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by rrcaptain 8y ago
How many pills were you taking daily? The plastic waste of 4-5 pill bottles a month is quite large. But yes it is wasteful, just like the rest of for-profit healthcare.
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by rrcaptain 8y ago
>Difference is there would be no reasonable excuse to not even letting it come to a vote at that point. There was no reasonable excuse in 2016 either lmao.
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by rrcaptain 8y ago
No, the GOP was planning to block Hillary's nominees as well. And people did decide... In 2012 when they voted for Obama by like 51%. Lame duck presidents have gotten SCOTUS seats before. Reagan nominated and had a confirmation in his
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by rrcaptain 8y ago
I mean, he's also sitting on a stolen seat. Not letting Obama nominate anyone was pretty BS. Obviously it wasn't his idea, but he's benefited from it nonetheless.
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by rrcaptain 8y ago
Perhaps they still wanted the company for some reason? Someone knows. Time will tell most likely.
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by rrcaptain 8y ago
Why would YouTube willingly run fewer ads? They were hardly profitable as it was, it doesn't make sense for them to "crack down" on channels all of a sudden by continuing to host them, but not running ads on them. Not to ment
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by rrcaptain 8y ago
I mean, that only happened because advertisers learned that the "independent" creators were all assholes. Like this started after advertisers started pulling out when PewDiePie didn't just apologize and admit he was wrong wit
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by rrcaptain 8y ago
He never really was, just people are paying attention now.
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by rrcaptain 8y ago
Except Tether hasn't actually proved they have the cash they claim. So why should we take their word that they're a peg system when they haven't proved it?
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by rrcaptain 8y ago
Exactly. The spirit of what they were trying to do got killed.
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by rrcaptain 8y ago
Because that turned out so well for Etsy.
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by rrcaptain 8y ago
Not too keen on GitHub being acquired. If Microsoft wants to do something good here, they should give GitHub enough money to form a Foundation similar to Mozilla. That would be the best way GitHub could pursue its mission.
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by rrcaptain 8y ago
GitHub being bought buy Microsoft is like the opposite of what it represents. If Microsoft wants to pay for goodwill they should drop a big chunk of cash on forming a GitHub Foundation similar to Mozilla.
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by rrcaptain 8y ago
>Why does GitHub need to be acquired at all? So VCs can cash in.
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by rrcaptain 8y ago
Eh. I doubt it's a PR move. More likely just some redditor making shit up.
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by rrcaptain 8y ago
You mentioned problems scaling in the article. Can you elaborate on that? Will you update that later on?
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by rrcaptain 8y ago
Not sure why you're saying Python was used as an alternative to Ruby when Python is older than Ruby.
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by rrcaptain 8y ago
If you expect to need the performance of a statically typed, compiled language I don't see why you'd prototype in a dynamically typed, interpreted language.
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by rrcaptain 8y ago
Not all python programs are compatible with PyPy though. Nor do they get much of a performance boost by switching. Pandas and NumPy for example didn't work on PyPy until less than a year ago. And a good chunk of Python codebases are go
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by rrcaptain 8y ago
Oddly that's one of the things I like most about python. The containers module has so many very useful things. Plus hash-tables and array-lists shouldn't ever really be the same thing.
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by rrcaptain 8y ago
I mean Facebook uses PHP and that doesn't mean it's any more scalable. I suppose they call it hack now though.
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by rrcaptain 8y ago
I mean, I wouldn't call this productive. But fun and useful most definitely.
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by rrcaptain 8y ago
Well it doesn't help that LendEDU is a YC startup.
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by rrcaptain 8y ago
Probably not. Unless LendEDU reached out the website personally. And it's unlikely rich investors will face consequences any way.
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by rrcaptain 8y ago
It's kind of ironic to hear that on Hacker News considering the decline in local investigative reporting is largely due to social media and ad-tech in general.
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by rrcaptain 9y ago
I'm pretty sure you can also backup stuff to the Internet Archive.
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by rrcaptain 9y ago
No I'm pretty sure that's literally the plot of the book.
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by rrcaptain 9y ago
$$$
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by rrcaptain 9y ago
I imagine that it makes any potential litigation or dispute much simpler. Even if the license is FOSS, any sort of litigation could have hundreds or thousands of parties involved.
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by rrcaptain 9y ago
It's kind of a meme at this point though. Shitting on other people's favorite language is a well honored SWE tradition.

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