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by mhuffman 8y ago
Louis CK (before his troubles!) did a great job at this. He reached out a couple of times a year, put time into the email to make it entertaining, and only tried to pitch items that were of high quality. Now compare that to the shit you get
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by mhuffman 8y ago
Doesn't violence emerge naturally as soon as the concept arise of property ownership, protecting the safety of oneself (or one's family or one's community), and trade of any sort? Because all of those beget law or government
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by mhuffman 8y ago
WHAT PostgreSQL IS DOING TO WINDOW FUNCTIONS, WILL SHAKE YOU TO YOUR CORE! On a serious note, PostgreSQL is the epitome, IMHO, of an open-source project that is tightly managed, but still able to change with the times and the user-bases cha
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by mhuffman 8y ago
> there's some ridiculous pistachio laundering scheme Believe it or not, this is pushed by the same folks that own Fiji Water and Pom Wonderful.
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by mhuffman 8y ago
Which triplestore are you using that gives great front-end performance at load?
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by mhuffman 8y ago
I wonder what that number looks like from 2001-2016?
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by mhuffman 8y ago
It seems that centralized power would benefit from encouraging differences and factions in its citizenry. This keeps any sort of broad mobilization limited in scope and also if force needs to be used against a mobilizing group, there is alw
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by mhuffman 8y ago
Well reporting it is important even if you learned nothing. It could be that you personally could learn nothing, or it could be that there is nothing to learn. Distributing findings is core to scientific progress even if your findings are u
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by mhuffman 8y ago
"Borrow"?
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by mhuffman 8y ago
I think this is because of the tobacco farmers that no longer make money hand-over-fist they way they used to. Hemp has the same kind of high-income-to-low-work cred as tobacco, but times 20! They also still have all the equipment necessary
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by mhuffman 8y ago
Wow! You really need sources to prove to yourself that MIT students are smarter on average than a typical first-year student chosen at random from any University or Community College in the US?
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by mhuffman 8y ago
Thanks, those are reasonable theories. I think the third one seems most likely to answer my question ... minorities are actually getting the loans that they are qualified for, but have to apply more times than an equally qualified white per
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by mhuffman 8y ago
... or just set up a fully automated system that specializes in offering these underserviced loans ...
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by mhuffman 8y ago
I understand, and agree with the "stickiness" of both racism and poverty, but like I mentioned above, home loans are one thing because maybe those racist people thought that "the blacks" where going to bring down their p
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by mhuffman 8y ago
I get all of that, but it in no way explains the question that I asked. How do the terrible atrocities of the past cause auto lenders of today to deny minorities loans based on racism alone and not business sense? That is my question and th
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by mhuffman 8y ago
> Why does it have to be a business model? Humans are not rational actors. True! I guess my real point was why no arbitrageurs eating the free money up? > The segregation era almost certainly lost tremendous amounts of money for retai
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by mhuffman 8y ago
This insinuates that car lenders are racist. I am truly curious of what the business model of denying minorities a car loan is? I mean, long ago, I guess I can at least process the ugly mindset of "we don't want 'them' a
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by mhuffman 8y ago
I have a serious question to ask you. Do blind software engineers work exclusively on systems-type applications or does there exist technology for blind developers to create UIs?
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by mhuffman 8y ago
Twitter was dying since it began ... remember it's very difficult growth after inception ... and that it can't seem to make money no matter what it does? I believe Twitter is a monument to the 2010's second dot com bubble, an
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by mhuffman 8y ago
Also watching a youtube video on Javascript makes you a "Software Engineer". Bit of a slap to what an actual engineer (in any concentration) has to go through to get a degree.
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by mhuffman 8y ago
Broken arrow?[1] ... or similar? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_military_nuclear...
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by mhuffman 8y ago
Hard to stay relevant when half of their joke headlines could be real these days. (eg. "President Threatens Stock Market")
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by mhuffman 8y ago
Well I mean everything is lawful commerce until it isn't. That doesn't mean it was right to do.
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by mhuffman 8y ago
You didn't really answer the question posed to you by OP. You just crowed about how awesome it is to be able to sue backpage now. This doesn't specifically target child-prostitution. It easily could have, but doesn't. It targ
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by mhuffman 8y ago
I don't agree with Ray Dalio on everything, but his take on the business cycle seems useful and solid: [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHe0bXAIuk0
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by mhuffman 8y ago
I have used python for years and years in very high performance setups. Usually uWSGi behind openresty. On the other hand, I scoff when I see PHP used for anything whatsoever. It is a god-awful language with terrible performance in high-us
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by mhuffman 8y ago
I call bullshit! More than 50% of companies have positions that could telecommute and 24%+ of people telecommute fully or partly now.[2] People do want to live in large cities because of all the cool shit there to do, and that convenience c
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by mhuffman 8y ago
The ones that make me rage is where they say something along the lines of "Opt out of ad tracking" then have a disclaimer that says something like "you're still going to get a bunch of ads, they will just suck worse&quot
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by mhuffman 8y ago
Yes, by accident. People went wild on Reddit. He called them weirdos and edited his face out of the video, then everything went back to normal.
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by mhuffman 8y ago
> It is not the society, but market/economics of today that value intelligence more than anything else, mainly because it is directly correlated with economic output Unfortunately, I think this is spot on. Sadly, In the US at least,

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