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by mabbo 4y ago
If I'm understanding this correctly, is the author saying that a future version of Java may let me use `String! foo` and the compiler will make sure this variable cannot be null? That would be very helpful indeed.
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by mabbo 4y ago
There's three arguments there: 1 - Banks can make mistakes. 2 - Banks can be slow. 3 - Banks making it really hard to do transfer large sums of money. I can't solve 1, but I can tell you that crypto definitely doesn't solve
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by mabbo 4y ago
I feel like you're conflating my argument a bit. I'm not saying "People with nothing to hide... etc". I'm saying that as a user, I'm going to pick the option that is best for me. Crypto is never going to be the
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by mabbo 4y ago
The killer app for crypto is "KYC-less" which usually means "I can evade taxes or sell illicit goods". Otherwise, real money is faster, more scalable, and more resilient to users making mistakes. Nothing I do is illegal;
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by mabbo 4y ago
I don't think Amazon Advertising should be considered separately from Retail. A huge portion of it's money comes from people paying for the top search result on Amazon's retail site. Oh sure, they ad a very tiny "sponsor
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by mabbo 4y ago
The goal of the CEO of a publicly traded company is to make the shareholders money. As much money as possible. If laying people off is the best way to do that, they'll do it. Blaming the CEO for doing the job they were hired to do seem
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by mabbo 4y ago
> In my opinion, it would be beneficial if DEI initiatives were confidential and kept "hush hush" within a company. The problem is incentives and selection bias. Let's imagine a company that has a pretty obvious diversity
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by mabbo 4y ago
That is the country's legal name. They've requested the world spell it that way. It would have taken you a moment to Google that before posting and looking foolish.
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by mabbo 4y ago
I think what bothers us most about incidents like this is that any country or human organization that had massive air superiority over everyone else would inevitably use it to their advantage. And yet, here are the reports, but no one is co
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A Toronto driver fought a photo radar ticket – and won(thestar.com)
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by mabbo 4y ago
Some ideas, brainstorming here... Tracking: satellites are incredibly easy to track once you know their orbital parameters. A balloon, far less so. You need a lot of active tracking. Altitude: a balloon is much closer to the ground than a s
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by mabbo 4y ago
> I'm sure they'll figure it out over time. But in the meantime, my days are quite frustrating because I'm in teaching mode most of the time instead of building stuff. This is what they hired you to do: to help them figure
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by mabbo 4y ago
The secret panel at the end is the sort of thing that makes Zach Weinersmith one of my favourite humourists online. (It's just the words 'Out-nerd me now , Randall!', in a challenge to 'xkcd' author Randall Munroe.
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by mabbo 4y ago
That still a massive search area for a very tiny object. It's the distance between Austin TX and Los Angeles, CA. And they didn't know it was within 2m of the road- it might have bounced much further, or been hit by another vehicl
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by mabbo 4y ago
One time I went on a work trip and brought my intern along- we were meeting the people his intern project would be used by in person. Fun trip all around. When our flight landed back in Toronto I said something like "Grab a coffee afte
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by mabbo 4y ago
> What if some of those "flew into a mountain", "engines failed", "mid-air-collision" had been captured on video I'm now picturing how each of these situations would look with airships. Most of them, in
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by mabbo 4y ago
The bigger "Why wasn't I doing this sooner" with microwaves is using lower power modes. They don't actually reduce the 'power' of the microwave, but they turn it on and then back off again for a proportion of t
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by mabbo 4y ago
I don't like wearing big layers of clothing. I like being in a very light t-shirt. I'm happy to pay the extra cost to heat the room I'm in with a space heater in the winter time.
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by mabbo 4y ago
My father said to me: "I like a shower better than a bath, but ugh, that first blast of cold water when you turn it on is always a bit shocking." Me: "Why don't you turn on the shower, wait for it to get warm, then get i
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by mabbo 4y ago
This is, imho, the correct answer. But setting aside the nuclear device, the rocket itself wouldn't survive any damage either. Rockets aren't built to be robust because that adds mass, which requires more fuel and reduces accelera
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by mabbo 4y ago
I wonder if there's a reasonable way to remotely guess which are the real warheads. Measure the flight profile, estimate the mass, compare the heat signature, etc. Perhaps even radiation? Could a "Star wars" system actually g
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by mabbo 4y ago
If they called it 'generic_server' then people would make fun of it for being too verbose. If they call it 'gen_server' then everyone pretends they know what it means and stays quiet.
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by mabbo 4y ago
But that's the same problem: you'd use more storage space per item, needlessly, decreasing storage density.
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by mabbo 4y ago
tl;dr: Robotic picking requires higher shipping costs, and shipping costs are much higher than the labour costs to pick the item. I spent years in Amazon Fulfillment Tech, a lot of in the Picking software space. It's all about tradeoff
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by mabbo 4y ago
Specifically, the concept I'm referring to is Predestination[0], or the more extreme version 'Double predestination', wherein God pre-ordained who the Good people are and who the Bad people are, and you know you're the G
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by mabbo 4y ago
Well, what if the ex-con's former prison had a bond on them- if this person ends up committing a crime against your business, you get the full costs covered, less 10%. The prison would be incentivized to do this so as to help prevent r
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by mabbo 4y ago
This is why I love HN. You've taken a really nice idea and identified exactly how it will be abused by awful people.
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I feel like the prison system is the victim of perverse incentives. The goal given to them is "house this person securely for a specific length of time at the lowest cost possible ". They are rewarded for cutting costs. But the t
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by mabbo 4y ago
Maybe. Or maybe part of the sentence was mandatory mental health treatment. Maybe this is the rock bottom that leads to this person getting the help they need and getting their life together. He's also now known to the police for this
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I think it's important to remember what mental illness is, at it's core- an important organ that isn't working correctly. The brain is the thing that tells you what is and isn't right. It provides motivation, impulses, e

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