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by kodablah 8y ago
To be fair, we should separate what the protesters are protesting and what the reporter says is part of a general debate. NYT does not get to say why people are protesting, though it helps them drive a narrative if people reading the articl
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by kodablah 8y ago
> It ought to be up to the people of Arizona to decide what happens on Arizona's streets It is up to them. What is making you think this is not the case?
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by kodablah 8y ago
> Passing the buck is a very SV-centric response to importnat issue. Eschewing responsibility is a very SV-targeted response to an important local issue. I'd rather these decisions be made at the local government level instead of ha
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by kodablah 8y ago
> Pranks involving technology are gonna be way more fun in the future. Deadlier too as human judgement/reaction is removed from larger and more everyday machines.
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by kodablah 8y ago
> In some of their reports, police officers also said Waymo was often unwilling to provide video of the attacks. In one case, a Waymo employee told the police they would need a warrant to obtain video recorded by the company’s vehicles.
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by kodablah 8y ago
Not sure if directly related to the article, but curious, if you compare GCC and Clang and review GCC's logic to improve Clang, have you violated a license? Similarly if you assume API is copyrightable and covered by the license, one w
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by kodablah 8y ago
Seems acceptable to me. No need to search for hypocrisy, comparisons, etc as it's clear there are different values. So long as the actions are transparent (and I wish the reasons were too to avoid guessing), at least reasonable people
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by kodablah 8y ago
> ??? Meaning in many cases adverse effects of private sector failure are easier to divorce than public. > Because I'm not replying to someone making such a statement. Right, I was, hence the thread context. The point was wonderi
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by kodablah 8y ago
> Highways are heavily, heavily subsidized by state and federal dollars. That's why their true cost isn't born on drivers These aren't contradictory if you look where most of those state and federal dollars come from (i.e.
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by kodablah 8y ago
> interstates are federally funded while local roads are state/city-funded This is not completely true. In some cases interstates are 80/20 federal/state funded, in others its 50/50. Not sure of any states where it is
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by kodablah 8y ago
> Is it down to the fact that there is simply more "freedom" with regards to roads over rail? Yup. I live in a metro with the longest light rail system in the US (almost 100 miles) and I don't go anywhere near one during m
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by kodablah 8y ago
> Have you worked in a corporate environment? I have, and been a consumer of them, and have quit them easily. > I haven't seen any convincing evidence [...] I guess I could link a page of companies dissolving due to financial mis
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by kodablah 8y ago
> what did Houston do differently, to get these uniquely Houston traffic problems? Not sure they are uniquely Houston, and definitely not their explicit fault, but I'd say the issue is (obviously) large concentrations of people goin
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by kodablah 8y ago
> Because your workplaces don't rely on funding from taxpayers. Right. Their workplaces probably had tighter and more transparent financial constraints with more oversight, more accountability for failure, and more incentive to do i
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by kodablah 8y ago
Many north Texas communities in fact: https://www.dallasnews.com/news/crime/2018/12/28/911-outage-...
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by kodablah 8y ago
Still similar things are available in other languages, e.g. https://docs.scala-lang.org/overviews/core/string-interpolat...
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by kodablah 8y ago
While the collections library may be better than others, it has a great many warts, many of which aren't discoverable until you've used it a long time. Some of these warts are a result of JVM interop requirements. It's not ju
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by kodablah 8y ago
I do, and immutability of a data type has more benefits than just concurrency. Copy-on-write immutable data structures gives the developer confidence when they pass it around. However, I sometimes still leverage mutable structures in self-c
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by kodablah 8y ago
IME flagging on HN is not what you think of as flagging on other sites. Flagging is often used for off-topic or "inappropriate" and is subjective based on the flagger. I don't believe you can apply general understanding of do
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by kodablah 8y ago
> I was surprised that the Korean War barely stood out compared to most other conflicts Especially with regards to more controversial conflicts, this says more about what NYT chooses to drive. I'd argue in many cases they attempt to
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by kodablah 8y ago
What changed recently that hadn't been the case for past years that made them add these new measures? A true, earnest apology would at least touch on the justifications for the changes more than just "become legal". But I und
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by kodablah 8y ago
RAM wasn't the problem, that's the whole point.
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by kodablah 8y ago
It's worth separating what is a "conservative politician position" and a "conservative position". People are more nuanced than their parties. Also, their problems and approaches to solve them (i.e. taxes vs not) may
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by kodablah 8y ago
More common: 1. Recognize "government is inefficient" 2. Use as an excuse to give the inefficient more with which to be inefficient 3. Goto step 1 Recognizing people are bad at some things doesn't mean it's a money probl
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by kodablah 8y ago
> entity-scale is the main variable [...] Which makes sense if you think about it While it may arguably be the main variable, and definitely the main variable within a sector, it shouldn't be used to discount the importance of goals
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by kodablah 8y ago
Can be, as many people don't even want to subsidize things that they consider good (I'm often in that camp). But I think the surprise for many people is that good and bad are not the same for others as they are for themselves, esp
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by kodablah 8y ago
Because people don't want to write Python or C++ and I don't blame them. Why is it that people don't recognize that people don't want to marry an ecosystem for a UI? If we could just get a modern UI lib w/ a C FFI y
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by kodablah 8y ago
In some languages like Go that support multi assignment, evaluation of some parts of the LHS occur first to help with pointer indirection and index clause evaluation [0][1]. I assume this makes the multi assign predictable because the locat
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by kodablah 8y ago
> because border specific stuff aren't worth the hassle For GitHub maybe, not true for all (or even most?) non-EU businesses. For most, the "hassle" of ignoring the region requiring GDPR is much easier/safer than the
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by kodablah 8y ago
> I'll never quite understand this mentality. That's ok. The important thing is to recognize it exists. Too often, be it taxes on cigarettes or theft or laws like this, people apply their personal lifestyles instead of others.

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