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hueving
9y ago
>JDs frequently pay off their student loans by ~4-5 years into their practice I think your information about the cost of legal degrees and the prospects for new lawyers (on average) is woefully out of date.
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hueving
9y ago
This question falsely presumes that the government's military is not also fractured by whatever is causing the militia to revolt. The military is made up of citizens.
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9y ago
>can you really complain that you're not receiving benefits from systems that are more optimal when people are clustered together Yes. Society should always be doing more than what is cost optimal. Cities are only being focused on r
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hueving
9y ago
>they have poor sleep hygiene This just sounds like a morning person trying to imply that night owls are unhealthy. I consistently go to bed around 2 and wake up at ~10. I have better 'sleep hygiene' than many people I know who
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9y ago
>But the real hero here is AWS and its "primitives"-based, bottom-up approach to outsourcing all computing. I'm not sure 'hero' is the right word. AWS has created culture of lock-in and closed source products bei
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9y ago
I think you're underestimating how many men avoid prostitution purely due to fear of contracting disease. Prostitution is legal in Nevada (outside of Reno/Vegas) and the prostitutes operate without pimps. There are far fewer ethic
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hueving
9y ago
>believing that the more you earn, the more tax you should pay I suspect you've fallen for some propaganda here if you think the rich pay less in taxes in the US or that Republicans think they shouldn't pay more. The top 1% alr
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hueving
9y ago
That quote can easily be used to justify intolerance towards groups by choosing not to hire them ("pariah status"). Are you sure you want to defend discriminatory hiring under the guise of free speech?
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9y ago
>When you vote for a sexist and racist, don't be surprised when you're thought to be a sexist and racist. When you vote for someone who appears to be corrupt, don't be surprised when you're thought to be corrupt. When
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9y ago
It's not them just 'having their say'. It's also getting de-prioritized for promotions, left out of work outings, getting fired, etc.
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9y ago
>super-majority >definitely a large super-majority Don't use phrases like this without defining them in concrete terms and providing stats. If 1/3 of the people supported Trump in those categories, opposition could easily be
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hueving
9y ago
Then you should have focused on maintainability in your comment, not legibility.
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hueving
9y ago
Doctors are neither experts in a field of technology nor are they paid to operate technology.
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hueving
9y ago
False dichotomy. People will survive just fine with a different crop than almonds.
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hueving
9y ago
You missed the point. The anecdote was to illustrate how even power users might be working around filesystem bugs so a lack of bug reports specifically mentioning APFS is certainly not proof that there aren't problems.
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9y ago
>Documentation is meant to be read by everyone, not make you feel good about being forced to write it. I think you missed the point you were trying to make here because nobody has any difficulty reading the PDFs rendered from latex.
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hueving
9y ago
What anticompetitive position is being leveraged against Amazon in this case? The chromecast doesn't pretend to be an open marketplace for any apps. Amazon does pretend it's an open marketplace for goods.
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hueving
9y ago
How did the service suddenly become misconfigured?
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9y ago
Of course it would be easy if operating in the market provided an existential risk to the company.
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hueving
9y ago
Loading the like button is enough for facebook to track you and infer your interests. You never have to click it.
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hueving
9y ago
The plural of anecdote is not data. We need real stats about this because individuals complaining vastly outweighs the silent remaining ones. There are enough murders every day to cover the front page of hacker news with a story about each
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9y ago
It's not about looking pretty. It's about being composable, extendable, testable, and portable to other languages and architectures. The fact that you think looking pretty has anything to do with sound software engineering furthe
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9y ago
>But AI is a unique threat because it can match (and then quickly absolutely dominate) humans for any kind of work that requires cognitive power. Only at very specific tasks. As you point out later there is no evidence that AI general in
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9y ago
This post is condescending without any real substance. "Read some economic books" is not meaningful in the context of one particular government safety net.
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hueving
9y ago
The part you're missing is that jobs will also be created while others are destroyed. We lost tons of horse caring jobs as we switched to the automobile but it didn't wipe out society.
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9y ago
A shining example of the Dunning–Kruger effect. Scientific code is some of the worst-engineered code you'll ever deal with because it's written by people that are great at physics but terrible at software engineering. It will be p
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9y ago
No, it's a terrible name because your definition implies that VMware or EC2 instances would be servers since you can SSH into both. A significant portion of ops people would never refer to a VM as a server so you've already run in
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hueving
9y ago
Separation of compute and storage has been around since before Google was even relevant as a company (see NFS). If you think bigquery pioneered all of these concepts then your team did a very poor job of researching prior art. Maybe that wa
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hueving
9y ago
Once you send an email to someone, you can't change it. It's that simple. It has absolutely nothing to do with what you can do to your own inbox. The entire point is that you should be able to rely on the fact that what you see in
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9y ago
Supply contracts are very different than a bid to build something to specifications.
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