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by mikeash 7y ago
I agree that this would have been fine. But at the same time, it also shouldn’t be a big deal to get a contract that says what it’s supposed to before you sign it.
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by mikeash 7y ago
“It’s just standard whatever” is really fun when you want a change and you have all the leverage. It’s hilarious to watch the tune change when you say you just won’t sign in that case. Alas, I’ve only been in this position once.
843.
by mikeash 7y ago
I don’t know about that. One requirement of a contract is a “meeting of the minds,” i.e. both sides are in agreement. An X indicates that, but “unverifiable” would seem not to.
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by mikeash 7y ago
The war in drugs got started as a way to go after leftists and minorities: https://www.cnn.com/2016/03/23/politics/john-ehrlichman-rich... There are a lot of mundane things keeping it going, but sometime
845.
by mikeash 7y ago
Approximately nobody is saying that we should invade SA and overthrow the government. But could we at least stop selling them weapons and giving them nuclear technology and giving them defensive cover from our military?
846.
by mikeash 7y ago
How many decades of a horrendous human rights record and exporting terrorism does it take before we admit that making friends with horrible people doesn’t improve them?
847.
by mikeash 7y ago
The article I found said 60%, but that could easily be wrong or just out of date.
848.
by mikeash 7y ago
If you count by shares, yes. But his stock gets more votes, so he owns 60% of the votes.
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by mikeash 7y ago
My non-citizen wife is a web designer for a minor department at the Smithsonian. They had to employ her through the non-profit, non-governmental side because the government side wouldn’t employ a non-citizen.
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by mikeash 7y ago
That McDonald’s thing sounds clever but it boils down to “the US’s Cold War system of alliances lined up closely with its economic ties.”
851.
by mikeash 7y ago
I don’t see how “Makes you think, doesn't it?” would imply anything more than the comment it was in response to.
852.
by mikeash 7y ago
Make your prisons humane, don’t force-feed anyone, and accept the condemnation that occurs when one of your prisoners decides to starve himself to death anyway.
853.
by mikeash 7y ago
It’s not slippery at all. Life isn’t fair. Keeping prisoners means you’re responsible for them, and that means that sometimes you’re going to be responsible for problems. There doesn’t have to be a way out of this.
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by mikeash 7y ago
Maybe we should house these prisoners under conditions where they don’t become suicidal, then.
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by mikeash 7y ago
It’s just exposure and acceptance (or lack thereof). Fifty years ago we (the US) were carpet bombing neutral countries as part of a bloody war to prop up a brutal dictatorship. Around the same time, we were shooting protestors and systemati
856.
by mikeash 7y ago
I wonder how much of a speedup you could get by doing eye tracking and only rendering high quality for the area within the fovea.
857.
by mikeash 7y ago
I read that as implying that the SSD is part of the standard memory hierarchy, byte-addressable and not requiring a filesystem. No need to load assets: just create pointers into the SSD's address space. Sort of a modern version of the
858.
by mikeash 7y ago
I guess this is a specific example of the Blub Paradox. I saw this a lot when Swift came out. Suddenly a lot of Objective-C programmers were learning a new language with a fairly different type system, and it was tough. The Optional type wa
859.
by mikeash 7y ago
I don’t understand this reply. It would make sense if they were arguing that it needs to have VR support or else it will fail, but all they did was state their own personal opinion.
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by mikeash 7y ago
The context makes it clear that they used “RISC-V” as a shorthand for “modern, sophisticated implementations of RISC-V.” Yes, we all know that you can implement RISC-V using a clever arrangement of turtles and that the resulting egg-gestati
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by mikeash 7y ago
What stands out for me is the casual acceptance of this behavior for negative parameters. It returns an empty list so it’s all good? No way! Asking for a list of negative length is a conceptual error. This should at least be an assert. That
862.
by mikeash 7y ago
Better or worse than the assumption that limits in one of the most safety-conscious industries are unrelated to safety?
863.
by mikeash 7y ago
I’m sure they also have no mechanism to lie about their tactics on social media sites like HN.
864.
by mikeash 7y ago
He compares Yelp to the Mafia and hands out discounts in exchange for one-star reviews. This seems rather mild by comparison.
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by mikeash 7y ago
Is that really the right way to count it? A lot of the CO2 for a solar panel is because the factory is connected to a dirty grid. If the factory was connected to a clean grid this would go away, and it’s involved in making this happen. Shou
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by mikeash 7y ago
What I describe is plan B. Your plan A was tried and the result was as I described. Mandating timings doesn’t quite work.
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by mikeash 7y ago
The problem is that it creates perverse incentives for governments to make intersections more dangerous in order to raise ticket revenue. We really need to change things to ticket fees don’t go to the issuing government. Then this stuff wou
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by mikeash 7y ago
Yes, I’m sure the number of digits is correct and that’s all we really need here. I was just blown away at meat consumption expressed down th a hundredth of a cow.
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by mikeash 7y ago
I doubt they’d bother to euthanize you first.
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by mikeash 7y ago
I’m annoyed that those figures are given to a precision of ten animals. No way is that correct! And some of the figures on that one have a precision of hundredths of an animal?!

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