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by rcme 3y ago
Jersey City seems to have a lot of tourists, but they also restricted AirBnB a few years back.
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by rcme 3y ago
Yea lab grown diamonds are insanely cheap. You can buy them on Alibaba. A 3 carat, D VVS1 with an excellent cut is $3K.
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by rcme 3y ago
That's pretty crazy. At a big social media company, a service I ran got 300K+ requests per second directly from end users.
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by rcme 3y ago
We might abandon words for something else, but we wouldn’t need to abandon words because they could continue to work without sounds. That’s because words are a totally distinct concept from sounds. It’s super ironic to talk about how soun
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by rcme 3y ago
Why is wanting to do X now so you don’t regret not doing X later not a valid reason for wanting to do X? I want to eat lunch now so I’m not hungry later. I want to study hard now so I don’t regret not studying later. Aren’t most motivations
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by rcme 3y ago
> By using written language, you are merely encoding a representation of a spoken phrase into a graphical representation. I would argue the opposite. Language is an encoding of ideas. By speaking, we are merely using an auditory represen
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by rcme 3y ago
First, words aren’t really related to sound. You and I are using words without sound, are we not? Language is an encoding. One of the things it encodes is shape. And even if you wanted to describe a chair without using the word “chair” you
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by rcme 3y ago
Don’t words transmit 3D images?
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by rcme 3y ago
> The common theme among all of their situations was that they moved into social circles with a lot of drug users. Or maybe they moved into those social circles because they had a developing drug problem. The reasons why people use drugs
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by rcme 3y ago
I think a bigger issue is that Rust just isn't a good language to write a game engine or a UI in. I wrote a toy game engine in Rust and quickly learned it basically sucks. The entire reason games and UIs exist is to mutate state in wei
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by rcme 3y ago
This isn't a name per se, but I think the effect you're describing is a result of having a really good, original idea without the supporting artistry to create something that is enduringly great. To use your example, consider The
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by rcme 3y ago
Thanks for that insight. I read the book for the first time in 2015, well after it had already established itself. I can see the appeal if it had a revelatory view on spycraft at the time.
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by rcme 3y ago
Again, it’s just your preference. No one is forcing you to use such software. It’s not the moral issue you’re framing it as. We also don’t have “decades of data”. Almost all large scale software systems leverage some form of telemetry/
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by rcme 3y ago
It was pretty shallow and typical to me. There was very little nuance to both the characters and the story. I don’t really understand the reputation this book enjoys.
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by rcme 3y ago
“Says responsible developers”. That’s called rationalizing friend. This conversation can go nowhere because you believe you’re right and others are wrong. You really should accept that you have a specific preference and other people have ot
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by rcme 3y ago
I’m not advocating that users ignore the possibility of spying. All software has the potential to spy on you. But that does not mean you can publicly accuse a developer who wants to add telemetry of spying. > Users should be able to trus
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by rcme 3y ago
Probably because most new grads suck and have very low skill ceilings.
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by rcme 3y ago
Smokers also pay more taxes over their lifetime so they contribute more to society in addition to costing less at the end of their life.
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by rcme 3y ago
Theoretically, it seems like turning a box back into pulp could be easier than waiting 25 years to grow another tree.
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by rcme 3y ago
Why is burning it better than putting it in a landfill?
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by rcme 3y ago
Is he worth listening to? As far as I understand, the Catholic Church has had a number of moral failings.
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by rcme 3y ago
Breaking a leg isn't serious if medical transportation is available, and it sounds like it is.
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by rcme 3y ago
Not sure what your point is, exactly. We are third parties trying to understand events in a complex world. My point is that using morals to understand economic events is not helpful.
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by rcme 3y ago
I find it a lot simpler to drop moral framing of economic issues altogether.
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by rcme 3y ago
Probably many millions? It's a pretty popular thing to do in Eastern Europe.
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by rcme 3y ago
I'll never understand peoples' obsession with equating telemetry with spyware. As an application developer, I need to know that my application is working appropriately for my users. It's not sufficient to rely on manual bug r
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by rcme 3y ago
Kind of, yes. Normally one thinks of something like lye being caustic, not dirt, even when wet.
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by rcme 3y ago
How can you take down a drone with a single bullet? It’s not trivially easy to shoot them down. Also, a “defensive” drone swarm would need more advanced tracking and targeting capabilities, so it would be more expensive. Look at Israel’s Ir
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by rcme 3y ago
Fixing the loose leg of a table at a restaurant using a coin is definitely not craft.
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by rcme 3y ago
But they’re so cheap that you can overrun your opponents defense. Who cares if they’re slow? You can shoot down any individual drone, but you can’t shoot them all down.

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