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by flukus 7y ago
I'd add to your list the increasing disconnect between wealth and quality of life. Economists and politicians will tell us how much richer we've become, how much our GDP has grown, etc, but so much of that "wealth" is th
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by flukus 7y ago
From what I understand one big difference between Caesar and Augustus was that Caeser had a fairly sizable domestic agenda with a list of reforms that had been building up and getting frustrated for decades, so it's possible/plaus
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by flukus 7y ago
Implicit ordering can outsource it to users and result in some awful to use software. I think I've told this story before here but the best bug I've ever fixed is adding an order by clause to a query. The client was trying to find
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by flukus 7y ago
Not to mention crazy conspiracy theorists calling the whole thing fake, we've had a few of those right here on HN. As if something of this magnitude can be made up. Climate change denialists (this is just the latest offshoot of a long
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by flukus 7y ago
It seems like even adding it as a feature was a terrible idea, it's an example of how users needs are no longer the driving force behind web browsers. Was it supposed to replace RSS or something?
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by flukus 7y ago
Or alternately we could increase tariffs on coal exports. We can discourage coal use globally and have a lot of money to pump into renewable energy and it's a lot more palatable to the electorate.
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by flukus 7y ago
Ugh, I was planning to learn zig at one point but things like this mean I'm going to pass. This doesn't even seem to be in the documentation that I could find. Throw in their plans to add a package manager and it's own make s
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by flukus 7y ago
The problem is not being reproducible is not necessarily a failure and does not necessarily indicate a bad actor, it may be bunk but it may show a worthwhile direction for others to investigate further. The problems come when an non-reprodu
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by flukus 7y ago
> Why is it so bad in business and so good for health? Because a business is answerable to shareholders and a government is (theoretically) answerable to the electorate. This keeps the incentives between politicians and people aligned mu
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by flukus 7y ago
Just Iran? If he was at Baghdad Airport then he's presumably a guest of their country and this is an act of war against Iraq as well.
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by flukus 7y ago
If the greens form a coalition with anyone it will be Labor who haven't been in power since 2011 and back then the greens had zero seats in parliament. Their policy on controlled burns is irrelevant, if they have no power and have neve
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by flukus 7y ago
What you've been reading is quite obviously BS (both your links are to Murdoch media). The greens haven't been against controlled burns for decades but even if they were against they've only got 3/135 seats giving them n
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by flukus 7y ago
It doesn't matter who they pick, deniers are great diverting attention to smearing the person to take focus away from the issue, just take a look at how many still "herp derp al gore".
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by flukus 7y ago
> Are they just trying to prevent the spread and wait till the fire kills itself? Basically this whenever possible, often if it's not near a populated area they won't even try to limit the spread, they put themselves out eventu
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by flukus 7y ago
> For applications though, I agree that ChronVer seems far more useful, because there's just no real "compatibility" contract with an application. It's unfortunately becoming less common but there is still a "com
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by flukus 7y ago
> A major reason applications get bloated is because development time costs the company more than client bandwidth and CPU do. If development time was really the biggest issue then I think we'd be seeing far fewer SPAs and complicat
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by flukus 7y ago
In Melbourne it had some not so great effects. A lot of people will use it instead of just walking a couple of blocks and the free zone is already the slowest and most congested part of the network, so it made PT worse for everyone else. As
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by flukus 7y ago
> Yeah, a lot of people talking about how ugly it is. But that's exactly what a pick-up has always been. That's not universal, these things are common in Australia and look pretty sleek: https://www.google.com/s
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by flukus 7y ago
It reminds me of the walrus ( https://www.google.com/search?q=carrier+command+original+wal... ) in the original carrier command ( https://www.myabandonware.com/game/carrier-command-m6 )
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by flukus 7y ago
I don't understand how that doesn't trip the bullshit detectors of anyone that still has money to invest in the first place. That's language I'd expect from someone flogging a pyramid scheme.
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by flukus 7y ago
An Australian Prime Minister road tested "liberated from their jobs" but that was deemed insensitive: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-12-18/abbott-announces-supp...
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by flukus 7y ago
This relies on the assumption that traditional media isn't the source of disinformation and false claims, which at the best of times is far from true and even worse if you happen to live in a country where Murdoch media has a near mono
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by flukus 7y ago
They come at the cost of readability and complexity, sometimes it's a good trade off but too much magic can make systems horrible to maintain. You often still have to know what a macro is doing by jumping to the code and it's a lo
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by flukus 7y ago
Agreed, just saying x is used at y is meaningless, especially when that company is a multi headed hydra like google or MS. I see it so often with languages these days but I'm pretty sure you could find a team in a huge company like MS
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by flukus 7y ago
Makes you wonder what we could achieve today if we had 6 months off every year.
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by flukus 7y ago
> If you step back and think about it, if this protest were to happen in the US, with subways burned, shops destroyed, road blocked, for 6 months. What is going to happen? Compare this hypothetical scenario with what happened in Hong Kon
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by flukus 7y ago
Clang isn't the root cause, but as a (relatively) new tool in an existing ecosystem it needs to work with the existing ecosystem and not some imaginary idealistic world.
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by flukus 7y ago
I didn't care about latency on old tile based games, but now that everything is 3D with smooth scrolling and animations the latency makes a difference.
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by flukus 7y ago
> the idea of someone watching me work just makes me uneasy. Isn't this nearly universal? Aside from some exhibitionists no one speaks about that "feeling of being watched" in a positive light and there are all sorts of so
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by flukus 7y ago
For me it's more of a suburbia vs inner city thing. I want to live where I'm a few minutes walk from a grocery store, a few bars and other amenities along with easy public access (walking, riding, public transport) to work. I coul

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