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by mmt 8y ago
> you could apply the same logic to any comment anywhere. That was, essentially, my point all along. Unfortunately, I think that what dang is saying is that the job posting thread requires special treatment and guidelins that are, inexpl
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by mmt 8y ago
This strikes me as a description, possibly even a caricature, of what collective bargaining has ahieved in certain scenarios. It may even describe what is an inevitable outcome, but, absent compelling evidence, even that is merely conjectur
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by mmt 8y ago
What I've been talking about, specifically , is cognitive abilities and your seemingly extraordinary claim (extraordinary because you insist it necessarily applies to every member of the species). You now seem to have veered off into
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by mmt 8y ago
> what you are describing is against the tos of steam. > They have done everything within their power to make this not legitimate. There's no evidence they've done everything in their power to eliminate grey market transacti
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by mmt 8y ago
Where are they on-topic? Truth or fairness, as checked by moderators, isn't a standard for discussion anywhere else on HN. For that matter, does that mean you're checking the truth and/or fairness of all of these job postings
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by mmt 8y ago
I think I understand what you're asking, and (I hope), that's also what I'm suggesting as an answer. That is, even though having a monoculture may feel vaguely off, for most people, conflict feels much more intensely off.
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by mmt 8y ago
> In technology, though, we seem to embrace the monoculture for things. Languages, implementations, everything. I would say there's a pretty straightfoward explanation for that: monocultures are, in general, far easier . Usually (u
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by mmt 8y ago
> a person who's driving force is profit rather than lust for power I don't think it's a safe assumption that those who manage corporations (as opposed to those who merely own them) are categorically driven by profit mor
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by mmt 8y ago
That's a weak analogy, since the vast majority of products that are called "wireless" really are substituting, with radio (or optical), for products that would otherwise use wires.
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by mmt 8y ago
> pay for exactly what you use Is that a pragmatic consideration, though, or just a conceptual one? My main concern is with the word "exactly", since cloud providers can charge a remarkable markup, which means that, though one
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by mmt 8y ago
Although I agree that the comment to which you're replying deserves a bit of dismissiveness, I can't help but think that your response is overly colored by the "speed kills" rhetoric we often hear. I'm pretty sure
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by mmt 8y ago
I would argue that just means we've particularly customized the driving UX [1] to humans, not that other species lack some fundamental capacity for it. It has saddened me that we've traditionally started from a position of human e
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by mmt 8y ago
> “Hypocrisy” is not one of the factors in whether something is fair use. There is, however, the legal concept of estoppel, which is, essentially, a prohibition on legal-argument hypocrisy. As I understand it (IANAL), it applies to much
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by mmt 8y ago
To be fair, it was a response to my accusation of legitimate exchange for real-world money, which, if any grey-market is involved, is technically not fully legitimate (according to, e.g. Steam). There's also the argument that, because
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by mmt 8y ago
> As a "watch wearer" I find wearing the watch to be the whole point. I am, indeed, surprised by that, but only, again, because it seems passive. Is there more to it, like being seen? Seeing others' reactions? I'm gen
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by mmt 8y ago
I assume that observation applies to more than just front-end development. At least I've personally seen the effect more generally. I think another self-interested actor is the "nobody ever got fired for buying IBM" manager,
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by mmt 8y ago
> What factors could cause this to be a bad idea? Need for proximity? Network speeds? Security? In short, yes to all. Specifically, fallacy [1] numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, and 7. Maybe number 5. None of those are necessarily insurmountable. Howe
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by mmt 8y ago
> Buying the watch is not the hobby, wearing it is. I'm not sure I see the distinction between "wearing it" and merely "owning it", as they both seem somewhat passive activities (if you'll pardon the oxymoro
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by mmt 8y ago
> But compared to the cost of dredging for ferries, maybe it's still cheaper? I think the point is that it doesn't matter, if it's simply not cheap enough . The shallowness of the estuarial coastline significantly drive
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by mmt 8y ago
> continually pressuring spouses to spend above their means (I agree with you).. but back to the original commenter's point about the behavior, versus the object of the behavior: Do you believe that eliminating (or sufficienctly dis
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by mmt 8y ago
I think you're getting closer to a more useful definition of "toxic" here than your original comment where you asserted "There is one clear side that is wrong". The problem with this latter/original assertion i
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by mmt 8y ago
My argument is twofold: Firstly, that merely visually observing the surface of a mountain ("look around when you drove through it") is insufficient to draw meaningful conclusions about the overall geology from an engineering per
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by mmt 8y ago
> I can’t believe that anyone thinks the brain is somehow the only organ of the human body that does not decline with age You don't have to believe it. Actually, I happen no to. I'm pretty sure the human liver is remarkably goo
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by mmt 8y ago
> Loot boxes do not have the 3rd element of gambling Huh? I thought it was well established that there is value and that, in some cases, it could even be "legitimately" (even according to the rules of the game provider) traded
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by mmt 8y ago
At least for jurisdictions like Nevada, heavy regulation and verification. I'd expect that's part of the point of regulating something that appears to be gambling as gambling, to ensure that it is, at least, fair (for some defin
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by mmt 8y ago
> People think anything that can't fit in to excel is somehow 'big data'. To be fair, I'd say this is only true if "excel" is generalized to "the largest non-distributed-computing tool they're pers
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by mmt 8y ago
> an industry focused on engineering I'm not sure that's the whole story, though, especially considering how much of the "industry" is VC-driven and how few VCs are engineers.
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by mmt 8y ago
I could be wrong, but my understanding is also that fatalities per event tends to be in the low single digits. There are just a high number of fatal collisions. That, of course, makes sense if cars generally have 1 or 2 occupants and accide
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by mmt 8y ago
> situations in which the last 100m can be designed around self driving vehicles Although that's a true statement, I'd argue that it's essentially meaningless for existing cities on a time scale less than multiple decades.
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by mmt 8y ago
I doubt it, since the argument you're suggesting is that the ISP didn't take the best possible care, whereas the standard for negligence is, I believe (IANAL), reasonable care. They may also not even have a duty of care in the

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