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by ef4 9y ago
> Given even a passing look at just the last 2 decades In the last two decades, the share of humans living in extreme poverty fell from 30% to 10%. And child deaths under age five were cut in half . So where's your data? I will add
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by ef4 9y ago
There's a fundamental flaw hiding under arguments like yours: the "civilization" you're circumscribing is an imaginary and arbitrary boundary. An ahistorical retcon. It's as unsupported as discredited racial theorie
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by ef4 9y ago
This is a no-name journal with no reputation (positive or negative) that I can find. The aluminum hypothesis is widely rejected by mainstream researchers for pretty good reasons. User nilved posted a link to a comprehensive paper explaining
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by ef4 9y ago
It's not "rewrite" that's bad, it's thinking you can cut over to a new system in a "big bang". Rewrites are definitely common and beneficial, but the successful ones always run the new code and the old cod
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by ef4 9y ago
Your example is much smaller than what people are usually talking about in terms of big-bang rewrites. So maybe you will be successful. Even so, you're better off doing a step-by-step rewrite, where the new stuff and the old stuff coex
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by ef4 9y ago
An after-the-fact test suite is a different beast than one written concurrently with the app. It's not worth trying to force one to be the other. Work from the outside in, keeping most of the system as a black box. Start with testing t
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by ef4 9y ago
It's not that the physics can't be modeled, but figuring out the appropriate models is probably harder than it looks. Every sensor and actuator has quirks. Does it matter how much your airframe flexes? Does the turbulence caused b
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by ef4 9y ago
This kind of criticism misses the point. The web is not designed. It is evolved. Various bits of it were designed at their outset, but it was literally impossible to envision all the implications of those design decisions. This is not a bad
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by ef4 9y ago
Yes, they can. Every male between 18 and 25 is still required to register for the draft. The database is sitting there ready to go. The president just has to declare an emergency and convince congress to approve activation of the selective
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by ef4 10y ago
> Why would people of say, central Maine want to encourage tech industry to move there. Because jobs, obviously. Talk to any politician or civic leader from a place like central Maine and all they can talk about is "good jobs".
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by ef4 10y ago
It's odd to hear a CDN complaining about this limitation when it has already been solved for well over a decade by other leading CDNs. Akamai can serve your apex domain from their edge servers. They do it by giving different answers fo
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by ef4 10y ago
There are a lot of people who make hardware random number generators: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_hardware_random_...
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by ef4 10y ago
People who were displaced out of agriculture didn't necessarily go get factory jobs either. The industrial revolution was massively disruptive socially, and a lot of people didn't come through fine. A lot of them drank themselves
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by ef4 10y ago
We have already been through this transition before. Two hundred years ago, 90% of the population worked in agriculture. Now only a few percent do. The rest didn't end up unemployed, we invented entirely new industries to meet demands
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by ef4 10y ago
If you've got the previous generation of macbook pro and are wondering whether you should upgrade, here's an alternate suggestion: I took my 2014 retina macbook pro to the Apple Store and got a "topcase replacement" (bec
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by ef4 10y ago
Am I the only one who saw this headline and thought "Fuck, did Miyazaki die too?" I am glad to see he is still with us. And nice work.
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by ef4 10y ago
See also http://hospitalrun.io as an example of a pretty substantial open source effort. They're funded by a nonprofit ( https://cure.org ) that operates charitable hospitals throughout the developing world. The a
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by ef4 10y ago
On the contrary, Facebook is the one place where people get pushed out of their filter bubbles regularly. You know your racist family member you see sharing conspiracy theories on Facebook? That's reality, that's something punchin
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by ef4 10y ago
The people who are busy productively shipping products are not the ones who spend the most time and attention on these online debates, so it's easy to form a biased impression. It's the developer version of the 24 hour news cycle.
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by ef4 10y ago
AMP content shows up before other organic search results. So it's not really optional unless you want to lose all your search-driven traffic.
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by ef4 10y ago
Thanks, I was not aware of that option. Looks like it's new in Node 6. Yarn supports Node LTS.
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by ef4 10y ago
Yeah, that would be much better. But unfortunately the node_modules structure (which yarn is attempting to be fully compatible with) makes that impossible. The reason is that each package only finds its dependencies relative to its own loca
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by ef4 10y ago
Kudos to the Yarn contributors for launching with a public RFC governance model right from the start: https://github.com/yarnpkg/rfcs Practical, usable, deterministic lockfiles are wonderful and the lack of them has be
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by ef4 10y ago
There are much more mature and stable examples to point at for community-supported open source. Successful open source generally doesn't happen because of direct dollar contributions, but because companies that depend on the projects d
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by ef4 10y ago
> What does cultural homogeneity have anything to do with the way a country treats its homeless? It's easier to be generous to people who are more like oneself, and who are physically closer to oneself. Consider all the people in Eu
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by ef4 10y ago
If "we can't measure" is true, that's extremely strong evidence that the effect is not very large.
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by ef4 10y ago
Geography alone makes Fukushima less bad for human health. Beyond the immediate vicinity, most of Fukushima's contamination is going into the Pacific. We have very good data on how diluted that radiation is once it gets to places peopl
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by ef4 10y ago
You're just describing one of the most well-established facts about learning: the dominant factor is intrinsic motivation. Whether you call them hobbies or studies, the fact that you were intrinsically motivated to pour effort into the
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by ef4 10y ago
After college I spent six years working at a good tech company. In addition to a lot of great learning, it allowed me to build a big financial cushion. I continued living on a graduate-student-like budget with a software engineer salary, so
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by ef4 10y ago
A psychopathic peer is not the same thing as a psychopathic boss. If you're doing your job, you know how much money is in the bank and you know what the value proposition of the business is, so the failure modes described in the articl

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