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by nicoffeine 5y ago
In this thread alone you said “hired a few” older devs, and yet discount one person’s experience as “anecdata” while you claim to have “real world experience.” The difference between the two is not “a few” - 1. I’ve worked with amazing devs
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by nicoffeine 5y ago
This is one of the things that makes me think Deno will ultimately win: Deno Goals: Simplify the module system - No attempt at compatibility with existing Node modules. - Imports are relative or absolute URLs ONLY. (See Semantic Ver
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by nicoffeine 5y ago
> If he understood that, he might understand that Jeff Bezos got rich not by exploiting people but rather by improving people’s lives The catch here is that it was a marginal improvement for some people, not everyone. Before e-commerce t
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by nicoffeine 5y ago
Our government wasn’t any better. January 20th, 2020: “We have it totally under control. It’s one person coming in from China, and we have it under control. It’s going to be just fine.” February 11th, 2020: “In our country, we only have, ba
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by nicoffeine 5y ago
I agree to some extent, but if the virus mutates among the unvaccinated and breaks through all current vaccines, small businesses profitability will be a small part of a much larger catastrophe.
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> Your documentation literally backs it up as a wide scale failure of an industry resulting from many contributing factors slowly building up over time, not an explicit conspiracy, or caused by concrete players who had all the cards and
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> Which ones exactly and how did they pull off this apparent massive conspiracy? Most of those details are in the findings of the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission [1]: "More than 30 years of deregulation and reliance on self-regu
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by nicoffeine 5y ago
Did the fed lobby for the end of regulations and then immediately tank the world economy with a pyramid scheme? Blaming the fed for the bailout is like blaming firefighters for putting out a fire instead of the arsonist. That’s a pretty str
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by nicoffeine 5y ago
> (central banks interventions are useless without bank and other financial intermediaries participation, it would be like pushing on a string). Yes, the only thing financial intermediaries would be missing is the actual funds (largely p
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by nicoffeine 5y ago
> I'm arguing that animal or lesser intelligence is built around hundreds of thousands of parlor tricks operating in a complex ensemble. Until ML/AI can perform a single one of those parlor tricks without the constant direction
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by nicoffeine 5y ago
Don’t worry, the only people saying that are the scientists who are studying it. “When Browne experimented with blue mussels back in 2008, many researchers thought animals would just excrete any microplastics they ate, like “unnatural fibe
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by nicoffeine 5y ago
> like showing up on time and sober, and following basic instructions Poor people are not stupid, or unambitious, and have the same addiction rates as the rich. Of course, rich addicts go to rehab, and poor addicts are imprisoned. When t
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by nicoffeine 5y ago
> If you think the most able individuals are creating and running the largest organizations, and know whats best for those organizations, why would you want the state to allocate those resources upon death of the individual? To prevent t
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by nicoffeine 5y ago
Are you seriously claiming that mathematics aren't being used to build fusion reactors and particle accelerators?
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"A large part of mathematics which becomes useful developed with absolutely no desire to be useful, and in a situation where nobody could possibly know in what area it would become useful; and there were no general indications that it
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by nicoffeine 5y ago
> Tech is not developed in secret large scale government run labs of yore. Real technology (advancement of science vs software+marketing) is still very much developed by governments, because they are the only entities willing to spend bi
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by nicoffeine 5y ago
> I'd guess it would be up to business programs and accounting programs and all these other college majors to actually teach classes in python and R, rather than what they do now which is teach classes in excel. Imo the entrenchment
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by nicoffeine 6y ago
Spot on. Who needs five weeks of vacation and years of maternity/paternity leave, or an affordable university and health care system? The important thing is to create technology companies with incredible ideas like "shipping items
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by nicoffeine 6y ago
> Gab had long provided commits at https://code.gab.com/ . Then, on Monday, the site suddenly removed all commits—including the ones that created and then fixed the critical SQL injection vulnerability. In their place, Ga
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by nicoffeine 6y ago
You keep trying to associate Parler and Gab as supporters of free speech. Parler was shut down because it refused to moderate content that incited violence. Gab's browser extension Dissenter was removed from Google and Firefox for the
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If you're planning on a violent assault on others, all those protections disappear. Free speech has well established limitations that are pretty easy to understand.
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by nicoffeine 6y ago
> Before 2020 all money printing went to banks, which increased the wealth of the 1% and increased asset prices, but it didn't create inflation No inflation in housing costs? Health care? Education? Fine art and collector car prices
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by nicoffeine 6y ago
You are still talking about iPhone parts. China is behind on leading edge integrated circuits.[1] However, China can manufacture a computer from entirely Chinese parts.[2] America cannot manufacture a computer from entirely American parts.
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by nicoffeine 6y ago
> If we end up in an actual war, we'll have more to worry about than not getting the latest iPhone for a few years. This is a supply issue with silicon/electronics in general. At this point, it would be more of a disaster for a
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by nicoffeine 6y ago
> I do not believe that in the four administrations which have taken place, there has been a single instance of departure from good faith towards other nations. we may sometimes have mistaken our rights, or made an erroneous estimate of
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by nicoffeine 6y ago
The world has undoubtedly changed but mostly for the better. Digital technology, however, is still in its infancy. Many users are brand new to the internet in the last ten years. I have learned to pace my time on the internet, but this is a
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by nicoffeine 6y ago
According to one analysis[1], it's anything but tame. The word cloud[2] kind of says it all. [1] https://www.thestreet.com/mishtalk/politics/a-very-disturbin... [2] https://imageproxy.themaven.net&
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by nicoffeine 6y ago
Make sure all your network devices / computers are synced via NTP, or at least accurate to the second. Hardwire the Pi to the network. Start a verbose traceroute and ping loop on a device on WiFi, as well as the Pi. Once it fails, obse
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by nicoffeine 6y ago
Recently we were considering flutter web. Dart/flutter seem to be more "batteries included" than npm dependency hell, but it's still in beta. https://flutter.dev/web https://github.com/Dr
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A tweet versus an FBI press briefing[1] where they discuss charging hundreds of people with federal crimes, including conspiracy to commit sedition. A tweet versus a statement from the Joint Chiefs of Staff that said, "The violent ri

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