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by nikitaga 5y ago
Anyone can behave like an evil profit-seeking private corporation, but some organizations deliberately choose not to do that, and enjoy the resulting respect, recognition, tax benefits, and public funding that comes with it. Also, A/B
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Sure, but that does not solve anything. That does not help your relationship, because interpersonal relationships where you can't express your honest feelings and ideas are hollow, fake – worse than useless. That doesn't help anyt
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by nikitaga 5y ago
I don't need to imagine. You sit them down and you learn that they inhabit a completely different reality from your own. You try to describe your reality, and they dismiss it because it disagrees with their "reality". You try
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by nikitaga 5y ago
> Scala has a unique way of encouraging genius programmers to write crazy code. Scala is a popular platform to explore FP concepts without fully understanding their caveats or having enough respect for the rest of the team's ability
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by nikitaga 5y ago
I've seen a variety of Scala codebases from awesome to terrible (and a lot in between). Guess what, they all use the same Scala. Scala offers you many design choices that work well in skilled hands, but because it is so non-prescript
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by nikitaga 5y ago
OTOH, just two of the bugs that annoyed me today: https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-256708 - Regression: Markdown preview vertical sync does not work anymore - Makes editing long documentation files a pa
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by nikitaga 5y ago
Meanwhile IntelliJ is rotting with months-old bugs that render entire features useless, with no fixes and no ETAs in sight. The only product that I pay money for that constantly, on almost every release, pains me with new bugs, a good porti
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by nikitaga 5y ago
Can confirm, foot gunned myself over and over even though I'm not doing anything complicated. Couldn't figure out the last memory corruption trap I fell into, had to abandon ship. I'm honestly surprised how well regarded Ardu
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by nikitaga 5y ago
I checked it in practice, and it seems fine. Reading and parsing a 115200 baud telemetry stream from the ESC is the most expensive part of the whole thing, but even still, I split it up in a way that caps the amount of work that this subsys
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by nikitaga 5y ago
Programming for Arduino in C/C++ has been the worst most unproductive endeavor I ever undertook as a software developer. I have no idea how people write whole browsers and operating systems in this language. Rewrote everything in Circu
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by nikitaga 5y ago
Scala syntax and boilerplate is a lot leaner than both C++ and Rust. Don't mistake weird operators in some hardcore FP libraries for "Scala syntax".
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Their "broad popularity" only ever existed in the context of US FPTP election, in the context of a two-party system. If Americans had the option to vote for e.g. greens or labour or fiscal but-not-social conservatives, neither Oba
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by nikitaga 5y ago
> how close France was recently, to Marine Le Pen and genuine fascism. Or how quickly Venezuela turned into a one-party state under Chavez. People who have strong opinions against proportional representation invariably seem to be complet
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by nikitaga 5y ago
You really should look deeper into how New Zealand lawmaking and governance works if you think their situation is anywhere close to the US just because they also have big parties. The two systems (and outcomes) couldn't be further apar
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by nikitaga 5y ago
Canada has FPTP just like the US, the slight differences in implementation explain the slightly better outcomes, but that's about it. Don't know how that disproves anything. The last time Canada had anyone other than conservatives
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by nikitaga 5y ago
> The ideological spread between Joe Manchin and AOC covers most of the ground covered by center and left European parties. Most Americans don't have the option to vote for AOC or Joe Manchin (nor for their ideological equivalents).
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Because US election system does not reflect the will of the population, or even the voting population. FPTP is a highly deficient system that results in the same two parties staying in power indefinitely, which is only marginally better tha
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by nikitaga 5y ago
This has nothing to do with credit cards and everything to do with the kind of people ruling this country, and the kind of systems we have to keep "electing" them. If that case wasn't about AmEx, it would have been about some
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by nikitaga 5y ago
Kudos to her, she's a hero. But that can only be done by someone working outside of the (western?) legal system. That is not a lifestyle for everyone. We can't blame average scientists for not being like her. The law needs to chan
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by nikitaga 5y ago
> academics could easily disrupt it I get it, this is Hacker News and we all disrupt five industries before breakfast, but this so out of touch it's not even funny. Old journals aren't going away just because a few academics de
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by nikitaga 5y ago
What are you comparing, deaths per flight, per flight hour, per participant per year? Do you distinguish tourists, hobbyists, and competitors? What about injuries? Credible and reliable data for such comparisons does not exist, unfortunatel
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by nikitaga 5y ago
If you're interested in the components, looks like both motors and propellers are from https://www.mad-motor.com It's quite hard to find high quality electric drive components in this size – too big for drones, too sma
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by nikitaga 5y ago
Parachute opening needs to balance between speed of deployment (because the ground is coming up) and G-force shock (because humans are squishy, and even the aircraft structure they're attached to has a limit). Cirrus flies fast, so its
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by nikitaga 5y ago
https://github.com/pistom/hohser
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Nobody who uses this strategy will come even close to spending every dollar that they earned, they spend all they want yet still end up leaving all their wealth to their kids when they die.
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by nikitaga 5y ago
The extent to which you can take a sizeable cut of corporate profits by taxing land / real estate is pretty limited because many profitable companies don't need much real estate. There is no rate at which you can sufficiently tax
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by nikitaga 5y ago
Because Canadian electoral system is also FPTP just like US and UK. Our election results already reflect this: decades upon decades of essentially only two parties ever being in government and almost no coalition governments. Most European
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by nikitaga 5y ago
I don't think this idea matches what parent poster is saying. Banality of evil is about how ordinary people can work on evil things while not being sociopaths and still being considered ordinary people. But it also presumes that ther
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by nikitaga 5y ago
You don't know what you're talking about. Squatters don't buy $8 domains to resell for $9, if they did, they would go out of business because the probability that their $8 domain will be purchased from them within a year (or
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by nikitaga 5y ago
> Domains worth over $8 have already been namesquatted > Making domain registration cheaper would only reduce the price of domain names for people who want to use them. You don't see how those two statements contradict each other

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