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by imagist 10y ago
People with expertise in the area, ideally.
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by imagist 10y ago
I'm not sure what you mean by "this will never be viable". If you mean that many content providers' businesses will never be viable without ads, good. Content providers that serve advertisers rather than their users sho
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by imagist 10y ago
Everything anyone does is their decision. That doesn't put them above criticism. Lots of people make shitty decisions.
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by imagist 10y ago
That's a false dichotomy. The options aren't advertising or astroturfing (which is just advertising). My goal is to not look at ads, be they pop-ups or sponsored Reddit posts. It's true that companies won't be able to
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by imagist 10y ago
By searching for things we want instead of waiting for things other people want us to want to be shoved in our faces.
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by imagist 10y ago
Just because someone is a hypocrite doesn't mean they're wrong. Nobody lives up to their ideals perfectly.
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by imagist 10y ago
But that's not what he's doing. The entire purpose of advertising is to put ideas in your head--that's invasive. That's not changing the definitions of words, that's what those words mean in common parlance.
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by imagist 10y ago
Not only is Erlang's and Haskell's threading model unlike async/await, but Erlang's threading model is unlike Haskell's. So I'm just not sure what you're taking about.
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by imagist 10y ago
This something I've realized about my own impostor syndrome: the people who are most likely to knock me down a peg when I'm being overconfident are the only ones I trust when they compliment me. If you only ever hear positive thin
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by imagist 10y ago
Employee-owned cooperatives sidestep this issue pretty well by empowering workers. I don't know of any entire economies, though.
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by imagist 10y ago
> It's 2016 and there are many well documented and widely adopted solutions arising from external libraries and developments in ECMAScript. "Solutions" is a strong word for what's available in JavaScript. Promise hell
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by imagist 10y ago
> The most talented and senior engineers looked up from their desks and noticed the company was no longer the one they loved. This is well-worded. The problem for these execs wasn't that the company was no longer a good place for en
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by imagist 10y ago
Incidentally, the office of IBM I worked at a decade ago had free sodas.
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by imagist 10y ago
I'm not proposing you shouldn't work hard, and I don't work for a large enterprise. I'm unsure how you got that from what I said.
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by imagist 10y ago
Eh, it's not all that big of a problem of you know how to deal with it (protect your own interests, not the company's, by making conservative choices as I described above). I work 35 hours a week, make $125k/year, have good b
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by imagist 10y ago
This works if you trust your manager to take responsibility for the decision, which you often (usually?) can't. If you can't trust your manager to take responsibility for the decision, then it's better to make a decision you&
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by imagist 10y ago
To some extent, but the bigger factor is that it also selects for obedient employees. Your efficiency doesn't matter to most execs if they don't control it.
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by imagist 10y ago
Why? Can you describe the dangers you're thinking of?
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by imagist 10y ago
You can't claim the scientific high ground based on how things "strike you".
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by imagist 10y ago
I absolutely would say that if you can come up with an experiment that has reasonable risk, some connection to your cancer, and has measurable effects or lack of effects, you should go for it. Good luck finding an experiment that fits those
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by imagist 10y ago
There is nothing unscientific about anecdotes. The problem with anecdotes isn't that they are unscientific, it's that the scientific claims they allow you to make are very, very small. Anecdotally, I've found that Vitamin D3
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by imagist 10y ago
Yeah, I did too. I just don't understand the obsession with configuration oriented programming these days. Sure, it looks nice for common paths, but as soon as you're doing anything they don't have an option for, you have to
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by imagist 10y ago
In practical terms, are there even many cases where cycles are desirable? The only case I can think of is threads (two threads communicating with each other). Most cycles I have seen even in GC'd languages were bad designs.
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by imagist 10y ago
1. You are correct about the potential for long term damage. However the evidence I have seem indicates the permanent damage is due to neurotoxicity while the serotonin is depleted, while the serotonin depletion itself is temporary. Contrar
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by imagist 10y ago
At least in the US, there's a strong investor preference for growth stocks. This often drives companies to keep trying to increase revenue from saturated markets rather than stepping back reinvestment and paying a dividend.
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by imagist 10y ago
I don't understand this. What does the NDA have to do with who owns the code? A better plan is to get paid up front. At least partially.
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by imagist 10y ago
Low-quality diamonds can be manufactured more cheaply than the synthetic diamonds intended to compete with the jewel industry. I imagine this prove would come down with the scale batteries are manufactured at.
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by imagist 10y ago
> Were there any alternatives? Because the fact that our efforts had an undesirable outcome does not mean our methods were bad. Heck, even the very best methods can lead to undesirable outcomes. A more hard line stance on greenhouse gas
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by imagist 10y ago
Environmentalism is the quintessential example of why compromise doesn't work. Climate change is an existential threat to humanity and has only become more of a threat since the origins of the modern environmental movement. I'm no
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by imagist 10y ago
That's because university economics courses are typically taught by economists with a vested interest in the continuation of rampant consumerism.

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