marklgr

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by marklgr 11y ago
You know you can find data supporting whatever you want, or at least casting doubts on whatever you don't like. This does not mean data is irrelevant, but it is quite important to know who collected it, following what procedure, and wi
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So what? He/she didn't say there was a _total-and-exclusive_ correlation between the ban and the murders; other factors come into play. You got to watch on the long term here.
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by marklgr 11y ago
> "decide what I want first and rationalize it later" Incidentally, this is Jim Jefferies point[1] about guns: guns are fun, people enjoy having them and shooting, so they rationalize with evil governements threats from centuri
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by marklgr 11y ago
As a publisher, you should say fuck you to the ads networks that pay you to track your readers, not to the readers trying to protect themselves.
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That's the flip side of the point, I guess; you can't go against the obvious interests of a majority of citizens, but if you can manipulate an uninformed/prejudiced/scared majority, then you have a relatively free hand t
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by marklgr 11y ago
Not sure it's a good habit for newbies to run arbitrary commands to see what they do. Asking for help somewhere (eg. `--help` flag) looks like a much better practice
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It's more readable because other programmers have been taught the imperative style too, because their teachers find it more readable, because <tail call here>.
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by marklgr 11y ago
For personal projects, you can pick whatever language you want, possibly the most fun one that is still practical. Haskell or Elixir look promising in this regard. For companies, there are more factors to consider, eg. finding devs at a cor
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by marklgr 11y ago
> Payment, or ads that we'll try and keep ok. The response is, we'll weaponize and win. You really got to realize this is not about showing ads, ie. some plain jpg/gifs--which a lot of people would accept--but loading tons
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by marklgr 11y ago
/s grandparent, methinks.
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by marklgr 11y ago
By that logic, there is no black Isaac Newton as well. Do you stand by it?
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> Except for links to images. I can never freaking remember those. They work like standard Markdown links (text in square brackets, followed by link in parens), except you add a bang in front of it. The bang looks like an upside-down &qu
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> It seems to me you are just the typical example of "French Bashing" : always complaining and seeing the bad side of things. I think it is partly brought on by the strong political turn that any discussion takes over here. Any
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> why can't Europe produce a Google, Facebook, Apple, Oracle, Microsoft? Market size, for one. Europe is not a country, and startups begin on a small national market, or at least national-scale funding.
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by marklgr 11y ago
The Netherlands have quite a bit of "drug tourism", with people from across Europe going there to party and/or bring some stuff back home--so small wonder that it's quite easy to find pretty much anything there. As for w
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by marklgr 11y ago
> The choice isn't between making drugs legal and having a drug free world. The choice is between making it legal or spending resources throwing those who choose to use drugs in jail. That's a legitimate way to look at it, but
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> Still the Wild West out there. Strangely enough, it is both a kind of freedom ideal to some, and an unfair, immoral and violent dog-eat-dog society for other.
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People are seldom happy when doing nothing; they like to be recognized as worthy and valuable members of their group/community. Work is the most frequent way to partly achieve that, but it is not the only one, depending on how you defi
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This does not mean the competition will always, necessarily be strong enough to prevent the formation of a monopoly.
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> Who defines 'social good'? You assume an elite that can determine efficiency! This is the socialist conceit. Er, no, democracy defines it.
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> Without those the argument goes, that firms would never get so big because competition would sprout up immediately to cut into their market dominance. That's how the argument goes, but this is neither a proof nor an observation--j
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by marklgr 11y ago
It sounds like you're a libertarian somewhat "by default", as you say you don't trust the political system anymore. But, to be fair, shouldn't you compare "mediocre/bad government" vs "mediocre&#
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by marklgr 11y ago
> It's the very point of the original article that working fewer hours can increase the quality and focus of the work done during that shorter period. To me, it depends on how you cut the hours, and to what extent. I'm all for
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> To use an incredibly bad analogy: It's like moving from a monolithic "big iron" server to a pair or farm of smaller ones. There are many advantages, but it means it's now a distributed system with all the problems t
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by marklgr 11y ago
Freelancers often work part-time because they are more expensive, so they are not hired full-time, but they generally have many clients in the same week when they can. Moreover, they most often have some expertise in their field, which mean
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> We need to stop labeling the first of these persons as "successful" and second one as a "failure" It's not about judging employees from a moral standpoint, but getting the most skill and involvement going into
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by marklgr 11y ago
From one of the comments in the article, it's probably more like we've lost control of how businesses work. Many people don't like the phrase "race to the bottom", but that's what comes to mind when you get to
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This is not about inevitability and immortality of monopolies, but their likelihood and the detrimental effects they bring on while they exists. Both can be pretty high in some domains, so it is worthwhile to think about it, to me.
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As a note aside, that's what many religions have been doing for ages: help the poor, build schools etc. No doubt there have been mutual benefits.
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In theory, you could also ignore all ads in general, but in practice you can't really ignore them, so you'd better realize that you're trading off a service for some influence over you.

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