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by savanaly 9y ago
I totally agree with you. I believe group polarization [0] causes forums on the internet such as this one to exaggerate how bad something is going to be and this is one of those times. My biggest concern is if something actually world-endin
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by savanaly 9y ago
>Ironically enough, it's always the anti-government-spending Republicans who veto such efforts. It's more like appropriately enough, right?
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by savanaly 9y ago
One has to admit it would feel a tad greedy for Bill Gates to be using Amazon affiliate links in his blog.
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Thoughts on “Net Neutrality” from Down Here in the Coal Mine(thetrichordist.com)
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by savanaly 9y ago
a) what everyone else said, it's impossible to draw the line between what ordinary people do in all tax paying nations, i.e. look with a keen eye at all the possible deductions and tax incentives available to them in order to minimize
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I like cash but it does necessitate standing in line for stores that are in dense places like cities, which I don't like.
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by savanaly 9y ago
Because they wrote it in an era when internet connections were slow. They have not necessarily moved along the time-to-load-vs-page-size tradeoff curve so much as the curve itself has shifted due to improved connections and computation spee
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by savanaly 9y ago
>perhaps an oversight that dopamine release is not considered a prize If that's the case, how is going to the movies not gambling? I can't predict how much I'm going to enjoy a given movie before I go.
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by savanaly 9y ago
I mean, I want the improvement in quality that usually comes with competition, but I don't actually want there to be competition. Does anyone really relish the idea of having to search multiple sites for a given video because you don&#
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by savanaly 9y ago
What was it about React that made you feel stupid? I can see how Redux would make someone feel that way but react is so simple I'm having a hard time visualizing someone not liking it for that reason.
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by savanaly 9y ago
>We commute because businesses can push off the cost of commuting to their employees. This is a severe misunderstanding of the economics of the situation. Employees know that they're going to be spending time commuting, and they tak
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by savanaly 9y ago
Granted, every investment vehicle under the sun will have its ups and downs. It's a plausible case that real estate is worth having for its purported counter cyclical properties in some sort of advanced and complicated investment portf
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by savanaly 9y ago
If this is true, why is the return on owning land not better than the return on the stock market, at least in the estimation of most economists? Unless you have some comparative advantage in owning/administering to land, it's not
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by savanaly 9y ago
That's not what rent seeking means in this context. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rent-seeking
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by savanaly 9y ago
It's all about perspective. To a third world citizen, that statement applies to the lifestyle of a middle class american. To us, having a second jet seems like a ludicrous luxury. To them, having a second car probably seems like just a
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by savanaly 9y ago
A clever economist could probably work it out so that's it's a pareto improvement for society. In other words those damaged by the policy could in principle be made whole from the gains of those who gain from it, with gains leftov
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by savanaly 9y ago
In response to 2) I am one of those people you think is hilarious I guess. I fully support letting work be done wherever it is cheapest in an economic sense, which often means not in the USA. If and when that transformation happens to my ow
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by savanaly 9y ago
In the classical prisoner's dilemma it doesn't matter whether the prisoners can fully communicate with each other or not as long as it hold that they cannot change their move after seeing what the other guy moved. And it's pe
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by savanaly 9y ago
This doesn't add up to me. I can be one of the two people in a prisoner's dilemma scenario and fully acknowledge the reality that I might be heading to jail while still playing the selfish strategy of snitching. Just because you r
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by savanaly 9y ago
There is the endowment effect, and then there is the effect of the diminishing marginal value of money. You're talking about the latter and it certainly is recognized in economics just about as far back in its history as you care to lo
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by savanaly 9y ago
Ah. That has never come up for me because I assign `propTypes` and `defaultProps` within the class definition using class properties. I had assumed you would be assuming I would too because you made mention of class properties in your post.
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by savanaly 9y ago
Thanks for the well thought out response. Your second point about class definitions and ease of testing is making me reconsider my using decorators for HOC's. To your first point, I would say the HOC's as decorators would be very
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by savanaly 9y ago
The rationale sections reads: >Higher order components are used to wrap other components. This component enables you to use connect straightforwardly within jsx, removing much of the cognitive burden of using connect and refactoring comp
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by savanaly 9y ago
I agree. It is not his fault that the equilibrium has settled this way, but the fact is that it has settled at a point where ironically the design of his site sets off my "this is a scam site" alarms. Not a confidence scam, per se
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by savanaly 9y ago
Aren't there employees at facebook and NSA and the like who have to spend all day looking at material that might be child pornography to verify it is indeed such? Do they have to get special clearance or something so it's guarante
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by savanaly 9y ago
It would be perfect except it plays sound when I'm not expecting it to and that's an instant navigate away for me.
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by savanaly 9y ago
That's only true if you never reuse Math.max. I believe the philosophy the OP is espousing is to write a few point-ful funcitons when necessary and then make the bulk of your business logic be recombinations of those in a point-free wa
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by savanaly 9y ago
A only seems more complex because you're not used to the concepts involved. If you were then it would seem less complex than writing it "longhand".
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by savanaly 9y ago
Well I'm not sitting in judgement of Apple at the pearly gates, I'm a consumer trying to decide what brand of electronics to get. So I think it is fair to say it impresses me on that level to see them so committed to privacy.
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by savanaly 9y ago
https://developer.apple.com/streaming/fps/

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