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by maxfurman 9y ago
Never thought I would see an article on Philly stoops here on HN! They are certainly low-tech but there's nothing like a cold drink on a stoop with your friends in the summertime.
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by maxfurman 9y ago
What happens where there are merge conflicts, as in git? A fully decentralized app would have to resolve those conflicts on it's own, and there's a very low chance it would do so perfectly every time.
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by maxfurman 9y ago
This view seems optimistic. I think you are overestimating the role of technical factors in political decisions.
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by maxfurman 9y ago
Arguably. Tesla has not done a good job educating their customers on the limits of their "Autopilot" system, which has led to at least one preventable death. https://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/07/28/
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by maxfurman 10y ago
This is bad, and I'm not letting Microsoft off the hook here. But, there's an easy workaround for this particular case: Use an alias, such as myrealemail+msft@example.com, for the new account.
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by maxfurman 10y ago
The lack of commute is a huge part of the appeal. If the office is half an hour away (which really isn't that bad if you live or work outside of a city), and you work from home, you get a whole hour back every day. I don't think I
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by maxfurman 10y ago
Yes! Philly is the best.
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by maxfurman 10y ago
It's very relevant, because a) we need to reserve enough area for people to live, and for growing the food we need, and hopefully for a few parks as well, and b) transmission and storage of electricity across long distances is not triv
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by maxfurman 10y ago
Seems to me like the problem there stems from the French government skimping on maintenance, rather than their decision to use nuclear plants in the first place.
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by maxfurman 10y ago
Nuclear generates a lot more kilowatt-hours per square-foot than renewables, especially in places that aren't very sunny or windy. I am not advocating for a 100% nuclear grid, but I don't see how we can get rid of coal without a d
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by maxfurman 10y ago
This is terrible news. Nuclear power, while not perfect, is one of the best alternatives we have to carbon-emitting power plants. If there are no companies left to build them, the already impossible task of fighting climate change will get
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by maxfurman 10y ago
Maybe this piece of evidence will be the one that finally convinces the governments of the world to take climate change seriously. And maybe I will wake up tomorrow with a third arm.
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by maxfurman 10y ago
Not a Rust expert by any means, this one piece of code from the example stuck out to me: `String::from("Ferris")`. What is the difference between that and `"Ferris"` on its own?
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by maxfurman 10y ago
I'm not sure I agree. My idea of "fixing the Uber problem" is increasing the payout to drivers so they can afford a hotel room at the end of a 14 hour shift. This will directly improve the conditions of Uber drivers, at least
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by maxfurman 10y ago
This isn't right. I know "drivers can choose," and nobody is forcing these people to live and work like this. It still feels wrong. One driver mentioned in the article leased his car from Uber and sleeps in it because it&#x27
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by maxfurman 10y ago
Actually, lots of people trust what they read on Facebook. They shouldn't, but they do.
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by maxfurman 10y ago
Not the parent, but I think it just means some cities are big enough markets to support a locally-focused newspaper but most smaller cities and towns aren't. It's no secret that local papers are dying but for example the Philadelp
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by maxfurman 10y ago
It's simple! If you want to believe it, it's "alternative media," and if you don't it's a filthy lie.
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by maxfurman 10y ago
This will not work, because the problem is not a lack of "news literacy," the problem is confirmation bias.
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by maxfurman 10y ago
On the Left, we used to make fun of Republicans for living in the Fox News bubble (Jon Stewart memorably dubbed it "Bullshit Mountain"), and how easily they were fooled by the constant stream of fake scandals (Death Panels! ACORN!
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by maxfurman 10y ago
They seem to have confused "every car" with "any car"
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by maxfurman 10y ago
I had the same thought. This article was published two years ago, surely that's enough time to measure the effect.
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by maxfurman 10y ago
By pure-Clojure stack, do you mean you use ClojureScript on the front end currently? If so, Om and Reagent are both Clojure-y wrappers around React anyway, so that would probably the smoothest transition for your team. And if not, why not?
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by maxfurman 11y ago
On top of that, Autodesk hasn't implemented HiDPI correctly on any of their products, making them borderline unusable on my otherwise beautiful 3840 x 2160 screen.
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by maxfurman 11y ago
How comparable is this tool to AutoCAD?
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by maxfurman 11y ago
Author here. Any questions? Fire away.
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