jessaustin

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   by jessaustin 6y ago

   Some people seem to conflate capitalism with free enterprise. A deeper study would reveal them to be near opposites.
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   by jessaustin 6y ago

   I really want... switch being as expression. Unfortunately JavaScript still hasn't caught up with CoffeeScript.
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   by jessaustin 6y ago

   ...the worry that one day you could randomly lose the prime on the pump and they'd have to dig to get it back (which happened once)... Where was this? Pumps are placed at the bottom of wells and avoid this problem entirely. It's
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   by jessaustin 6y ago

   The American preference for white bread continues to astound me. Pimentos, cheese, and mayonnaise would be better on literally any other bread.
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   by jessaustin 6y ago

   Hedge funds are another group who manage to avoid just taxation. All that "carried interest deduction" crap means a hedge fund manager never pays the top marginal rate, no matter how many millions she socks away.
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   by jessaustin 6y ago

   When I say people are starting more companies, I mean the type of company meant to grow very big. There has actually been a decrease in the last couple decades in the overall number of new companies. But the vast majority of companies are
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   by jessaustin 6y ago

   I'm sure this is part of the issue, but packaging even pure python modules is harder and more confusing than necessary. I've been saying this at least since I left for the relatively greener pastures of Node nearly a decade ago. P
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   by jessaustin 6y ago

   I love the phrase "roach motel" when it comes to a service provider who won't bend over backwards to give me back my content as soon and as often as I want it. Does that not describe Wix?
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   by jessaustin 6y ago

   The next time I get a DMCA takedown notice, I'm going to try some of this quibbling about the word "stole". I'll let you folks know how it turns out...
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    by jessaustin 6y ago

    SPAs as in the UI/UX concept certainly not. SPAs as in “browser-based standalone applications that do cross-site authentication and API calls in the context of a modern identity and SSO architectures” – yes. Has the latter ever been
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    by jessaustin 6y ago

    Dividends are taxable, and they're often paid to entities that are unable to structure "profits" as carefully as the largest corporations can. So, in this discussion in which everyone (even Jeff B!) seems to agree that more t
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    by jessaustin 6y ago

    The corporation is a creation of the state. The state has obligations to humans, not to corporations. If the lives of humans to whom the state is obligated would be improved by any number of onerous requirements imposed on corporations, the
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    by jessaustin 6y ago

    I learned HTML in 1995, and I don't have these problems.
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    by jessaustin 6y ago

    "Violence", you say? What violence is that? Is it taking place in Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, Libya, Yemen, Somalia, Korea, or maybe somewhere else, where we don't yet admit we have troops fighting? Oh, sorry, you were talking
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    by jessaustin 6y ago

    International cooperation is a fine thing, in general. International cooperation led by USA elected officials is usually a terrible thing, for Americans and also for everyone else. I don't know exactly how we're going to get fucke
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    by jessaustin 6y ago

    I hope they have better luck with WaPo!
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    by jessaustin 6y ago

    An automatic rainbow unicorn pony supply would solve my rainbow unicorn pony shortfall, but that is also make-believe so never mind. This effort certainly will not accomplish the impossible thing they claim it will accomplish. Simultaneousl
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    by jessaustin 6y ago

    I want to believe this is a good idea, but I can't shake the feeling that these people can't be trusted in any way. Yellen herself, for all her experience in economics and monetary policy, wasn't considered suitable for her c
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    by jessaustin 6y ago

    "A future generation" will think poorly of our mass incarceration and meat consumption, but they won't have our body image hangups and literally every second of their lives will be recorded from multiple angles so they won&#x
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    by jessaustin 6y ago

    That's certainly true when we're talking about images of solitary rovers. Now that they've sent multiple robots to the same location, it's at least possible they could get real pictures of them.
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    by jessaustin 6y ago

    I haven't cooked lamb sous vide, but I'd be amazed if a "leg roast" needs so much time. Won't it end up sort of mushy?
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    by jessaustin 6y ago

    The point of certifications is that they make particular promises. If those promises are obviously broken, why bother? This is like a priest asking, "so what if God doesn't actually exist?"
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    by jessaustin 6y ago

    Any time "the leaders of the world" get together for any stated purpose, some of them are trying to bring about exactly this.
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    by jessaustin 6y ago

    At this point I try to laugh at everything, with the possible exception of low racist crap, just so I'm not associated in any way with the stick-up-the-ass no-one-can-laugh-if-not-everyone-is-laughing crowd. It hurts me, because I used
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    by jessaustin 6y ago

    Opening in an incognito window only got a fifth of the images to load, but it didn't seem to penalize other pages. [HN gave me a "trouble serving your request", though...]
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    by jessaustin 6y ago

    We subjects are so grateful our rulers have discovered something else we should fear, and have deigned to tell us how they'll be protecting us even before we are subjected to that protection.
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    by jessaustin 6y ago

    Are you a trademark attorney? Do these systems have any similarity beyond "create stuff on computers"? IANAL.
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    by jessaustin 6y ago

    "AWS" ends up being more like "ay-dub-yes", doesn't it?
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    by jessaustin 6y ago

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23hvLiA2akE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2MmX2U2V3c
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    by jessaustin 6y ago

    As someone who programs primarily in Python, I have been struggling with adapting... Would you mind providing some more details here? After Python packaging drove me batty for the last time, I wouldn't have described the switch to JS