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by fragsworth 6y ago
You have to shut down intolerance, because if you don't, it threatens to take over your free society. Ideas spread, and shutting them down prevents them from spreading. "Bad ideas" are real. https://en.wikipedia.or
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by fragsworth 6y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirth%27s_law Frameworks piled on frameworks to make things 5% faster to develop, combined with a general tendency for software developers to not optimize anything until someone complains.
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by fragsworth 6y ago
If you are concerned about your keystrokes being broadcast wirelessly (which is a reasonable concern), I remember from a video or something I saw a long time ago that there was success in reconstructing keys pressed by the sound waves they
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by fragsworth 6y ago
I'm not really sure the context, but due to the context of the article, I have a feeling the titles of these jobs are somewhat misleading. Perhaps it's not someone who just drives trucks being called a "truck driver", bu
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by fragsworth 6y ago
Homeless people don't aggregate in cities like SF because they have liberal policies. They aggregate in cities like SF because they are dense. Cities also tend to be liberal, but correlation != causation.
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by fragsworth 6y ago
There is a lot of irony and fallacy here. But the worst part is the level of hypocrisy, in using what they believe to be a rational argument... to promote irrationality. Anyone who can't rely solely on rational thought is not actually
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by fragsworth 6y ago
At some point monopolies stop being the more user friendly approach by abusing their position to the point that they provide bad service for high costs, and you're forced to deal with it. These companies were user friendly at first, bu
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by fragsworth 6y ago
I wouldn't say HN has mastered the conversation. There are still major issues, like how late comments can be drowned out by the noise, despite being really high quality. And how there's a tendency to brigade one side of an issue o
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by fragsworth 6y ago
Yes this is marketing, but that doesn't mean it's inherently bad. We should support competition in this industry, and any kind of attempts they put forth to market themselves. Especially for things that "hackers" care ab
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by fragsworth 6y ago
It's a marketing piece, but I don't see anything terribly wrong with what they wrote. I also don't think you have to be that hardcore about it to want your phone to work like this.
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by fragsworth 6y ago
Yes, because if there were no minimum wage, they would simply pay employees less and forget about the touchscreens.
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by fragsworth 6y ago
No, but I don't think that makes the point any less relevant.
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by fragsworth 6y ago
The fact that they were hired back during a pandemic isn't a good counter-argument, greeters obviously add very small value to the company under normal circumstances.
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by fragsworth 6y ago
It is basically impossible to produce real empirical evidence in economics. You can look at data/correlations, and try to reason about cause and effect. But real empirical evidence requires you use the scientific method to test hypothe
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by fragsworth 6y ago
You sound a bit too defensive, the original poster didn't mention anything about China. Similar things have been said about Facebook for ages, but it's beating a dead horse now. We all know Facebook collects everything.
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by fragsworth 6y ago
It is important to consider that Amazon probably still considers its retail business a growth business, and that it has not captured enough of the market yet to start raising prices. I am pretty sure Amazon's retail business is going
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by fragsworth 6y ago
Some users on Safari (probably old versions) appear to be getting bad cert warnings for https://www.playsaurus.com . REALLY glad I found this post here, it was driving me nuts.
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by fragsworth 6y ago
I'm not sure why that would be terribly important though? A month of delay in optimizing your services isn't going to make or break an average company.
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by fragsworth 6y ago
Sometimes I think we can understand things. Then I read a (very astute) comment like yours and I feel like we might as well give up trying to understand anything at all. Everything is confounded.
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by fragsworth 7y ago
The problem is incentives. For example, maybe TicketMaster screwed the public out of $50 million, but the lawyers are willing to settle for $10 million, of which they take home $3 million and the public distributes the rest. It's not n
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by fragsworth 7y ago
God damn, there is no way this is anything other than just brazenly obvious insider trading. Completely unethical. Our representatives are complete and utter scumbags. Needless to say, this should be illegal. I honestly wish we could retroa
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by fragsworth 7y ago
You ignored my question, you already said less than 1% is unacceptable, and just repeated yourself. Forget COVID, I'm referring to a future theoretical disease - at what death rate does a nationally enforced lockdown of a few weeks bec
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by fragsworth 7y ago
At what death rate would a nationally forced lockdown of a few weeks be acceptable to you?
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by fragsworth 7y ago
That assumes people spend it rationally, and aren't just hooked on some subtle addiction train.
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by fragsworth 7y ago
I think the fear some people have is that if everyone has free food and shelter, we'll lose a massive portion of the labor force because they would have no need to work. It is not clear at all to me that it would be objectively good
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by fragsworth 7y ago
Yeah, it is strongly associated with the flu seasonality. It makes sense considering what sick often people do, their first reaction is to type their symptoms into Google.
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by fragsworth 7y ago
I'm not saying it necessarily proves it, but I'd like to hear people's takes on this, and how much panic searching might have had an impact.
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Google Trends suggests Covid-19 already peaked between March 15-21(trends.google.com)
6 points by fragsworth 7y ago|4 comments
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by fragsworth 7y ago
I predict that in less than 3 weeks, most people like you will have changed your minds. When the time comes (and it will), please look back at how selfish you sounded here.
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by fragsworth 7y ago
We should be quarantining every city in the U.S. right now. You're 100% correct, and it's going to be just as bad here.

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