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by grandalf 10y ago
I think BuckleScript is going to blow up one of these days and become hugely popular.
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by grandalf 10y ago
Thanks for the well thought out comments. Very insightful.
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by grandalf 10y ago
I'd be quite curious how much money keeping Rails up to date has cost Shopify over the years, compared to the benefits. Compared to a lighter weight framework like Sinatra, Express, etc., it seems that Rails is only a benefit if you we
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by grandalf 10y ago
> Most people don't want 'on demand' employment, they want stability. Why can't they have both? Broadly speaking, the forces of supply and demand are quite stable. Right now it's difficult to find jobs for 10 ho
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by grandalf 10y ago
I was just wondering that myself :)
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by grandalf 10y ago
All it takes is a few upsurges in populism and Uber might be forced to do it on someone else's terms and without preparing investors for it. Even with first world labor standards, Uber is a superb business model. I had Uber eats deliv
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by grandalf 10y ago
I know that is Uber's view, I think it's mistaken and unsustainable. The lack of a sustainable policy is what creates the existential risk.
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by grandalf 10y ago
Uber has done nearly everything right. I think its main vulnerability is that its laborers are a fickle bunch and Uber hasn't done enough to inspire any loyalty. All Uber drivers I talk to alternate between Uber and Lyft and exploit a
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by grandalf 10y ago
I think we're both right.
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by grandalf 10y ago
None of this matters. What matters is the crimes committed by US officials when they illegally classified much of the information in the first place. Of course Manning (or anyone who leaks) is likely to be an imperfect messenger. It's
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by grandalf 10y ago
> I cannot understand how people do not fight back in solidarity with outrage against human and civil rights abuses I think there is a very sad aspect of human nature which makes humans bow before power.
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by grandalf 10y ago
I think when one works on software long enough, a sort of pressure starts to build up making the person long to work on hardware in any way possible. I've resorted to woodworking, DIY car repairs, and VHDL... all very therapeutic :)
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by grandalf 10y ago
Apologies for my overly critical comment... > we have collectively decided that we don't want health insurance to function that way. I agree this is the case, the problem is that it's not really insurance any more it's a b
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by grandalf 10y ago
Ahh, I see. I suppose there would be a lot of people choosing the cheaper, high deductible plan and then not paying their bills, which would have made it harder to sell the plan to healthcare firms. If it were fair it would be based on a p
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by grandalf 10y ago
Very true. And all that extra money is helping to fund companies like Mylan when they overprice the epi pen for several years. Why wouldn't they, customers are insulated from the sticker price but can't really complain because hi
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by grandalf 10y ago
Exactly. Also, it's worth noting that the "retail" price is a way that health care providers rip off the government by claiming a loss on their books after they are reimbursed by medicaid. The grandparent's intuition th
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by grandalf 10y ago
Yes, they are the same thing. Insurance is fundamentally a redistribution of risk with money being shifted from those who have not fallen victim to that risk to those who have. If you have a problem with that aspect of the ACA, you have a
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by grandalf 10y ago
> what amount was being subsidized by your company Around $200 per month. The risk pool aspect would be true if the risk were the dominant factor in the price, which I think it isn't. > The idea is self-insuring $15-20k is absurd
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by grandalf 10y ago
The problem is that middle class Americans are charged outlandish rates for the plans. The plan for my family last year cost over $1200 per month, and this year rose to $1400/month. Previously, with employer-provided plans I paid at mo
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by grandalf 10y ago
I've met Daniel and Robby and was particularly impressed by Daniel. It's not a surprise to me that YC chose him for this role.
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by grandalf 10y ago
Not in my tests, it continued to aggressively populate forms with autocomplete="off" set.
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by grandalf 10y ago
This is a very clever hack. I've tried in the past to adjust my HTML to disable autofill and it's not possible to prevent Chrome from aggressively doing it.
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by grandalf 10y ago
There would seem to be significant benefits to maintaining a white hat presence while gaining access to thousands of machines and maintaining a body knowledge about the latest threats/techniques. Do you have any thoughts on the validit
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by grandalf 10y ago
It wasn't, but I am apparently naive.
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by grandalf 10y ago
I wonder why nobody assumes Kaspersky might be working at the direction of Putin.
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by grandalf 10y ago
> But my impression is that [Trump vs. Clinton] is way more powerful than any other bias right now. I think this is correct, and largely why the Russia meddling has become more an article of faith than a highly concerning possibility.
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by grandalf 10y ago
My understanding was that they had agreed on the likely Russian origin of at least one system from which emails were obtained, but that they had disagreed on the motivation for the leaks.
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by grandalf 10y ago
I think there is a coalition of peculiarly anti-Russian hawks who have been the most vocal in their opposition to Russia's behavior in Crimea, etc. This likely transcends party lines in the same way that support for wall street or the
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by grandalf 10y ago
The issue is not so much authority, the issue is urgency. Why is there urgency to rush to judgment about alleged Russian election meddling? If it happened, then unless anyone thinks the outcome of the election should be reversed, we have fo
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by grandalf 10y ago
https://www.democracynow.org/2016/12/27/headlines/obama_sign...

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