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by latch 9y ago
Setting aside what the law currently is, why is it illegal? This WaPo article [1] always seemed spot on to me. For most of us, individual stocks are a David and Goliath thing, and there should be no illusion of equality. [1] https:/&#
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by latch 9y ago
Repost. Original had good comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15861043
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by latch 9y ago
It's definitely libertarian and conservative (by Canadian standards). But that doesn't mean it can't be right. FWIW, it's high on the list of known/established Canadian think tanks. The Canadian Federation of Indepe
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by latch 9y ago
I agree. I don't know if this is a problem in the US, but something else worth mentioning is that for many jobs, public sectors pay much more (higher pay, better pensions, more sick leave, better job security, ...). So it isn't
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by latch 9y ago
Second Spectrum | Software Engineer | Los Angeles, USA | onsite https://www.secondspectrum.com/ We're a sports oriented company blending computer vision, machine learning and design to change how sports are coached, pl
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by latch 9y ago
Am I wrong in thinking that Google is crazy to not have a proper linux option for the Pixelbook? They get alpha geeks away from OSX and Macbooks. They get a platform they can own and leverage. Get the developers, expose them to the tools, l
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by latch 9y ago
Parent is definitely correct (from experience). Although they have given themselves some wiggle room for "keyboard products" (though, again, from experience, I didn't have any problems): Apple may restrict warranty service fo
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by latch 9y ago
I see what you mean. I'm still curious why this has to be a law though? Aren't there a bunch of policies in schools that are enforced without the need for law? I didn't put this in my original comment, but I think what real
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by latch 9y ago
Shouldn't this be a matter for individual schools or school boards (the article says some already have this in place)? I like the policy, but as I get older, I wonder why we have so many laws that control so much of what we can and can
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by latch 9y ago
I actually like the feel of the butterfly keyboard. I just don't like that it doesn't work very well.
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by latch 9y ago
I'll take this opportunity to vent. I bought new 13" mbp w/touchbar (only the touchbar version has the most powerful CPU). From day one, the butterfly keyboard's been a pain. Most days its fine, but now and again, for ho
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by latch 9y ago
Software methodologies don't work because we're not getting the fundamentals of software development right. Reorganizing your kitchen layout won't help your restaurants if your chefs are still struggling to make scrambled egg
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by latch 9y ago
Why would you say that?
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by latch 9y ago
Plenty of countries have legal definitions which are well enforced (1) and which often rely on internationally agreed upon standards (2). Slippery slopes is usually a fallacious argument, decidedly so in this case where plenty of successful
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by latch 9y ago
A lead that squanders an opportunity to mentor isn't much of a lead.
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by latch 9y ago
AFAIK, this is true of nginx also and from what I've heard in the past, they see no reason to change it. I can't find it now, but I'm sure they had pretty compelling benchmarks that showed that with keepalive & low-latenc
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by latch 9y ago
It is harmful, isn't it? It pollutes, impacting health and the environment. It requires a lot of infrastructure (roads, parking, salting, ....) that is costly to maintain. I feel like I could go on (road-related injuries, manufacturi
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by latch 9y ago
Helping with regressions is a big benefit (and not just for years down the road). But that's more about unit testing in general than TDD. Really, we only disagree about which is bigger. I think for the first few years of a developer&#
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by latch 9y ago
There's some truth to this, but it's also possible that the team just wasn't very good at writing tests. It's not easy to do well. Changes will break tests, but given that changes are applied one at a time (you're n
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by latch 9y ago
Like the author, I subscribe to the less strict view that TDD isn't necessarily about writing the test first, but rather about having test play some part in how the code takes shape. Unlike the author, I absolutely believe that tests a
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by latch 9y ago
A little disingenuous to compare London to Japan. Population in Tokyo has also been increasing yet house prices not so much (1) Japan and Tokyo do housing right. Pricing largely stays the same, quality of living increases. I absolutely don&
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by latch 9y ago
April 22, 1976, Cogress passed an act prohibiting the FDA from doing just this and in 1996 additional legislation resulted in vitamins being classified as food, not drugs. The FDA has wanted to do something about this for a long time. They
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by latch 9y ago
Agree with everything, but I'd have mentioned Taiwan too. Assuming no black swan with NK or India/Pakistan, the Taiwan situation seems the most likely to escalate.
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by latch 9y ago
I don't think RDAs are "minimum recommendations" but rather what's considered healthy (1) Also, from the report you linked, the conclusion seems to be "efforts should be undertaken to ensure that Americans consume t
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by latch 9y ago
Not everything that poses a danger needs to be regulated. You need to look at the benefit in relation to the cost. Not just the economical cost, but also the social one. “I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but
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by latch 9y ago
I only mentioned AI to highlight (exaggerate even) the level new tools need to be at in order to solve this problem. I meant it in the self-aware/skynet/HAL sort of way, not tensorflow.
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by latch 9y ago
Both better tools and better software discipline is needed. Better tools could help a lot. It's hard to see how anyone disagrees with that. But, on the flip side, at my most pessimistic, I find that a massive % (say, 50%) of developers
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by latch 9y ago
In the US things are pretty extreme (1, 2). It doesn't seem like a stretch to suggest that some food-related regulations don't add value to justify their cost. This was part of the problem the owner felt was unjust. You can also c
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by latch 9y ago
I see it as the opposite: Entrepreneurship in a country full of government meddling. Regulations, zoning laws, and massive subsidies that mutate the consumers concept on how much food should cost.
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by latch 9y ago
I just tried and wasn't forced to sign up. I'd link straight to the exe which doesn't require a token / session as proof, but rather they have the analytics data.

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