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by jdm2212 7y ago
One is a country with rule of law enforcing its laws. The other is an autocracy enforcing the whims of the current ruler.
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by jdm2212 7y ago
It's being actively exploited, which changes the calculus.
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by jdm2212 7y ago
Yeah, they just don't have much of a moat to allow them to command monopoly rents. Whatever innovations they introduce, others can copy, and most companies would just switch over to a cheaper provider once their WeWork lease comes up.
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by jdm2212 7y ago
I don't think WeWork is anything special, but your argument is obvious and has been addressed: WeWork packages each lease in a separate legal entity so they're not that exposed to swings in individual markets. They also argue (may
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by jdm2212 7y ago
> What the ordinary person might interpret as a con game or sheer lunacy, the heavily credentialed investor, with his TED Talk understanding of things, will reliably regard as brilliant eccentricity. Most people are more scared of lookin
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by jdm2212 7y ago
This sounds like more of a hyperloop type thing than a traditional maglev train: > if the concept of maglev trains swinging inside a vacuum tube can be put into practice That means this will also have all the same problems as a hyperloop
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by jdm2212 7y ago
"Marko Tupper" is a pseudonym, per the Medium user's profile.
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by jdm2212 7y ago
That's a pretty wild claim. Do you have any sources to support it?
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by jdm2212 7y ago
ErrorProne has a nice safeguard against this if you're writing Java code: https://github.com/google/error-prone/blob/master/docs/bugpa... It detects if your function signature is > foo(first
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by jdm2212 7y ago
That's a bummer. FWIW there are a fair number of non-gmail domains that are gmail-backed (e.g. a lot of universities' email systems) so it should still work with those consistently I hope.
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by jdm2212 7y ago
That's an amazing article. (Like, good enough that I'm not just upvoting you, but also telling everyone else to read it. It's worth it.) I had no idea the numbers were that bad. And I can see why it got taken down after the a
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by jdm2212 7y ago
I do the same thing with a gmail address -- just do myemail+uniqueid@gmail.com, because gmail drops everything after the + for routing the email but still tells you which address it was sent to.
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by jdm2212 7y ago
Sugar in isolation makes me feel lightheaded and a bit nauseous. Fat in isolation fills me up immediately. But together... yeah, I'll take that second (and third, and fourth) slice of cake.
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by jdm2212 7y ago
It's still much harder to deadlock single-threaded code than multi-threaded code because single-threading eliminates the need for most locking, which in turn eliminates most opportunities to cause deadlocks.
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by jdm2212 7y ago
JS is single-threaded right so (...I think...) deadlocks are actually impossible. Although I guess you can still get stuck if two pieces of code are waiting on each other to satisfy some condition (and trading control of the sole thread) wi
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by jdm2212 7y ago
My (female) SO is a huge fan of the Sims, which must be as close to social media as you can get in video games. So there's some stuff out there for girls.
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by jdm2212 7y ago
I'm curious with choices like this: how, concretely, does this change anything for the better? Was Chef on the critical path for any of ICE's distasteful work? If not, which part of the agency (and in support of which mission) was
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by jdm2212 7y ago
Oil today, or fertile agricultural land 150 years ago, doesn't make government big or small. It just frees whoever controls the natural resource from accountability to others and lets them do whatever they want to do. Putin wants to ru
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by jdm2212 7y ago
> The exceptions prove the rule: Alaska and Norway were both established, egalitarian societies before the oil was found, in contrast with Middle Eastern petrostates, Russia and Venezuela.
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by jdm2212 7y ago
I believe the conventionally accepted explanation for this is Acemoglu's, and it's that GDP is an Nth-order effect of climate. Warm weather -> highly productive agriculture -> landholders become extremely wealthy -> oliga
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by jdm2212 7y ago
The paper argues the opposite explicitly. From the abstract: "Rather, the evidence shows that the strongest predictors of cross-national variation in entrepreneurial activity were normative, with social norms being the most strongly as
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by jdm2212 7y ago
Most unreasonable people are useless though. There's only a small subset who drive progress.
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by jdm2212 7y ago
The device protection seems like it should be separate from the phone plan though? Unless the device protection is voided by canceling your service, it makes sense to not cancel those charges. You might deactivate the device and take it to
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by jdm2212 7y ago
The government generally can't restrict publication in the US no matter what is being published: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prior_restraint But once something is published, they can take action against the publ
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by jdm2212 7y ago
If you're too impatient to wait for first-class optional chaining in TS, there's a nice open-source library for it that's been around for a little while: Repo: https://github.com/rimeto/ts-optchain Blog
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by jdm2212 7y ago
The code in question was somewhat experimental, didn't have a clear owner and was modified by a number of people fairly frequently. There would've been much less room for sloppiness and shortcuts (let me just stick this extra fiel
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by jdm2212 7y ago
This was a few years ago. The chaos was partly because of a lack of ownership: one team owned inputs, the other owned outputs, and there wasn't a clear spec. The whole pipeline was pretty experimental and people made up new semantics a
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by jdm2212 7y ago
Per the blog post, it's both the client code and server code. The server code is >75% of the annotated Python. Which makes sense, given the amount of stuff you have to do to run one of the world's larger distributed file system
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by jdm2212 7y ago
I'm curious how much Java needs the tooling in an all else equal situation (totally possible 'cuz Java is _old_) vs how much Java has all this cool tooling that enables/encourages people to do things that aren't possible
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by jdm2212 7y ago
Having never used Rust: how's the ecosystem around it like for maintaining it on production servers? Are there equivalents of Java Mission Control and `jcmd`?

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