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by meesles 7y ago
To be fair, there's no reason to assume we will be fine either. Our timeline is pretty short and humanity has hardly ever had to face a climate event on the scale that people expect will happen: some kind of massive ice-age event and&#
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by meesles 7y ago
I don't know, there's something utopian about what you describe. If the city doesn't have housing for everyone, why should the rich get it first? Leave capitalism at the door, we're talking about a roof over your head fo
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by meesles 7y ago
That misses the point. Theft and hacking are still prevalent, that hasn't changed. What's changed is that people expect software like Facebook, Twitter, or Gmail for free. Decades ago the average consumer walked into a Fry's
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by meesles 7y ago
I recently stumbled on this project, seems promising: https://syncthing.net/
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by meesles 7y ago
100% agreed. I've always found it very ironic that governments want the best and brightest when they never pay market rates. Not only do they want the best and brightest, they want them to selflessly serve their country at the cost of
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by meesles 7y ago
100%. Look at Ruby's community. It's a pretty great community in my experience, but at the end of the day Matz, Kokubun, etc. act as gatekeepers. Democratic creation of software would be a disaster. There's so many philosophi
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by meesles 7y ago
What you think you want while in classes and the shifting realities once you enter the workforce and be pretty night-and-day. Personally I would have entertained the idea at working at a "Big 4"-type company out of school knowing
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by meesles 7y ago
Science gives us answers. Culture gives us meaning.
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by meesles 7y ago
Fear not, my friend, because the execution is only a part of why music and art as a whole carries meaning for us. Consider two tracks that are identical (forget copywrite for a minute). Between one that an AI generated and a human composed,
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by meesles 7y ago
One important point I didn't see mentioned was the other side: engineers also think they're worth more than they are. I posit the big VC-backed or FAANG companies 1) can offer huge initial salaries to not have to deal with competi
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by meesles 8y ago
Resource consumption is less of a concern to me than general 'snappiness'. Since I have a bunch of RAM, go ahead and use it all if I can have a good experience. I don't actually use Atom, though I use Sublime full time. My bi
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by meesles 8y ago
That's always been the case, right? Freedom of speech, EXCEPT when it directly negatively affects the person due to reputation or fear. Freedom to protest, as long as it isn't interfering with certain government functions and you
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by meesles 8y ago
Definitely a little bizarre, but I could justify it if needed: Atom caters more to the lightweight editor crowd (along with Sublime) VSCode will continue to deeply integrate with intellisense and typed languages to become a 'new'
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by meesles 8y ago
I cannot fathom not being able to picture my loved ones at any time. I know it gives many people the little motivation they need to push through hard times. Do you happen to use photos and written word more than others to try and make up fo
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by meesles 8y ago
This. I think you and I (and I venture to say many people reading HN) are a specific type of person. Where mundane difficulties such as dealing with a predictable 'bad driver' actually gives us ammo for optimizing our habits and a
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by meesles 8y ago
I see the new Subaru's have this feature where they seem to track your eyes and alert you if you're looking down at your lap. I think that could be a possible solution, it needs to be in the vehicle since the vehicle is the thing
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by meesles 8y ago
This resonates with common social problems we're all familiar with: People like stereotyping because it's a way to categorize humans without having to think too hard about their differences. To me the issue stems from an even deep
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by meesles 8y ago
You'd be betting on the probability of outcomes of choosing startups with successful outcomes, you must see the absurdity! Regardless, at least a lottery's odds are fixed. For a startup not only do you have a direct impact on the
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by meesles 8y ago
> China has a literacy rate of 96.4% So what? Literacy raises the average but doesn't prevent huge class gaps in populations. OP's point is valid in the same way that the 1% in the USA can pay for their kids to attend elite sch
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by meesles 8y ago
Fair point, but where are you getting your statement "For the time being a couple percent of the electorate selects your house member"? As far as I know, voter turnout is at least a magnitude higher. It's important to realize
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by meesles 8y ago
I've been browsing HN for maybe 6 years and haven't had the pleasure of seeing this article come up, thanks so much for sharing! Few articles have given me such a feeling of 'enlightenment'.
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by meesles 8y ago
I find the overpopulation argument really interesting in how it compares to similar issues: 1. There's too many humans, killing humans to reduce the population isn't really a palatable solution to anyone. 2. There's too many
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by meesles 8y ago
This comes of pretty judge-y. Take a moment to consider all the waste you also produce each day. Not to mention you're making the problem worse by making people defensive about their decisions, which just makes them go deeper and be un
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by meesles 8y ago
Let's not pretend most crimes result in punishment, especially at this level of business and government. Cynicism sucks, but I prefer it to blissful ignorance.
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by meesles 8y ago
Doesn't sound like a solution that gets a ton of people rich... pass! /s
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by meesles 8y ago
I don't know if the oath comparison works out so well for development. Let us not forget that each physician is directly responsible for a life every time they see someone. They also have a more direct effect on the success or failure
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by meesles 8y ago
I've already ranted against blog posts titled 'X is Hard'. Yet another hits the top post on HN. Yes, most things are hard, especially when you can describe it in detail as an 'expert'. To a layman, anything can be h
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by meesles 8y ago
There's this common misconception that young workers never put in extra hours before the Silicon Valley culture picked up. That's just untrue. Younger workers have always used energy and enthusiasm to make up for experience and sk
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by meesles 8y ago
At the risk of opening a can of worms, I think the author is right and you are contributing to the systemic issue by trying to deflect their mention of privilege. If you are a white male, you have privilege. I don't think OP would ever
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by meesles 8y ago
I think your and OPs logic has a fatal assumption: that the quality of work done by a mechanic for a fix is worse than the manufacturer's replacement. There is a possibility of failure in either one, right? It's people doing the w

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