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by lvh 7y ago
I think the real punchline there is just "hiring is hard", because elsewhere in the comments someone has made the argument that you shouldn't use shiny technology because it's too hard to find people (specifically, you&
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by lvh 7y ago
Part of the point of the article is that you probably don't need new technology to create a new _product_.
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by lvh 7y ago
I've ran multiple org that are largely or almost exclusively working in Clojure(Script) and trained over a dozen folks to be proficient Clojure programmers, and have not found that any of those to be a problem. For example: you mention
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by lvh 7y ago
Do you similarly feel like frontend stacks have seen no meaningful innovation? I think your argument works fine-ish for backends but it's bananas to suggest that jQuery is the same thing as React or Svelte. I do security for a living a
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by lvh 7y ago
Author mentions Clojure a few times as an example of shiny-thing. Ironically, it's one of the few languages that I can reliably do in the browser, on the backend (on real servers or say, Lambdas), and build native binaries for -- which
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by lvh 7y ago
You missed my point: the incentive to remove that balance already exists among workers (eg pay self-disclosure), but now companies know exactly how much you make. There’s no positive worker outcome to companies having that information.
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by lvh 7y ago
Sure, yep, you’re right, no argument here, I was definitely muddling the line between what the president can do and what they can probably get away with. “Launch nukes” is probably another example in that category. Thanks!
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by lvh 7y ago
Someone has brought to my attention that Sen. Warren has proposed something like a corporate AMT, so she is actually addressing it as a lawmaker: https://medium.com/@teamwarren/im-proposing-a-big-new-idea-t...
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by lvh 7y ago
That’s true! But just so we’re on the same page: both of those things are general guidance and emphasis, but specifically not “go audit/prosecute this list of political enemies”, which is why I think any candidate that would have answe
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by lvh 7y ago
Yeah, sorry, the Pell grant thing was out of frustration and not a fully baked policy suggestion. As a regular at our local hackerspace, which has woodshop and welding and electronics and.... yes, I very much wish vocational skills had no s
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by lvh 7y ago
We need some way of computing that number. Different businesses have vastly different structures. Let’s take the flip side of your argument: is it unreasonable for a labor intensive business with low profit margins (classic example is a gro
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by lvh 7y ago
The President does not set tax policy. The legislature does, and many of these candidates are lawmakers. But in the recent debates we also discussed if candidates would prosecute Trump after he’s no longer a sitting President, apparently co
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by lvh 7y ago
Agreed, and I think it’s even worse here: Bernie Sanders is saying he will do a thing that is explicitly his job as a Senator and explicitly not his job as President!
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by lvh 7y ago
The investment and jobs they produce clearly contribute directly and indirectly to the treasury, so commenting that when asked about an alleged failure to pay one specific kind of tax sounds relevant. You say “just pay your taxes”. What is
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by lvh 7y ago
Many of the candidates are US lawmakers. Have they attempted to acquire the tax return? They’re statutorily entitled to it, and the case for a “legitimate legislative purpose” (“the tax code sounds messed up and I want to fix it”) is much c
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by lvh 7y ago
Sweden releases the summary numbers, not the entire return, and controls access to the list.
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by lvh 7y ago
How do you propose to calculate that number? Take it from the SEC filing? Do you suggest that has explanatory power? A labor intensive business with low margins (say, a grocery) is likely to report low contributions, even though their actua
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by lvh 7y ago
A full tax return contains a lot more information than a summary number (“what you earn and the taxes that flow from it”). What benefit are we trying to achieve and how does applying that to most corporations get that? Saying we should have
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by lvh 7y ago
By framing it as a flip side it sounds like two sides of a “fair” coin, but for the vast majority of people their relationship to their employer is one with a serious power imbalance.
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by lvh 7y ago
It appears you’re agreeing with me? I’m suggesting the confusion would have been alleviated by reading the actual paper.
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by lvh 7y ago
But the point is that decay rate is almost entirely a function of temperature, so you have to pick... something. Unless you feel like log/log years/thermodynamic Beta is a better way to communicate decay than “it lasts as long as
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by lvh 7y ago
I think we’ve seen it in different services and different orgs and at different sizes, but I guess it’s hard to set up an experiment :)
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by lvh 7y ago
Excellent feature, long overdue! I hope that this also means we're going to see the end of what I can only describe as "hellban limits" where support/documentation insists the limit is n while you're being clearly t
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by lvh 7y ago
They computed, verified and measured wear and tear (lifespan in Gy) as a function of temperature. The paper, which I linked, includes the full plot. They had to pick _some number_ (temp or years) in order to communicate it as one data point
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by lvh 7y ago
What would be a good number of years to use? "Literally as old as the Universe is now" seems like as close a number as you can use to put timespans that big into _some_ sort of perspective.
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by lvh 7y ago
"The paper isn't a real academic paper and itself also marketeer noise" is one of the options I've outlined as a debate position. But let's be clear: we started by calling research "phony" over something t
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by lvh 7y ago
Even the Wikipedia page contains information about the original Tokio research team that only has one shared author. Furthermore, 5D is the natural extension of 3D, which was already used to distinguish it from traditional 2D (like, say, CD
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by lvh 7y ago
And yet, I pulled those claims out of the paper, which I linked. Are you suggesting Peter G. Kazansky, a research professor with over two decades of experience in optics, does not count as an academic? Or are you saying the paper doesn&#x27
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by lvh 7y ago
Yes, 13.8Gy is the approximate age of the universe and yes the researchers used that number. But it's not like they made this up ("phony", as you put it)! Turns out the biggest decay factor is nanograting and the biggest cont
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by lvh 7y ago
The 13.8Gy claim is made by estimating, calculating and then confirming by experiment how quickly wear and tear works (the primary mechanism is nanograting, and the primary contributing physical quantity is temperature). It then specifical

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