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by sandstrom 5y ago
Probably, but I'm not talking about legality here. In war people do a lot of illegal things. I'm just saying, banning this people are probably not having the desired effect. Showing an alternative point of view would be more effec
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by sandstrom 5y ago
By all means, promote the Ukraine point of view (I support them 100%). For example, put up links to the speech Zelenskyy did in Russian, aimed at the Russian people. Ukraine themselves understand how to fight the information war. You treat
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by sandstrom 5y ago
Look at European and US sanctions, they're way more clever about it: - Aim of sanctions is to turn Russians against Putin. - Obviously, you want to target those that don't already hate Putin (no point in preaching to the choir). -
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by sandstrom 5y ago
If you look at what both Europe and Ukraine is doing right now with sanctions, they're being a bit more clever. - You want to turn Russians against Putin, yes. But you don't want to have those same people hate Ukraine/US. - F
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by sandstrom 5y ago
Hello Namecheap: Are you sure this will help your objective? Putin is a monster and his war is horrible. As you've probably seen from the 'prisoners of war' videos out of Ukraine, most soldiers don't want to fight this w
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by sandstrom 5y ago
Are you sure this will help your objective? Putin is a maniac and his war is horrible. But as you've probably seen from all the 'prisoners of war' videos out of Ukraine, most soldiers don't want to fight this war. Russia
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by sandstrom 5y ago
I agree there have been some mistakes (difficult to design the perfect framework on your first attempt), but overall we're quite happy with Ember. - Embroider is actually 1.0 now and quite usable ( https://github.com/emb
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by sandstrom 5y ago
The Stockholm metro is run by MTR, but they don't own it. They're only staffing the trains and platforms, not to different from e.g. a police station paying a sub-contractor to sweep their floors and manage the reception desk. T
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by sandstrom 5y ago
For anyone interested in Ruby and Rust, check out Artichoke. https://github.com/artichoke/artichoke It’s ruby, implemented in rust. Early days, but very interesting. (I have no affiliation or involvement with it, just
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by sandstrom 5y ago
The US is a large power compared to any individual European country. But for example Microsoft about as much money in the EU than in the US.
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by sandstrom 5y ago
Some believe that Omicron (yes, the mutation) may be a leak from a lab that was doing research on the original version of Covid. https://bprice.substack.com/p/lab-leak-20 It's an interesting read. Author puts forw
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by sandstrom 5y ago
This study (with more than a thousand citations) of 70,000 school children in the UK measured IQ at age 11 and compared with educational outcome (GCSE; standardized tests) at age 16. The correlation was 0.8. Deary, I., Strand, S., Smith, P.
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by sandstrom 5y ago
I think most will agree that there is an evolutionary selection against intelligence (I think the term is "dysgenic mating"). For example, highly educated people (reasonable proxy for intelligence, at least it used to be) have few
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by sandstrom 5y ago
Never heard of him, but seems like he's published a lot of scientific articles on vaccines over the past 20+ years. He has a personal website with some more details on who he is: https://www.rwmalonemd.com/ In his own
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by sandstrom 5y ago
Yeah, this is the answer. To add to this, for the "large scale technologies" you're interested in, remember that there aren't many individuals that knows it all (and neither will you!). Senior engineers and CTOs will hav
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by sandstrom 5y ago
"The following default gems are now bundled gems." Great to see slow removal (or carve out) of rarely used stdlib stuff. Ruby would benefit from a trimmed down stdlib, where effort could be spent keeping a smaller footprint stdlib
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by sandstrom 5y ago
Its the same type of cancel culture, but this time it's a country being "offended", not a person. https://qz.com/1911573/virtual-youtubers-suspended-after-cal... https://www.theguardian.com&#x
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by sandstrom 5y ago
They recently added support for in-app donations: https://www.theverge.com/2021/12/2/22814934/signal-launches-... I hope they'll take it a step further and require payment for certain functionality
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by sandstrom 5y ago
Good point! Similarly, there are also countries that are "offensive" from a Chinese point of view. This journalist cannot even mention the name "Taiwan" and "country" in the same sentence without this WHO guy (
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by sandstrom 5y ago
I'm guessing that's his point.
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by sandstrom 5y ago
I think all western companies should try to reorganize supply chains such that they rely as little as possible on China. Reasonable Western governments should support this, and enact policies to speed this up. Obviously something that takes
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by sandstrom 5y ago
We've recently switched our team from Slack to Twist. Maybe that could be a good alternative for the Quill users that are getting booted now. https://twist.com/ It's got fewer features and settings than Slack, but
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by sandstrom 5y ago
With IQ being ~80% hereditary, this isn’t too surprising. EDIT: Had somehow missed half the article, which goes into detail on this. I’d still guess IQ is a big part of it though.
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by sandstrom 5y ago
I'd like to see Ruby deprecate some of the rarely used standard library items. For example, does Rinda and GDBM need to be in the standard lib? Maybe they're better suited as stand-alone gems? Similarly, I think it should stop bun
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by sandstrom 5y ago
If you are hung up on the firetruck, here is another one on newborn macaques preferring faces: https://www.nature.com/articles/srep19669 Or this one, where adding testosterone to rhesus monkeys causes their female offs
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by sandstrom 5y ago
I cited the 2000 study because it was the first one doing this type of experiment at a very early age (the babies were 36 hours! old). No, that's wrong, it was properly blinded: The videotapes were coded by two judges who were blin
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by sandstrom 5y ago
Some items where alright, but I agree with what tptacek wrote elsewhere in this thread ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29102385 ). Another list that I think is better for most startups: https://www.goldfigla
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by sandstrom 5y ago
This is a well-studied area, and the preferences are clearly biological. Boys “thing-orientation” and girls preference for “faces and dolls” show up in, for example, (a) neonatal human babies, (b) young rhesus monkeys and (c) chimpanzees ba
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by sandstrom 5y ago
I agree, CockroachDB is overall very good! A few things I'm missing from it though: - Advisory Locks (only exist as a shim/no-op today) - LISTEN/NOTIFY - CTEs (Common Table Expressions) - Introspection and management features
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by sandstrom 5y ago
Out of curiosity, anyone who knows how they're making money? Their pricing pages says that everything is $0 (free). https://ramp.com/pricing

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