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by guntars 9y ago
To be fair, health insurance doesn't HAVE TO be provided through work. It's easier than ever to find a private plan. To the employer it's just another employee cost along with salary so if you didn't ask for a raise when
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by guntars 9y ago
People have an expectation that everything is going to magically improve as time goes on without realizing that with some things they need to be the change that they want to see in the world.
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by guntars 9y ago
People don't need money to live - they need food and shelter that is typically provided by someone else's work. Find a way to pay them directly and you don't need to work for an asshole boss anymore. The problem is, a lot of
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by guntars 9y ago
There's plenty of affordable housing around, it's just not in places people want to live. Some markets require you to shell out 50% of your income on housing, but it's not like people have no choice. They do it because overal
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by guntars 9y ago
It's an interesting thought that, if the users really got a value out of Facebook, they would be willing to pay for it. I think people do, but if Facebook asked everyone to pay even just a penny, they would instantly lose hundreds of m
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by guntars 9y ago
Spreading out investments does not improve expected return which is just a ratio to the invested amount.
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by guntars 9y ago
I'm self taught and will never get a degree, unless it's for fun and completely unrelated to CS. The recruiters at those companies skipping me over are just doing a part of my job for me - filtering out places with culture that I
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by guntars 9y ago
That's just silly. There are guaranteed ways for company to fail and not vice versa.
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by guntars 9y ago
I love how it's always the "other" voters that are irrational and voting against their best interests, never the observer.
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by guntars 10y ago
I see this sentiment a lot and it saddens me because it's a) extremely dark and b) generalizes and simplifies the motivations of large groups of people. Of course the wealthy are going to lobby for lower taxes, only a dumdum in their s
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by guntars 10y ago
Can we not post articles behind a paywall?
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by guntars 10y ago
The article says that their quarterly revenue was $1.4 billion.
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by guntars 10y ago
The client still needs to fetch the logos from somewhere so it has to upload a list of URLs to get the logos for. They've just opted to do it when saving a password entry.
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by guntars 10y ago
I agree, working 4 hours a day will feel more effective than the last 4 hours of an 8 hour day, but the question is whether it's actually twice as effective. And perhaps it's so for very high level tasks, but I'm pretty sure
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by guntars 10y ago
I can't take any of this "how to work for yourself and make money" seriously, if the main way that you make money is by charging for these lessons. It's like a pyramid scheme where the real money is in getting people to
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by guntars 10y ago
Do you mind expanding on why that is? I hear this often and I'd like it to be true, but I find it hard to believe.
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by guntars 10y ago
I disagree, compilers are relevant to web development because of all the compiling and transpiling that a single source file goes through in large application development.
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by guntars 10y ago
You say it like it's a bad thing. http://lesswrong.com/lw/e95/the_noncentral_fallacy_the_worst...
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by guntars 10y ago
Fair enough, but if they're going to write about their opinions and argue that "JSX sucks", they should at least be intimately familiar with it. Choosing lack of conditionals as the issue to focus on instead of any other prob
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by guntars 10y ago
Thanks, I did not know this.
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by guntars 10y ago
Because it's not just about showing an ad to the user, it's about knowing which user to show that ad. The ad networks track you across the web, and in the process learn a great deal about your demographics and interests. This alow
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by guntars 10y ago
The arguments against JSX and React requiring many small components are very surface level and sound like "we couldn't figure out how to make it work for us so it must be impossible". 1. This was mentioned already, but, yes,
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by guntars 10y ago
That's true with a caveat. It knows how to handle IO syscalls on systems where something like "epoll" or "kqueue" is available which, to be fair, is majority of what a typical server does. In the general case waitin
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by guntars 10y ago
It's crazy, I've totally missed the point at which these things stopped costing thousands of dollars and instead you can get them for $13.95 now.
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by guntars 10y ago
I guess if we're nitpicking, then here's another one: > Looking near the top of the output, we see that Haskell's run-time system was able to create 100,000 threads while only using 165 megabytes of memory. We are roughly
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by guntars 10y ago
They already need the support of the rest of society. No one survives on their own anymore. Automating a job like this gives more time and money back to people who buy groceries, which is almost everyone. Some of that can be used to support
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by guntars 10y ago
> The downside to this approach is it reduces the market for AV and other third party utilities. Doesn't sound like much of a downside to me.
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by guntars 10y ago
Can the conclusion stand if the arguments are not correct? I'm sure there are other, better arguments out there, but after reading this from top to bottom I'm getting the idea that the resistance to Python 3 is mostly irrational.
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by guntars 10y ago
I understand how DOM and extension permissions work. What I don't understand is how 22k people thought giving access to every single site that they visit (banking, facebook, email) to some person that they don't know anything abou
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by guntars 10y ago
Think about it this way - regardless of the revenue model, it's the users that are paying for the content. It might be direct, as in a NYT subscription, or there could be detours (advertiser pays the publisher -> a business pays the

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