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by kaashif 3y ago
What kind of answer could even possibly answer that question? Any answer is subject to the follow-up question, well why does that thing exist? Why did that happen? If a question cannot be answered, there's no point in asking it I think
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by kaashif 3y ago
It's okay if you don't like what they're doing and think it's stupid, but that doesn't make it fraud. Is having sex parties now considered fraud? I need to speak to my lawyer.
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by kaashif 3y ago
> many of the young men in uniform who were torn apart by shells and mines could have been new Einsteins. The problem of geniuses dead in wars pales in comparison to the number languishing in poverty or ignorance. These may number in the
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by kaashif 3y ago
> 70ies "Seventy-ies"? That aside, I appreciate the documentation about things that were tried and didn't work during this process. I often find myself adding those kinds of details to documentation to prevent others going
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by kaashif 3y ago
Where does their comment indicate they commit secrets?
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by kaashif 3y ago
> And then, if you pay it out from Magic Holding GmbH to you personally, then yes, you pay ~26% capital gains tax – but the huge benefit here is that it could accrue investment returns in the meantime! This isn't an optimisation and
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by kaashif 3y ago
I sleep that little/much while recovering from travelling across 5+ hour time differences, which I do somewhat regularly. Commenting because I imagine this is a common reason for sleep deprivation. Lots of 2 hour nights due to not bein
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by kaashif 3y ago
I totally agree. I don't understand this at all. It's a form of status seeking that only happens in these particular circles and appears totally insane to everyone on the outside. From reading the article the whole thing appears t
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by kaashif 3y ago
> 15 books each weekend should be read as ==>> I traded my 15 books for 15 new books each weekend, reading them during the weekend and when not in school So you mean 15 books each week, not each weekend! I was surprised when I read
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by kaashif 3y ago
Rather than making absolute statements, let's say that's true if you have a lot of responsibilities and other hobbies. Some friends of mine say they had huge amounts of time to read and do stuff before they had kids, but took it f
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by kaashif 3y ago
I've never experienced any problems with the ones that don't weigh anything. The weighing ones get it wrong often enough to be annoying. If my closest grocery store used weighing self checkouts, I'd be much more annoyed on a
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by kaashif 3y ago
At the Target next to where I live, the self checkouts don't weigh anything at all. I just scan something and put it in my backpack on the floor most of the time. And this is a Target where the toothpaste is locked up! I've never
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by kaashif 3y ago
Good point - it might be plausible if the author actually were Russian, but they aren't.
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by kaashif 3y ago
With the . the author can claim it was unintentional. It's impossible (or at least very hard) to claim the Cyrillic c is unintentional. To me, that makes the . more evil.
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by kaashif 3y ago
> (Yes, I'm very aware of rms and the FSF.) rms and the FSF believe selling software is totally fine as long as you provide source code to your users. They don't think there's any moral imperative for software to be free a
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by kaashif 3y ago
I'm with you. Not sure what they're taking about, I'm not conscious and I've never seen any evidence others are conscious.
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by kaashif 3y ago
> There's really no reason why Go sholdn't have nullable types. Don't you mean non-nullable types? Go does have nullable types, everything is nullable. The blog post you linked calls them "non-nil types".
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by kaashif 3y ago
> noise complaints will never be receivable. But they are always receivable. Complainers will vote, will take control of local government, will lobby state and national government... "Complaints aren't receivable" policies
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by kaashif 3y ago
Indeed, I think VCs and founders are (predictably) focused on the cases where creativity and learning are important. I think I have a job like that where we're building a new product, and very often we have ideas or realise issues that
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by kaashif 3y ago
> passes the tests but they have not actually tested Surely this is a problem with the tests then? Whatever manual steps you're referring to with "actually tested" should be automated and part of the test suite. Much easie
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by kaashif 3y ago
I'm reading their comment as a joke about how software engineers tend to overestimate their own expertise on things like physics and are not actually anywhere close to experts. Software engineers presenting weird pseudo science as ser
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by kaashif 3y ago
What do you mean by will and intent? I guess if humans have will and are part of the universe, then the universe has it too, but I don't think that's what you meant.
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by kaashif 3y ago
I've been using hacker news for years and I think I've seen it <10 times too. Maybe our usage patterns differ and I only use HN off peak.
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by kaashif 3y ago
> After killing its manufacturing industry Manufacturing's share of US real GDP has remained relatively stable over time: https://www.stlouisfed.org/on-the-economy/2017/april/us-manu... i.e. the quant
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by kaashif 3y ago
> it won’t stop until we adopt realistic government controlled system. Are you aware that the government is the entity preventing housing from being built in many cities? I don't think zoning should be abolished or anything but clea
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by kaashif 3y ago
It's all of the ergonomics of C combined with the bare metal performance of a garbage collector.
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by kaashif 3y ago
Ideally juniors will eventually grow to a point where you don't have to constantly tell them what to do. Early career people just don't know how to make the right decisions yet. They need mentorship and help, that's expected
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by kaashif 3y ago
I think I'm on your side because it's possible for anyone to understand how interest works and make these judgements themselves. But a lot of people just straight up don't understand interest (despite it being within their ca
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by kaashif 3y ago
> Hell, Pokemon Go I think Pokémon Go was a much more visible and impactful phenomenon (in certain places) than anything else on your list. This might be different to "cultural importance" depending on your definition. I mean d
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by kaashif 3y ago
I think it's likely they have. But is there anything specific where they've written or spoken about Zed and accessibility?

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