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by hawkice 9y ago
I'm concerned you conflate two things. A paranoid psychiatric patient may see a world full of overwhelming risk behind everything. It does not mean that risk exists. It does mean, however, that confirming their paranoia, or seeming to,
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by hawkice 9y ago
If the ethical problems of rat suffering are really hard problems, why is it utterly mundane for people to buy products at home depot to deliberately poison them for days and days until they succumb to internal bleeding, for no other reason
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by hawkice 9y ago
Honestly, I like this model a lot, but I think the focus is like 2:1 charity:slackbots, where I'd like to see the reverse. For example, more examples of slackbots you've made, how long it might take you, and maybe throwing in the
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by hawkice 9y ago
If you reduce the details of the story into the statement "the future of the web will be driven by anti-trust", I'd probably agree. The _present_ of the web is driven by anti-trust, and there's always more consolidation.
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by hawkice 9y ago
A lot of people are talking about this being a teachable moment. I suppose that's true. [EDIT: or is it? This intern probably didn't do anything wrong? Rest of comment relevant to discussion more than the link.] But I've mana
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by hawkice 9y ago
Indeed, I didn't find the subpage until later. I also like how, it isn't that you _have privacy_, but _more privacy_, because access isn't being sold like other companies. Someone must have noticed that they should only make
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by hawkice 9y ago
Precisely. Most people don't have an explicit preference. And collecting data on every possible human would give better results -- useful even if they don't plan on justifying running any specific test. We should probably use our
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by hawkice 9y ago
Labor pains, I think.
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by hawkice 9y ago
That doesn't equal 4 it equals 4.00000009534. So, there is a precision issue, probably using floats to keep division results.
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by hawkice 9y ago
Not exclusively CRUD apps, but some. I've not minded the DB work I've done so far, but I also don't mind SQL. Changesets are a smart API, but fundamentally aren't much different than normal SQL. Ecto is nicer for loading
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by hawkice 9y ago
All my new server-side code is in Go (where all my old code was in Elixir) because I wanted something I could build locally and deploy easier. The deployment story for elixir is... substantially worse than ideal, for, seemingly, no reason a
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by hawkice 9y ago
That's written by patio11, who wrote the comment above.
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by hawkice 9y ago
Important to remember that advertising revenue _always_ peaks in Q4, and that was an election year too, so even if they're down YoY this Q4 I wouldn't worry too much about it.
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by hawkice 9y ago
Less than 99, because some have no dollars, but yes.
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by hawkice 9y ago
I've had the exact same experience with adtech. People in this thread may, like we did, underestimate how immoral many of the people in this space are.
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by hawkice 9y ago
Or literally a ... in the corner of the text box that changes to a check when it saves.
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by hawkice 9y ago
There's something to be said about the gigantic number. The machine needs to direct itself to the location of the data, and those methods aren't interchangeable to the machine or to people, unless performance-irrelevant machine co
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by hawkice 9y ago
Variance does describe the distribution, but not well enough, in this case. It reduces the vector of possibilities to a scalar, and hides the most important aspect, the non-transitivity. Numbers have transitive comparisons, so there's
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by hawkice 9y ago
So, this is a great question to which I had no answer (not about almonds specifically, but I've heard similar claims for e.g. hummus). I still don't have any answer, but I believe the answer lies in the realm of "glycemic ind
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by hawkice 9y ago
Variance isn't the best lens here, better to look at the distributions. It's also a discrete problem, so EV isn't as precise as looking at all the possible combinations.
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by hawkice 9y ago
I'm a relative beginner in both Rust and C and I'd like to say that, as much as the learning curve for Rust could be better, even for a beginner, Rust is light years ahead of C, especially if you've used a more modern languag
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by hawkice 9y ago
I mean, I'm not entirely sure that moving from millions of small gas/diesel generators (which is, functionally, what modern cars are) to using the grid should be bashed because the current grid can't support it. That seems li
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by hawkice 9y ago
The example is a good one -- the third cell is set to 300 AND a1 + a2. Then, a1 is set to 51, which automatically sets a2 to 249. At no point was a2 given a formula, it is just constrained by the formulas in other cells.
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by hawkice 9y ago
I'm not aware of any good reasons, but I think GAAP standards say you can't recognize the revenue until the returns period ends? I think standard wisdom is to not have an official policy so as to keep the books simple (and maybe t
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by hawkice 9y ago
Say you have a money back guarantee period (30 days seems reasonable), and if they push and you feel it's worth it still, offer to extend the money back guarantee period. If someone wants a thing but absolutely will not pay for it, tha
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by hawkice 10y ago
He gets to make laws, that's not something you _need_ either. Aside from mocking the, oh-you-could-just-do-without tone, I think we should talk about what we want the future of the internet to be like, and how it could fit into our liv
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by hawkice 10y ago
I'm not saying that's what's happening, I'm just saying there's an idiomatic use of "playing these companies" that doesn't involve betraying a trust.
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by hawkice 10y ago
Losses up 6% and they're celebrating. I've been at companies like this. "We're losing money faster than ever, if I keep saying words after that you might be confused as to whether that matters." And if you have new
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by hawkice 10y ago
It's possible he meant game in a deeper, street-philosophy sense, in that the drivers are playing the game and Uber is playing the fool.
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by hawkice 10y ago
> a huge part of hit work Freudian slip of the most correct kind. It really was a hit, very odd to ignore it (fellow Texan here).

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