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by savanaly 9y ago
>Why should I pay to have people see my post? Shouldn't I have to pay people to see their posts instead? I think people like to write things that others will read. How else to explain why people post so much on e.g. Facebook that is
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by savanaly 9y ago
If nothing else, styling emails serves an economic purpose through facilitating signaling. The more a company expects that consumers will value it in the long run the more incentive it has to signal that fact, and a signal is only as good a
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by savanaly 9y ago
To me, it is obvious why sales people are paid by commission. It's because the most efficient thing for a company to do is pay someone their precise marginal value, not more or less, as that leads to the incentive of people doing the b
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by savanaly 9y ago
Took me a little while to realize the page you see when you load that url is just an excerpt from the comic. The whole thing is here: https://www.google.com/googlebooks/chrome/index.html .
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by savanaly 9y ago
Huh? If you want React to render a div somewhere you presumably have to say the word "div" to it at some point. Would you be happier just saying React.createElement('div')? Because saying <div> in the middle of you
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by savanaly 9y ago
I downvote every comment that complains about being downvoted, for what it's worth. Let the chips fall where they may, the place to discuss why something is or isn't downvoted is somewhere else, never in the replies to a comment t
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by savanaly 9y ago
What reason do we have to think that for e.g. Google, marginal cost of hiring another engineer is not equal to the marginal benefit? Be careful not to confuse marginal benefit with average benefit, which as for almost all inputs in the econ
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by savanaly 9y ago
We can't prove that wrong. We can just say it's almost certainly wrong given the body of evidence against it. It's distinctly possible that every single measurement and observation of the moon that observed it to not be made
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by savanaly 9y ago
>I don't know what needs to happen for people to get outraged, but privacy needs to be a mainstream political issue. Almost totally orthogonal to discussions about how bad lack of privacy is getting, but the answer to the question p
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by savanaly 9y ago
I'll try to restate the point in my own words and see if that helps you. "just world/character-building" would be if the plot was: a girl gets a soda from a soda machine, then take it to a boy. Kishōtenketsu is: a girl g
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by savanaly 9y ago
If a passive business costs you $1000 on the free market to buy/sell (nevermind whether you own it already or not, the opportunity cost of acquiring/retaining it is the same for our decision making purposes either way), and it onl
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by savanaly 9y ago
For the analogy you're drawing to really hold, we have to picture a computer where the bytes get a lot of work done on their own and our code merely exists to slow down and redirect their efforts (in other words, a negative and a possi
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by savanaly 9y ago
When software development goes the way of the car manufacturer in America I'll be really interested to see what replaces it.
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by savanaly 9y ago
I agree. I guess I'm one of the odd ones who hardly ever reads anything on their phone, so maybe that informs my opinion. And I have never thought about the AMP issue thoroughly or logically. I just know that my instincts have been tra
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by savanaly 9y ago
>Mutating a primitive Makes me picture some language where you write "1 = 2" and from then on in your code all 1's are 2's.
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by savanaly 9y ago
Additionally, there's Elm which compiles to JS and its most memorable claim to fame is that it's a JS framework where "runtime errors are always a compiler bug".
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by savanaly 9y ago
It's one of the earliest things I can remember learning in my intro to programming classes in college. Those were in Java.
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by savanaly 9y ago
I'm really glad to have read this article as it actually solidifies my comfort with using React Native since it seems like a well thought out list of reasons not to use React Native, and now I know that none of them really matter that
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by savanaly 9y ago
Hopefully they still will. An eye for an eye leaves everyone blind. The sweet spot for deterrence comes in the form of punishment that is swift and certain, not necessarily dire.
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by savanaly 9y ago
For me, at least, it's not a problem that it doesn't optimally communicate targeted information. I watch talks like this for entertainment and maybe to pick up some information by osmosis and the undirected style is good for that.
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by savanaly 9y ago
>I listened to (and played) jazz, often the kind inspired by Lord of the Rings I want to know more about this part.
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by savanaly 9y ago
Personally, I watched it with rapt attention throughout and I'm eagerly anticipating having time later to do so for the other 6 parts of the keynote. Can't remember the last presentation that captured me so. I think he is a very g
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by savanaly 9y ago
That's a good episode but I don't see how it's relevant here. They're workers and the manager has a system in place to track their performance. Same thing has been around since ancient times, although not so formalized.
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by savanaly 9y ago
Reminder to any who feel that is a great idea and are inspired to emulate it, but don't make so much money that they can afford to donate half of it, there's a different pledge for us little guys, the Giving What We Can Pledge: h
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by savanaly 9y ago
Maybe we're working from different definitions of "calculus". To me, equations and relations between variables are not calculus, just algebra. Only when you start studying the infinitesimals of change does it start to count a
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by savanaly 9y ago
I understand that the quality of a glove is important and people should have the option to pay more for a better glove. Leaving that aside though, what does it matter where it gets made? American workers are not specially more or less deser
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by savanaly 9y ago
>But it is complex. Anything beyond the most basic examples delve into the concepts of calculus. Huh? My codebases at work have never involved calculus. Not all programming proceeds along the lines of Project Euler when getting more comp
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by savanaly 9y ago
The title here on HN is not especially helpful in understanding what the article is about, since it leaves out that it's a) about Fahrenheit 451 and b) said by Bradbury. Maybe replace it with the title of the article "Ray Bradbury
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by savanaly 9y ago
I mean...a really, really good lottery ticket which has a much higher chance of paying out than your standard powerball ticket. It's true that there is variance in your pay if it's partially made up of equity but it's clearly
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by savanaly 9y ago
Agreed. I'd happily trade the whole disney catalog for a new coen brother movie any day of the week.

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