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by pnathan 9y ago
> Separation into front-end and back-end modules. That solves a lot of the Emacs trouble iiuc. (Same for the Async first design). > The xi editor will communicate with plugins through pipes, letting them be written in any language, Th
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by pnathan 9y ago
Yeah, running through a flow chart with a "hello cool kids" vibe was... offputting. Maybe it's enjoyed by many.
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by pnathan 9y ago
Big PR coup here, well done Woebot Inc! I look forward to computational therapists, it should help with a lot of the oddities with traditional therapists. Love to see it turned into a non-cloud service though. Mental health stuff can be inc
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by pnathan 9y ago
It is. But you're not developing a lasting institution which survives any one individual's bus. Further, a team kept artificially small tends to produce crap due to understaffing. Large companies can also fund work on particularl
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by pnathan 9y ago
Pretty much. Christians face the void and the emptiness, but the Christian claim is that the void is the lack of God in our life caused by sin; that is, to fill the void and to address existential crises, we must engage further with God. My
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by pnathan 9y ago
Extremely strong concur. I want someone competent, qualified, and trying to be basically decent to Americans and non-Americans. There are many elected officials in high office in both parties who would roughly fulfill that description. Bori
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by pnathan 9y ago
When you spend a certain amount of time engaging in .... non-human.... environments - that is, what is conventionally called "nature" (which is a misnomer, as we all exist in nature), your perceptions of the human life start to sh
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by pnathan 9y ago
Read up on the dynamic tolling political fights. Whoo boy, when you start actually charging people for driving (or inconvieniencing them in any fashion), the flamewars get pretty hot pretty fast.
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by pnathan 9y ago
Yes, there has been a substantial shift. I found the book "Cherubs, Chattels, Changelings" to be a good treatment of the difference. Suffice it to say, we have a very unusual society today, compared to the arc of human history.
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by pnathan 9y ago
That status quo was the thing that made Lyft/Uber an instant winner in the USA. It often gets lost amid the noise of Uber breaking the law. The pre-rideshare world was awful and full of ripoffs. Disrupting that is the win for all. I re
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by pnathan 9y ago
> flaxseed oil is the only drying oil that’s edible. Ahem. Oil painter materials nerd speaking up. The other drying oils are walnut, safflower, and poppy. They are all edible. Although poppy is sometimes classed as semi-drying, along wit
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by pnathan 9y ago
I jump into a new language, a new technology, and immerse myself in it. Ask Qs on SO, read books, but write code. This is how I taught myself how to code when I was a teen, and it's been very effective ever since, as I have moved from
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by pnathan 9y ago
You expose yourself to currency risk as well with that strategy. I primarily worry about single company failures and wobbles; if the US economy implodes, the rest of the world will be caught up in it. But you're right, you should bala
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by pnathan 9y ago
Diversify yo' assets. I recommend starting with ETFs, ensuring you aren't locked into specific companies. And ETFs don't have the specific conditions of mutual funds. Several stock ETFs; I suggest one tuned for growth and one
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by pnathan 9y ago
Throwing politicians out of office who don't do it and promoting a stigma around vast amounts of wealth will change things. Elections matter.
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by pnathan 9y ago
That argument is relatively vacuous on its face, because that is moral flattening (along with intentionally misunderstanding the problem), and promotes inaction.
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by pnathan 9y ago
I'm persuaded that wealth taxes and maximum income are the appropriate solution: after X million per year, you don't get more money, and after you and your family heap up Y million of _fluidly defined_ assets, you get taxed on wha
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by pnathan 9y ago
This is my recollection as well. I tried to follow it relatively closely. It was a laundry list of demands and all a bit pie in the sky. There was no specific a,b,c policy actions being requested in order to solve a single linked problem. T
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by pnathan 9y ago
I see someone's experienced in AWS product rollout.
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by pnathan 9y ago
I've learned that too. A careful examination might reveal other opportunities, but the swarm of people trying to optimize and coming to similar conclusions suggests that it's at least a local maxima within a fairly decently size
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by pnathan 9y ago
> The problem is the pay in a small town doesn't make up for the lost opportunity due to networking and having a selection of varied employers and colleagues. Also, the pay would have to incorporate a risk premium in case you lose y
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by pnathan 9y ago
I live in Seattle, and I come from rural areas. I'm happy that OKC has jobs. That's wonderful . No sarcasm. I'm glad to hear it. But it's not rural. :) OKC is a big city compared to everywhere I used to live. Where I am
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by pnathan 9y ago
Interesting. The thing that is most toxic about long-term survival in small towns is the lack of many jobs. No jobs, no mortgage payment, no point. Although if I was up for relocation right now, I'd look at Colorado (Denver/Boulde
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by pnathan 9y ago
> if their influence is either unprecedented It is. That's the entire point of the "filter bubble" argument that is coming up some 8-10 years old now.
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by pnathan 9y ago
I've long thought that having a regional government be the governing authority for the Tacoma-Everett-Kirkland region would be the proper system to have: turn the cities into bouroughs and have a Puget Sound Metropolis Government (that
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by pnathan 9y ago
We had a war about this. No.
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by pnathan 9y ago
welp, I'm wrong. So it goes. Better reading in the future. :-/ I'll just leave my comment above to not destroy the comment chain.
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by pnathan 9y ago
It is the Wall Street Journal. It's a paper for management and companies optimizing for companies. It's the nature of the beast.
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by pnathan 9y ago
I always prefer being able to look at someone's work. I'm an adult - I don't expect to see that for someone coming out of defense or certain other industries. But, I will be clear: I want to see your work, and whiteboarding
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by pnathan 9y ago
Absolutely. Former homeschooled nerd. Having an intellectual interest and focus was normal in my household.

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