jariel

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by jariel 6y ago
Often, after 24 hours of being awake, I've noticed a weird euphoria on he second morning day. Intellectually quite useless, but nevertheless a kind of bliss. I've always associated it with a kind of 'ignorance = bliss' r
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by jariel 6y ago
"developers not because of differences in cost of living." No, the primary driver of those differences is cost of living. Vancouver is not actually a 'high cost of living' place - it's just the real estate. It'
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by jariel 6y ago
Would CEO's stop with their visionary cultural moralizing? Why is it when people get in power they do this? Just ask that your team has 'x,y,z as important behaviours' maybe put a few things in place to help that - get over y
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by jariel 6y ago
Given so many high profile baddies go down on RICO cases, I wonder if these requirements are in support of this? If the Mob is clearly instructed to pay tax on their pilfering, and they don't, then it may be easier to get them on the t
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by jariel 6y ago
Java does type inference in a number of places and javac is not slow.
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by jariel 6y ago
? The borrow checker which is literally the reason Rust exists.
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by jariel 6y ago
Rust has an 'excuse' for compile speed, in that, the compiler is ostensibly doing 'more work'.
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by jariel 6y ago
People can chose to manage their communities as they wish, if you're not a resident, it's basically none of your business. If SF residents want to knock down homes to build parks, or build skyscrapers, all the power to them.
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by jariel 6y ago
How is it remotely hard to understand that someone doesn't want their neighbhourhood and greater neighbourhood plowed into the ground and replaced with skyscrapers? They can disagree about it sure, but it should't be remotely hard
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by jariel 6y ago
'Another wave' is hitting right now in Canada. 50% of Republicans are wary of taking the vaccine. (Edit: that was Sep. 20' data. The partisan imbalance is now less with 56% of Republicans more or less opting in, notably, Afri
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by jariel 6y ago
The commenter brought up Critical Race Theory (or at least 'Critial Theory') I was responding to that. You're making my point for me: Every portrayal of society reinforces the norms in that society . So it's not 's
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by jariel 6y ago
Fabrications are unnecessary to make his point. 'Math is Racist' is an accepted idea in parts of government and programs are designed around the fact that 'getting the correct answer' can be an artifact of White Supremac
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by jariel 6y ago
"It just specifically lists how children could play with those dolls, " No, it doesn't at all do that. Not even in one instance. The article says 'these dolls have certain characteristics' - and then goes on to spec
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by jariel 6y ago
"the code was all filled with hardcoded values, wrong structure, difficult to debug bugs and similar things." If you can identify the problems you are 70% of the way there. Also, PMs don't need to be able to code. If you have
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by jariel 6y ago
"I think the key problem is that James doesn't like what the ACLU is prioritizing, that is all" Except that's a serious criticism. "“case selection guidelines,” stipulating, “Speech that denigrates such [marginalize
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by jariel 6y ago
This is a misrepresentation. 1) Critical Race Theory as a mainstay of scholarship is relatively new it it's broad intervention into all disciplines. 2) The 'big misrepresentaion' in your thesis is that you're alluding to
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by jariel 6y ago
Is every discipline now destroyed by Intersectional nonsense? "Analyzing the dolls of elite girls shows that playthings reinforced gendered expectations but also allowed for imaginative play." "Barbie dolls tend to get a bad
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by jariel 6y ago
I think that would be incredibly helpful to the community, but I wouldn't ever press an 'extremely busy person' to do such a thing. I honestly which YC had an 'after action report' section for founders just to quick
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by jariel 6y ago
How sophisticated are investors in general with niche or arcane technology segments that might not be widely understood? Do they know enough to tell if your product solves specific problems, or are they trusting your market validation? If i
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by jariel 6y ago
Sarcasm is not data. Tweets are not actions. There will always be sadomasochistic cops. There will always be blowhards who are interested in promoting themselves who are confused as 'racists' when really they are just mega jerks.
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by jariel 6y ago
This idea that you 'only need 1% of the market to be rich' is not always so great. There are not that many companies that can do this, usually early movers, people who caught a wave of interest. For something just a bit more compl
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by jariel 6y ago
Asana, the company that crushed them literally spent considerably more than they earned and beat them. The story is not 'save your money' frankly the story is 'have the most leverage'. There's probably a lot more
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by jariel 6y ago
So I think anything outside of the arena would be great. I'm cynical about Kaep for example - his wife Tweeted that 'NFL owners are like slavers' which is possibly the most toxic and insulting thing a player's wife could
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by jariel 6y ago
Yes - Trump is an artifact of populism, and it's a tragedy that that kind of rhetoric had any kind of legitimization. But even during Trump's presidency, African Americans had their lowest unemployment rate in history. I don'
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by jariel 6y ago
" That division has been increasing for decades." Only in pop culture. Almost every single material measure of integration has been improving. Wage gap, education gap, representation gap etc.. And from 1969->2001 even in pop cu
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by jariel 6y ago
The interjection of SJ makes the moment 'very serious and contemplative'. Like being in Church, listening to a Sermon. That's the complete opposite of sports where people spectate to literally get away from controversy, &#x27
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by jariel 6y ago
The chart shows a trend over the last few centuries towards earlier blossoming, but it definitely precedes Co2 levels and actual temperature changes. Which is interesting.
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by jariel 6y ago
Both Google and Apple forbid health agencies around the world wanting to install apps to store similar data for the purposes of pandemic data and suppression - which is understandable that many governments would use it for all sorts of nefa
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by jariel 6y ago
The home page of Google still gives you the option to 'Search' or 'I'm feeling Lucky' even in 2021.
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by jariel 6y ago
$43 Billion has moved out to Canada alone. Imagine how much has gone elsewhere [1]. It will be very interesting to see if the rest of the world allows Hong Kong to maintain it's independent financial status or if HK is considered &#x27

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