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by savanaly 4y ago
I'd be interested to read a version of this comment that substantiates its criticisms.
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by savanaly 4y ago
>went off to work on other things I heard he had a baby in recent years, is that what you meant? ;)
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by savanaly 4y ago
Pardon the excessive length of this response but I think about Elm all day every day and love the chance to talk about it on HN! Currently and for a couple months I've spent several hours per day working on my side project in Elm. Over
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by savanaly 4y ago
Agree with jrochkind1 that it doesn't matter whether it's worth it or not. I suppose chairs and desks for all US Government employees pay for their cost 1000x over, but I would hope people would still not let their costs balloon t
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by savanaly 4y ago
I'm quite confused because almost all conversation in my company's slack happens in threads. Maybe your impression of Slack was formed in a time when they didn't have threads?
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by savanaly 4y ago
> Comments about how stupid the demonym for the employees was/is I'm so done with these. I sort of agree but jesus christ they are so pervasive. Maybe I had bad timing but today on the discussion about layoffs at Zoom fully mor
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by savanaly 4y ago
>And we don't have better outcomes. It's apples and oranges though, yeah? Do we have worse health outcomes after controlling for the health-related demographics of our population? That's like saying I live a ten minute wal
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by savanaly 4y ago
>Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—e.g. article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage. They're too common to be interesting. From https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguideline
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by savanaly 4y ago
The beauty of competition. The person lending you money always could fuck you over, but the greed of other banks would save you in that scenario. Which they know, so they don't fuck you over. Same reason grocery stores don't wait
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by savanaly 4y ago
>I think if people don't want to learn a language they will come up with any excuse. In a world where it was actually true that you don't have to learn the language wouldn't it appear that they always have an excuse not to
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by savanaly 4y ago
>This is all about serving the lowest possible quality for the highest possible price, nothing about that has to do with "preferences". Competition leads to the opposite, and I don't see any tangible argument for why it wo
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by savanaly 4y ago
Is HN sort of the same phenomenon but for tech? As I was reading your comment I found myself realizing the same description (as a "panic fetish tool") applies to a type of HN thread that's fairly typical. Take this exact resp
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by savanaly 4y ago
Your comment makes sense in the context of my comment, but not in the overall context of the thread.
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by savanaly 4y ago
Why would McGee be the one paying Carmack back after all these years if that were the case? Can you imagine Walter White paying back Elliot for some long forgotten debt out of his drug money?
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by savanaly 4y ago
>Should we be concerned about needing drugs to treat obesity? This comment of yours made me think of this comment from another article about another obesity drug I read recently: "The history of medicine includes the following story
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by savanaly 4y ago
I've been using it daily since I got it, which was just a couple weeks ago. So I'm very much still in the honeymoon period and shouldn't comment on whether it's worth it in the long view. But in the short view I have bee
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by savanaly 4y ago
That wasn't his point. His point was that spoilers for a movie that's 5+ years old don't need to be alerted. I agree, because it would make movie discussion somewhat exhausting if it were otherwise.
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by savanaly 4y ago
Chat gpt can already parrot back some idea to you in the written "voice" of any famous historical figure you care to name, and remembers context from earlier in your session to inform its written inflection as well. Presumably thi
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by savanaly 4y ago
"What if instead of these expensive apples, we announced tomorrow we were going to start serving you oranges instead?" I don't get the point of this thought experiment. I'm just old enough to remember the pre-rideshare d
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by savanaly 4y ago
Why be so weirdly hostile about it? A downvote suffices, please don't resort to personal attacks.
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by savanaly 4y ago
Can we really expect an employee who was fired to paint the most accurate picture though? What are the thoughts of folks that left on good or neutral terms?
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Non-political crazy things uncovered in Twitter whistleblower report(twitter.com)
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by savanaly 4y ago
Part of human behavior is rounding things off to the nearest whole value. Something is either good or bad. Either wrong or right. While recognizing the utility of that approach and conceding it's often a good strategy, rationalists loo
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by savanaly 4y ago
In the article Scott anticipates this response and writes >Governments can take lots of actions against crypto. They can ban it. They can prevent banks from accepting it. They can search the blockchain to hunt down users. But governments
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by savanaly 4y ago
I had heard of all those stories, but they're not convincing to me. Having worked in tech companies similar to Apple for most of my career, slowing the phones down to preserve battery life seems like a more likely explanation than the
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by savanaly 4y ago
I used my last iPhone for 7+ years I believe, and didn't feel forced to upgrade when I finally did either. How is that Apple have "perfected planned obsolescence"?
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by savanaly 4y ago
What happens if you point out those problems and ask it how it would solve them? Which is after all the courtesy we would extend a human in an interview.
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by savanaly 4y ago
Didn't they find some very crazy similarities in seemingly arbitrary lifestyle choices with identical twins that were separated at birth? I would rate the choice of vehicle the same way, in other words, possibly genetic.
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by savanaly 4y ago
I would be very interested to read more about this, and any explanations for it. I assume they're grounded in political science realities but I would love to know the details if you can remember a source.
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by savanaly 4y ago
Why do folks have such different experiences with these things? Me and some friends I regularly hang out with regularly use door dash to get food for all of us. We're all web devs and fairly picky about website speed and no one has eve

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