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by phyller 8y ago
I think Javascript has been rapidly getting better, as a language. Every time you hear a front end dev complain about having to support IE, consider that an endorsement of the way HTML/CSS/Javascript has been improving. No one is
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Ask HN: How can we take the politics back out of HN?
9 points by phyller 8y ago|17 comments
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by phyller 8y ago
Comment about not posting irrelevant inflammatory statements removed and turned into a submission here : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17490716
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by phyller 8y ago
Think about it this way. The guy who, with his nature and peer pressure both strongly incentivizing him to cheat on his wife, and still not cheating on her, that person is much more likely to be trustworthy. At least predictable and depen
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by phyller 8y ago
Went to the comments to say exactly this. It's a much simpler setup!
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by phyller 8y ago
Ironic that the first step in making someone more honest is, apparently, to lie to them. I guess we need to keep at least one liar around to make the rest of us more virtuous.
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by phyller 8y ago
Every time I open a nautil.us page it opens a bunch of processes that max out several cores on my CPU and eventually my cooling fans boost up to maximum. Hmmmm. I should email them and tell them that they are a respectable and responsible c
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by phyller 8y ago
I said "not crazy", I didn't say normal. Do the math. 4% a year, compounded over 18 years, is 102.6%. 4% a year in the US is above inflation, but not crazy.
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by phyller 8y ago
Well usually everyone around you means you no harm. The person who looks at you and doesn't smile is legitimately more likely to not care if you get hit by a bus or not, even if they have no ill intention towards you. The crazy guy who
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by phyller 8y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if I misunderstood, but how is that normalized for inflation? Is the currency in January 2000 going to change in value? This chart from the same wikipedia article seems to show that inflation adjusted (dotted li
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by phyller 8y ago
I see the smile, in my personal slice of American culture, to be a sign that "I mean you no harm, I have positive intentions towards you", which is a valuable piece of information, both to give and receive. And truthfully, someone
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by phyller 8y ago
The average home price going up more than 80% from 2000 to 2006 is extreme. The average home price going up 100% from 2000 to 2018 isn't that crazy. Maybe prices will go down, maybe not, I wouldn't call it a bubble yet. There are
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by phyller 8y ago
This is the correct answer, I think. The people who made the mortgages were no longer the people that owned the mortgages. The banks didn't even hold on to them, they sold them in tranches to investors. So no one in the actual industry
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by phyller 8y ago
What do you use to book those long layover flights?
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by phyller 8y ago
Gasoline is not explosive, it requires oxygen to burn. We wouldn't allow normal passenger vehicles to drive around with big tanks of explosives.
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by phyller 8y ago
I don't know why you are downvoted for this. Both of those things have had a significant impact on demographics, and are also culturally very important. It feels like the animation white-washes history a bit.
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German police stop families taking children out of school early for vacation(npr.org)
2 points by phyller 8y ago|1 comments
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by phyller 8y ago
> but you have to be next to somebody Unless you are New Zealand :D
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by phyller 8y ago
Years ago I tried to start a small side business on Youtube. I filmed and edited a dozen or so videos with great effort, and hid them until we could launch. While we were polishing things one of the guys that was working with me clicked on
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IE 11 is a zombie that won't die. This is how we can kill it(nealbuerger.com)
1 points by phyller 8y ago|0 comments
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Germany calls on chip makers to tackle spectre-next generation flaws(reuters.com)
2 points by phyller 8y ago|0 comments
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by phyller 8y ago
Wouldn't the people who know the physical things just write requirements for those farther on down the chain? The threat analysts say, we need to destroy Iran's ability to make nuclear weapons. The nuclear weapons specialists say,
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by phyller 8y ago
I didn't make that claim. What I am implying though, is that in order to be a person of integrity I do believe it takes some forethought. In the heat of the moment, when you are very incentivized to lie, everything is going to be pushi
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by phyller 8y ago
This is another problem with people who lie, it actually takes practice to be both truthful and tactful, and they don't even know how to do it. It's crazy to me that I have to say this, but as has already been stated in this threa
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by phyller 8y ago
I imagine that sports cars or modified cars will have a little switch where you can turn off all computer controls.
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by phyller 8y ago
The first person people lie to is themselves. For a person that doesn't have a personal commitment to integrity, when they are placed in a position where they are incentivized to lie, they will first convince themselves that this lie i
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by phyller 8y ago
Some people seem to think that people will lie about small things, but not big things. I kind of think that if you are willing to compromise your integrity for something small, you are definitely going to lie on the big things when the st
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by phyller 8y ago
That sounds like a really bad idea. Pay the insurance, fine. That's a good idea actually. Instead of paying your insurance company, you pay the company that built the software for insurance. Then the software/insurance company pay
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by phyller 8y ago
I think the more difficult problems are if the car crashes while under computer control, who is at fault. Also, when a car crashes under human control, why didn't the software take over to prevent that, are car companies liable for tha
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by phyller 8y ago
I think everyone is misunderstanding this. It is not saying that autonomous cars must stop driving in ambiguous situations. It is acknowledging that in clear emergencies driver inputs can be ignored, but once the emergency is over driver

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