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by max76 7y ago
The rust compiler will help you avoid a lot of common runtime errors. It comes at a cost of extra development time. The Rust philosophy values code correctness over developer efficiency.
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by max76 7y ago
I'd rather pay a few dollars a month for the services I need than be targeted by ads that manipulate my emotions to purchase expensive things I don't want. I'm really happy the market has options for people like me.
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by max76 7y ago
The Department of Defense's budget is about Six Hundred and Fifty Billion Dollars. It appears too high for peace time. We have friendly relations with both neighboring states. We have huge natural defenses (oceans) to the east and we
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by max76 7y ago
There is no stabilization of the Japanese ethnic population in sight. With these trends I wonder how the island will change culturally in 100 or 200 years. I suspect we'll see them continue to open more and more to the west.
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by max76 7y ago
> some if not all these features are in vi as well I'm not sure exactly which vim features are also in vi. Vim has been a daily use tool for me since about 2007. Vim has really good Macro recording. Vim + Tmux is great for side by
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by max76 7y ago
I'd pay a approximately $10 monthly fee for this if it was minimally biased and had wide coverage of all news stories. I'm unsure if enough people would to become profitable, but some market exists. For some long running stories
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by max76 8y ago
Most people do not think like that logically. In addition, I believe the effective penalty for vehicular manslaughter is probably ten thousand times worse because of the psychological cost of being responsible for someone's death.
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by max76 8y ago
I'm unsure. Mindless anxious mind wandering (worry) often causes people to imagine worse situations and exaggerate their probably.
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by max76 8y ago
A vehicular manslaughter charge often leads to jail time. That's more likely to cause someone to lose their job.
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by max76 8y ago
I don't understand why people see the possibility of a drivers license suspension as being worse than the increased risk of vehicular manslaughter. One is a few months of decreased mobility. The other is an entire life.
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by max76 8y ago
A lot of software, like Libre Office, neither track users, nor sells advertising space, nor charges users. For important infrastructure pieces, like how businesses communicate with each other, we should strive for this level of privacy and
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by max76 8y ago
"We don't collect or share personal information. That's our privacy policy in a nutshell." https://duckduckgo.com/privacy I can't prove that DDG doesn't track users, but their entire brand is b
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by max76 8y ago
DDG Search is a free competitor to Google Search that doesn't track. It's not that Google either tracks their users or charges their users. In addition, there is a whole range of tracking activities and we should have open and i
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by max76 8y ago
I have low confidence in this answer, so I hope someone on the internet corrects me if I'm wrong. Oil is refined into many different byproducts. Some of the byproducts are used in manufacturing, and other byproducts are used in energy
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by max76 8y ago
The problem is that there is no feedback for when we fail to hire top talent. How would I know that during a round of interviews I failed to give an offer to Top Talent? What can I do if someone I think is Top Talent gets another offer we
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by max76 8y ago
We do exit interviews, which is reviewed in the post mortem. Failure is defined as a hire that lasts less than one year.
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by max76 8y ago
I'm a software engineer that's been involved in hiring decisions in the past. When we make a bad hire we do a post-mortem just like we would for a critical production bug. We adjust the interview process or evaluation criteria ev
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by max76 8y ago
> Everyone worships something. I don’t think someone following the tenets of Buddhism would worship anything. Correct if me I’m wrong.
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by max76 8y ago
You'd want to flag the 95 or 99 percentile instead of the top 50 percent.
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by max76 8y ago
Sometimes? If I see a person in their 20s or 30s that have other status items (expensive clothes/accessories) but a $50 smartphone I assume something isn't quite right.
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by max76 8y ago
> Did data ownership ever work like that in the physical world? Insider trading is a crime in which someone takes an action based on data they had no right to. (Trading on corporate secrets, or data that belongs to the corporation and n
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by max76 8y ago
I'm not even upset that Facebook is lobbying for their own self interest. I just wish such a blatant attempt would have a lower chance of success.
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by max76 8y ago
This is black and white thinking. No one is entirely bad, no one is entirely good. Very bad people are capable of making very good things. Very good people are capable of making very bad things.
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by max76 8y ago
I did say my history lesson was oversimplified. The question of _how_ Americans avoided paying taxes is always interesting, not just during this time period.
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by max76 8y ago
"No Soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the Owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law." -- The 3rd Amendment The early revolutionary war history overly simplif
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by max76 8y ago
I don't want TV or movies often (About 150 hrs a year total consumption), but when I do I actively suppress the skeptic inside in order to enjoy the narrative and special effects.
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by max76 8y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_One_Where_Rachel_Smokes
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by max76 8y ago
I wonder to what degree the decrease in smoking rates is caused by education and health awareness and to what degree the decrease in smoking rates is caused by making it inconvenient and socially discouraged to be a smoker.
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by max76 8y ago
> Conscious choices were made by university administrators, trustees, and boards to hollow-out and undercut the professorial class, even as they have massively expanded their own bureaucratic and administrative class, gone on building sp
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by max76 8y ago
I think you misunderstand Brasess' Paradox. It is when adding to a system decreases the efficiency of the system by adjusting the Nash equilibrium to be further from the optimal system wide solution. "Reducing congestion increase

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