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by samcal 6y ago
Is that what they were getting at? It seems to me like you made up that 80% number just now, to prove your point.
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by samcal 6y ago
We can definitely agree that as a company grows, it needs more employees. I think the point at issue is that there is such thing as having too many employees. There are multiple opposing forces in tension here, and the tricky part is stri
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by samcal 7y ago
I think the title should be changed to "99% of the people who have died to date from Coronavirus had other illnesses". It is irresponsible to frame this as a complete sample of deaths from this virus. In other words, it would make
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by samcal 7y ago
I'm not sure that your first sentence is true. The symptomatic effect that a not-mild virus strain has can help it spread, for obvious reasons. It seems like there's an optimization problem there, with a sweet spot where the virus
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by samcal 7y ago
The reason that it's usually used in this context is that a nation state has a monopoly on violence within its borders. It's a natural extension in "cyberpunk" circles to apply this to digital violence.
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by samcal 7y ago
Right, the relevant part is that there are 5 people whose annual salary totals $70 million. That is tremendously too high, and allows those 5 people to have undue influence on the society that allowed them to get such power. I'm sorry
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by samcal 7y ago
I don't expect to change your mind, but I had a very different reading of this article than you did and here are my thoughts on the 4 points that you raised: 1. I don't think it's a big secret that stamping out unions is a ke
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by samcal 7y ago
Comparing being in a wheelchair to losing at soccer seems reductive to me. Being in a wheelchair is completely life-changing and having public spaces being accessible is a very good thing for the quality of life of people being in this terr
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by samcal 7y ago
Drinking no milk at all is best! Reducing dairy intake reduces Parkinson's disease rate[0], reduces hip fracture rate[1], reduces twinning offspring rate in women[2], and may even reduce Prostate Cancer[3]. You really don't miss i
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by samcal 7y ago
They can fly because of their strange gut microbiomes o_O
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by samcal 7y ago
There are plenty of ways for you to contribute to your society (even labor), you just can't get paid for them: volunteer, clean up, contribute to open-source codebases, etc. I think there's a reasonable argument that the best thin
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by samcal 7y ago
Right, the problem might arise from when you have some people making $9/hr and others making on the order of $1k-100k/hr. Those two groups both occupy and influence the markets, and if you don't keep that gap small enough you
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by samcal 7y ago
Well, the search engines decided that robots.txt was the better approach for them. Which makes sense, since they want control over as much data as possible, that's their profit motive. The jury is still out on whether that's a lon
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by samcal 7y ago
10 years is nothing on the scale of language development, and SV is nothing on the scale of the English-speaking world :) Fear not, I bet there aren't enough words to go around for this to be a big deal long-term.
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by samcal 8y ago
The answer is yes to all 3! There are cameras and smart boards at the highest level, but chess players are still required to write down their moves. Archaic for sure, but tradition is strong with these old games.
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by samcal 9y ago
You can do both! But if you supplement vitamin D you wouldn't need to worry about making it out for your walk every day. IANA nutritionist, but I also believe GP's prescribed dose would be unfeasible to get reliably from the sun,
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by samcal 9y ago
Right, but those animals aren't as naturally helpless as a domesticated cow.
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by samcal 10y ago
I believe GP meant that picking Dijkstra's is an uninventive answer to the question of a favorite algorithm, since it's very well-known.
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by samcal 10y ago
While I agree that the problem is not a very big deal, I think that you might be surprised how difficult understanding compiler errors can be for newcomers.
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by samcal 10y ago
Another popular remap is a Karabiner option that enters Esc when Ctrl is tapped, and Ctrl when when used with another key. Rebind the Caps Lock key to Ctrl in System Preferences and you're in business.
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by samcal 10y ago
That's not usually the reason to ship early. Common wisdom is to ship early because it's very possible that you do not have a good understanding of the problem you are trying to solve, or how your users will use your solution. The
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by samcal 10y ago
Yes, but only recently. The most notable example in a top company is Facebook's spam detection service, powered by their library called Haxl[0]. The language allows some very skilled programmers to build this library that makes it very
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by samcal 10y ago
Ah, that's where I was confused. I would call both of those solutions mocks.
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by samcal 10y ago
James Mickens at Monitorama: https://vimeo.com/95066828 Aside from the comedic aspect (which makes the talk incredible), Mickens is a genuinely brilliant thinker and has a marvelous way with words.
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by samcal 10y ago
Can you elaborate on this? What is the correct way to test external services that may have side effects in Python?
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by samcal 10y ago
Swift has the same syntax for its nullable types. It's also conceptually similar to Haskell's monadic bind over the Maybe type, where your example would look like foo >>= bar >>= baz The nice thing about this
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by samcal 11y ago
"Sttwohenge"
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by samcal 12y ago
It would seem that the point was the unpleasant experience. It's not as if they didn't have the choice to leave.
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by samcal 12y ago
> There are plenty who don't need to because they work with their hands and plenty more because they have active hobbies. And I bet those aren't the people about whom the parent was talking. It's not as if the benefits of
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by samcal 14y ago
Great puzzle! Just finished after a solid hour's work. Had to refresh the old re syntax as well.

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