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by marricks 6y ago
If all one has is CNN, MSNBC, Fox, and NPR then NPR feels like a (somehow calming) ocean of truth. I think starting circa 2013 there were a few huge stories which made people realize that the "hard-hitting" journalism they were re
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by marricks 6y ago
That was fun to listen to but NPR programming always seems to have a grating turn in the middle of "gosh isn't it crazy how people in society don't trust anyone any more??? Not professionals or the government or even police!&
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by marricks 6y ago
I heard some old guard person at Mozilla talk about these benchmarks last year when Rust's ACTIX was on top, something like "whatever is the latest framework can take advantage of all the latest methods and libraries to become the
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by marricks 6y ago
Well the success of the uncompromising tea party in taking over the Republican Party and leading the way to Trump seems pretty obvious. I’m not sure how anyone who follows Democrats wouldn’t see the constant compromises unless they’re cente
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by marricks 6y ago
There’s so many head games that goes into US politics that seems pointless. Democrats in particular compromise with themselves so much before even offering something to republicans before compromising even more. Republicans pretty much neve
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by marricks 6y ago
This looks awesome! Yesterday I just started another OS rust walk through and now I have a hard choice between that and this. Any thoughts on this[1] walkthrough in comparison? This one looks more explicitly up to date. [1] https:/&#x
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by marricks 6y ago
There’s been plenty of strikes at Amazon, instacart, and others. Hell, there’s a growing movement for a rent strike in May as well. Just go figure the only widely covered protests are the right wing astroturfed ones...
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by marricks 7y ago
That is interesting but probably not indicative of elsewhere. Portland OR is a bit techy and boogie but even then it has still been hit HARD. The places I frequent all have had drastically reduced hours and business. I haven’t heard of any
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by marricks 7y ago
Completely agree, it's just a tough line sometimes.
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by marricks 7y ago
Statements like this sound so reasonable but they ignore the massive power imbalance. Amazon is the largest company in the world whose owner has literally bought news papers. Given that power I’m way more likely to believe the workers...
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by marricks 7y ago
As a software developer and someone who worked at Home Depot doing stuff like loading lumber for a few years I really think warehouse workers have it worse off. Especially since it seems like Depot was a cake walk compared to what Amazon pu
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by marricks 7y ago
I’m not sure how you made out Microsoft to be anything but a benevolent ruler here, “throw away for obvious reasons” seems like a weird thing to say
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by marricks 7y ago
Maybe there’s just some things that are common good and should be publicly funded rather then gambling on capitalism to solve it
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by marricks 7y ago
I mean I got 50 dollars back a paycheck too but some how the top 1% grew their wealth by something like 30%... that 50 bucks did not have the same effect on me somehow.
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by marricks 7y ago
It’s fun how people only seem to talk or care about the national debt when it’s an election year. Almost as if it’s all a ploy to convince voters big projects that help them can’t be paid for. But sure enough the other 3 years of the cycle
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by marricks 7y ago
I wonder about the damage Google does to any potential start ups in a field. How much buzz can you get when everyone’s first thought is “how could this be any good? Google already tried that and failed...”
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by marricks 7y ago
Their first example is entering a hotel meant for the uber wealthy and going to the top floor, but go ahead and build you straw man I guess...
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by marricks 7y ago
It could just be he didn't want his kid's face on the internet, which is admirable.
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by marricks 7y ago
I’m not so sure, my mom has been a teacher for 6 years and makes around 40k. Similar story for her peers. And even a 20% raise wouldn’t allow her to afford a home, or to send her kids to college without a huge debt burden... To be hon
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by marricks 7y ago
I’m pro choice but I can accept the notion someone has a moral objection to abortion. In the same way, even if you disagree with the man, Snowden had a moral objection to surveillance so he did something about it.
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by marricks 7y ago
I thought it was kind of surprising at first then I realized it’s because he already thought deeply about everything he’s been asked. After careful deliberation he made a moral choice to leak information at great risk to himself. This makes
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by marricks 7y ago
I like the idea of a coop for many reasons, one is that’s it’s not tied to the “must have a huge possibility for growth” any VC backed venture would have
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by marricks 7y ago
Given how cities that transitioned to $15 minimum wage workers did better* after implementation maybe it's time to try investing in infrastructure and the working class rather than the 30 years of trickle down economics and stagnate wa
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by marricks 7y ago
I'm for nuclear energy as it gets us away from coal the most reliably, but investing in solar, wind, geothermal, etc works too if we're serious about it. Not only that, but we'd actually be willing to share those green soluti
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by marricks 7y ago
Countries like the US and China are the largest contributors to climate change while the nations most affected by it (poorer countries at or near the equator or coastally located) have the least resources to actually do anything about it. H
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by marricks 7y ago
Often we have a “backlash” but they lead to no real consequences probably because we feel so disenfranchised. Once something bad happens the public kind of already knows there will be a fine but none of the board/shareholders will ever
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by marricks 7y ago
It doesn’t get me HN points to say, but I’m a developer who loves my MBP.
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by marricks 7y ago
Sounds like what a lot of devs wanted except the GPU cards look like they need to be Apple specific versions? Also no Nvidia support mentioned yet
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by marricks 7y ago
Google will keep locking down Chrome and using corporate talk to hand wave it away, only recourse is to leave. First it’s “sign in” with obtuse ways to turn it off. Then block Adblocking, once again with obtuse ways to disable... the end go
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by marricks 7y ago
So accurate, and perfectly describes the article I complained about in another comment[1]. The best part is, when NPR focuses on personal stories they really get to choose the narrative. Linked article happens to be two retirees who love ga

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