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by mihaic 4y ago
Funny that you picked on this specific example on a broader point. Every time serious regulators have made a strong move, crypto markets and general population access to crypto products have actually been affected. I'm pretty sure if t
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by mihaic 4y ago
HN seems to actively work on a cognitive dissonance: on the one hand producing inspirational stories of entrepreneurs changing the world and on the other abandoning all hope that technology/market forces can be controlled in any way. I
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by mihaic 4y ago
If you don't want to refurbish them, then just stop offering the option to your customers. Acting in a different way than what you're signaling is in itself disrespectful.
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by mihaic 4y ago
It might be anglo-saxon style. I've never seen them in mainland Europe in this format.
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by mihaic 4y ago
I got the same impression, as coming from the modern style of "open-mindedness", which seems to be interpreted not as judging an idea by its merits alone, but by giving more weight to non-establishment ideas.
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by mihaic 4y ago
The first time I saw US-style collegiate debate, it seemed like a great mind-game. Over time I've come to consider it though as the sign of a bullshitting culture, where the truth is irrelevant, and winning the argument is all that mat
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by mihaic 4y ago
We sometimes make life-changing decisions based on where Jupiter was when we were born. I mean, we've been struggling for milenia against our biases. I'd let some time pass until we can decide on what these ML models can get subtl
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by mihaic 4y ago
We are forced to work with the imperfections of the human mind, and a great deal of effort in our world is put into working with them. Why would we want more of this?
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by mihaic 4y ago
I've been asking myself the same question, and my answer is a combination of post-covid general trauma with human interactions and social media turning people ironically more anti-social (actually having fun is not very instagramable).
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by mihaic 4y ago
I know I'm in the minority, but I dislike both version of the syntax, since I think chained code is almost always worse than just being forced to use intermediary variables for everything. While it's fine to say Object.entries().m
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by mihaic 4y ago
I've got a strong objection with "You don’t really understand something if you can not explain it using simple words." While understanding and being able to give a simple explanation are correlated, this statement doesn'
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by mihaic 4y ago
I wanted to post almost the same comment. While it might sometimes be true, since a practitioner has an easier time to identify a fellow sinner, it's terribly wrong at other times: most upright individuals strongly dislike corruption f
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by mihaic 4y ago
I agree that separating them makes sense. What's happened in practice is that "carbon footprint" has become almost synonymous with environmental impact as a whole from a responsibility point of view, leading to poor behavior
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by mihaic 4y ago
I personally dislike how environmental damage was rebranded as "carbon footprint", since it removes all nuance, ignoring for instance low-CO2 carcinogens that destroy our bodies. This quantification into a single number is also pr
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by mihaic 4y ago
A rule system that protects against all kinds of abuse becomes rigid and unpleasant. It's fine to support returns in principle, but when people start just because they equate morally ok with legal, things turn to crap for everyone. I&#
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by mihaic 4y ago
I'm just giving my personal experience. Productivity and my overall wellbeing really got better when I got rid of developers that try to write "smart" code.
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by mihaic 4y ago
I've worked with plenty of these people in the past, and I've mostly abandoned hope for them. Most of these issues stem of from a lack of understanding in the importance of designing a system that is simple consistent, where the l
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by mihaic 4y ago
I don't think it's a problem of legislation as much as forgetting to repeat the message that danger is everywhere. A car can easily crush you, electricity can stop your heart. Don't be paralyzed in fear, but still think a bit
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by mihaic 4y ago
I actually think AI is much more like VR or 3D-cinema tech than Web3: it sounds like it might be a game changer, but nobody actually likes the new medium that much after the initial cool factor. AI generated images are much more impressive
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by mihaic 4y ago
How is death by dragon an analogy to death in general? While I understand the general concept, the metaphor is way too forced -- you can't just toggle something in your universe and keep everything the same. Exhalation by Ted Chiang fo
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by mihaic 4y ago
When I was a child I used to wonder why it wasn't illegal to have people present the horoscope on TV. Trustworthy adults had confirmed it was lying and had also told me that lying in the news was forbidden, so how could there be TV sho
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by mihaic 4y ago
I did, it just was poorly written with second order ideas and non sequitors, instead of trying to identify the primary concepts. > Try double clicking on that ID to select and copy it. You can’t. The browser interprets it as 5 different
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by mihaic 4y ago
After reading this article, my impression of Planetscale as a brand actually got worse. It seem to miss most of the essential bits of information: * The basic concept is that they just want to use a bigger alphabet to encode more informatio
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by mihaic 4y ago
One thing I've noticed when changing TV channels was that I never seem to hear a half-word. I always seem to just register the first full word I hear, and my brain doesn't even pass onto the concious layers that incomplete stub of
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by mihaic 4y ago
I've been often surprised at how many "cloud nerds" are in the US, that know so many of the Latin classification terms for different cloud formations. In Europe it seems to be a much more niched thing, and I've never hea
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by mihaic 4y ago
Past experience is not a perfect predictor, but still much better than almost anything else. I'm pretty sure you'd feel safer going into an operations if the surgeon said "I've done this 100 times now" instead of &q
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by mihaic 4y ago
The difference is that on many consumers stores you have a much higher percent of impulse shopping, that actually increases revenue with some amount of time wasting. PMs can use that as justification to add all sorts of frustrating patterns
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by mihaic 4y ago
I always see McMaster-Carr praised on HN, but almost never does it seem to be acknowledged as website that can only exist for engineers. Generalizing anything from it onto the general internet population seems like thinking about education
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by mihaic 4y ago
Am I the only one bothered that he didn't first optimize the HashSet solution to O(N)? When sliding the window, you increase the counter for the new element, decrease the counter for leaving element, and update for each element how man
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by mihaic 4y ago
When scams and manias become widespread, it doesn't matter if you personally don't fall for them, if enough of the people around you and pension fund managers fall for them. I'm also not saying "ban all crypto", but

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