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by matte_black 8y ago
I doubt it. If this was true, we'd already be there. We have teleconferencing and long distance communications already, and this doesn't really happen. You would have to go beyond mere conferencing, and create specialized tools th
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by matte_black 8y ago
I expect someone to be virtuous because it's the right thing to do, not because of how many likes it gets them on Twitter.
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by matte_black 8y ago
I think that’s where the confusion is. A virtue signaler doesn’t necessarily have to be a hypocrite, they can just be someone who is motivated to make overt displays of virtue for personal gain.
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by matte_black 8y ago
Instead of "trying to understand the other side", most people would be better served by playing devil's advocate against their own side. Would you know how to identify a virtue signaler if you found one?
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by matte_black 8y ago
Without getting too philosophical, if energy is really what you want to work on, then the problem of making batteries that are as small and as energy dense as possible would be worth spending an entire life trying to solve, because a breakt
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by matte_black 8y ago
With the transparency effect and multiple images overlapping as they rotate, I wonder if this could be used to create a sort of secure QR code. Maybe a new patent is in order.
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by matte_black 8y ago
Curious to know if you tried React with Flow before choosing to go with React and Typescript.
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by matte_black 8y ago
When money is going out so easily to build 7 billion dollar stadiums, it’s hard to imagine why they can’t just throw 5 billion into something like border security.
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by matte_black 8y ago
I'm sick and tired of hearing this refrain. It assumes people have no internal values and just vote for things based on how it will personally benefit them, which is not true. People can and do vote for things that give no benefits t
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by matte_black 8y ago
Not every service even allows you to have a label in your email address. So what then?
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by matte_black 8y ago
Corporations are ultimately just people; a large group of people. Think of what would happen if we punished the hell out of Marriot. Many of those people could lose their jobs and be unable to provide for their families, for something tha
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by matte_black 8y ago
Yes, this is part of standard data cleaning practices. You always remove whatever custom formats a provider allows to get the raw minimum email address (this is only for export, you still send official communication with a user to their ori
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by matte_black 8y ago
I think you’re wrong. An asshole who cares at least has a moral compass, and knows the direction it should point. They lack motivation though to go above and beyond their own selfishness to do more than the bare minimum, but there is still
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by matte_black 8y ago
Wow they are cheap!!
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by matte_black 8y ago
Do these ever get sold off to the public?
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by matte_black 8y ago
I don’t like when people use “wins the lottery” because it leads to distracting tangents. A person that wins a lottery could do anything. How much did they win? Maybe they’ll still keep working? Maybe they’ll go off to start their own compa
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by matte_black 8y ago
I wish more people understood Doomsday prepping is really more of a hobby than an actual concern over the total collapse of all civilization. It’s fun to prepare, and to think of every scenario no matter how outlandish, and it’s fun to make
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by matte_black 8y ago
Soon I’ll be on the wrong side of 30 and part of the reason I strive to master important skills is because I know I’ll be put out to pasture some day if I can’t demonstrate my value. I don’t want to depend on a post-ageist society to save m
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by matte_black 8y ago
Maybe this is also why a straight stiff neck and a head with very little movement conveys unquestionable authority.
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by matte_black 8y ago
Yes, the more standardized something is the more it just becomes an assembly line with very little room for discovering creative solutions.
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by matte_black 8y ago
Frontend javascript programming is already blue collar. Very little science left in most tasks, most of the time you are just smashing together packages and declaratively building interfaces to the point that most of the hard work has been
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by matte_black 8y ago
Any examples of what people might use these systems for? Is it mostly socializing?
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by matte_black 8y ago
I tried bullet journaling for a while. The one thing I took away from it was how useful it was to have your own index for a book that can be filled with random stuff from all sorts of topics. All my years of going to school and having diffe
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by matte_black 8y ago
The information you are talking about is called documentation and it should exist outside of actual code files. If you need to read comments to understand code, you don’t know how to read code. Comments can lie, only code is the source of t
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by matte_black 8y ago
They are definitely holidaying. As soon as the new year starts up expect them to be firing on all cylinders.
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by matte_black 8y ago
The idea of a phone call taking up an entire screen and interrupting your activity hearkens back to the days when Apple emphasized that the iPhone should still be prioritized as a phone first. Clearly, people have evolved to richer forms of
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by matte_black 8y ago
Set your voicemail message to tell them to leave a message or to send a text.
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by matte_black 8y ago
A complete set of useful and practical components for enterprise applications. Have you used Ant??
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by matte_black 8y ago
Unfortunately there’s not many sensible alternatives for what Ant design does.
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by matte_black 8y ago
It’s funny because I think in China or some other Asian countries it’s considered rude to actual clean off your whole plate, you should always leave a little bit. Otherwise what you’re basically saying is “What the fuck!? You’re so fucking

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