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by ef4 13y ago
> The problem is exactly that satiation doesn't work well enough, thus some people need a cybernetic add-on, just like some people need glasses. Yes, but the important question is why. Why do an increasing fraction of people have br
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by ef4 13y ago
> For those who find it a pain to use [a calorie-counting app], I recommend sticking with it for a few months at least initially. After a while, your mind gets attuned to the idea of how much food is enough for you to be satiated. But sa
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by ef4 13y ago
> Would I trade some of the depth of features for a better interface? But that's really not the tradeoff. A more consistent interface takes less total time to write and maintain than one that has one-offs for every situation. Inco
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by ef4 13y ago
Someone who is house poor has liabilities nearly as big as their assets, so their net assets are still nearly zero. Nobody who actually owned their house free and clear got foreclosed on. Again, if your existence is so tenuous, you are
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by ef4 13y ago
The northern Europeans who liked to drink stayed in Europe. It was the Taliban-level Puritan extremists who moved to America to start their own society. Later waves of immigration were not so Puritan, but the upper classes were still very m
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by ef4 13y ago
> Most middle class people aren't really financially independant either.... Why should they? Those people aren't really middle class. They just think they are. "Middle class" has political and functional meanings be
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by ef4 13y ago
I don't think that thread is convincing. The one substantial comment makes assertions with very little evidence. Here's some evidence: Rockefeller's General Education Board wrote the following in 1906: "In our dreams
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by ef4 13y ago
I don't think it's a question of "lazy", because for me it's not about saving time. It's about reducing physical clutter. There's the short-term clutter that forms when I let piles of mail kick around, wai
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by ef4 13y ago
Their FAQ addresses this: "On first glance you could just use the free USPS product mail forwarding to send your mail to our warehouse. However, in many cities, mail forwarding results in a 10 day delay (often more) of your mail, does
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by ef4 13y ago
This basically highlights why there's no comfortable middle ground in pricing software. At a high price, you can get strong service guarantees. At a zero price, you can use open source and manage the critical service yourself. At a low
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by ef4 13y ago
I'm happy that the RubyMotion guys can charge money for what they're doing. But if you're going to stay closed source, you're asking me to just trust you that important (to me) bugs are going to get fixed fast enough. Th
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by ef4 13y ago
You've just described the difference between central planning and markets. The biggest reason markets work is that they aggregate knowledge and propagate it throughout a society. (Granted, there's plenty to criticize about the imp
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by ef4 13y ago
> The goal is then dislodged from getting people more freedom and converted into creating better environments. But freedom is a property of the environment. How would you possibly get someone more freedom without altering their environ
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by ef4 13y ago
But if all our institutions and capital were wiped out, it would be appropriate for our behaviors to revert. That just proves that humans are extremely adaptable to changes in environment. Which state shows our "true nature"? I
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by ef4 13y ago
> Our nature is no less violent, our circumstances are merely better. Even if that's true, it has the same effect in the end. "Put people in a better environment, and they will behave better" is a radical, pro-progress sta
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by ef4 13y ago
As long as we're going to argue semantics, a "species" is a set of animals who can reproduce with each other. Dogs are all still dogs, despite the massive genetic changes we've imposed on the various breeds. They can all
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by ef4 13y ago
The author is really arguing two things. (1) There is no such thing as moral progress, because human nature is fixed.(2) People are not naturally inclined to be free. His first claim is demonstrably false. If you look at historical, statist
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by ef4 13y ago
That doesn't really solve the problem, it just moves it. If AMIs are your deployment method of choice, you still need to build a repeatable process for applying updates and changes to your previous base AMI, testing that it still works
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by ef4 13y ago
Several years ago I was using it in production at a major CDN. I would assume they still use it.
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by ef4 13y ago
I'm aware that the court has interpreted it that way. That doesn't make it any less wrong. To consider the judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions is a very dangerous doctrine indeed and one which
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by ef4 13y ago
The legal theory that the bill of rights only applies to US citizens is dangerous and wrong. It applies to actions of the United States government. It is a list of things they may not do.
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by ef4 13y ago
Here's the difference: the government is quite open about doing all those things. We can ostensibly debate and influence policy on all of them, because the policy itself is not secret. But when even the policy is secret, it is totally
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by ef4 13y ago
"The more secretive or unjust an organization is, the more leaks induce fear and paranoia in its leadership and planning coterie. This must result in minimization of efficient internal communications mechanisms (an increase in cognitiv
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by ef4 13y ago
It's much more accurate for me to point at the OP's story and say "this is the world that inflationary currency leads to". Because clearly we're living under inflationary currencies, and clearly wealth inequality is
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by ef4 13y ago
Ah, but if you're actually motivated there's nothing stopping you from going as deep as you want into any of the topics. There's never an excuse for "wasting" a semester. Coursework is the minimum, not the maximum.
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by ef4 13y ago
This is an important point, but I see it differently. Want to become a truly great developer? A real one-percenter? Get in the habit of diving into other people's big, scary codebases when you hit a bug. Learn how things work, learn wh
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by ef4 13y ago
That's not a valid assumption for truly ambitious web applications. For example, I have an Ember application running on both mobile and desktop that gives the user complete read/write access to their data even when the network goe
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by ef4 13y ago
There's nothing wrong with taking a course that covers a very wide area, even if you're intending to specialize more deeply in all the topics later. It's actually a very effective learning strategy, because it motivates all t
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by ef4 13y ago
Regarding the hotel gym: the most likely reason you couldn't find any free weights is America's penchant for lawsuits. The hotel's lawyers and/or insurance company probably insists on less "dangerous" fitness e
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by ef4 13y ago
This is a nice idea. I would love to see these kind of agreements get commoditized and standardized, so that a new service can just check a bunch of boxes to generate their terms, and we can even represent the agreement in a machine readabl

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