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by ritchiea 9y ago
Bail is broken [0], that's the assumption they're starting with. They and many others have observed that bail lends the wealthy an opportunity to walk free with little cost, overfills jails, creates debt/costs for innocent pe
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by ritchiea 9y ago
It's hard to get people to donate their money directly. You might be able to get more people to passively donate CPU cycles and electricity than to directly donate money. And please don't argue there's no difference because p
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by ritchiea 9y ago
You're right that policy needs to change but raising money via mining to actually free people can change those people's lives while we press for a legislative solution. It's an abstract problem for you but why merely sit arou
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Cryptocurrency Is the Next Frontier in the Quest to Abolish Cash Bail(injusticetoday.com)
49 points by ritchiea 9y ago|72 comments
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by ritchiea 9y ago
I would say the JS community has both NIH syndrome and huge dependency trees. Everyone does things differently and there are 5 or 6 kind of decent options for any dependency you might need. Yet somehow there is rarely one great option.
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by ritchiea 9y ago
It's actually really simple why we can't all just throw ourselves in 100% to every new thing. Instead of learning a new tool I could be writing app code for my client or employer who needs the code for their business. I have a fin
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by ritchiea 9y ago
Every web application requires at least 2 languages (a sever side language and HTML). Virtually all of them also end up also including Javascript and CSS. And Javascript as a server side language is relatively new. That's not a great a
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by ritchiea 9y ago
I'm not buying this argument. There's a Rails way, Python famously aims for one obvious way of doing things. That just isn't true of Javascript exactly because there is a history of developers writing several styles of JS, th
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by ritchiea 9y ago
In a world of options where an experienced programmer has had a chance to experiment with different languages the most familiar language is the best prototyping language. In a world where C is the only option programmers think about what ot
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I Was Suspended from Facebook for My #MeToo Post(medium.com)
28 points by ritchiea 9y ago|27 comments
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by ritchiea 9y ago
I believe the problem is Quebec has a poor economy and figured to lose out economically and in subsequent trade deals if they became independent. Catalonia on the other hand is ~20% of Spain's economy and ~15% of the population so on t
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by ritchiea 9y ago
Honestly most things people are uniquely passionate about that take work outside of your workplace will get you equal or nearly equal weird looks. A lot of people want to go to work to make money and come home to watch TV. I worked for Obam
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by ritchiea 9y ago
When I'm reading HN I assume the commenters are at least somewhat similar to myself until I have evidence to think otherwise. The culture here is neither anti-intellectual nor anti-math. Given that we're on HN I'd say it&#x27
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by ritchiea 9y ago
My guess is in this case the original commenter means "get a life" if you feel pressured to only think about programming or work. If you are happy and fulfilled programming all day, go for it, program all day. Personally I would a
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by ritchiea 9y ago
SEEKING WORK - Berlin, Germany/New York City - Remote Ok Experienced full stack, product focused Ruby and Javascript developer with work history focused on startups. Some big company (e.g. NY Times, Cleversafe), small business and agen
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by ritchiea 9y ago
So your point is some of the Nazis were reasonable other than the ones that want to commit genocide? It doesn't even hold up today because you are saying historically there were Germans that supported the Nazi party because of Hitler&#
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by ritchiea 9y ago
Well anything near Times Square is a mess, I'm in a quiet part of Brooklyn.
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by ritchiea 9y ago
Yup, pretty much anywhere in the city will be close to that. But that's regular NYC pricing, everything is more expensive there.
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by ritchiea 9y ago
Where do you live? I almost never experience this going to the theater in NYC.
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by ritchiea 9y ago
I firmly believe hiring decision makers are incapable of assessing people objectively.
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by ritchiea 9y ago
I've never interpreted diversity programs as telling minorities we are stupider. Universities are a great example, wealthier people with more money can afford better educations and test prep for their children. If the "merit"
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by ritchiea 9y ago
I suspect this getting up-voted is about the Google engineer's diversity essay. How about instead of framing it in terms of what you can't say politically, let's rephrase it another way: Imagine you make a post inside your c
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by ritchiea 9y ago
I'm suggesting that people often don't act in line with their proclaimed political beliefs when those beliefs don't benefit them in the immediate.
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by ritchiea 9y ago
I wonder if any of the people objecting to the sale or the possibility of paying the new owners for parking spaces describe themselves as "libertarians."
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by ritchiea 9y ago
Can you be more specific? What exactly do I need to disable to see a battery life boost?
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by ritchiea 9y ago
Username "degenerate" defines startup culture as equivalent to macho culture and wonders if women are as good and determined at work as men. Got it.
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by ritchiea 9y ago
Yes yes, clearly there are points in time where there is a real entity that exists as a company. But in the context of "can I lose all this?" where you are a founder building something, you don't just not have control, you do
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by ritchiea 9y ago
You don't have a company yet if you're dependent on future investment.
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by ritchiea 9y ago
Yes, I look at the people I grew up around in a poor-to-working class neighborhood in Chicago and I feel guilty that most of them didn't get the same opportunity I did to do better. I was bused to better schools because of my test scor
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by ritchiea 9y ago
I'm a freelancer/run-my-own small dev consultancy and I pretty much never jump through hoops. The level of demand doesn't create the hoops. Some combination of needing to create the appearance of "only hiring the best of

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