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by sbov 10y ago
I assume you disagree with the statements "it's just business" and "duty to maximize shareholder value" then.
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by sbov 10y ago
Why is a relief valve for tech workers more important than the people you would be displacing? I agree that, on average, prop 13 should go. But you cannot do it overnight. It would likely cause an over correction and a ton of other proble
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by sbov 10y ago
Nothing is free.
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by sbov 10y ago
IIRC most counties let you transfer your prop 13 status to a smaller dwelling. But I think it has to be within the same county. I'm not sure how accurate that is, it was just something my mom mentioned in passing a while back. She l
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by sbov 10y ago
Why would AI necessarily view humans, and the things we do, as separate from nature rather than a part of it? If they do become super intelligent they might find our constructs quaint, and view them like a bee hive - a part of nature - rat
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by sbov 10y ago
I agree but also disagree. Plenty of people joke about off color things. But, from my experience, even in private, they generally don't joke about things they could do. So I might joke about drone striking or nuking someone. But who
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by sbov 10y ago
Part of the problem is that the abstraction of "a sorted list" will never change. But the abstraction of "twiddle my foobar" can change on a weekly basis based upon business needs. Because of this the abstractions we wri
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by sbov 10y ago
I do, but with a kid my time is now limited. Unused knowledge has this habit of being forgotten. It turns out to be a terrible waste, at least from my POV.
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by sbov 10y ago
English is an ambiguous language interpreted by flawed humans. It feels like we're dancing around the issue. There's no reason for this line of thought to have continued like it has. "My side" should have made a polite
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by sbov 10y ago
Yes, that is the claim of white/male privilege. However, the implication of saying that something "usually" doesn't happen to women, is that it usually happens to men. These were very specific benefits that do not usual
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by sbov 10y ago
I generally agree, but what I can't explain is: if it really is because they are better because of this stricter filter, I would expect the stricter filter to apply to the promotion process too. So, why isn't it? Edit: maybe it&#x
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by sbov 10y ago
I like to be able to see a tiny sliver of my car. This way I always know how they're adjusted. Without being able to see that piece of the car, they might be adjusted too far out and I have no easy way to tell.
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by sbov 10y ago
When I was 24 I got in a skiing accident. I broke my femur into 4 pieces. Ski patrol took me down the hill. They threw me in an ambulance. They gave me some pain drugs which blurred my memory. The ambulance took me to the nearest hospit
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by sbov 10y ago
Yes, and what investors think of future prospects are influenced by hype.
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by sbov 10y ago
And my answer to your question is: your reply is pretty far off base. Quite simply: when Uber first launch, Uber was not the Uber you are describing. Telling an engineer they need all these things from the start is completely wrong. Yes,
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by sbov 10y ago
Assuming you can even measure this. How do you arbitrarily assign value produced by a dev vs produced by marketing vs produced by company synergies (could the dev really create 1 million in value without all those other people?). I've
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by sbov 10y ago
The flagging solution does not necessarily work for a biased readership. Valid comments that go against the echo chamber will be flagged more often than those that don't, and will rise to the top. This will bury inappropriate comment
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by sbov 10y ago
The idea that not being "great" is insulting is more toxic than assuming someone isn't great. Lots of hero worship in this industry that fucks with people's egos - your statement being a prime example.
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by sbov 10y ago
We haven't reached any "point" in society. For at least a thousand years there's been a subset of the population who worked on "trivial" things.
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by sbov 10y ago
I've come to the conclusion that there are at least 3 kinds of DRY, and application varies: 1) There's a higher level abstraction in your code. Abstract at your own risk, unless you have at least 3-4 instances, or your architectu
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by sbov 10y ago
Note that the Scottish devolution referendum of 1979 had a minimum threshold of 40% of the electorate . This meant registered voters . If you want to make a fair comparison to brexit, 37% of the electorate voted to leave.
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by sbov 10y ago
I downvoted for "not democracy" and "tyranny of the minority". They are hyperbolic statements you would likely not be making if your side won, especially given what you based these statements on are present in every ope
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by sbov 10y ago
This is just how voting tends to end up in many countries. First, not everyone is eligible to vote. Second, not everyone who is eligible to vote does so. In the 2012 US presidential election, 65 million people voted for Obama. In the 200
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by sbov 10y ago
I'm not sure if it's a useful distinction, because when you think you're building a 'monolithic' app you might actually be building a 'polylithic' app. Beyond that, in a lot of instances you have to make
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by sbov 10y ago
For some people, if nutritional value is out of sight, it is out of mind. I know that when I order at a restaurant, if the menu contains calorie content of meals it changes my ordering habits. But if you don't care about that segment
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by sbov 10y ago
Yeah, scaling app code is generally a solved problem: shared nothing with some load balancers. It doesn't work for every problem, but the above has been standard in my circles for at least a decade by now. Databases are trickier thoug
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by sbov 10y ago
Some seem ridiculous, and some don't. That said, I've seen some called ridiculous that I thought made sense. E.g. I've seen people call requiring nutritional data be available a ridiculous regulation. Maybe the ones I find
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by sbov 10y ago
The point is you can apply your statement to any form of government. The word has become meaningless.
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by sbov 10y ago
If he had heart disease, it would make him more prone to slipping on ice. But because he slipped on ice (which perfectly healthy people do all the fucking time), does not mean he had heart disease, or was even in any other of the hundreds
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by sbov 10y ago
They are generally just as accessible to people, just at a higher APR. Certain states passed predatory lending laws a long time ago but the US federal government smacked them down. There's a reason why all the national credit card co

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