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by jdm2212 6y ago
> this inability to distinguish between unset and default values is a nightmare proto v2 and v3 let you distinguish set and unset default values (no idea about v1) > If it were possible to restrict protobuffer usage to network-boundar
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by jdm2212 6y ago
It is in fact just a joke. New grads write shitty code (I certainly did when I started at Google) and after a few months of attentive reviews they write good clean code. It feels like hazing a bit at first because all us arrogant ivy league
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by jdm2212 6y ago
In most of the developed world, even poor people's labor is expensive enough that it's rarely affordable to just pay someone else to do something for you exclusively (e.g., private chef, private driver). In China, to say nothing o
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by jdm2212 6y ago
I wasn't a local ethnic minority, which makes all the difference. And "curiosity" doesn't quite explain it. It's curiosity plus lack of respect. Local political bosses are undoubtedly subjects of similar curiosity,
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by jdm2212 6y ago
The implication of this question is pretty rude, but also, CCP membership isn't terribly meaningful. See, e.g. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/15/us/politics/china-travel-...
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by jdm2212 6y ago
I doubt you'd want to trade your healthcare for what is available to the average Chinese person (as opposed to wealthy urban elites and expats). The public transportation really is extraordinary though.
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by jdm2212 6y ago
China's great if you have a decent amount of money -- labor's cheap, so all sorts of stuff (food prep, transportation, delivery services) that's heavy on labor is dirt cheap in China even if it's unaffordable in the West
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by jdm2212 6y ago
If you want to be super transactional about it, people who like staying at that house over the summer should give him money so that he doesn't sell the house and they can visit again in the future. If you want to be not super transacti
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by jdm2212 6y ago
I think that's being used to mean "it's impossible to predict/reason about/constrain what the computation might do". Turing completeness => it can do anything, you can't predict anything
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by jdm2212 6y ago
I just logged into my Airbnb account and there's a notification about this policy change. It links to a page with the same text as the email notification. Notification text: "We’d like to use your information to help fight discrim
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by jdm2212 6y ago
> It's similar to FB, everyone is on it so you have to use it FWIW, that's the article's thesis. For my part, I've never used a chat or company communication tool that was better than Slack. Not saying it's good
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by jdm2212 6y ago
I didn't actually check the timestamp. The other one had comments and more upvotes, so I thought it might be helpful to direct people over there.
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by jdm2212 6y ago
Dupe of: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23754643
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by jdm2212 6y ago
How would you want them to notify you of a substantive policy/TOS/etc change in order to ensure you see it?
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by jdm2212 6y ago
I always unsubscribe from corporate newsletters, so I don't get a whole lot of them. And in any case, this wasn't a corporate newsletter.
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by jdm2212 6y ago
The bit about it being opt-out was surprising but not in any way "hidden". It's literally the first thing in the email after the explanation of what Project Lighthouse is.
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by jdm2212 6y ago
That's because of the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare). There's an ongoing SCOTUS case that may lead to Obamacare being struck down in its entirety.
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by jdm2212 6y ago
There's an ongoing SCOTUS case about this, so it's quite possible that it will soon be legal again.
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by jdm2212 6y ago
The disruptive students I'm thinking of were basically juvenile delinquents, not future math PhDs who trolled on homework sometimes. The girl who dropped acid in economics class, the girl who peed on the floor in math class, the guy wh
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by jdm2212 6y ago
This is the kind of stuff you can believe in if you haven't been a student at a bad public school. There are students who for the sake of their classmates (to say nothing of the teachers' sanity) absolutely have to be handled with
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by jdm2212 6y ago
Zoom's strategy is to follow local laws as much as possible. For US-based users, they follow US laws. For China-based users, they follow Chinese laws. International calls probably have to be compliant with both countries' laws. Yo
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by jdm2212 6y ago
Given that purely from the standpoint of product quality, WebEx is a gigantic dumpster fire and Zoom is fantastic, it seems likely that they learned mostly what not to do from WebEx.
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by jdm2212 6y ago
I might be unusual, but my experience with videoconferencing has been that ambient noise is rarely a major problem. The big issue is audio cutting out due to a shaky network. When ambient noise is a problem, it's not so much someone ty
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by jdm2212 6y ago
Why wouldn't an entrepreneur just borrow dollars in the US and exchange them for Euros? Or just take equity investments instead of debt and not bother with interest rates in the first place?
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by jdm2212 6y ago
That's what the Federal Reserve is doing, in effect, by offering zero interest loans to every city, business, and bank.
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The whole banking system would collapse like in 2007-2008 because "everyone stops paying mortgages all at once" is basically what happened then. Renters stop paying their rent so landlords go broke. Landlords stop paying their mor
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by jdm2212 6y ago
No one can see what you're doing inside your hotel room, but they know when you enter and exit, who you're with, and they can hear you if you make noise. They can track what you watch on TV, and when you're on the Internet. H
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by jdm2212 6y ago
It's not obvious to me why Zoom should have any less right than, say, a hotel to block people using its service for criminal activity. A hotel that suspects you're taping child porn in one of its rooms is well within its rights to
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by jdm2212 6y ago
The issue is that the free tier makes creating and disposing of burner accounts easy. If you pay, they have credit card info, etc. That makes it easy for law enforcement to link the Zoom account to a real person if it turns out that a parti
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by jdm2212 6y ago
Oh yeah I'd bet crappy UIs are just laziness/sloppiness/prioritization rather than malice. The glamorous frontend work that gets lots of design attention is the stuff that has billions of users. I saw some A/B testing fo

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