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by lhorie 5y ago
San Francisco's geography is extremely heterogeneous (especially considering the size of the city). All of these are simultaneously true: - yes, there's human feces and needles and tent cities in the Tenderloin/SOMA area -
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by lhorie 5y ago
> just don't live in SOMA or the tenderloin and you'll be a lot better off I mean, that's basically just saying "lalala can't hear ya". The entire point of calling SF dysfunctional is that a significant numb
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by lhorie 5y ago
I've lived in Toronto, SF and Sao Paulo. In 18 years living in Sao Paulo, I've witnessed one gun-related incident and was victim of robbery once (I lived near Heliopolis, one of the largest slums in the city). In 18 years living i
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by lhorie 5y ago
My wife and I are programmers (I was her senior at a company when we met). She gets a free coach/interview practice partner. I get more visibility into companies other than mine (e.g. in terms of compensation, work-life balance, joel t
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by lhorie 5y ago
I imagine the example is artificially constructed to fit the flow of the narrative. Consider that the initial idiom const ps = persons .map(p => ({ ...p, age: p.age + 1 })) .filter(p => p.age >= 30) .slice(0
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by lhorie 5y ago
Of course big oil has its share of immorality, but it's not like we never knew that poisonous smoke comes out of the back of our cars, right? Again, going back to forests and trees, one could also say the sugar industry is deceptive, o
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by lhorie 5y ago
I mean, if we're going to talk about forest and trees, consider that the whole "big oil lobbies governments" thing flies right in the face of the "democracy is the voice of the people" argument. If people collective
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by lhorie 5y ago
This seems like just an observation about the less formal nature of colloquial language. We also say things like "70% of people do X", when in actuality the underlying study "extrapolates" from a smaller population via s
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by lhorie 5y ago
You're supposed to turn on your blinkers and pull over ASAP. Stopping cold on a highway lane is a huge hazard.
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by lhorie 5y ago
That in itself can also be dangerous. There are in fact traffic laws in various places against driving too slow or otherwise impeding traffic flow because doing so can cause accidents.
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by lhorie 5y ago
Yeah, definitely goes both ways, and I can foresee many anecdotes about how not having to deal w/ a driver is nicer in some way or another. Hence why I said I'm curious about human-factor issues. I don't believe there's
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by lhorie 5y ago
I'm curious how Waymo deals with the human aspects of cab hailing. With a human driver, you can say "hey looks like traffic is bad between where the car currently is and the pick up spot, can I meet you at X instead and save us bo
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by lhorie 5y ago
I don't see nearly as many people claiming Google could be built in a weekend, but I do see that sentiment a lot in threads about Uber. It's easy to think it's a simple app, but there was a great response from a former EM hig
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by lhorie 5y ago
I recall reading a story about someone who became legendary among squatters because he somehow managed to negotiate the rights to commercialize Colombia's TLD (.co), meaning he positioned himself to take a cut of every .com -> .co t
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by lhorie 5y ago
I thought it was interesting that the author specifically calls out Thai food. LA has a thai population of only about 27k (Chinese is about half a million, for comparison). The abundance of Thai restaurants in LA and other large cities is l
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by lhorie 5y ago
Kinda ironic to see a literal misquote trying to imply that China is fudging numbers. Quick google search for another article get me this: "on Monday, the country reported 21 imported cases and zero locally transmitted symptomatic infe
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by lhorie 5y ago
I thought this article was going to be about Eagle Prime, a $2.5M robot that was designed to actually fight against a japanese one, but ended up getting auctioned off on ebay after the parent company went bankrupt[0] The japanese robot is p
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by lhorie 5y ago
Sorry, I should've worded that better; "with their shit still together" is more in line w/ I what I wanted to say. I meant that rather than struggling to gain marketshare (like happened in China, Russia, etc), they ram
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by lhorie 5y ago
Yeah, a lot of people were pointing out how ridiculously large the list of exceptions in AB5 were. I saw a bunch of stories about people in random fields getting screwed in the crossfire. It could just have been marketing-speak, but the arg
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by lhorie 5y ago
If you're wondering what percentage "majority" refers to: > over the last decade, until 2019, the percentage of American adults who agreed with this statement increased from 40% to 54% If you're curious how that stack
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by lhorie 5y ago
The way we do it is a bit more complex to account for meatspace: A project may have ownership data, and if it does it defaults to making the owner an optional reviewer. But if the project doesn't have ownership data, ownership bubble
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by lhorie 5y ago
I'm confused. What is "correctly" supposed to mean here? Is the author trying to insinuate that there is evidence for alien spacecrafts?
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by lhorie 5y ago
Yep. Bazel has a visibility feature that indicates what projects are allowed to consume a given thing. This is used by the owner of the library to indicate to what extent they are willing to support the library. Some libraries are only mean
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by lhorie 5y ago
It depends on what kind of APIs we're talking about. There's APIs in the sense of protobuf microservices, which are deployed individually and talk to live systems, but there's also APIs in the sense of libraries. In my compan
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by lhorie 5y ago
The atomic commit thing is just a means to some ends. Some ends are indeed easier to achieve with monorepos. Security audits/patching is one example I've dealt with in the past (dealing w/ supply chain vulns in a multi-repo w
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by lhorie 5y ago
Nice write-up. I have explored different repo strategies quite a bit myself in the course of a few efforts that I've been involved with. On one, we originally had a monolythic framework and everything the article said about cons is pre
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by lhorie 5y ago
Also, that's US regulations. The article is about Canada.
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by lhorie 5y ago
Kenora is a two hours drive from Winnipeg, it's not nearly as inaccessible as you're making it out to be. However, with that said, I saw numbers saying that laying one mile of fiber costs to the tune of $30k, so just connecting Wi
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by lhorie 5y ago
I think Novus, Fibrestream and friends are good examples that support the idea that the market is healthy and oligopolies don't have the ability to use their position to choke out smaller players. I'd wager that Canada is still la
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by lhorie 5y ago
As another canadian, here's something that occurred to me recently: we like to sling around the oligopoly argument when talking about telecoms, but when I bothered to look a bit into it, rather than finding some tightly knit mafia-like

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