joshlemer

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by joshlemer 1y ago
Well, a union is a form of cartel, it's an anti competitive organization of market participants who are colluding to set prices and extract other concessions from labour buyers. They therefor undermine the ability of markets to maximiz
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by joshlemer 1y ago
When a company makes a profit, that doesn't necessarily mean they made anyone else worse off. In general, when in a competitive environment, and dealing with customers who are responsible adults (which both hold in the case of the rest
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by joshlemer 1y ago
Well, I don't particularly enjoy ads on Reddit, Gmail, and, when I used them, Tiktok, Facebook, etc but I wasn't particularly pissed off by them either. On YT it seems just so in your way and in your face and egregious. It's
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by joshlemer 1y ago
For those who haven't ever gotten into microtonal and other non-standard tuned music before, it's a really interesting space. I would highly recommend checking out Kyle Gann's album Hyperchromatica ( https://www.you
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by joshlemer 1y ago
> they're building a product for people who can write JavaScript event handlers but somehow can't 'npx create-react-app' There's an enormous gap in complexity, required skill, etc between creating these Scrappy
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by joshlemer 1y ago
I agree. I feel pretty discouraged from investing the amount of time it would take to get really involved and proficient in a game, if that game is ultimately not owned by me fully and can be paywalled. There's something more satisfyin
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by joshlemer 1y ago
I agree, these are highly experimental projects, more like POC's and not something to actually use for important work. I don't know why people are so often recommending all these myriad different Clojure/Script runtimes/
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by joshlemer 1y ago
But they don't support the full Clojure language, they're more like alternative dialects.
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by joshlemer 1y ago
Well I mean, in Canada, Europe and the US these would be illegal if they're able to go more than 32, 25, and 40 km/h respectively. That doesn't mean there aren't illegal ebikes out there but I think the vast majority of
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by joshlemer 1y ago
It really is so obviously reasonable it makes you wonder why this isn't already in place. For instance e-bikes are all speed and power limited, why aren't cars?
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by joshlemer 1y ago
In some countries like Canada you basically don’t have an option.
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by joshlemer 1y ago
Their pricing is absolutely out of this world though. Their BASIC plan is $2990 USD per year, the pro plan is $9990/year. https://carlo.app/pricing
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by joshlemer 2y ago
Aren't all the labels on the buttons facing the wrong way? They're facing outwards in the direction of the screen viewer, rather than inwards towards the person operating the thing.
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by joshlemer 2y ago
What happens if it looks freshly wiped?
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by joshlemer 2y ago
Classic deflection and whataboutism.
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by joshlemer 2y ago
It benefits the poor by allocating resources as efficiently as possible. If there is someone who is poor enough that they need help from society/the government, it would be much more effective to transfer money directly to the, rather
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by joshlemer 2y ago
The solution, as Donald Shoup advocated, is to raise (or in some cases, lower, and in general, have it be dynamic) parking rates to market-clearing prices for parking spots such that there are is always one (but not too much more) free spot
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by joshlemer 2y ago
Laravel and Django didn't bring fundamentally new ideas above and beyond Rails.
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by joshlemer 2y ago
I mean, I don't find that working with IntelliJ makes it any "heavier" than other languages in terms of prototyping. I use PHP Storm for Laravel development and I never say to my self, "if only I wasn't using an IDE
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by joshlemer 2y ago
> Slick Totally agreed, Slick is definitely not a good way to access the database. It massively over complicates things and was a massive oil spill that destroyed the maintainability of many codebases. But that's not really Play, sp
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by joshlemer 2y ago
What is so bad specifically about play?
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by joshlemer 2y ago
I disagree, productivity and ergonomics drives plenty of popular tools - React, Laravel, Rails, React Native, etc.
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by joshlemer 2y ago
Yes. Java, Python.
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by joshlemer 2y ago
> Scala Play webapp I feel like the biggest misstep that the Scala ecosystem and Typesafe/Lightbend did was that they didn't invest more in Play Framework. 10 or 12 years ago, Play had a lot of energy and momentum, and it'
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by joshlemer 2y ago
The thing I always get stuck on with these techniques is, how do you handle transactions which perform validations/enforce invariants on data when you’re just writing writes to a log and computing materialized views down the line? How
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by joshlemer 2y ago
The claim that we are disagreeing with is that Bitcoin is meaningfully different from any other investment in a way that makes it a Ponzi Scheme. I'm not trying to persuade anyone that it's a good investment, just that it isn&#x
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by joshlemer 2y ago
The fact that there are other ways to work around previous limitations to accomplish something doesn't render the use-case invalid. The GP was asking for a usecase outside of currency and one was provided. If a valid use-case for elect
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by joshlemer 2y ago
If Bitcoin is a ponzi scheme because of this, then literally every asset which has resale value is a ponzi scheme. When people buy bonds, stocks, commodities, or purchase a car, a house, or even an Xbox, they are taking into account the res
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by joshlemer 2y ago
Take up an interest you can do socially and really dive deep into. For me, I easily made friendships with people after taking up viola and joining an amateur adult beginner orchestra. For you it might be rock climbing, or guitar, or maybe y
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by joshlemer 2y ago
I thought doom scrolling was specifically about negative content, but now it just means any kind of mindless endless scrolling?

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