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by savanaly 5y ago
A thread going down a single layer makes total sense to me. Not the engineer in me, maybe, but the human. The human who is well trained to, in a large gathering like a party or an office, pull one or two people aside to have a semi-private
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by savanaly 5y ago
When I joined the Elm community I thought it was weird they use a Slack for real time discussion and not a Discord. When I asked why I found out that Discord's features are most certainly not a superset of Slack's. * Slack threa
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by savanaly 5y ago
Runtime exceptions aren't the same as bugs or sub optimal experiences. If the call for your data for your table fails and it shouldn't, your table will be sitting there awkwardly empty. But what won't happen is what's ha
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by savanaly 5y ago
Elm has been my language/framework of choice for writing all my side projects for several years and I am very happy. I also wrote a chrome extension productivity tool for my teammates at work in Elm. I'm not 100% convinced of the
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by savanaly 5y ago
>But the basic point, that he started out in business with family financial resources that the overwhelming majority of humans will never have, remains true. What does all that matter if you leave home at 17 with access to none of it? I&
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by savanaly 6y ago
You're carrying on some argument from some other place on the internet and applying it here, but I'm not part of it and I'm not the person you disagree with. Irony isn't a bad thing, it just is or isn't, and in this
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by savanaly 6y ago
It's not that they don't deserve it, it's that it's ironic.
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by savanaly 6y ago
Honestly nowhere near as bad as I would expect.
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by savanaly 6y ago
...But only because there are other rough men ready to violence against them. What was proposed was getting rid of rough men willing to do violence, not rough men willing to do violence on our side only.
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by savanaly 6y ago
Where does he blog?
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by savanaly 6y ago
I think the amount of people doing silly things like this has certainly gone down in relative terms, but probably gone up in absolute terms (think of the statistics about how many people gain access to the internet for the first time every
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by savanaly 6y ago
It gets even hazier, frankly, when you realize that not every statement you make can be firmly categorized as a truth or lie. Due to cognitive dissonance our lies to others can soon become lies to ourselves, and where do you draw the line b
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by savanaly 6y ago
It's hard for me to imagine someone not being meritocratic. You would really, in your deepest heart of hearts, be sincerely ambivalent about whether your, say, dangerous surgery was done by the best surgeon in the country vs the lousie
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by savanaly 6y ago
Quoting from https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/06/16/things-that-sometimes-... on the subject of ECT: "Electroconvulsive therapy gets a bad rap from old movies where we see people who “misbehave” in the me
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by savanaly 6y ago
The bombing of innocents in those places, while tragic, is nowhere near the scale of the destruction of native populations that was happening a few centuries ago, and public outcry is also louder from the countries doing it. So the trend is
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by savanaly 6y ago
Quality of acting is a pretty subjective matter. We do see increases in "quality of output" over the same time scale on more objective metrics, like e.g. physical achievements. High schoolers today routinely accomplish the same fe
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by savanaly 6y ago
What I want is for them to respond to things I do in the editor...writing code and removing code and so on. It could either be canned animations randomly generated in responses to actions or something deeper, like you said with tamagochi, t
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by savanaly 6y ago
Good X and Good Y both increase in price over some period of time, but one does by 2% and the other by 4%. What is the true value of inflation? 2% or 4%? Or is it 3%? Or is it 3.5% because you buy one of the goods twice as often as the othe
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by savanaly 6y ago
It's certainly possible, could you elaborate? To clear, I haven't read that wikipedia article recently, or maybe ever. I'm going off of what my understanding is of Ricardian rent from wherever I learned it-- I don't reme
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by savanaly 6y ago
Also incredible that it could have been predicted over 200 years ago [0]. The law of rent, one of the most firmly established in economics, is that all the bounty of our efforts will accumulate to the holders of fixed assets, namely land an
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by savanaly 6y ago
I just don't understand why a guaranteed payday if you're even modestly successful doesn't draw competition like flies. I would think that once you're known to be willing to pay a bribe to someone who threatens you even
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by savanaly 6y ago
But it has been acquiring companies, as mentioned in the article. Why didn't those companies face a barrier to entry? Or if they did and it wasn't binding why is it apparently binding to other up and comers?
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by savanaly 6y ago
I'm not sure I understand how monopolies acquiring their competitors early on in order to be able to maintain their monopoly price works in practice. Wouldn't the eager gaze of startup founders looking to strike their first big sc
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by savanaly 6y ago
Democrats definitely do try to expand the reach of colleges to all, including the lower classes, but I imagine that a lot of lower classes would feel excluded at the institutions (not knowing the lingo, how to dress, etc. all the things tal
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A Modest Proposal for Republicans: Use the Word “Class”(astralcodexten.substack.com)
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by savanaly 6y ago
SSC estimated 4% and calls it the Lizardman Constant [0]. [0] https://slatestarcodex.com/2013/04/12/noisy-poll-results-and...
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by savanaly 6y ago
This is a good point. Markets sting when they skyrocket to high prices. But the sting is supposed to be matched bit for bit by the benefits-- incentivizing people to cut back when they should (something most people would only begrudgingly a
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by savanaly 6y ago
You can't tell people anything. [0] [0] http://habitatchronicles.com/2004/04/you-cant-tell-people-an...
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by savanaly 6y ago
Are we 100% sure it's not an ice cream sales cause shark attacks correlation?
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by savanaly 6y ago
I mean, looking at the change notes for e.g. Tailwind 2.0 which is the latest one to cause me pain, hardly anything in it was a response to changes in the CSS handling of the browsers. It's all shuffling of namespaces, additions of lit

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