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by savanaly 8y ago
I agree; it is not the goverment's role, much less is it actually possible for them, to decide whether the needed cuts in carbon emission come from cars going slower on the roadways, from car buyers favoring hybrid cars or public trans
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by savanaly 8y ago
In a comment below the main post they say that the app they wrote is approximately 45,000 lines of code over 170 Elm files. That's one of the largest (and apparently most useful) Elm apps in the wild that I've heard of, and the fa
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by savanaly 8y ago
>Note: We've built a pretty fat browser app with plain vanilla JS, strictly ES5 only, crude bash scripts for building a bundled js & all such ancient methods. Jeez, man, I'm all for minimal tooling too. But ES6 is the lowes
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by savanaly 8y ago
Your comment reminds me of this comic [0]. http://dresdencodak.com/2009/09/22/caveman-science-fiction/
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by savanaly 8y ago
I remember this came up in an Oculus keynote that John Carmack gave. I believe the reason given was because a significant portion of users use the headset while lying down and so nothing can really be on the back of the head?
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by savanaly 8y ago
As I understand it, if motion sickness were not a thing then it would enable a lot more compromises on the performance of VR headsets and the games that play on them. Dropping framerate and stuttering in these games is 100% unacceptable at
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by savanaly 8y ago
>They said this is partly because they get access to deals that don't hit the wider market and you need serious cash to get in the room to have that chat. This is something I hear a lot and I just don't get. Are the people on t
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by savanaly 8y ago
How is it a look at the sharing economy in particular? It was a satirical take on modern capitalism, sure, but I didn't see how WorryFree was supposed to remind you of a person working a contracting job such as an Uber driver. Quite th
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by savanaly 8y ago
Isn't that almost exactly what, say, the s&p 500 returns? [0] And you don't need a team of anyone to buy and hold that. [0] https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/042415/what-average...
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by savanaly 8y ago
>It does nobody any good to have 1000 books on a single device if the whole thing is subject to revocation If what you really care about is reading and the knowledge you get from it, as opposed to the opportunity to take some totally unr
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by savanaly 8y ago
Yes, that's life. So what wrong with trying to make life a little less bitter by reminding people that a rejection letter isn't the end of the world (which is what it can feel like)?
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by savanaly 8y ago
A phone of that cost is a luxury item. Now I'm in the category of people who can afford that and I want to make sure I'm not just living in a bubble when I dismiss what you said, so I opened up a tab and typed in "cheap phone
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by savanaly 8y ago
If Coke could take an action that would make them $1 million but cost Pepsi $1 billion, why wouldn't the two companies come to an agreement for Pepsi to pay Coke a one time sum of X where X is between $1m and $1b for Coke to not do it?
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by savanaly 8y ago
I was going to say this. She mentions her own art and how it has lapsed, but the letter she penned is full of promise when it comes to the art of writing.
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by savanaly 8y ago
You might be interested to read a bit about the history of people's attempts to bring EpiPen competitors to market in the first part of this blog post [0]. I don't see how it being non-profit would make much of a difference in thi
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by savanaly 8y ago
Shepherds can believe the commons are being depleted without it altering the incentive to graze their own sheep there. It would be nice if the option were between a) cut back on carbon emissions personally, and climate change will be undone
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by savanaly 8y ago
Most important tidbit in there is actually nothing to do with Amazon HQ2 but rather his recapitulation of a subtlety of insider trading which most people do not realize or necessarily share his perspective on: >Insider trading, I often s
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by savanaly 8y ago
By that logic, I guess homeopathy is also perfectly proven as effective?
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by savanaly 8y ago
>and reduces your competitiveness against other remote employers that don't try to squeeze 10-40% off employee salaries Well, duh. Google paying its engineers X instead of X + 100,000 reduces its competitiveness against other employ
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by savanaly 8y ago
>Now, we need all kinds of tricks, add-ons and blocks to just read five-minute posts during our commute. Is this only a thing for phones? I never use my phone for web browsing, but I use my web browser. All I have on that is uBlock Origi
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by savanaly 8y ago
In that essay Krugman treats wage and working conditions as interchangeable, and I think that's the right approach. Two different jobs with different wages can be equally desirable if one has better working conditions than the other. S
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by savanaly 8y ago
I fully agree with this. To quote Paul Krugman: >You may say that the wretched of the earth should not be forced to serve as hewers of wood, drawers of water, and sewers of sneakers for the affluent. But what is the alternative? Should t
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by savanaly 8y ago
>Why not just ban alcohol at work? Why can't work be work, and social stuff can happen outside of it? I see this sentiment a lot (especially on HN!) and I share it. I usually skip team dinners when I can. But there's no account
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by savanaly 8y ago
Realistically, there's always a few functions I want to call on my data that aren't part of the prototype of the thing I'm transforming. And then this pipe operator is called for.
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by savanaly 8y ago
Advertisement like newsletters can be in the interest of the customer.
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by savanaly 8y ago
>Second, despite all the doom and gloom over student loan debt and grads not finding good jobs and , a college degree still has a good ROI in terms of higher wages, lower unemployment, and higher lifetimes wealth, versus having no degree
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by savanaly 8y ago
Have seen very little discussion or interest in this year's economics prize compared to previous years'. Wonder why that is.
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by savanaly 8y ago
Huh, that's interesting because introspection tells me it's the opposite for me. When I'm in my safe zone is when I can comfortably be rational and calm almost all the time. If I ever said something rash or that I didn't
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by savanaly 8y ago
I've heard it as "commoditize your complements". When you're the heavyweight in a certain market (e.g. discovery and delivery), you want nearby markets to be competitive and prices to be low. You can greatly contribute t
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by savanaly 8y ago
I just have a hard time picturing the dystopian world where everyone walks around with figurative chains around their neck, working lifetimes of drudgery, because we let Amazon finally get monopoly power in all the stuff they sell and we ha

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