcoo 3y ago
Most states (and the District of Columbia) have shield laws. But that doesn't matter because there's no federal shield law. A lack of federal law trumps actual state laws. Something just doesn't seem right to me here.
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by drewcoo 3y ago
I'm pretty sure folks who earn over $400k can find accountants to do their grappling for them. Until "elementary students" can earn that much, it's not the problem they're addressing.
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by drewcoo 3y ago
In response to nosy, holier-than-thou paternalism, "conservative" and "liberal" probably seemed kinder than "a-hole."
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by drewcoo 3y ago
> I mean, is this really the case? "Disruption" is a smaller company with less baggage finding a way to do something better than some ancient behemoth. Pick any of many examples that show that's the case. If it weren'
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by drewcoo 3y ago
> when everyone thought there was a chance they could become reasonably rich by working reasonably hard And what did that correlate with? That's right, with actually having that chance. It's not about beliefs. People can't
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by drewcoo 3y ago
Maybe you assume their sophistication is incomprehensible?
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by drewcoo 3y ago
Not all counterculture becomes the new culture. It is carefully curated by gatekeepers. It just so happens that the gatekeepers are backed by money (that capitalism thing). Making it through the gate is known as "selling out" beca
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by drewcoo 3y ago
No. > And so the goth clubs move the post-punk and coldwave tunes into a side room while the DJs spin EBM and futurepop on the main floor. He's saying Nitzer Ebb and Front 242 were more packaged and refined than something like Suici
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by drewcoo 3y ago
> Now, I always feel as if I am in the army tbh. I recommend finding out more about the military. Nobody there "only cares about money." If they did, they'd do something more profitable.
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by drewcoo 3y ago
Except for Steve Jobs, himself, of course!
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by drewcoo 3y ago
The title is about recycling but the article is about the need to cut plastic production. The bogeymen are "plastic production" and "companies." No names. No substantive changes suggested. Toothless virtue signaling.
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by drewcoo 3y ago
> It’s the same reason a demonstrably racist person can’t make racists jokes, but a demonstrably not racist person can get away with racist jokes. So be a "good person" and you can tell any "jokes" you like. Happy Bla
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by drewcoo 3y ago
But surely there's a middle ground! Sociopathic "tendencies." But surely it's nuanced. There are plenty of reasons someone might use to explain away their sociopathy and unless we fully explore all of those, we're j
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by drewcoo 3y ago
Jerry Weinberg wasn't writing about pair programming. He was writing about group work and where the problems lie in the interactions.
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by drewcoo 3y ago
> 'Humans are glorified apes.' Humans are actually apes. No one thinks AI is actually a tape recorder.
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by drewcoo 3y ago
Honestly, the things I've seen slow down deploys and engineering schedules are: 1. Using Git Flow. This inevitably leads to many branches for different teams/deploys/reasons and cherry picking among them and something always
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by drewcoo 3y ago
>> The decision comes after officials found that the scores were the single best predictor of students’ academic performance and that not considering them could be a disadvantage for those who have already faced daunting challenges. &
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by drewcoo 3y ago
> For starters, some of the more ambitious punk bands became New Wave That backs what the article is saying. As punk became more settled and palatable to more people (musicians learned to play their instruments?) first wave punk turned i
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by drewcoo 3y ago
> White flight, however, is entirely just about white people just wanting to get away from black people. Redlining was one of FDR's racist policies. The resulting non-white areas were cheaper and became cheaper still than white ones
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by drewcoo 3y ago
Funny is unexpected but revealing. That's the opposite of what LLMs give us. It's why LLM fake Carlin wasn't really funny. Or like Carlin. Carlin was always chasing the noise we all heard and knew was real but the stuff lost
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by drewcoo 3y ago
> immeasurably less brilliant Well if that's not a humblebrag . . .
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by drewcoo 3y ago
> conformity to mediocrity So that means a "safe" hire, doesn't it? > Richard Feynman Had a PhD from Princeton!
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by drewcoo 3y ago
> Doctors are already using unregulated artificial intelligence tools such as note-taking virtual assistants and predictive software that helps them diagnose and treat diseases. That sounds to me like the doctors are making the decisions
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by drewcoo 3y ago
It was a general philosophy of how people can work together. It lacked any of the specifics that typify cargo cults. It was the exact opposite of cargo cult - an actual understanding without any specific required rituals.
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by drewcoo 3y ago
> Leave the term behind, find something else. Asking software engineers to name things? Now you have two problems.

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