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931.
by inimino 7y ago
What does any of this have to do with McDonald's?
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by inimino 7y ago
McDonald's, among others.
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by inimino 7y ago
> [...] architecture from a time when "maximizing profit" wasn't the only thing ever considered in building. > why do you think that the older buildings didn't "maximize profit" for their creators? "
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by inimino 7y ago
> One can’t help but wonder, was it worth all the fuss to save a mansion that sells McDoubles and McFlurrys—a McMansion, if you will? Are teal Golden Arches really strengthening the heritage of the Southwest? Are faux Greek Revival colum
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by inimino 7y ago
> If Reddit or Facebook didn't allow you to delete your account or comments and said it wanted to maintain a permanent record of you, they would get eviscerated. By whom? There's always a danger of falsely claiming a double sta
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by inimino 7y ago
Inventing a message-passing API is not the way to make a replaceable component.
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by inimino 7y ago
Thanks! These are awesome. The rationale provided is excellent and really explains the design decisions made. Kudos!
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by inimino 7y ago
Something can still be distributed in space without us having to assume that the network can fail.
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by inimino 7y ago
But so is this (presumably).
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by inimino 7y ago
A cell holds some datum (like "Q" and all its associations) and a pointer is something that can reference another cell, for example ("Q", <rest of alphabet after Q>) includes a pointer to the rest of the alphabet a
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by inimino 7y ago
> Various impossibility theorems say otherwise No, they say that the naïve "right thing" is actually not possible, and the right thing is something else, that is possible, but may be unknown.
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by inimino 7y ago
> The issue I happen to be working on right now is: the operating system returns an incorrect value, for a particular function call, in many cases. Yes! Great example. So the right way is to fix the bug. The bug is not in your source cod
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by inimino 7y ago
There's always at least one right way, but it may not be cost-effective to do it right.
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by inimino 7y ago
Of course some kids are manipulative, going for shock value, continuing an "in-joke", or just plain trolling. But would a teacher just look the other way, or would they talk to the kid? What would you want for your kids? This is w
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by inimino 7y ago
> So do what? Contact her local police? Collect or photograph all the evidence, record every conversation with supervisors, escalate as much as possible internally, then contact local police, and at the same time go to the media. Don&#x2
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by inimino 7y ago
> Say all you want about DDG and alternatives, but they still can't hold a candle to Google's search quality. I prefer DDG and I almost never Google, except out of curiosity, but I see this sentiment a lot.
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by inimino 7y ago
Counterpoint: this is why almost all business code lacks quality. (To be clear: not because people aren't writing Perl, but because we tend to reflexively reject any technology that people are passionate about because "risk".
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by inimino 7y ago
Right. It's not enough to be aware that there is a system if you remain unaware of its shape, who it excludes, etc.
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by inimino 7y ago
> Assuming you've installed "Perl 6" (well, Rakudo) That's the problem.
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by inimino 7y ago
And there are only two bus companies, most consumers have never seen a car, and the two bus companies have a lock on the technology and supply chain and aren't interested in promoting cars because cars would jeopardize their business m
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by inimino 7y ago
Well put! Bad intentions are not necessary to build an authoritarian system. All it takes is enough good-intentioned people being unaware of the system they are building and their role in it.
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by inimino 7y ago
> The vast majority of customers want Customers choose from the options that have been marketed at them. What the "vast majority of customers want" is a lazy, pessimistic, terrible way to invent the future. Where's your im
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by inimino 7y ago
> If all of them refuse to help implement your new internet censorship regime Then you fire all of them and hire new ones with different values. The reason it's a problem if your police force stops following orders is the same as if
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by inimino 7y ago
I was comparing more with the NYT, WSJ, Bloomberg, all of which have broken major stories that were critical of Beijing. I haven't seen as much of that from the BBC. Fox I consider mainly to provide domestic entertainment, so whatever
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by inimino 7y ago
Ah, thanks, I should probably have checked the current situation before repeating what I remember. Random thought: it would be interesting to compare news services that are and aren't blocked and see if the ones that haven't been
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by inimino 7y ago
Fortunately with freedom of the press we're able to pick our news sources and many Chinese state-sponsored media are also published in English. I don't think Beijing's perspective is getting short shrift.
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by inimino 7y ago
> on average less nationalist/warmonging than Americans Less warmongering on average, but get them on the topic of Japan and things change. Vastly more nationalistic on average, and with a much larger population that is way more hom
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by inimino 7y ago
Leaps and bounds better, or just a much more complicated process? Because I'd put a butcher that I know and trust, and my own judgement in food preparation, ahead of any fast food supply chain process, and the same goes for any well-re
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by inimino 7y ago
> If this student was keeping company with people who openly supported ISIS or wanted to hurt Americans, would it still be ok to let him attend Harvard? Yes. If no student at Harvard has been allowed to meet anyone that tangentially know
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by inimino 7y ago
That would be the consistent way to solve the issue if Apple wanted web apps to be as powerful as native iOS apps. But they don't, and that ship sailed long, long ago.

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