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by scsilver 6y ago
I mean, the UK is still has vestigial Monarchal components as opposed to the US constitution which was built from the ground up with severe limits and federation of power. We'd likely see that distopia in england long before the US jus
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They can start by not spreading covid to our grandparents.
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Really? Whats the evidence?
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There is no ministry being erected, just a bunch of private parties not willing to get dragged into the mud.
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This is completely an argument in good faith, based on a readily accessible hypothetical that almost everyone on HN can put themselves in the place of. This isnt a court of law, I dont need to be personally affected in order to offer an opi
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by scsilver 6y ago
A visual representation of standing waves on air pressure along the tube. You could set up a similar mechanical ram with a temperature or light sensor on each fire hole along the tube https://youtu.be/pWekXMZJ2zM
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by scsilver 6y ago
They delayed and tried to overturn a constitutionally necessary process of democracy with their violent intimidation. What is that of you have a better word for it than terrorism and insurrection.
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I just started heddit.com, I am one engineer, I have 2 million users, I am making 10 dollars a month from ads and losing 10 from hosting. How do I regulate my content to protect me when 230 is taken down? Maybe the solution is partial excep
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by scsilver 6y ago
No the question is if twitter had a monopoly on private squared that almost anyone can access and peek into. They don't and there are dozens of alternatives. Its not a publicly owned square, that is obvious. It may be a publicly access
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You say that as if we our secular nation doesnt have "under god" on our money. The religious right still perturbs liberal democracy in this nation on a vastly larger scale than the so called secular belief system you think has usu
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A corporation should be able to protect itself from being a platform to promote negative externalities.
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They are pushing to capture older users and create a market place of grittier games to help monatize the mostly younger player base. They are also pushing to internationalize the product.
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Yeah but now you dont even have to leave the house to stock up on chef boyardi and prepare for the rapture.
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As a young blood, 5 years in, got hired by learning react in the great JS hiring of the mid 2010s, I look back towards those standards bodies as something that would be very beneficial now. All we have is chrome creating standards by monopo
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by scsilver 6y ago
I think artists change from doe eyed 20 year olds to mature and cynical 30 year olds just like all of us.
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Not gonna lie, you kinda sound like a mobster here, haha. Nice job, Itd be a shame if anything happened to it.
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You also need a developer community, standards bodies, universities, regulatory bodies. You are made valueable by the interplay of all those institutions. Guess who makes your laptop and provides access to your internet, its directories, an
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by scsilver 6y ago
And you are free not to join. But you are lacking understanding of market forces if you dont think your colleagues dont have any say in your wage. Them being there is part of an ecosystem that supports your value to the world. Unless you ca
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by scsilver 6y ago
You could take a long and wide but short pathway of water with a tilted glass top and a black floor. The light is absorbed by the black floor, heating the floor then the water. Water evaporates to a vapor which leaves the salt behind. It th
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by scsilver 6y ago
Hey thats protestantism for you...
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Yeah and network effects add value, coordination adds value, individual contributors can only do so much, a well oiled group of engineers has outsized production, and by bargaining collectively, leverage their productivity for better compen
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I full on support their goal to clean up their yard before moving somewhere else. Employees are stakeholders and can use their leverage as they please. You somehow cast a negative moral light on workers for using this leverage when every ot
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I think the other solution is diving into more interpersonal relationships. Atleast those can be extremely fulfilling over a long time.
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Leaders leverage their network. A network of leaders is a massive and capable network.
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Decide to bike to save time and not have to park one of the most compeling reasons to bike over driving. Luckily I was living in boulder where biking to the main street was faster and easier than driving.
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Or they are just seeing how well your pattern recognition and subsequent application of an efficient solution. The problem is our industry is full of people who put their whole self worth on intelligence and then pick learned skills to judg
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Before taking algos/data structures I did terrible on whiteboards. After, I do well. From this experience, they seem reasonable indicators of a cs grads intelligence. I doubt I am too much better of a software engineer in my day to da
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by scsilver 6y ago
Sounds like an excuse to not tackle universally despised problems like disease.
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As a person with a Engineering degree from High level accredited engineering university working as a software engineer. I disagree. Engineering is using formal methods to bring about a solution. Simply writing code is doing that. No certifi
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Even sales people can have grating interpersonal approaches. Socialization is refined by everyone throughout life.

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