mhaymo

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by mhaymo 9y ago
So what are the criteria for ideas which cannot even be discussed? Equating "gender differences are real and should inform our approach to diversity" to holocaust denial seems absurd.
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by mhaymo 9y ago
If you're genuinely interested, the writer of this poem, Russ Roberts, has in fact interviewed Daniel Sumner on that very subject, and they discuss in detail what subsidies exist in American agriculture, and the political economies tha
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by mhaymo 10y ago
Use Tor.
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by mhaymo 10y ago
I've always wondered why browsers don't put the contents of pages I visit into something like clucene, so I can search pages in my history by their contents, not just their titles and metadata. I'm sure there are security and
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by mhaymo 10y ago
The fact that many tickets are underpriced doesn't change the fact that TicketMaster's site is misleading and frustrating. Just because the market is willing to pay even more for the product than the advertised price + hidden fees
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by mhaymo 10y ago
IIRC Rayman Jungle Run and Rayman Fiesta Run are not at all annoying about in-app purchases. I paid once for the game and that's it, I don't even remember what was available to buy, cosmetic stuff probably. They're great fun
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by mhaymo 10y ago
That's a highly debatable factoid. Milk is in the back of the store because that's where deliveries come in, so it's easier to ensure it stays refrigerated at all times that way. http://www.npr.org/sections&#x
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by mhaymo 10y ago
I do use a vault-based password manager (KeePass), but investigated using a deterministic one out of fear of losing my database, a risk which is avoided by using a memorable algorithm to generate passwords instead.
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by mhaymo 10y ago
The standards don't need to be raised much. Banning the sale of internet-connected devices with non-random default passwords doesn't seem too intrusive for the benefits it will bring.
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by mhaymo 10y ago
Great podcast. It's largely about the fallacy that seemingly intractable problems can be solved with simple (and proprietary) machine learning models, and the damage we do by buying into it. In particular I don't know how the &quo
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by mhaymo 10y ago
> app quality has nothing to do with the amount spent on advertising Is that really true though? If I have a bad app that nobody wants and I'm not planning on improving, spending money advertising it would be a waste. The only peopl
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by mhaymo 10y ago
How exactly do you expect them to send an email to an address they only have a hash of?
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by mhaymo 10y ago
You go ahead.
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by mhaymo 10y ago
From the documentation of Iterator.sum https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/iter/trait.Iterator.html#metho... > When calling sum and a primitive integer type is being returned, this method will panic if the computatio
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by mhaymo 10y ago
Amazon is already weighting reviews based on whether they are verified purchases, among other features: http://www.cnet.com/uk/news/amazon-updates-customer-reviews-...
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by mhaymo 10y ago
It's a big world. India and Syria can exist simultaneously.
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by mhaymo 10y ago
The market cannot decide that invading an individual's privacy for their entertainment is ok. The negative externality there is massive.
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by mhaymo 10y ago
Are you implying that Gawker's actions in this case were a twisted form of "editorial integrity", and not page-view-seeking? That is hard for me to believe.
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by mhaymo 10y ago
My understanding is the rules are now simpler: A reply will not show up to your followers unless they follow the person being replied to, just as before. All other tweets will be shown. I seem to remember some celebrity being mocked because
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by mhaymo 10y ago
Forgive my ignorance, but doesn't std::unique_ptr communicate the same restriction, and therefore enable the same optimisations?
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by mhaymo 11y ago
I've found the opposite, that TDD helps me most when the spec or my understanding of the spec is fuzzy, by forcing me to make decisions about behaviour up-front and clarify my thinking. Otherwise I can get bogged down trying to impleme
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by mhaymo 11y ago
Not that I disagree with your point, but it's not true that Amazon had "nothing to do with the ruling". According to Wikipedia, they were the original complainants: > Shortly after January 31, Amazon sent a letter to the F
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by mhaymo 11y ago
You are clearly misrepresenting the author. The second part of the article starts with a concession that democracy is beneficial despite the lack of consent. He is arguing that the non-consensual nature of government suggests limited local
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by mhaymo 11y ago
> Claiming users weren’t using the encryption feature, and therefore that encryption is unnecessary, is of course a disingenuous argument on Amazon’s part. Users also hate using strong passwords — is Amazon going to encourage users to di
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by mhaymo 11y ago
But for the most part those alternative implementations have similar designs and performance characteristics to the most popular implementation. E.g. for Java, all major modern implementations use a JIT, and the language lends itself to a J
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by mhaymo 11y ago
They are asking for 10 particular cases, each of which requires a warrant. The point stands that this is not an incident of mass or unwarranted surveillance.
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by mhaymo 11y ago
or Amazon.
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by mhaymo 11y ago
My understanding is that Uber is profitable in cities that they're established in. They're only unprofitable overall because they're spending aggressively on growth. http://www.techinsider.io/ubers-revenue-pro
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by mhaymo 11y ago
Acoording to Wikipedia, Better Call Saul is produced by Sony for AMC, not Netflix: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Better_Call_Saul#Development_h... > Netflix was one of many interested distributors, but ultimately a
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by mhaymo 11y ago
How are the issues you listed relative? How does Mark Zuckerberg being super-rich contribute to "huge swaths of our country do not have the ability to fully explore and develop their talents"?

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