peferron

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by peferron 9y ago
Ok, I'll bite. Can you list several things that are vastly more likely to lead to the complete extinction of the human race (I'll assume that's what you meant by "destroy humanity") than malicious AGI?
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by peferron 9y ago
> The worst [Steve Jobs] has been accused of is driving people hard to achieve the perfection he sought. And colluding with other tech companies to fix his employees' wages.
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by peferron 9y ago
I have implemented quite a few algorithms and data structures for fun here [1]. It's not authoritarive by any means, and not everything is in Go (there's also some Rust, Swift, TS and JS), but maybe a few things could turn up usef
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by peferron 9y ago
He seems pretty chill about it: "When it was spotted on a second design iteration, we judged the temperature was going to be about 36 degrees (Celsius). But it's turned out to be more like 72 degrees. They are calling it the &#x27
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by peferron 9y ago
Wait, is the "32 year old white male computer nerd" just a drive-by stereotype, or did you actually research the real life information of this person just to be able to post this? I'm not sure which is worse.
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by peferron 9y ago
Companies with unclear or ad-based business models, like Twitter, are more likely to end up doing sketchy things to stay in business. Of course you can find exceptions either way but I think it generally applies. That being said, I agree th
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by peferron 9y ago
Cloudflare has a freemium model, so maybe you should find a better comparison than Twitter.
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by peferron 9y ago
Thanks, I'll try it out.
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by peferron 9y ago
Sichuan cuisine in the Bay Area is atrocious compared to the real deal. Maybe Cantonese or Hunan fare better but unfortunately I don't like these cuisines nearly as much. BTW, I'm neither American nor Chinese, so I don't have
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by peferron 9y ago
Sorry, I missed the part where you mentioned living in the EU. One of the siblings comments has a good explanation for ITINs. My wife used hers to open a Vanguard account despite having no SSN at the time. She did have a visa and a US addre
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by peferron 9y ago
Can you request an ITIN?
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by peferron 9y ago
Why are there so few doctors in the USA that they need a whole system around them to ensure they spend < 5 min in front of each patient?
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by peferron 9y ago
Regarding your first point, that's especially striking in the USA. There seems to be at least 4-5 assistants (nurses, secretaries...) for each doctor. Assistants check you in; you're left waiting in a room; after a seemingly rando
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by peferron 9y ago
So far, the Priority Pass card I got with my CSR has been completely useless. In San Francisco I was refused entry at the partner lounge because it was at capacity and Priority Pass holders are clearly the lowest concern; at the Reykjavik s
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by peferron 10y ago
I'd be more "worried" to see JS/TS gradually disappear in favor of other languages that compile to wasm. If that happens, it won't matter which JS flavor or superset you're using. There's massive inertia b
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by peferron 10y ago
Credit card rewards are also indirectly subsidized by people who pay with cash or debit cards, since merchants effectively charge these people more than the people who pay with credit cards.
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by peferron 10y ago
Hey, your roof is leaking. I'll help you demolish it. Then you can rebuild a new roof with state-of-the-art insulation and integrated solar! Of course, I'll only help with the demolition, not the rebuilding, but surely that's
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by peferron 10y ago
> Also I seriously don't think of the Brexit that the UK leaves Europe. What do you mean by "Europe" here? I guess you don't mean the Union nor the geographical continent (since the UK is obviously leaving one and sta
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by peferron 10y ago
Alright. The article feels like light-hearted satire to me, and is the funniest thing I've read in a while. I'm surprised to see you associate it with entitlement and toxicity. I guess we have different types of humor. :)
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by peferron 10y ago
Are you also making a joke here? I'm genuinely unsure.
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by peferron 10y ago
Wrong. https://travel.state.gov/content/dam/visas/BusinessVisa%20Pu... > Lecturer or speaker: If honorarium will be received, ... [list of conditions that the scholar in the article visibly meets]. It baff
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by peferron 10y ago
> The only appropriate visa to get paid is a work visa, like H1B, O1 or J1. No. There are plenty of situations where you can get paid in the USA without having a work visa. As you mentioned, the scholar in this article is one example. An
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by peferron 10y ago
Sure, but how does that apply to this article? He was going to get paid and had an appropriate visa.
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by peferron 10y ago
Seems like a terrible filter. Some CS grads who slept through college will fail, while some non-CS grads who studied on their own will pass. Of course, to me, that would a feature, not a bug; but if you really want to filter on "univer
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by peferron 10y ago
What's so shallow about giving back self-confidence to kids and adults who didn't win perfect teeth at the genetic lottery?
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by peferron 10y ago
The world absolutely gives a damn about the USA, which is evident in how their presidential election just made headlines in almost every country.
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by peferron 10y ago
Haha, I was also thinking about the Swinging Door while reading these comments. I haven't even had the courage to try their XXX burger yet, the "basic" habanero burger is already enough for me. If you ever go back, try gettin
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by peferron 10y ago
Is the comparison fair? I haven't tried Angular 2, but it seems much more full-featured than React. For example, I guess that Angular 2 includes a router, while React doesn't, and just a few days ago there was a vitriolic thread j
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by peferron 10y ago
You say that you "know because you get paid to code", but that's only half of the picture. To really know you would need to work on the other side, in what you call "real" engineering. An insider is much more likely
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by peferron 10y ago
I've never used Nim in my life, but I recall reading that `this` takes the place of the old `using`. So the old `using` is not gone—just renamed.

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