gmadsen

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   by gmadsen 5y ago

   the vast majority of people are not knowledgeable about where a facebook employee could or couldn't work and for how much. The only people that will judge are other swe
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   by gmadsen 5y ago

   I think it that case there must be a tangible direct need to have their personal testimony, not just nice to have due to their expertise.
3. 303.▲
   by gmadsen 5y ago

   I don't know about that. Many people I currently work with take a month vacation to visit India.
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   by gmadsen 5y ago

   I understand not wanting to be apart of it, but it seems silly to say you literally can't understand why others do it. It is very obvious. It lowers inhibitions, causes euphoria, thus increasing the enjoyment of social interactions for
5. 305.▲
   by gmadsen 5y ago

   fair, I might give it a look if I ever need to create web project. I think ultimately the critique is still valid though. At least in robotics, new knowledge is typically complimentary of existing knowledge. My ML projects don't negate
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   by gmadsen 5y ago

   I understand the references, and maybe its that I work in robotics and not web dev. But if the criticism of web dev is that domain knowledge erodes unlike law or medicine, the response shouldn't be that long term stable skills exist su
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   by gmadsen 5y ago

   Is this sarcastic?
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   by gmadsen 5y ago

   this seems like such a low reward high risk grift. A Netflix exec needs to risk his entire life over $450K?
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   by gmadsen 5y ago

   yes, considering many people can't afford to see a doctor
10. 310.▲
    by gmadsen 5y ago

    it is not impossible to bring water through pipes, or invest heavily in desalination
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    by gmadsen 5y ago

    back in middle school we would just use proxys to play online games on the library that were regularly blocked
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    by gmadsen 5y ago

    im pretty sure high frequency trading only siphons money from industries that make things
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    by gmadsen 5y ago

    while I agree with the sentiment, your analogy about weather is misplaced. We can model the climate decades into the future, which this situation seems more similar to. Obviously the fracking companies would be biased, so I am not siding wi
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    by gmadsen 5y ago

    you don't seem to have a background in mathematics. A huge(and growing) body of work exists for every example you gave. Obviously mathematicians are interested in nonlinear systems
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    by gmadsen 5y ago

    many companies require certain expertise in a specific language
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    by gmadsen 5y ago

    I didn't give a dichotomy, I called out one. A straw man was given that any sort of reform is paramount to big S Socialism which """has failed every time its been tried""" Political systems are not separat
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    by gmadsen 5y ago

    I really don't think the only options are US style socialism for the elites and austerity for the rest versus USSR totalitarianism. Just look at any other developed country in the world to see more reasonable social welfare programs
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    by gmadsen 5y ago

    I still don't follow. The NIMBY retiree would have to sell their property to presumably someone with a lot more capital than them to be able to build an apartment building. If you are referring to tenants possibly being lower socioecon
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    by gmadsen 5y ago

    Land owners having more freedom to profitably use their land doesn't really seem like redistribution to me..
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    by gmadsen 5y ago

    Then that part has changed. I had to talk on the phone when I canceled about 8 years ago
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    by gmadsen 5y ago

    I did the same a few years ago and it was relatively painless, however there are many people that do not like confrontation and "stonewalling" is not an easy task. NY Times understands this and preys on a specific segment of the p
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    by gmadsen 5y ago

    I think that takes a fundamentally different society than the US to work. There are many many have-nots in the US and public knowledge like this would put legitimate threat of harm on many people.
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    by gmadsen 5y ago

    I don't think many would consider 5 am to be the middle of the night, nor does it make sense to change how much you sleep with the seasons
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    by gmadsen 5y ago

    Yes, as I'm sure many do here as well. Thats because the HN community is not representative of the average population
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    by gmadsen 5y ago

    very cool! appreciate the recommendation.
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    by gmadsen 5y ago

    I think its more philosophical than an rubric for actual governance. The constitution was deeply influenced from enlightenment thinkers and basically the first of its kind that influenced the rest of the world.
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    by gmadsen 5y ago

    Ok? what is your point? Are they physically and mentally capable of achieving that? How much do they desire that goal? Are they willing to sacrifice other things in their life for that? Its not like FAANG employees are picked out of a hat
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    by gmadsen 5y ago

    what a straw man you are making. It is meaningless to diminish the wants/needs of one by comparing to some arbitrary level of poverty in the world. Everyone desires self actualization, and that is different for each person. If you are
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    by gmadsen 5y ago

    this is incorrect, look at the spec. I would not have commented something like that unless I verified it first
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    by gmadsen 5y ago

    interesting, I didn't realize usb-c supports digital and analog audio signals. kind of neat