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by jyounker 7y ago
> Minimum wage hurts most the very people it pretends to help: the least productive of us, who become unemployable legally. How do you explain that the countries with the highest minimum wages also seem to have plentiful jobs and high pe
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by jyounker 7y ago
This seems like a really bad comparison. You could take it as Dara Khosrowshahi saying that über's self driving car program was created with the intention of killing people.
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by jyounker 7y ago
I do think the poster was conflating some aspects of climate change, but life has surprising effects on weather and local climate. Desertification and dust storms are both possible outcomes of biodiversity loss. There's also a growing
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by jyounker 7y ago
The worst case scenario is that we end up with an ecology that can't produce enough calories per acre on a consistent enough basis to support large numbers of warm blooded omnivorous mammals.
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by jyounker 7y ago
As a motorcyclist I've also seen this effect clearly. The frequency with which I need to clean my visor dropped incredibly between the early 90's and the late 00's.
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by jyounker 7y ago
I think part of the reason is battle-testing. Blaze (the Google internal version of Bazel) has been used by 20k people per day for well over five years to continually build a single mammoth shared C++, Java, Python, Shell (plus others) code
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by jyounker 7y ago
> Cleanup is not about how the code works at runtime, but how well it supports change. This. A thousand times, this.
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by jyounker 7y ago
> On deep nets having better gaydars than average human: https://psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?doi=10.1037%2Fpspa0000098 Didn't that recognition system boil down to being an eyeglass and eyeshadow detector?
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by jyounker 7y ago
For years they have been deferring maintenance in order to pay out dividends and buy back stock. They have been negligent.
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by jyounker 7y ago
I don't think this is a new phenomena. My understanding is that the MD-80 was built on the DC-9 airframe partially to avoid the costs and efforts of recertification, and that was 40 years ago. Aside from regulation, There are very good
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by jyounker 7y ago
> This is all true BUT I think the monorepo as described here is the act of treating all your projects as directly referencing each other. From what I read that is a correct assessment. What the OP is proposing is something of a strawman
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by jyounker 7y ago
Monorepo/multirepo and monolith/microservice are orthogonal concepts. When organizations don't understand that then they may end up building a distributed monolith in across multiple repos. (The "Distributed Big Ball of
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by jyounker 7y ago
I've never known a decent teacher that puts in less than fifty hours per week, and a typical week is more demanding than all but the most stressful weeks I've worked in software.
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by jyounker 7y ago
Not quantum search, but sizable fraction of a second quantum coherence at room temperature: https://arxiv.org/pdf/0906.3725.pdf I suspect we’re just really bad at identifying quantum processes in living things.
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by jyounker 7y ago
I think the fundamental issue is that nobody else wanted the pipeline on their land, so it got shoved onto the nominally sovereign Indian tribes where the white man's bullshit always gets pushed. (And I say that as a white man.)
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by jyounker 7y ago
> Common descent is a core tenet... It's taken that (known) modern organisms descend from a common set of ancestors, but the tree of life isn't a tree. Organisms diverged and merged multiple times along the way to the modern w
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by jyounker 7y ago
We in the geek community tend to forget that Apple is in the business of making reliable things with a long life cycle. We tend to forget that Apple is the company that made the original mass-produced open platform. We forget that Apple&#x2
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by jyounker 7y ago
I don’t trust the research that was done on roundup. Supposedly it degrades within six months. The reality is that it doesn’t. We know this because the city of Davis, CA does public composting. Yard trimmings are scooped up, taken to the ci
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by jyounker 7y ago
We know, based on statements from ex-agents within the DEA, that the DEA didn't go after drug use in white suburban communities because it would have been politically untenable. The incarceration patterns therefore reflect this politic
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by jyounker 7y ago
I’ve heard that investment banking runs on cocaine. Who cares if you feel sluggish if you can just snort a few lines?
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by jyounker 7y ago
I think the issue is that nuclear reactors, because of the economic scale, are not resistant to small scale corruption and incompetence. (See Fukishima.) This is the number one thing that nuclear power advocates seem to ignore.
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by jyounker 7y ago
My understanding from a friend who worked on nuclear subs was that transmutation due to radiation is what makes working with reactors so complicated and error prone. You can't assume anything about common tools and materials since th
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by jyounker 7y ago
A nuclear reactor in a battle zone is a dirty bomb sitting in your territory.
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by jyounker 7y ago
That not an OO thing. That is Conway's law. It applies to all software.
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by jyounker 7y ago
The figure is disputed because it depends upon the kind of wind turbines. Old wind turbines were much smaller, they had more blades, and they turned much faster. My understanding is that this led to many more bird deaths.
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by jyounker 7y ago
Single use plastic bags are the ones that end up on my porch. And on my street. And the lake at the end of my street. And in my local parks. And in the creek down the block. And in the river running through town. Single use plastic is an ey
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by jyounker 7y ago
This isn't always true. In MySQL many DDL statements can't be rolled back. See https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/cannot-roll-back.htm... for an example.
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by jyounker 7y ago
In the last 150 years over 97% of old-growth redwoods have been cut down. We are now arguing over the last (less than) 3% of redwoods. That's about 0.6 of the original coverage % per year. Assuming the historical rate, if not restricte
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by jyounker 7y ago
And how did we end up with those loopholes?
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by jyounker 8y ago
I grew up in really shitty conditions. People at the bottom are usually there not because they suck as people, but because they started there, and the deck is stacked against them from the very beginning of their lives.

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