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by madgar 10y ago
So it rejects code for which it can't prove lifetimes. Why not just say so? There's an uncomfortable degree of beating around the bush in this thread.
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by madgar 10y ago
> Or do you think employees are entirely fungible? This is what every self-respecting capitalist believes and knows in their heart. Employees are resources. If a founder doesn't know that they will fail. Maybe you thought startups w
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by madgar 10y ago
There's a "movement" in the sense that people are writing blog posts. Fewer than a handful of name-brand startups are putting any money where their mouth is. Any there's huge VCs trying to hold the line and keep anyone f
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by madgar 10y ago
I literally just yesterday saw on national television news a report that suicide is the second leading cause of death for teenagers in the US. Rather than invoking conspiracy theories, consider this much simpler theory: Western media double
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by madgar 10y ago
Do you actually believe that as a non-founding employee you'll be able to make the difference between the company delivering "a life changing amount of money" to employees instead of the far more common outcome? I guess the s
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by madgar 10y ago
The point wasn't to help OP generate a list of congressional district descriptions, because that's useless in general and nobody wants that. Except maybe you I guess. The OP had a list of names of congresspersons in a committee (u
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by madgar 10y ago
I get it, and please understand I didn't want to make it about you being bad at collecting the data - it's really hard to get right especially when districts change often. NYC in particular has very fine-grained political geograph
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by madgar 10y ago
My recommendation was a zip code to congressperson lookup tool. I linked to one such tool hosted on house.gov. Did you find it unsatisfactory? As to your weak attempt to make this about class, I'll point out West Virginia's congre
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by madgar 10y ago
> We no longer wear suits and ties just because everyone wears suits and ties. We especially don't presume that someone not wearing a suit and tie is making a mistake or ignorant. We don't presume that they are incapable of wri
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by madgar 10y ago
I disagree. If someone has deactivated their own humanity enough to say "It's just a word" then they probably need a shocking reminder of the power of words. Making an abstract argument about words won't move the needle
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by madgar 10y ago
> look to what the DelBlasio administration is doing The man's name is Bill De Blasio. And the AMI used for affordable housing is so high, it's a joke. They include Westchester, Putnam, and Rockland counties in the calculation
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by madgar 10y ago
> No doubt the "extra" pay (let's be real, you'll never be in the inner circle if you forgo the duty) is barely enough to be noticeable. When allocated 100% to cash (vs. vacation) oncall pay amounts to more than an ex
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by madgar 10y ago
> - Carolyn Maloney of NY-12, Brooklyn Heights, Williamsburg and the east side of Manhattan Sorry but I live in Congresswoman Maloney's district and this is not an accurate description of her district [0]. In Brooklyn, NY-12 include
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by madgar 10y ago
"It's just a word which makes it stand out as a product" So you think calling a product "nigger" is a good idea? It's just a word and it would certainly stand out. (Before responding directly to my comment, ple
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by madgar 10y ago
An idea which creates a new social problem. Welcome to open source!
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by madgar 10y ago
JS is single-threaded which makes an enormous difference to actually squeezing performance out of your JIT. Just building a JIT for a language generally isn't the hard part. Building a JIT that is substantially faster than a byteco
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by madgar 10y ago
> Why is an aging population a problem? Older people are more experienced, wiser, and less likely to be violent. Older people can be just as selfish as young people. Relevant Brexit quote [0]: > Woman on Radio 4 who voted Leave. &quot
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by madgar 10y ago
I'm guessing you believe every US state should be calling to secede, because they "have zero control" and "have to pay taxes" to the federal government? Since US states, just like Britain in the EU, participate in t
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by madgar 10y ago
> The Go GC is constantly improving, and its performance in Go 1.6 and 1.7 is considered very good my most users. Also true of Ruby or PHP. Which perform abysmally. "Most users" needs aren't what we look for to define tec
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by madgar 10y ago
> a device that costs nearly $1000 and $100 a month for service If you're going to make a fiscal argument then don't exaggerate your numbers by 60-120%. They start at $400 and top out at $750. If you pay $100/month for ser
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by madgar 10y ago
He did respond and gave a clear real-world analogue to this scenario. The DAO is an investment vehicle, so he compared the use of the DAO code to abscond with the funds to the following financial contract example: > Say I raise investmen
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by madgar 10y ago
I think you're mixing up checksumming and content-addressing.
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by madgar 10y ago
More seriously, could one of Theranos' large minority shareholders (successfully) sue to freeze their assets, keeping any cash liquid? How bad of shape does a company need to be in before that becomes viable?
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by madgar 10y ago
In my city you can get a walk-in palm reading by a psychic for less money than a Theranos blood test.
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by madgar 10y ago
Yeah... the entire point of an on-call rotation is to specify who is available for incident response... if everybody is on the same plane at once then by definition nobody is on-call.
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by madgar 10y ago
Just like how it's philanthropic if I tape bum fights and make them freely available on YouTube.
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by madgar 10y ago
> But anybody who edited a 100 000 lines long project, ran the unit test, and saw red lines, fixed them, ran it again and then saw green now the feeling : it's great. You are way more confident. This is the key insight: unit tests a
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by madgar 10y ago
I feel sorry that you needed to include an insult in your comment. You could have just contributed your historical understanding. The Stamp Act and Tea Act were opposed as taxation without representation in Parliament. They were not opposed
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by madgar 10y ago
I didn't say "yeah but slavery!" I didn't draw a false equivalence between unions and the abolition of slavery. I was responding to someone discussing the role of "economic liberty" in America's founding.
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by madgar 10y ago
> Unions essentially create a government sponsored monopoly on labor supply, restricting both workers and companies, which is fundamentally in conflict with the values of economic liberty upon which the country was founded. Literally eve

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