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by lostdog 4y ago
I wouldn't take that article as the absolute truth. It's true that homeless people are not generally the best caretakers of themselves, but SROs are also gross because of landlord neglect. The article seems to suggest that some pe
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by lostdog 4y ago
First, watch some guides and be sure you have the basics down. But after that, coaching is the best way to get better fast. Players rarely know what they're bad at, and a good coach will spot and correct your mistakes quickly.
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by lostdog 4y ago
When a bill passes, its opponents should get to choose the name.
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by lostdog 4y ago
The "radical left" finally got some power. The head of the FTC is known to be someone who wants to enact progressive policies. For her and her staff, limiting noncompetes is driven by idealism that workers should have more rights.
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by lostdog 4y ago
I would love to use local programs and rely on these fine storage systems as the distributed storage for the programs. However I never know if I can trust them to behave properly in this setup. Dropbox in particular looks like it always wan
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by lostdog 4y ago
The FTC is a bit less captured currently because of its current head.
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by lostdog 4y ago
I knew tons of people with a preference of Bernie > Hillary >> Trump. They preferred Hillary but did they "approve" of her? How should they vote? This kind of situation isn't special. It comes up in every election, a
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by lostdog 4y ago
If you want A or B to win, but you really prefer A to B, then should you approve of B at all or not approve of them? This preference situation happens in every election, and approval voting has no answer to it. It's completely unclear
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by lostdog 4y ago
Let's look at the top 0.1%. An Amazon Senior SWE makes 1% and minimum wage in CA is 0.1% of the $35,000,000 per year that someone in the top 0.01% makes. 1/100 and 1/1000 is different, but the difference isn't that big.
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by lostdog 4y ago
Thank you, I have tried it, and it was frustrating.
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by lostdog 4y ago
You should still try it. It's a pretty decent language that builds fast and runs fast. I think of it as a slightly better Go.
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by lostdog 4y ago
Anyone who wants to use grep will just keep ignoring nim. Case insensitivity is pretty silly, and underscore insensitivy is just really silly. The way that modern languages force a single style is great, and it's a big strike against n
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by lostdog 4y ago
The Twitter files emphasized stupid things and ignored real issues, and that's why it's being treated as a nothingburger overall. The real issues are (1) What government requests are reasonable and what should Twitter respond to o
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by lostdog 4y ago
What could they possibly be doing that takes 4 seconds? That's ~4,000,000,000 instructions on a typical embedded processor. It's much more likely that the handshaking was implemented by an incompetent organization that doesn'
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by lostdog 4y ago
> What is the point in having all of the drivers be open sourced and mainlined if we're not willing to fix them to support this? With open source and mainlined drivers, it's very difficult to change all the drivers and ensure t
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by lostdog 4y ago
Seems like he was very clearly a Trump supporter: https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/28/politics/pelosi-attack-suspec... Do you have any sources for your claim? Some people are spreading misinformation that DeP
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by lostdog 4y ago
"Seems fast enough to me," when something is clearly slow. So instead we're just not going to optimize anything, and every tool just gets slower and slower and slower.
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by lostdog 4y ago
Ok, I'll fill in the blanks here. The race to the bottom happens because other coaches and players see Curry practicing and playing on a schedule that's unhealthy and feel that they need to do the same thing, so they also fail to
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by lostdog 4y ago
Steph Curry injured his ankle in the 2010 preseason. He failed to recover properly, leading to surgeries and an ankle that keeps failing. We can speculate whether overwork is related to Prince's drug addiction and eventual death. So ye
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by lostdog 4y ago
These salespeople push scammy loans, so they even hurt the already-poor elderly. Imagine getting up in the morning to bankrupt someone's grandma for the rest of their life like this guy from the article.
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by lostdog 4y ago
Sounds like this service can be without support for a while. After all, it wasn't important enough for someone to figure this out in advance. I'm sure if it goes down overnight the business will be fine.
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by lostdog 4y ago
Is there any change in accident rates, or any other metric that would suggest that these are worthwhile?
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by lostdog 4y ago
We tried punishing drug users as strongly as possibly. It didn't work, and had a ton on bad consequences. Now we are trying different types of leniency. I'm sure it will work better. I notice that you did not cite any citations fo
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by lostdog 4y ago
As long as we limit the payable tax to the sale price of the home, then you're not screwed. It would suck to have all the money disappear, but if you didn't pay your mortgage then you would also owe the entire amount of the sale p
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by lostdog 4y ago
> California is a magnet for benefits and mild weather seekers, and sadly those suffering from substance abuse dependencies. Equity should define this as a federal nationwide problem IMO but instead the word is out all over the world - i
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by lostdog 4y ago
> You are making it sound like Elon is the type of person who always pesters people and attempts to micromanage them to squeeze every ounce of "productivity" juice he can get out of the forcefully. This is exactly what I hear 2
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by lostdog 4y ago
> Do you think it would be possible to build electric cars and rockets _without_ this brand of leadership? Absolutely yes. The sort of high performing people who join places like SpaceX and Tesla need very very little pressure to get the
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by lostdog 4y ago
There are always comments about "why do they need X,000 people" every time a company's staffing gets talked about. I guess we are finally getting an answer. We will get to see whether the layoffs effect the technology and the
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by lostdog 4y ago
Describe how it works in 1 paragraph or less.
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by lostdog 4y ago
For the past 7+ years Facebook has continually made its product worse for its users. They are making the same type of product decisions today, so they will continue to bleed users.

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