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6y ago
> That's a real recipe for shutting down, and if that happens, there is no more short to squeeze. Everyone loses. It seems you didn't understood that for the WSB crowd the definition of winning is getting these funds to shut do
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6y ago
> My biggest concern with these plays, at this point, is that they're not taking into account the possibility of bankruptcy. Whose bankruptcy? The WSB crowd are very vocal in their goals of bankrupting hedge funds who have a lot rid
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6y ago
I'm not sure you understood the web saying. Its meaning has nothing to do with Keynes' quote. It's instead a clever play on words that refers to the recurrent accusation (and subsequent meme) that WSB are a bunch of autists&#
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6y ago
> Let's say that some paradigm insists that inheritance should be used for every problem. There is no such paradigm, including and specially OO. In fact, your example clearly illustrates the perils of blaming the tools for problems
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6y ago
> This argument seems to come up for every criticism of OO. The criticism is invalid because true OO would never do that. This passertion is disingenuous. The whole point is that the reason why bad code is bad is not because it's OO
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6y ago
> I simply don't understand the explosion of complexity associated to autotools, cmake, and the like. If you refer to tools like cmake as "explosion of complexity" then I have to say that you are using them entirely wrong,
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6y ago
> Then you end up with a program where the users can never trust it to have any given feature. That's the "glass half empty" pov. The "half glass full" pov is that anyone can still use their favourite piece of so
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6y ago
> Ok, humor me for a second: What's wrong with that? There's absolutely nothing wrong with that, and in fact it's so simple that afterwards we can even write a script to automate setting those variables. Who needs convolut
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6y ago
> Its become political. Hydroxychloroquine was never anything other than pure political propaganda. It was the promise of a magical politically endorsed silver bullet designed to mitigate the political fallout of having to manage a pande
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6y ago
> Not a doctor or well read on the subject but I have seen some studies claiming it does. Your source is quite old and only provides baseless speculation about an hypothesis where hydroxychloroquine might play a role in treating covid-19
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6y ago
> But no mention of whether any of the trials included both Zinc and Azithromyzin Meanwhile, there is still no evidence that hydroxychloroquine has any usefulness as treatment for COVID19.
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6y ago
> Elastic Search launched more than a decade back, when the cloud was used in an entirely different manner. The team had no way to foresee the shift to the managed services model; This claim is highly unrealistic. Offering managed servic
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6y ago
> This is a pointless ad hominem that is completely irrelevant to this case. If you're trying to base your claims on appeals to authority, the very least you should do is verify what your authority defends and stands for and what it
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6y ago
> BLM/Qanon are equally screwed up. Can you please elaborate how a movement against police brutality and racism is in any way comparable with a group that supports a conspiracy theory regarding a cabal of satanic-worshiping cannibal
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6y ago
> We’ve got one of the most educated populations in the world. Keeping children in school for 12 years doesn't mean they are educated. Keep in mind that between 7-9% of school-age children in the US are homeschooled. https:/&#
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6y ago
> But this is also the beauty of free expression - it prevents anyone from using it to enact total control. This ignores all the historical events where groups leveraging said chaotic nature of free speech succeeded in establishing total
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6y ago
> No. The replies don't address a single scientific point whatsoever The reply actually addresses all the points. * It provides an objective description of the test, supported by primary sources. * Provides a description of the sour
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6y ago
> To clarify: I am emphasizing the fact that HTML is not suitable for what we are using it for today. As I've said, that personal assertion makes no sense. HTML is not a bottleneck. Your claim was, and I repeat, "We are using a
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6y ago
> The technical reasonings don't matter. It is a reflection of the failure on the part of software engineers, product managers and standards bodies. Your personal assertion makes no sense. This is a purely technical problem, not a p
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6y ago
> but still struggle with rendering html interfaces on the client. This assertion completely ignores the performance problems that are involved in "rendering html interfaces on the client". The main difference between rendering
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6y ago
On the contrary. The reply is a clear explanation of why the ad hominem accusation makes no sense. The initial comment was rightfully flagged because it either ignores the bad and unscientific nature of the attacks on the paper.
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6y ago
> Yeah, unless I am building a very performance sensitive web service, either in terms of memory or CPU efficiency, js/typescript or some other web centric language is a much easier choice, and is less costly to build in. I really d
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6y ago
> Just use stuff that works, and that most people already know. Python, Perl, Ruby, jQuery, PHP, etc. Any of those have all the tools you need, proper documentation, millions of Stack Overflow discussions, and exceptional ecosystems and
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6y ago
> Question is, is it necessary for programming? Why, yes? > Not useful, but necessary for a beginner to touch the command line? Do you understand that you're asking if a beginner needs to run or pass a setting or even automate an
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6y ago
> The command line is a layer of abstraction that could be made unnecessary for programming. Wow, if I ever saw a comment on HN that was fundamentally wrong on many levels, this was it. No, a command line interface is not "a layer o
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6y ago
> It's not completely useless for programming: for example, I use the button to stop an app in the debugger pretty often. The hypothetical advantages of that usecase are negated by the lack of physical F-keys, which are critical to
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6y ago
> Because only one cop was murdered in a fashion that was probably unintentional, he was beat up. "probably unintentional"? They dragged the police officer into the mob and proceed to beat him up with lead pipes. > even so t
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6y ago
>>The cop was unfortunate, "Unfortunate"? > but I doubt they meant to murder someone. What? They dragged him into the rioting mob and hit him in the head with lead pipes and left him for dead.
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6y ago
> So why not run kubernetes nodes in containers? Plenty of usecases are already covered by that. Also, running containers in containers is also a thing. It's containers all the way down.
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6y ago
> So many threats, plots, doxxings, stalkings left unmoderated on Facebook and Twitter Parler's userbase is comprised of people who were either banned or migrated away from Facebook and Twitter in protest of them cracking down on ha
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