maehwasu

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by maehwasu 9y ago
It's very very hard to live in Thailand and not know that the king is off limits.
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by maehwasu 9y ago
Yes, that's why it's a good thing I have Google to make sure I'm doing my struggle session correctly!
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by maehwasu 9y ago
> "Oh you've been working on this for X years without any sales? Pass." NO sales after years, as opposed to a few, is a really big red flag. It generally suggests that the person is enjoying playing and being an entreprene
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by maehwasu 9y ago
The contradiction mostly vanishes when you take into account the fact that the left-wing has mostly abandoned social class distinctions in favor of race/gender/cultural distinctions. A lot of the current conservatism and populism
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by maehwasu 9y ago
1. The goalposts for how much systemic biases have been "fixed" are moved constantly and predictably. 2. Much of the argument for the existence of systemic biases comes from willful, repeated ignoring of the already extant evidenc
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by maehwasu 9y ago
This is a great example of only examining costs of a hypothesis without examining the benefits. Literally ANY opinion/fact/belief set looks like pure evil if you only examine costs.
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by maehwasu 9y ago
> However, his overall claim that there exist personality differences between genders that differentially affect men’s and women’s interest in and aptitude for tech jobs, is what people are mostly getting mad at. And that’s a claim that
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by maehwasu 9y ago
Getting reasonably complex front-end programs running in a purely functional (Purescript) was really fun, and made me like the front-end for the first time. Been meaning to do a writeup of my experience when I have time.
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by maehwasu 9y ago
That's such horrible incentive-setting on their part--and now I really want to try it...
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Completely agree. The point here is that the situation isn't static: many people don't like what is now ok in the workplace, and are trying to shift it back. Simply calling them "racist" or "sexist" as if that
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by maehwasu 9y ago
"You can say anything you want, unless you're saying something that I choose to define as unacceptable."
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by maehwasu 9y ago
Speaking as a wealthy person who has considered expatriating, the US is REALLY nice relative to almost anywhere in the world if you have a lot of money. There are also activities like piloting your own planes, using wide-open spaces, etc, t
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by maehwasu 9y ago
Life is way too short to spend in soup kitchens worrying about how much and what form of privilege you may have.
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by maehwasu 9y ago
Clickbait is only one of many failure modes.
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> name a company that would turn away half the worlds population for no benefit. A company that had internalized misogyny to such a degree that it couldn't function. All companies are sexist.
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To quote the original manifesto would be to normalize hatred.
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by maehwasu 9y ago
> What you just did was incredibly stupid and harmful. You just put out a manifesto inside the company arguing that some large fraction of your colleagues are at root not good enough to do their jobs, and that they’re only being kept in
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by maehwasu 9y ago
let clojure = Haskell
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by maehwasu 9y ago
So you are arguing for skills/intelligence based immigration policies?
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by maehwasu 9y ago
If value isn't created out of "thin air", so to speak, their is no intellectual property for people to want, and nothing for the government to bother enforcing. You are trying to argue that people don't create value with
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by maehwasu 9y ago
> Saying "it has other uses than profit" is not sufficient (does not address all 4 criteria) and you do not back it up with evidence (what are the actual uses that investors are getting out of it?) This true, but the 4 criteria
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by maehwasu 9y ago
Anything looks horrible if your analysis includes all costs and excludes all benefits.
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by maehwasu 9y ago
Real adult activities and hacking are extremely opposed endeavors. One can make time for both, but the prior probability is quite low that a person with a real adult life will also be on the cutting edge of technology.
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by maehwasu 9y ago
Doesn't help--could just have your wealthy friend sign for you.
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by maehwasu 9y ago
The big thing that helped me was to understand that: smart contract == program stored on the blockchain The blockchain tracks the program's state and handles state transitions. Read-only functions are free to execute; functions that al
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by maehwasu 9y ago
"Many Businesses Are More Viable When They Can Pay Employees Peanuts" Looking forward to more insightful articles from Bloomberg.
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by maehwasu 9y ago
That's not necessarily a good feature.
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by maehwasu 9y ago
"Man inadvertently discovers reason for monads and strong typing while writing Medium post"
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by maehwasu 9y ago
> If you don't like the law, you can vote, run for office, volunteer, donate to a candidate or nonprofit, or bother your elected officials. You could do any of those things, or you could do things that...actually work?
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by maehwasu 9y ago
"In the face of a proposed 21 percent cut in the USDA’s budget by the Trump administration, Haney also stressed the importance of unbiased, government studies in a field where research is often dominated by the very corporations that b

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