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by mekoka 6y ago
The full sentence went > Leaving it up to local voters makes it sound like it's ok for a police dept to misbehave, eg harass minorities or evade accountability, as long as the majority voters in that city/county are ok with it
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by mekoka 6y ago
> I don't think that such a falsehood belief exists and therefore pydis disproves nothing. You don't think such a falsehood belief exists, therefore you don't think pydis disproves anything.
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by mekoka 6y ago
It works both ways though. When the data presented to us suit our current view or agenda, we somehow feel that it's valid. I remember when discussions about "open plans" or "estimates" were still a thing, without fa
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by mekoka 6y ago
I didn't get the feeling that the author disagreed that programming has a crafty nature. But since building software also has some engineering aspects, he is pointing out that you (as an organization or project leader) could wait for t
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by mekoka 6y ago
Why is it fascinating if it's not a false dichotomy? Google is not a startup. It's like saying that you're puzzled because companies operating from a garage are not held to the same standards than a fortune 500. When Google t
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by mekoka 6y ago
I've come to a point where the Google brand has such a strong association with "ephemeral" that, if Gmail had been launched today, I would probably not even bother getting an account.
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by mekoka 6y ago
If the extra details simplify the contents, go for it. Why should simplicity be conflated with conciseness?
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by mekoka 6y ago
So in order for it to be good, it needs to be <insert your long Santa Claus list here> . Basically, it sucks.
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by mekoka 6y ago
A few years ago I noticed how popular some of the early rescues captured on videos were getting and I became worried that this exact situation would become a thing. Fast-forward today and humanity is as predictable as ever, animal "res
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by mekoka 6y ago
But youtube-dl is not a "pirate method", it's a neutral tool for downloading video contents. Presumably, you have the right to download those contents.
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by mekoka 6y ago
I don't even know if some of the authors are aware that their contents are now behind a paywall. Yet, people keep recommending those articles as if they're openly accessible (because for some reason they have access). Yesterday
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by mekoka 6y ago
Your comment would be useful if it didn't so completely missed the point. Its rightful context would be productivity . But here it is sitting atop a thread of comments for an article about an approach to note taking , inducing people
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by mekoka 6y ago
The double negative has its use beyond language sophistication. It can serve to more specifically mark a neutral stance in a vocabulary that may seem to only offer a dichotomy. e.g. what I have available is I like her and I don't l
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by mekoka 6y ago
> Some times your customers don't realize they need what you're building until they see it and use it. This. That's one big part of testing the hypothesis that I feel a lot of people (including mentoring organizations) rea
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by mekoka 6y ago
HN is a constant reminder that the bane of the smart person is to be blinded about their ignorance by their own mind.
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by mekoka 6y ago
I had a different take. It didn't feel tacked on to me, but rather that season 1 was like a benign initiation phase, a dip-a-toe-in-the-crazy kinda deal. By season 2, they felt confident that the audience was now ready for the real d
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by mekoka 6y ago
Granted The OA is not for everyone, but I thought it was one of the best and imaginative things I'd seen on TV in recent years. I loved that it made me go "wtf is going on?" It truly was an escape from reality. It was bizarre
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by mekoka 6y ago
They're not just annoying, they possibly don't get the point of big O. The n in O(n) means that at the time of algorithm design the size of the data is unknown and considered unbound. If you already know its upper limit then it be
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by mekoka 6y ago
I always recommend learning Git by starting at chapter 10 ( https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Internals-Plumbing-and-Po... ) of the Git book. Granted the content is a bit technical and the advice generally dir
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by mekoka 6y ago
There was much I disagreed with in this post, but I had a hard time even addressing a single point, as I felt that it was a bit all over the place. I decided to first try to condense it a bit. In the end I realized that I understood the aut
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by mekoka 6y ago
A person can make mistakes, make amends and grow into a better person, or they could start good and turn to the dark side. In either case we expect their character to project a certain amount of consistency. An individual that continuously
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by mekoka 6y ago
Maybe there's something I'm missing about the appeal of H1B, but I don't understand why this announcement would be a big game changer in a post-Covid-19 world. Organizations are in the midst of more drastic adaptations and H1
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by mekoka 6y ago
The boldness of this decision is a sure sign that YouTube feels quite comfortable in its quasi monopoly.
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by mekoka 6y ago
Why do you take issue with the excerpt then? It agrees with your follow-up point. People have bills to pay. It's a day-to-day struggle. They can't afford to throw away their job, so they have to compromise their principles and mor
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by mekoka 6y ago
> Software doesn't exist in a vacuum. Strip down everything to its bare essentials (i.e. just beyond the vacuum) and you have: a Programmer, a Software and (maybe) a User. The sentence above is a common trope that people believe jus
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by mekoka 6y ago
It's not necessary nor useful to create a false dichotomy. The safety of the AppStore may be a reason to have a strict review policy, but it should not become an excuse to abuse of that policy. The price tag of safety is certainly some
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by mekoka 6y ago
My main dissatisfaction with Vitamin D studies is the fact that they usually try to isolate it as a self-contained factor that you can simply raise or lower and observe effects, while neglecting the complex system it is normally a part of.
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by mekoka 6y ago
I think I understand the sentiment behind this post. But a few things give me pause: > Are you willing to pay 50-100 euros/dollars per year to keep MDN afloat? I've seen some open-source authors/contributors successfully r
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by mekoka 6y ago
> Employees have agency, they aren't wild elephants who need your "protection" from "predators" who just want to pay them more. I think your analogy is only slightly apt. I rather see the company being raided for
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Cooking Meals with a Rice Cooker (2008)(rogerebert.com)
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