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by ptero 6y ago
Here is an armchair strategist opinion :). This seems to be an approach of "let's replicate what humans do with robots", which often fails due to complexity (humans are very versatile). For example, the separate problems of f
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by ptero 6y ago
Thank you, this is what I meant. I probably could have made my original post clearer.
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by ptero 6y ago
Mate, I will try one more time. (A implies B) does not mean (not A implies not B). Those are unrelated logical statements. As an unrelated example, almost anyone can now do their own accurate temperature and blood pressure measurements, s
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by ptero 6y ago
Wow, chill. I do not know what part of my post you reacted to, but to clarify, I do not mean that professional software engineers working on PHP are unskilled. What I meant was that PHP and its frameworks allow business person to solve si
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by ptero 6y ago
I am a strong supporter of the ownership for things I buy. That said, this is a business decision for Tesla: they can insist that the use only rents the software and see if enough users still buy. The way out of it is through competition. M
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by ptero 6y ago
PHP allows folks without a strong background to solve some simple business problems which, in general, is a good thing. But once the project exceeds a certain complexity threshold (which I admit many business problems never do), this approa
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by ptero 6y ago
Well put! Your part about the current attitude that "users can't be trusted with this power and need to be protected from themselves at their own expense by some other benevolent entity" is spot on. We should strive to get ba
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by ptero 6y ago
I think you are being downvoted for the first part of your first sentence, with which I also somewhat disagree: copy/paste usually creates technical debt and even though each pair is easy to fix, with time they almost always diverge an
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by ptero 6y ago
First and foremost, thank you for digging up the information. I owe you a beer. As you said, the problem seemed to be with funeral homes not picking up bodies. I wonder if this was primarily due to increased deaths (which I do not doubt) or
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by ptero 6y ago
To c-c nitpick :). The issue is not being able to handle the 5x volume spike, but handling the spikes the system handled just fine before (but not necessarily at the same day of the week/month/year). For example, if my employer pr
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by ptero 6y ago
Thank you for the link, good data! To nitpick though, it does not quite answer the question of whether "the bodies were piling up" because totals exceeded pre-COVID processing capacity or because the processing chain broke down. T
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by ptero 6y ago
Your counter-claim of 2-3M US deaths from COVID is questionable. This is 0.7-1.0% of total population. Sweden, which had no forced quarantines and for which the ministry of health web site explicitly recommends not wearing a mask for peop
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by ptero 6y ago
> in NYC, we did "literally see the bodies piling up" in March and April Was this because of the excess COVID deaths or just because some the services that normally handle deaths were deemed non-critical and so the chain of ser
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by ptero 6y ago
> YouTube doesn't owe anyone a free experience. Then they should not advertise it as such. I have not looked at youtube ads for a while, but earlier it was definitely advertising "host your videos free, let your friends watch t
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by ptero 6y ago
I think it will pass,but I am pretty sure that such ballot initiatives are not binding. It might pass only to be quickly forgotten.
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by ptero 6y ago
To me, the military should not be a part of any law enforcement for the citizens. In practical terms, "never" is too harsh, but the bar should be very high. When military gets involved in local matters there is a risk that it take
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by ptero 6y ago
I agree with your first part that there is not necessarily a causal relationship between military equipment and killings. But your "no need, ever, for police to have automatic weapons" part is, to me, just wrong. In general, polic
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by ptero 6y ago
> It’s frankly hypocritical of Graham not to ensure YC and its companies embody values like this. That is a strange sentiment, sorry. PG is not some omnipotent being that can "ensure" anything for the companies he originally he
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by ptero 6y ago
I do not see this around me at all. There is probably some truth in this for the FAANG "work 80 hrs a week, get rich in 5 years" jobs (probably because those who want to work 80+ hours a week and get rich quick-er tend to be young
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by ptero 6y ago
This tirade and "go improve it" recommendation may make sense in a vacuum, without governments undermining encryption and criminalizing parts of the activities to provide secure, private comms "because terrorism/pornogra
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by ptero 6y ago
The comment author does not advocate ignoring the world, he wants to separate his engineering work from politics and thus wants to look for employers who do not push a particular political program on him. Which seems a perfectly valid (an
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by ptero 6y ago
It is sad that the wisdom from behind the iron curtain (where I grew up, too) is so fitting in the US (where I now live) today. I find that critical assessment of the media, resistance to propaganda and brainwashing detection skills acquire
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by ptero 6y ago
If true, this is despicable and deserves a lot of attention and (maybe) some regulatory response. However, is there a more detailed description instead of a few twits. It seems from the posted pictures that the account was stolen, but why
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by ptero 6y ago
Most short term rentals in apartment complexes are actually against the rental contract of the building. Thus you probably have a very strong hand when you deal with a noisy host. I would still be nice to stay friends with a neighbor, but i
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by ptero 6y ago
When I am traveling alone, I seldom care if I stay in an apartment or a hotel. In fact I often lean towards hotels as a single room is just fine and its conveniences convenient. But when I am with a family, especially coming from a differen
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by ptero 6y ago
Good points and agree that "sign-in with Apple" is not a great match in many cases. And the developer is fighting an uphill battle against Apple who wants to be the required middleman in the relationship of the developer and the u
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by ptero 6y ago
I do not know why you are being downvoted (I upvoted this not because I agree with your view, but because I see your point as the one that deserves to be argued). I agree that the ability to reach user directly is a valuable feature to a de
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by ptero 6y ago
I think professional associations are pretty toothless; they are primarily for economic benefit, not for fighting or even providing support in an adversity. Unions might not be a very good fit either. They do have fists and I would expect a
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by ptero 6y ago
This is the environment in which the journalism originally flourished: obtaining and reporting information that is not readily accessible otherwise, often against the wishes of the powers on the ground; and frequently being in danger while
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by ptero 6y ago
Those articles from mid-1990s are great to read; they are both funny and informative. Even as many of the points they make are still valid today, even more valuable is the ability to look at succeesses or failures with 20+ years of hindsigh

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