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by rattray 6y ago
HN's guidelines discourage commenting on downvotes; you may wish to remove the last sentence. I will say that I recently had to deal with the medical system for a family member, and he was on decent private insurance. We actually would
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by rattray 6y ago
In the bay area, I think reliance on public transit and Uber/Lyft is common enough to be the case for "the average person" in that area. Last I heard, public transit had greatly reduced service in San Francisco, but I'm
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by rattray 6y ago
There are generally two kinds of drivers on rideshare apps: full-time and "extra cash" drivers. Many of the latter are middle class, not lower class, and I've spoken with many who say similar things to OP. I've also spok
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by rattray 6y ago
I think if you saw a headline claiming "The millionaires have left New York" you'd spit out your drink. Sure, some millionaires have left, but not nearly enough to call it an exodus - "the millionaires" as a class a
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by rattray 6y ago
Thanks for coming back to share your perspectives. While I agree that AB5 stifles freedom and innovation, it just doesn't compute for me that a wealth tax (especially the example of 1% over 50mm) would damage the spirit of freewheeling
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by rattray 6y ago
On the fourth point, the distinction is material. A bystander may feel bad for the founder if their wealth drops from $1B to a mere $550mm. But the bystander is unlikely to feel bad for the founder if their wealth only rises, naturally, to
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by rattray 6y ago
This is the exception that proves the rule; even with high taxes and low-tax alternatives reasonably close by, enough millionaires continue to choose NYC that it's among the most likely places you'll find one. Same goes for Califo
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by rattray 6y ago
> The quasi-judicial role that financial services play in resolving disputes, often with little regulatory oversight and absolutely no requirement to be neutral or objective, is long overdue for retirement. Honestly, from what I've
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by rattray 6y ago
Thanks!
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by rattray 6y ago
Hmm, ok. Yeah that really doesn't sound so bad.
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by rattray 6y ago
Wow, yup: https://github.com/securesystemslab/zippy/graphs/contributor...
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by rattray 6y ago
Hmm, those are language _features_ not language _extensions_, right? And yes, I think the Rust comparison is a great one – I'm not the sort of person who would want to use nightly Rust and turn on feature flags; I'd want to use St
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by rattray 6y ago
> It is absolutely not a prerequisite to know all extensions Which ones are a prerequisite? OverloadedStrings? TemplateHaskell? How many others? If the answers to that list were enabled by default in the language, and most Haskellers agr
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by rattray 6y ago
> there is one overall Haskell language and the absence of a particular language extension disables a particular feature. The language is, by and large, more coherent with language extensions turned on Right, that's exactly it! Almo
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by rattray 6y ago
Hmm, okay, thanks, that's reassuring! To share more on where I'm coming from, one example: when I look at things like Yesod's "Hello world" section in "Getting Started", the first thing I see is 4 pragmas:
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by rattray 6y ago
From what I dimly remember last time I looked, there were a bunch of ways to deal with strings and lists/arrays/etc. Googling "most popular haskell language extensions", I see this article: https://lexi-lambda
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by rattray 6y ago
You don't need to use any of these verticals - you can just write a .js file and serve it without any modifications, linting, etc. But if you want to? Each vertical has a de-facto community standard at this point. If you want typeche
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by rattray 6y ago
The thing that's always turned me off Haskell is language extensions and the associated fractal fracture of the language. Sorry, I don't want to learn a dozen different styles of a language. PureScript always seemed a little more
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by rattray 6y ago
Yep, that's exactly where I was coming from. Thanks.
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by rattray 6y ago
Very interesting! Thanks for clarifying. I've also done some work on Prettier in the past, so I'm curious about some details there too. 1. Do you plan to build a wadler-based formatter, similar to prettier? Will it be as opinionat
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by rattray 6y ago
Hey there – I do mix the two of you up, but Babel is nothing to scoff at. I've used its internals in the past, and read a good chunk of its source code, so I think I've seen your blames all over. I'm quite appreciative of you
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by rattray 6y ago
I feel so torn on this project. On the one hand, I want to root for sebmarkbage, who has done so much for the field. On the other, as someone who used to do some "JS platform" work at a tech company, I really don't want Rome
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by rattray 6y ago
100ml == ~3.4oz, so that's probably still a pretty equivalent amount of sugar to oatly. Either way, they're pretty negligible – most juices have at least 20g sugar in a cup.
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by rattray 6y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24090817 points out that rats, rather uniquely, cannot process erucic acid (part of canola oil) and the rat studies likely do not apply to most other mammals (including humans).
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by rattray 6y ago
The author compares them to each other, so it makes sense to talk about why you should take it out of the picture. As it happens, though, unsweetened almond milk does seem to have much less sugar – 0.2g by one measure I found (another just
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by rattray 6y ago
I'm also a fan of almond milk from a taste perspective, but I've always been a bit unsure about how it is processed – and the amount of water used is definitely an ethical downside in my book (I used to live in California, where t
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by rattray 6y ago
The article was also cleverly worded in a way that I find a little hypocritical – they're only comparing the _sugars_ of the two beverages. Oatly also has more complex carbohydrates, including 0.8g of fiber, per serving. A GL of 7 does
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by rattray 6y ago
Agreed; this felt like an unfair hit piece - if anything, I feel more comfortable drinking oatly (though perhaps not in large quantities). It was disappointing that the author didn't discuss how much fiber is in oatly, and how that can
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by rattray 6y ago
Which milk substitutes are better? Especially in the sense that they wouldn't be able to accrue complaints from an assailant as dogged as this writer.
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by rattray 6y ago
Did you click the link? There's a Group Product Manager explaining that it's a huge amount of work, they want to do it, and can't do it now. After the lead eng on the feature gave a detailed description of the work involved (

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