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by fossuser 6y ago
I don't disagree really - and the president issue is somewhat separate given its political nature and obvious historical context. As I said, I agree in the common case - I just see people generalize and include in their examples people
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by fossuser 6y ago
I think this is true in the common case, but I thought Bezos was raised by a single mom who had him at 17 and his step father was a cuban immigrant? https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/policy-news-views/statement...
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by fossuser 6y ago
Yeah living in SF (or just the bay area) is pretty key. AirBnB, Uber, Tesla, FB, SnapChat (LA based, but a lot of friends moved there to join friends from the peninsula and knew about it because of being here/near Stanford), Lyft, Snow
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by fossuser 6y ago
Yeah - I’m still on Jekyll because of built in GitHub pages support, but if I was starting today I’d probably use Hugo.
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by fossuser 6y ago
I think what you linked to is different, but they recently announced working on a real remote dev option: https://blog.jetbrains.com/blog/2021/03/11/projector-is-out/ Their old server config is just
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by fossuser 6y ago
I hope IntelliJ eventually figures out remote dev. Benefits are more obvious on massive code bases that take a long time to build, test (or really just do anything). IntelliJ will get stuck indexing forever and can be frustrating to use - h
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by fossuser 6y ago
The author's tactic gives them a good sense of the project, common requests, and bugs over a long time period. This context is really valuable when reasoning about the product or determining what's important to prioritize. The iss
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by fossuser 6y ago
I agree - plus there's already enough culture war arguing just with EVs, now we're going to pivot to the NIMBY battlefield that is cycling? Make progress where you can. I'd love for their to be more cycling options (and thing
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by fossuser 6y ago
I've seen both types of org layouts where I've worked (we moved from one to the other). Initially separate QA teams that would write tests, a subset of which might do manual testing in the UI. The feedback loop for this was brutal
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by fossuser 6y ago
I tend to agree with you - but keybase made a similar argument and then sold out their users to Zoom (with all of the concerns around the CCP's influence over Zoom). When that happens there isn't much recourse except to jump ship.
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by fossuser 6y ago
Ha - that's great. They went through the work to make some shitty jam to sell to make it harder for WB to argue they're squatting on their IP. I'm glad WB just used their existing site.
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by fossuser 6y ago
Yeah true - they've tried to pass a 4am law a couple of times I think, but it's failed. The Svalbard link reminds me of these stories about the volunteer bar in the research base in antarctica: https://www.theatlantic.c
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by fossuser 6y ago
The US has a wild variety of drink laws that vary by state. Many states have government run stores, some states allow beer and wine at grocery stores, but liquor must be sold in a separate store. Some states have laws that ban sales after 8
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by fossuser 6y ago
A friend was riding on the tube in the financial district of London and overheard one finance guy explaining to new colleague that the trick to getting good trades was to make friends at companies and learn about new things from them before
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by fossuser 6y ago
Agreed, but I think your Google idea would be pretty funny. Google sunset - from now on each product will have a countdown clock on its webpage to its death which is either when the clock hits zero or the lead dev makes promo, whatever come
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by fossuser 6y ago
Thanks - that makes me feel better about how they define mild, and thanks for the direct reference. Earlier in the pandemic mild was being used to mean only not hospitalized. > “I don't know how you can possibly make such a speculat
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by fossuser 6y ago
I'm not sure I really buy that video - don't control groups account for differences in the general population at the time it was done? This Pfizer data, plus the results in Israel suggest that the mRNA vaccines really are just obj
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by fossuser 6y ago
This is the main reason I’ve kept my Unifi stuff and cloud key despite the growing company issues. Is there anything in this space that is good hardware with a decent UI? When I looked the options were consumer crap or very expensive enterp
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by fossuser 6y ago
If you have 2FA enabled are you protected from this? I suppose an automatic firmware update with bad code in it could still hit me?
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by fossuser 6y ago
When your main point is about determining the validity of information - the specifics are relevant. Specific examples give some ground work to build up priors around accuracy beyond just themselves too. This doesn't excuse CRT related
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by fossuser 6y ago
Obama was coined the “deporter in chief” while in office and Biden has similarly said he will deport people who cross the border illegally. The difference is in intentional cruelty and the policy around how you deal with the problem. Housin
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by fossuser 6y ago
I think the brand isn’t toxic because of the state of the competition. Even with this hack, their stuff is still the best available for home use. Netgear or Linksys consumer routers are awful. The mesh devices are okay, but serve of a diffe
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by fossuser 6y ago
The internet has two things World Weekly News doesn't though - scale, and very sophisticated targeting. A lot of the misinformation in 2016 came from scammers in (I think) Madagascar driving traffic to adfarm blogs with nonsense via FB
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by fossuser 6y ago
I've only ever seen it once when I was in an EV Uber (it was a Model S) behind a pickup truck in Baltimore and the pickup kept blasting us with massive amounts of black soot (presumably because we were in an EV). There's a politic
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by fossuser 6y ago
This is basically my take too - dealers suck and will make this an uphill battle even if VW is being honest about their EV intentions. GM has improved now, but when I looked at Volts it was similar (dealers knowing nothing, actively hosti
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by fossuser 6y ago
CRT specifically may be largely junk (I think it is), but the parent comment is not correct. Trump's "Zero Tolerance" immigration policy intentionally separated mothers and their children at the border with the intent being d
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by fossuser 6y ago
Also because teachers have trouble with it. I’d guess out of all the teachers I had at a decent public school, probably only 1 in 5 could be reasonably considered critical thinkers. I’d guess 2 in 5 were actively hostile to the concept and
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by fossuser 6y ago
There's an important distinction - the religious crimes are often done because of the underlying ideology. Stalin did terrible things, but it wasn't in the name of atheism. Throwing away bad doctrine doesn't instantly make
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by fossuser 6y ago
I thought this was pretty interesting and goes into a hypothesis of why ECT might be effective (in the context of sleep deprivation being effective) https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/sleep-is-the-mate-of-d... It&#x
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by fossuser 6y ago
I think you clarified where the 'something can't come from nothing' argument originates from (and that it's separate from the watchmaker one). My point was just that as an argument the answer being 'god' isn&#x

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