evandwight

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by evandwight 5y ago
Does your vote not matter? I agree in most cases your vote won't change the result. But, it does act as a signal. Also, not voting puts you in the group of people politicians don't need to care about.
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by evandwight 5y ago
Minor correction: accessible source doesn't mean free to copy
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by evandwight 5y ago
If they use natural gas (methane) to make electricity to make synthetic methane, I will cry
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by evandwight 5y ago
You can produce methane from water and carbon dioxide. Burning it is the reverse. Burning synthetic methane is carbon neutral.
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by evandwight 5y ago
How do you decide what qualifies? I'm trying to build something like that. Take hacker news and let the community curate it into a weekly newsletter of just the important posts. It's a work in progress and I'm a little starve
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by evandwight 5y ago
What are your feelings on gold?
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by evandwight 5y ago
Ubi won't touch tech salaries. People don't need to maximize income. I volunteer because I have enough and money isn't the only objective. Open source doesn't need to pay faang salaries to exist.
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by evandwight 5y ago
That's been my experience too. I never felt exhausted playing. Thinking about what to do better between games was more draining. I've never played competitively, though I did get to about top 3000 in North America. Thanks for shar
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by evandwight 5y ago
How often do you engage your slow brain (from thinking fast and slow)? I feel like it's like speed chess and not normal chess. You have no time to think till after the game, you just have to do and trust your gut. The slow brain is wha
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by evandwight 5y ago
You may be right. It looks like some states have specific rules for credit cards. For example, in some states businesses can't charge credit card processing fees. However, many businesses charge late payment fees. https://ww
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by evandwight 5y ago
It's not a government fine. It's just an agreement in the contract specifying a payment is due if your card declines.
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by evandwight 5y ago
Critical thinking is taught in schools. The issue is it's rarely applied. Critical thinking takes a lot of mental effort and often boils down to who do you trust. A group of flat earthers designed an experiment to test their belief. Pe
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by evandwight 5y ago
For posts that wouldn't be hard as firebase has the data[0]. However for comments that's difficult as neither firebase[1], nor hackernews public[2] has scores. The data is only available when you are logged in directly on news.yco
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by evandwight 5y ago
How do you handle things without revenue?
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by evandwight 5y ago
SpaceX definitely wants to make a profit. I don't think building a city on Mars is profit maximization though and this is Elon's explicit reason for not taking SpaceX public. > According to the company, the short-term demands o
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by evandwight 5y ago
Some owners of private companies don't see the goal of the company as profit maximization - eg SpaceX. With a public company there's always going to be a shareholder to sue you for not maximizing profit. https://www.lit
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by evandwight 5y ago
Why not use AWS ses? It's so much cheaper.
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by evandwight 5y ago
One of the amazing things about Reddit is how different communities compete with each other. Allowing individual subreddits to enable anonymous posting lets the market decide if the pros outweigh the cons. (If the subreddit has a history of
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by evandwight 5y ago
For a community that really valued anonymous posting, couldn't you let members vouch for anonymous posts before making them visible? If no one vouches then they disappear. Like, hacker news almost allows anonymous posting because the a
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by evandwight 5y ago
Do you write logic to handle collisions?
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by evandwight 5y ago
That explains it why /r/science is such a graveyard! Thank you! It sounds like if any of the 1500 mods dislike a comment, then that comment disappears. That's extremely biased towards removing comments. My suggestion would ha
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by evandwight 5y ago
> http://talk.binarytask.com Your own http server/database!?! Do you mean you implemented them from scratch? I'm just using nginx/expressjs & postgres. Edit: rupy! interesting! Does ssl kill it's effic
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by evandwight 5y ago
Normal users browse new and vote for good content. This works pretty well! Could you designate a bunch of people as mini moderators and have the majority vote of mini mods decide moderation? Then have one moderator curate the list of mini m
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by evandwight 5y ago
It's not done yet. There's a discord link if you want to chat about how to improve it. https://efficientdemocracy.com New name needed
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by evandwight 5y ago
What tools do you think would work? I've been writing a Reddit clone that uses elected moderators, statistical sampling, and referendums to estimate the result of referendums. I'm curious what tools you think would work well.
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by evandwight 5y ago
Can you reverse lookup the packages using the abstract syntax tree? Most of it's probably from the top 10,000 packages.
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by evandwight 5y ago
Do you think it would be better to filter the news as a group rather than individually? I find it very frustrating not being able to trust titles.
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by evandwight 5y ago
I'm writing rewriting Reddit/hackernews where moderation is done by estimating referendums - using elected moderators, statistical sampling and referendums. Bias towards active users is reduced by allowing users to designate a pro
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by evandwight 5y ago
There's an asymetry. It's harder to refute a claim than make it. Also who has time to correct someone wrong on the internet for free.
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by evandwight 5y ago
Sorry, I don't have an answer for you. I was just trying to clarify the context with a more charitable interpretation of GP's point.

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