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by repolfx 7y ago
It's a long standing and complex trend. It's worth remembering that Silicon Valley got started way back in the 50s with Shockley's transistors. Then Microsoft in the 80s and Amazon, Google in the 1990s. What was going on in E
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by repolfx 7y ago
Then why is their research open source? GraalVM is on github.
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by repolfx 7y ago
How are they squeezing dollars here? They don't seem to be demanding payment, or at least not directly. I read the board notes. This appears to be a disagreement about trademarks and compatibility licensing. To be called "Java&quo
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by repolfx 7y ago
LLVM would have been created even if free/open source, SubstrateVM style tech existed back then because LLVM was designed as a competitor to GCC for compiling C and C++. The JVM can run C/C++ code these days 'natively'
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by repolfx 7y ago
And who uses Dart? Elixir? Julia? Hardly anyone. Lots of attempts but also lots of failures, sometimes due to poor runtimes or libraries. Swift is iOS/Apple specific, at least in usage. But mobile is dominated by Android, which is movi
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by repolfx 7y ago
I wouldn't trust Wikipedia if I were you. There are various studies that look into this. Some of them work by examining police reports and looking at cases where the police concluded the woman was lying. These routinely give a figure a
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by repolfx 7y ago
How is it a "non-sequitur from the topic"? Damore is by far the most famous case of a Googler trying to flag issues internally via the provided channels and being fired in retaliation for doing so. It is literally the first case t
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by repolfx 7y ago
New stance for Google . As for "don't be evil" that became useless a long time ago, it was just an invitation for everyone to describe their pet hate as "evil" even when that was clearly over the top. When I worked
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by repolfx 7y ago
Are you sure there are no economies of scale? Everyone I know uses Uber exclusively for taxis now and it's partly because whenever they travel Uber works great, but using local taxis is a pain. The "taxis are local" argument
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by repolfx 7y ago
That may well be the case, so I voted you up as I'm not sure why you were greyed out for pointing this out. But taxis are heavily regulated partly because the taxi lobby itself demanded these sorts of barriers and taxi lobbys have been
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by repolfx 7y ago
You don't even have a pension? A lot of money finds its way to companies like Uber from sources almost everyone has. Even with no pension, your bank is speculatively investing the money in your account to try and earn interest.
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by repolfx 7y ago
Solution is to repeal the laws that make driving non-discriminatory. It'd be painful in the short run but ultimately a place being so bad cabbies won't drive there is a signal there is a serious need for other forms of interventio
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by repolfx 7y ago
I suspect the amount of spam and harassment on MozNet hasn't actually changed over time, or given Firefox's decline may have even got lower (as fewer people care about Mozilla anymore). No evidence was provided that times have act
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by repolfx 8y ago
Possible - sure. But the default state should be to assume FTL aliens would need to refuel. Consider human civilisation circa 3000 years ago. People moved around on horses, with carts. Roads were usually poor or non-existent. We are incompa
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by repolfx 8y ago
Labour rhetoric. The UK isn't "barely functional", that's a ludicrous communist fantasy that can be traced back right to Marx, who tried to convince his readers of the dire near apocalyptic state of England by committing
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by repolfx 8y ago
Is (2) true still? I thought I'd read that Apple's ARM chips were now somewhat competitive performance wise with Intel's chips?
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by repolfx 8y ago
You seem to be assuming that more education implies better informed voters which implies no Brexit. But it was the best 'educated' voters who took the dire economic warnings of the cost of voting leave most seriously, which have s
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by repolfx 8y ago
Not necessarily. The USA has always had 'extreme' differences between rich and poor, as has the UK. Neither has had a poverty-driven revolution. Most revolutions have actually been about arbitrary and brutal abuse of power rather
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by repolfx 8y ago
There probably isn't one. Universities love to claim they teach critical thinking but this is a claim they can get away with only because most people don't have critical thinking skills: obvious followup questions may include &quo
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by repolfx 8y ago
I'm not sure there's a really great correlation between earnings and skill when it comes to jobs with titles such as those. You tend to find them a lot in financial firms and some of these industries have a lot of people who float
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by repolfx 8y ago
No, that's cutting off the supply. The johns demand sex even if they're being prevented from buying any because it's been made too risky to approach the areas where there's supply.
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by repolfx 8y ago
Ah but I'm not arguing that this dispute is religious in nature or that religious people all agree (the bible has nothing to say on the topic of mass immigration anyway, AFAIK). Rather that the people protesting for or against somethin
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by repolfx 8y ago
Do they? The 5th commandment is "thou shalt not murder". Parables: yes, that's certainly true. But can you create an adaptable moral framework without a lot of ambiguity? Even the law is ambiguous and it's far too large
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by repolfx 8y ago
I think there's a subtle misreading here. The phrase "leading thinkers" is loaded with meaning. It's a phrase used almost exclusively by one political grouping to mean "people who think just like us". It should
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by repolfx 8y ago
I'm not sure it's anything to do with the internet. A lot of this stuff is taking place offline - shouting people down at lectures and things like that. My own theory is it's due to the decline of religion. I say that as a no
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by repolfx 8y ago
Also (on some runtimes): - Sandbox code modules If a library doesn't need any permissions, and it's not granted any, then attempts to e.g. access the filesystem or network will throw exceptions. The JVM can do this, but it's
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by repolfx 8y ago
That tweet doesn't include anything even close to "trans people shouldn't exist"
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by repolfx 8y ago
But Googlers have developed a track record of objecting in relatively extreme ways to anything even remotely conservative, to the extent that a guy who wrote a memo literally about that exact problem, was fired because he gave an example
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by repolfx 8y ago
There's something incredibly weird about YouTube's algorithm, Jordan Peterson and Hacker News readers. That's a very common complaint. I've watched a few videos with him in and now my recommendations are also super-satur
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by repolfx 8y ago
I've worked in finance and at a big tech firm (the BTF). Here's how it breaks down. Firstly, you say this is your first full time job. There are some things in your list that are just life, buddy: • Everyone has an opinion on ever

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