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by mac01021 8y ago
> what might be considered fake news by some doesn't have to be by others because it might have utility Do you have an example of this in mind?
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by mac01021 8y ago
You mean you don't like that the methods are declared outside of the struct? Or that you have to say foo(x) instead of x.foo()? The latter makes writing code using autocomplete less doable, but reads more naturally in many cases. I can
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by mac01021 8y ago
Yes (if you're asking what I think you're asking). Computers are never fast enough. Even if they get 1000x faster, we'll want to squeeze every drop of performance out by using C or whatever.
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by mac01021 8y ago
They need not be regressive. For starters, high income people tend to have much greater carbon footprints. I, in the top decile, probably quintuple my carbon footprint by engaging in a little bit of unnecessary air travel (living in New En
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by mac01021 8y ago
The World Economic Forum in Davos is not just about Climate. In fact most of the topics discussed are not. It is not clear from this article that most of the attendees are even pretending to be concerned with global warming. So, while this
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by mac01021 8y ago
"I really want to scream a big F*CK you to your face" is certainly more overt than covert. Still, I sympathize with the sentiment, the attitude of despair is EXTREMELY frustrating.
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by mac01021 8y ago
Are you saying that the world was better off before google? Or that there's a practical, socially preferable way for google to sustain its search engine without ad revenue?
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by mac01021 8y ago
> Whenever the next stock market crash comes, almost half of that compensation (the equity based one) will almost vanish. You're saying the value of (for example) Google stock will plummet to 10% or less and then not recover at all
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by mac01021 8y ago
So you're saying it's not sustainable?
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by mac01021 8y ago
Sadly, you can't tell them by telling them. You have to be subliminal.
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by mac01021 8y ago
The first two paragraphs say what science fiction novel it's a reference to.
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by mac01021 8y ago
Nothing stops us from dating or marrying outside of the "tech industry".
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by mac01021 8y ago
Does this come with the same gnome 3 that I would install on a desktop? Can I make apps that look consistent with the rest of the phone's OS just by using GTK?
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Justifications for punishment include retribution and deterrence. Depending on how much importance you assign to each of those the appropriate policy will vary. If you care about deterrence but not retribution you really might not need as l
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by mac01021 8y ago
Lost to what? What's in it's place now?
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by mac01021 8y ago
It sounds like maybe not all US high schools follow the same curriculum. Mind sharing what state you were in? Surely you learned about the Trail of Tears, Slavery, and the Vietnam War? Here in New England I can tell you that I came out of
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by mac01021 8y ago
I was in highschool in the United States 20 years ago, and middle school just before that. We learned a wide range of history, including every war the USA has taken part in (for example, the american revolution). At no point did textbook o
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by mac01021 8y ago
Why train employees when you can pay just a little bit more and get pretrained ones?
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Ask HN: Degoogling – Google Voice alternative?
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by mac01021 8y ago
Among the ambitious and entrepreneurial, this sort of behavior is nothing new. In his autobiography, Benjamin Franklin relates how he found himself as a government official for the colony of Pennsylvania and then proceeded to hire his own p
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by mac01021 8y ago
>It would be like a normal adult trying to socialize with 3-year-old kids. I think, at worst, it would be like a normal adult trying to socialize with 9-year-old kids? And this particular kid says he has lots of normal social interaction
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by mac01021 8y ago
Which is weird. I buy something in the store less than once per year.
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by mac01021 8y ago
Sounds like you're not asking precisely the question that you want the answer to.
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They'll actually have 5% of the customers, because the other 95% percent will live in the area and have been charging their car at home all night.
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I wonder if someone could use this phenomenon to get away with insider trading...
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by mac01021 8y ago
Where did you find this fact? I would like to find it too.
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An unmown, unmanicured lawn, will have a much larger variety of weeds, plants, flowers, etc. I bet that, after some time, the density of ecologicially-good stuff that sprouts up will be much greater than what you'd get in a manually ma
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by mac01021 8y ago
First: This bill https://energyinnovationact.org/ (also [1]) is in the US Congress right now. It includes a carbon fee-and-dividend (both a tax and tariffs, the proceeds of which are distributed among all residents of the
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by mac01021 8y ago
What's the underlying disease? And, even if this isn't the path you'd like our healthcare system to take, isn't this new state of affairs a big opportunity for some startup?
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by mac01021 8y ago
> I do think F2F (and not just videoconference) time is valuable Can you say why?

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