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by hopler 7y ago
You don't own the Italian-American experience anymore than anyone else does. Feel free to enjoy your basil.
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by hopler 7y ago
Being hated by hipsters who resent simple pleasures available to all is part of the appeal.
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by hopler 7y ago
Many countries have suicide. What has that to do with suicide victims' opinions of the national government?
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by hopler 7y ago
> I refuse to carry a portable phone. I never have one and unless things change, I never will. I do use portable phones, lots of different ones. If I needed to call someone right now, I would ask one of you, “Could you please make a call
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by hopler 7y ago
Lots of gratis open source products are widely used. Sometimes because inventors are not salespeople. Sometimes because the target market has little money. I'm sure there are many other reasons too. The market is not identical to the
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by hopler 7y ago
Free speech implies you can't force it to be not free as in beer. Being allowed to charge money for something doesn't prevent other people for giving it away free.
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by hopler 7y ago
PhD isn't exclusively for academic careers. Industry has scientist jobs.
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by hopler 7y ago
Tech companies have more leverage. And the still obviously profit from employing you. Sure some jobs pay better than others, but that doesn't make every non-highest-paying job a pyramid scheme. The claim has no logic to it.
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by hopler 7y ago
The tricky bit is that human social connections, our greatest psychological need, are both the lowest cost source of value (friendship, conversion, and sex are free) and source of highest expenses (social pressure to spend money to maintai
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by hopler 7y ago
Jobs are a proxy for both productivity and for citizens' share of value. Productivity without jobs is inequality, in a capitalist economy. If we had a socialist economy with a citizens dividend, we'd care more about productivity t
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by hopler 7y ago
STK highlights the need to grow the open-license art community.
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by hopler 7y ago
Disgusting language like this doesn't belong on HN.
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by hopler 7y ago
It's tautological to say that bad HR policies are the cause of bad HR policies.
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by hopler 7y ago
Sure, if you enjoy being unemployed because you only want to work at a mythical company that tailors their HR processes to your obscure formatting preferences, or is so undesirable that they have time to read all resumes that come in.
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by hopler 7y ago
Why do you think your good people don't want to work with people that complement them? Why do you think you are so much better than them at balancing a team? I pity the team that has to work with such an egostistical openly hostile lea
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by hopler 7y ago
If you want to be a static low level cog, that's fine, but don't expect go-getter leadership compensation.
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by hopler 8y ago
It is only useful in languages with sufficiently expressive type systems, like Haskell. Otherwise you quickly hit a wall where it's impossible or impractical to express your idea in the language's type system, the same complaint
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by hopler 8y ago
LCM and GCD are meet and join (union supertype and intersection subtype in PLT), not top and bottom. Top/any would correspond to the product of all numbers (union of all factors), and bottom/never would correspond to 1 (intersect
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by hopler 8y ago
No, it's not. You say "pardon me" to your seat mate and they let you out or you climb over them.
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by hopler 8y ago
I've had mild chest pain for years. I'm not going to live in the ER.
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by hopler 8y ago
Punishing abusive employees is not illegal, and neither is declining an invitation to speak at a conference.
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by hopler 8y ago
When the team size doubles or quadruples in 2 years, someone becomes a lead. At startups, 2yrs experience is usually when "senior" begins. Employers can pay in $ or in titles.
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by hopler 8y ago
"Attaboy" is obsolete for obvious reasons.
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by hopler 8y ago
Did they give it up, or did the Legislature hijack it? Who appoints the people who run the university?
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by hopler 8y ago
UW as an institution cares mainly about getting all that Silicon Valley they saw Stanford get from Google and followers, so they can find administrators and build fancy buildings, not about research and education. Non-commercial research an
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by hopler 8y ago
It's a university. Work for UW is supposed to be generating valuable research and education, which is what Sage and Cocalc do.
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by hopler 8y ago
Jim Simons doesn't understand open source and open access, because the source of his $15Billion net worth (proprietary hedge fund strategy) depends on him not understanding it. And also perhaps because he doesn't understand softw
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by hopler 8y ago
You should copy Magma's model but be open source and use support or web hosting (like cocalc does) to justify the price tag. Then you get users to give you their grant money. Or convert to closed source main branch and release 1 yes o
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by hopler 8y ago
Who decided that? In the USA we decided that domestic child labor is unacceptable, so we outsourced it to Africa and Asia.
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by hopler 8y ago
There's a difference between the junk that many countries pay Chinese factories to make and ship, which is garbage almost immediately upon manufacture, and particle board furniture and fast fashion clothing which, while lower quality,

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