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by freyir 9y ago
Funny, but I feel phone/Internet addiction in my own life. I don't need a study or concerned parents to know it's real, at least for some susceptible people.
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by freyir 9y ago
Not akditer, but I think the key words are " self sufficient ," i.e., the Go standard library provides a great deal of core functionality out of the box. A larger project is more likely to require features provided by third-party
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by freyir 9y ago
Why do you think that is?
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by freyir 9y ago
> just take a look at his Insta again I'm looking. I see a guy who really likes Rolexes and cars and flaunting his wealth to strangers on the Internet. What am I supposed to be seeing?
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by freyir 9y ago
Entire categories are strongly dominated by one or occasionally two deeply-entrenched players. In the US: Search: Google Online shopping: Amazon Cloud: Amazon, Microsoft distant second Rideshare: Uber, Lyft distant second Social media and m
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by freyir 9y ago
Right, it's not stopping you from trying, it's just drastically lowering your odds of succeeding.
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by freyir 9y ago
> I still think there is a lot of upward mobility even in that scenario -- the smarter people I know earn good salaries and have nice lifestyles. Nicer than their parents, in most cases, mainly because consumer technology constantly get
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by freyir 9y ago
> How does someone having wealth stop anyone else from acquiring theirs? The wealthy person (a) does not need a 9-5 job to subsist and can devote all their time to a launching a business, (b) has a lower tax burden via capital gains, (
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by freyir 9y ago
Any evidence of this? In the United States, Lyme disease is mostly confined to the north east. https://www.cdc.gov/lyme/images/maps/2015-dot-map-title.jpg But Alzheimer's is not confined to the north eas
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by freyir 9y ago
As a counterexample, my parents traveled alone as children in the U.S. in the 40s and 50s; it was more common then. But they both grew up to be risk-averse adults anyway. And maybe you would have been a brave adult regardless? As a parent,
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by freyir 9y ago
Statement: "This is uncomfortable, but it’s possible we have to allow people to say disparaging things about gay people if we want them to be able to say novel things about physics." Clarification: "I didn’t mean that we n
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by freyir 9y ago
If you started this strategy 7 or 8 years ago, you probably didn’t expect the market to climb for so long. Who knows how much longer they’ll have to wait till you can make your move? In the meantime, inflation is slowly gnawing away at your
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by freyir 9y ago
> If you think of someone and appreciate the little bit of their life story they shared on Facebook, is that an illusion? Whatever it is, it’s not a substitute for real two-way interaction. Meaningful relationships don't survive o
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by freyir 9y ago
Is the idea that complicated? Can it not clearly and concisely be explained in a way that makes sense to a large audience? We see more complex ideas explained more concisely all the time. It's not just Cal Newport, it's self-help
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by freyir 9y ago
Yeah, I would guess you're right, most existing (and potential) users would probably appreciate having generics.
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by freyir 9y ago
I'm not sure who you're quoting or why. > Issues are representative as a sampling, not absolute numbers. My point was that issues are not a reliable sample of the Go community as a whole. They're a self-selected popula
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by freyir 9y ago
Bold choice.
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by freyir 9y ago
It's the biggest issue, but that doesn't mean the majority of Go developers support it. 1734 people reacted to the generics issue, most in favor, but there are many more Go developers than that. But the people who read the propo
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by freyir 9y ago
I heard it only on an NPR podcast, where they claimed the measure had support from "economists of all stripes." And actually, the proposed policy was much more drastic: complete elimination of corporate taxes. But clearly there ar
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by freyir 9y ago
We cannot expect companies to voluntarily pay more taxes than the minimum, while there are legal loopholes at their disposal. The solution may mean reducing the tax rate for all companies, closing the loopholes, and then enforcing the law
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by freyir 9y ago
Relevant post on keyboard latency here: https://danluu.com/keyboard-latency/ Takeaway: today’s keyboards are slow. Even gaming keyboards marketed as fast are slow. There’s more latency just in today’s keyboards than th
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by freyir 9y ago
> "Very few children of billionaires become notable people themselves" First, billionaires represent an extremely small minority of the human population. And second, notable people also represent a small minority of the human
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by freyir 9y ago
"subtle pseudo-gratification from this app ... it's all a facade and it'll make them even less happy." So the essence of Facebook? Seems like a perfect fit.
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by freyir 9y ago
When I last looked at Julia, the language wasn't yet stable. It's not fun developing packages for a language that changes from release to release, so I don't expect their ecosystem to stand a chance until they get to v1.0. Al
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by freyir 9y ago
> I get to use the technologies that I like, some of which aren't very mainstream, and also I really like the developers I work with. So in other states, people have to use technologies they dislike, and work with people they disl
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by freyir 9y ago
Software eats finance because it’s making traditional finance jobs obsolete. ML does not eat software in the same sense, because ML and software engineers generally do non-overlapping work. ML involves analysis, software involves synthesis.
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by freyir 9y ago
I’m an outsider, but what’s the recent “big idea”? It seems to be throwing more compute power and larger training sets at essentially an old technique. This has led to a big improvement in performance, but I don’t see the big conceptual bre
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by freyir 9y ago
Infeasible, not impossible.
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by freyir 9y ago
That may be an act of desperation to counteract everything being subsumed by TensorFow.
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by freyir 9y ago
It’s not the dominant career path because there are too many applicants for too few jobs. In many fields, academia is the option for a career in research, and a viable career in academic research means a professorship.

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