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by kansface 4y ago
Accuracy of prediction isn’t important here. CEOs make budgets with allocations for new hires and raises. They also fire people, too. Every CEO could be 100% wrong and we’d still have the trappings of a recession.
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by kansface 4y ago
That’s normally the story, but probably not the case when you can’t make stuff overnight or move it because energy is too expensive (just for you). You can’t afford to import the stuff you were making because your currency slid 25% which f
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by kansface 4y ago
You are cherry picking data. The US military has historically been far more progressive than the country as a whole. It integrated in 1948 - long before the voting rights act or the end of Jim crow. We had a black chair of the joint chie
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by kansface 4y ago
The military still uses it because it is highly predictive. They also have a hard cutoff at the bottom which wasn’t always the case (see McNamara’s Folly for the history of when the army accepted literally retarded people - it didn’t end w
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by kansface 4y ago
I would not cede funding of local police agencies to the federal government (ie, the next Trump or J. Edgar).
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by kansface 4y ago
Yeah, I'm with you, and then I read 83K employees doing Metaverse? Simply amazing! That must be at least 20 billion dollars a year! The correction in the tech sector has plenty more correcting to do it seems.
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by kansface 4y ago
How is a criticism for small sample size an arm chair dismissal? Lack of existing data doesn’t mean that the data that does exist is predictive. It mostly means we can’t say anything meaningful. Science is largely an exercise in bad episte
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by kansface 4y ago
This isn't my area of expertise. The article mentioned that they could skip some sort of tempering/annealing step. Is that distinct from the PH step here?
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by kansface 4y ago
That’s the thing though - hooks aren’t JS. They don’t allow for control flow. Hooks are a language that superficially looks like JS. I’m with you on not inventing new languages, and I wish that React didn’t step so far off that path itse
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by kansface 4y ago
Interesting. Do you know why mortgages in Canada are so different from the US? They seem much more risky on the buyer’s side.
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by kansface 4y ago
This is a terrible argument - a secular Pascal’s mugging, conveniently invoked to force everyone and everything into politics; a currently un-ironic “think of the children”! It is not healthy for our society to demand that 100% of things be
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by kansface 4y ago
So you’d be OK with requirements that eg Uber provides those numbers in plain English?
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by kansface 4y ago
50x revenue would be plenty to go around, no?
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by kansface 4y ago
Is fixing the stifling bureaucracy is out of the question?
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by kansface 4y ago
Because we need incentives so that egregiously bad, intentional behavior doesn’t become a business decision for the rich.
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by kansface 4y ago
Handshake deals require two hands. You need the proximity to the VCs if nothing else.
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by kansface 4y ago
Eh, some people are working way way more. It was always easy enough to only work an hour or two in a office anyway.
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by kansface 4y ago
Why do you think this is a bourgeois sentiment? Do you think the Proletariate never have their lives wasted, waiting endlessly because of safetyism or that the budgets that we devote to enforcing kafkaesque requirements wouldn’t better ser
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by kansface 4y ago
What is a safe workplace? Is it one in which we expect a workplace accident every year, decade, century, or millennium? The costs in terms of time, labor, and budget are not linear - that is money and man years that would be better spent
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by kansface 4y ago
> But it's hard for me to see that as a bad thing I'd buy this argument so long as you actually sit down to do the math at hand. Did you add up the man years we now spend waiting on safety? How does that compare to the lives w
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by kansface 4y ago
Endless appeals and delays in order to force a settlement.
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by kansface 4y ago
What happens in Europe in the case of fraud?
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by kansface 4y ago
Ah, we've already tried this! Check out the early history of HIV in SF - scientists/doctors/politicians knew how it was spread and refused to do or say anything lest they further stigmatize the gay community, which was disas
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by kansface 4y ago
> I don't think this is true. I think a lot of people were insulated from information that created a perception for them that those disagreements didn't exist. This is correct. The take away is something more along the lines o
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by kansface 4y ago
Hard to image that working in the US even if the laws were to exist. I mostly see the loud commercial business acting with impunity. However, we are good at keeping the business from existing in the first place.
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by kansface 4y ago
| How do library developers debug their highly dynamic and heavy use of conditional types, overloads? Don’t write that code because it’s impossible to debug and test? If typescript yields pain here, it’s appropriately felt imo.
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by kansface 4y ago
Minimalism doesn’t imply grayscale. Consider the color fields of the abstract expressionists or In C by John Cage (grayscale would be octaves or perhaps perfect intervals only). Desaturated everything is the aesthetic of contemporary Scan
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by kansface 4y ago
What doesn’t this argument cover? What wouldn’t it allow or apply to?
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by kansface 4y ago
It’s tantamount to life in prison and they have to return their ill gotten gains. There is nothing else to take. This is justice , not retribution.
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by kansface 4y ago
> Contracts (smart or not) cannot override the law. The Law allows people to agree to stupid things, no?

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