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by pbourke 6y ago
There is no single truth in the complex topics that politics considers. People will always approach problems with solutions grounded in their values. For instance, say crime is a problem in an area. How do we address it? Do we encourage eve
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by pbourke 6y ago
> In your opinion (I doubt any of what you said has hard established fact to counter it), do strict lockdowns work? After watching the results in Australia and China, I think they do.
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by pbourke 6y ago
The fire department can dispense pure hype, which displaces oxygen and extinguishes the blaze.
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by pbourke 6y ago
The NYT story links to an MIT Technology review article: “What went wrong with America’s $44 million vaccine data system?” > The CDC ordered software that was meant to manage the vaccine rollout. Instead, it has been plagued by problems
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Immunization Expert Accuses CDC and Deloitte of Stealing Her Idea(nytimes.com)
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by pbourke 6y ago
Scala’s implicits, mutable/immutable collection bifurcation, infix/dot syntax interchangeability for method invocations, tendency of libraries to implement their own mini language, ...
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by pbourke 6y ago
> whatever_this_is_called Snake case. this-is-called “kebab case” ThisIsCalled “Pascal Case”
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by pbourke 6y ago
> incredibly heavyweight runtime The apps may be heavyweight, but the runtime was designed to run on set-top boxes 25 years ago.
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by pbourke 6y ago
Scala is nowhere near as approachable as Python or Typescript
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by pbourke 6y ago
locking withdrawals until age 18 is something of a guard against that.
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FTA: 'Booker, who introduced the legislation along with Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.) said that because the “opportunity accounts“ would be interest bearing — paying around 3 percent annually — a child could have up to $50,000 by the
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by pbourke 6y ago
Yeah, all those liberal electricians and truckers.
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by pbourke 6y ago
I would urge you not to join Blind if you consider yourself reasonably comfortable with your perception of your coworkers. It will change.
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by pbourke 6y ago
> People are told to wear surgical masks, which say on the side of the box that they do not protect against viruses, because it is something they can do. It likely has some protection, and it inhibits the onward spread of the virus. If e
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by pbourke 6y ago
No, Databricks is a distribution of Apache Spark with some value-added features such as the Delta Lake data format and a clean UI for hosting notebooks, doing cluster admin, etc
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by pbourke 6y ago
I don’t think that the ability to enforce the restrictions was the most important success criteria. Australia, NZ and the other countries that have succeeded have a pro-social culture of collective effort. The US, and increasingly Canada as
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by pbourke 6y ago
There would be nowhere enough troops to patrol the streets in Canada. They could supply extra reinforcement to ports/borders. A closure order + heavy fines/penalties + economic support would work, along with clear messaging around
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by pbourke 6y ago
It was winter in Australia when they locked down in August, and the outbreak’s epicenter was Melbourne, which is a large city.
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by pbourke 6y ago
Is bitcoin meant to be a currency or an investment? If it’s a currency without price stability, what’s the point? If it’s an investment without any underlying economic value, what’s the point?
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by pbourke 6y ago
I’m genuinely curious why this comment is receiving downvotes. China becoming the world’s economic power by mid-century has been my set assumption for years. Has something changed with this expectation?
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by pbourke 6y ago
I don’t use Parler, but I don’t think it should be constructively banned from the internet in the US, if that’s what your referring to. Insofar as people are committing crimes on Parler, I hope that they will be investigated.
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by pbourke 6y ago
So do everything up to specifically stating the effect that you want, and it’s not market manipulation? This is the “emperor’s new clothes” absurdity of this whole system. The whole fucking market has been manipulated by various parties thi
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by pbourke 6y ago
I thought people went back into stocks when the Fed showed up with the firehose?
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by pbourke 6y ago
I’m still not following you. How do you think brokerages fail here?
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by pbourke 6y ago
His supporters seem to be continuing to use Twitter.
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by pbourke 6y ago
Call me when American journalists start getting defenestrated for criticizing the government as they are in Russia.
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by pbourke 6y ago
Have you missed Zuckerberg’s appearances before Congressional hearings?
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by pbourke 6y ago
I’m far more concerned with deleting an entire group than a single account.
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by pbourke 6y ago
I’m sure it’s as free as a bird until you begin to criticize Putin ...
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by pbourke 6y ago
> However Facebook is answerable to two distinct groups: The people who use the service, and the stock market. Three, if you include regulators.

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