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by javajosh 4y ago
Yes, and when a forest burns down I call it the destruction of a forest even though it can grow back because that's how language is used.
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by javajosh 4y ago
My assessment for most of my life has been if most of the world's ~10k 'strategic' megaton-scale warheads exploded in air over Earth's major cities it would kick up enough dust to kill the sun for several years, which wo
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by javajosh 4y ago
> This argument has been made since at least the start of written records: That argument has been made since only slightly later. The key difference is that this truly is a unique time in history by population numbers. It's also u
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by javajosh 4y ago
Parent element "modes" that affect child layout and "enable/disable" child available properties is what makes CSS tricky. To do CSS well you end up having to learn all the modes and all the properties, which makes C
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by javajosh 4y ago
The poor state of identity management should give us all pause. The condition for trust is a username/password pair. I think that's not enough - and also too much! Instead we should make a software application that lets each cli
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by javajosh 4y ago
The effect you describe is called a "moral hazard".
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by javajosh 4y ago
Chiang's short stories are beautiful; he reminds me of Stanislaw Lem, brilliant, creative, and ahead of his time. I was surprised they made Arrival into a movie (and that it was as good as it was).
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by javajosh 4y ago
Thanks for the warning, but tell me dang: what leverage does society have against those who would destroy it? What do you do when some people operate beyond accountability of any sort? How is that advocating for spitting on a sociopath who&
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by javajosh 4y ago
This is a duplicate, but HN moderators memory holed the previous one, and will probably do that to this one. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34476909
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by javajosh 4y ago
Well, I suppose I should have something lined up before asking.
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Ask HN: Is now the right time to ask for a raise?
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by javajosh 4y ago
>undocumented workers [are responsible for the productivity drop] I am confused by this assertion. If they are undocumented, wouldn't they be excluded in the stats? And if they aren't included in the stats, shouldn't we
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by javajosh 4y ago
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by javajosh 4y ago
That's the hope!
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by javajosh 4y ago
A big problem for society. The algorithm is bad for people's mental health, and bad for democracy. These are the externalities of that great profitability.
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by javajosh 4y ago
One example. It is my personal belief is that social media is ripe for disruption in ways we have not imagined yet. Clearly centralized, ad-revenue driven psuedo-monopolies are a big problem. I actually believe there is a parallel problem w
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by javajosh 4y ago
Your comment implicitly asserts the faulty premise that downside is purely loss of income, which I implicitly contradicted.
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by javajosh 4y ago
That is a very strange question. Why would you ask it? Content-Type is the canonically proper use of an http header field, as it is metadata about the content, rather than content itself.
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by javajosh 4y ago
W2 work feels more stable and secure than startup land. If you worked for Google for 20 years you don't expect to be let go with no notice by an automated system. But that is exactly what happened to thousands of people just now. You
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by javajosh 4y ago
It's funny I keep thinking about how the same people might work on the same thing but with different terms. As a W2 employee you make great money, but your upside is capped. Your downside is never capped, of course. As a founder you ma
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by javajosh 4y ago
I've been making websites since 1996 and I've never seen it. Not once.
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by javajosh 4y ago
Wow, you're right! Good that it was summarily ignored until now I guess.
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by javajosh 4y ago
By that reasoning content-length should include headers. Needless to say you have not changed my mind. There's never going to be a hard and fast rule distinguishing headers from content. It's all just data after all. That doesn&#x
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by javajosh 4y ago
No-one uses these often, and you have a 50% of guessing right every time!
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by javajosh 4y ago
Well, then I don't think I respect your opinion. It's true that tab state is, in general, a function over a truly vast array of variables, plus transitives. But there are some invariants that have been present in the browser from
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by javajosh 4y ago
There is nothing worse than believing something that isn't true. Imagine trouble-shooting a front-end issue, and not knowing about this. You think you know where all the CSS is coming from, and that it couldn't possibly produce th
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by javajosh 4y ago
FYI browsers have built in functions for decoding base64, btoa() and atob(). Although I can never remember which is which.
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by javajosh 4y ago
Same. And honestly its existence concerns me greatly, non-ironically.
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by javajosh 4y ago
As an aside, the traditional term for being a pile of poop is "living a dissipated life".
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by javajosh 4y ago
Have a nice day.

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