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by repolfx 7y ago
Yes, asking more precise questions will give more nuanced answers. But that doesn't invalidate the vaguer statement - most people do support speech being much more free than restricted, especially in America. That matters: you can&#x
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I think "brilliant jerk" is loaded with subtext that can only be detected by reading the rest of the justification. Everything Bek Chee says is illogical: is she really claiming Atlassian previously never cared about jerks? That&#
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by repolfx 7y ago
Bear in mind GDP can be manipulated yet true at the same time. If the government tweaks regulations, lending criteria and does other things to trigger huge spending on building pointless ghost cities, that will legitimately increase GDP b
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by repolfx 7y ago
In fairness, the examples we have of communist economies have all eventually collapsed, although it took many many decades for the USSR to do so. China, so far, hasn't collapsed. Does that mean there's something fundamentally di
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by repolfx 7y ago
That's a self-contradiction. You say most people don't agree with free speech, then you state if you ask people if they agree with it actually most will say yes, but that's meaningless because their opinion would be ill consi
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by repolfx 7y ago
Sure it wasn't all data but data was a pivotal weapon in winning their respective battles. You actually don't know that. In fact nobody, including those making the claims, can prove it made any difference. Both AggregateIQ and C
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by repolfx 7y ago
You don't have any evidence that "data" is the reason why Trump or Brexit won. Recall: - Trump was not an experienced campaigner, had no real campaign database and spent half as much as Clinton. - Leaving the EU was represent
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by repolfx 7y ago
"Dominant market position" would be something like more than 90% of retail sales. Clearly, their market share is nowhere near that. I don't really get why everyone is bashing Amazon here. They sell a lot of stuff, and they se
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by repolfx 7y ago
The VM doesn't exit unless you're terminating the main thread (in which case, what else should it do? there's no way to continue).
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by repolfx 7y ago
Twice as long and half as long as what ? I often get the feeling that Go users are implicitly comparing it to languages like Python or JavaScript. I've watched a client try to debug a Go codebase they had. It was sad. Their web server
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by repolfx 7y ago
The last think you want for general server side programming and cloud systems programming is Java? Because of the JVM? You should probably tell Google and Amazon that. Both very heavy users of Java on the server, despite Go. In fact the ser
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by repolfx 7y ago
There are competitors with just as much momentum and community, if not more. Kotlin is now the official language of Android, and is being very rapidly picked up all across the Java ecosystem. Oh but it also compiles to JavaScript and LLVM n
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by repolfx 7y ago
See my other comment. But yes, it is true. You cannot be "retaliated against" if you aren't engaging in revelations of illegal behaviour. These people were not doing the latter, when you look at the details. They were merely
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by repolfx 7y ago
It's bringing politics to work if you aren't blowing the whistle on illegal behaviour. These people, regardless of what they thought they were doing, weren't blowing the whistle on anything because they failed to highlight an
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by repolfx 7y ago
But nothing Google has done in these cases is illegal. The protestors just didn't like it, so that shouldn't be protected actions.
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by repolfx 7y ago
Google have metrics on how much better it makes search - at least when I was there it makes quality a lot better, but not, say, double the quality. I think in the early days of the company they thought personalisation would be a much bigger
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by repolfx 7y ago
StackOverflow and those other sites aren't search engines. They may have search engines in them but not many people use them (the only time I reach StackOverflow, booking.com etc is via search engine referral). They're user cont
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Problematic. It should be 100% of men, given that the pay gap is made up for political purposes (namely, advocating to pay women more money than they've actually earned).
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I'd say we do see that. It's the business model of Sand Hill Road - find talented 10x Devs and shower them with VC money. It seems to work often enough that there are many funds all searching for such people.
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Being good at your job is pretty much the definition of 10x developer.
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by repolfx 7y ago
"In general Swedes accept taxes" overlooks some rather important facts. Firstly, "in general" is very vague. There are famous cases of rich Swedes who don't want to pay Swedish taxes and successfully avoid doing so.
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The companies that create the wires are already taxed in France. Having "access" to those wires seems a poor basis for taxation - that would imply the whole world should pay the French government tax merely for the privilege of Fr
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by repolfx 7y ago
But "embedding" is a very vague term. You can embed V8 too. It's just a C++ library, it can be linked into other programs. It can run on relatively small devices. If you're going to say, but what about even smaller devi
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by repolfx 7y ago
No, it's naturally cheap, even when advertising is taken into account. Again, compare the cost of a news story vs many other things. Advertising campaigns are also time and labour intensive and usually only provide value for a short sp
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Yes that's true in general, but ... I hate to be the party pooper here, but .... What makes this JS implementation deserve the name "Quick"? I noticed it doesn't appear to do JIT compilation or any of the fancy optimisat
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by repolfx 7y ago
Well .... yes? It'd be better for the NYT to not report on something that clearly is overblown and doesn't matter! Accusations of hypocrisy are useful because they act as a reality check. If 4k word privacy policies were so terrib
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by repolfx 7y ago
What makes you think it's worse than the New York Times? I've indeed not claimed journalism takes no money. I'm just pointing out it's not expensive. Corporations nobody has heard of routinely piss away more money than
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That depends a lot on how you define "good journalism". Journalism is ultimately writing about what you see and investigating it to get the facts. Most stories are broken by just one journalist, big ones sometimes multiple. Journa
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But you're assuming 4k word privacy policies are bad behaviour. The NYT is asserting this, but clearly doesn't believe it institutionally, so why should we accept this rather strange claim at face value? What's wrong with a p
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by repolfx 7y ago
Google does use it: googleusercontent.com gstatic.com etc

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