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by sershe 6y ago
Comparing Russian (my native language), English, and Turkish (that I've learned to lower-intermediate level 15 years ago and have since forgotten)... English has very simple rules, and tons of irregularities and exceptions everywhere.
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by sershe 6y ago
I am really fond of Dorsey's attitude (the words too, as quoted at least). Myself having very little respect for most congresscritters from either party, it is really refreshing to see this displayed so brazenly. "You are stupid a
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by sershe 6y ago
Another way in which this is true... given the installed base, how many lifetimes' worth of man-hours are lost every year when Outlook, Evernote, Eclipse, ... decide to block the UI thread to make a network request?
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by sershe 6y ago
Tesla doesn't owe them a job. They can make their own company, make it unionized, and make it popular.
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by sershe 6y ago
It doesn't really matter if it's on the same airline, it just has to be in the same reservation. Usually, that is the same thing; however on international and hyper-local (the kind that end with a Cessna) flights you'd often
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by sershe 6y ago
Only a few things in GP are specific to poor; in fact some e.g. out-of-control children are more typical of the rich. Unless if course you are saying poor are the ones getting into fights or doing the unsolicited selling, in which case yes,
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by sershe 6y ago
It's not nihilistic, it's more absurdist. I think, for myself, it is in fact a better way to live life. Sure, I admire people with a life-long drive be it Musk or Michael Jordan (or even some ancient conquerors who clearly did it
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by sershe 6y ago
I grew up in an economy where it was. When I was born, we were living in a 4-people, 3-generational, ~500sqft 1.5 room flat (the large kitchen was subdivided to make a tiny bedroom); later, the govt decided that we deserve better and I ende
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by sershe 6y ago
Thank you for the Autonomous Zone reference. Googling for this and finding local news, Fox and NY Post is really eye-opening. Apparently it's not even worth mentioning... optics would be bad for the -useful idi- compassionate supporter
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by sershe 6y ago
As a long-time distributed systems developer, I actually wonder... is there going to be a lot of distributed systems development going forward? 1) A lot of the stuff that needed to be developed has been developed and generalized (and to a l
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by sershe 6y ago
Do you have any specific suggestions? I can only think of one, ending War on Drugs, another inefficient and evil government program.
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by sershe 6y ago
Are the prisons in the article private prisons? I cannot find a definite answer, but it doesn't look like it. If anything, it might be good to outsource these to private businesses to get costs under control from $500K/inmate.
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by sershe 6y ago
I think scrum is very useful if executed properly, especially when something new is being developed. Small-scale attainable and clear goals, the daily sync/unblock, having clarity for 2 weeks (no randomization beyond livesite because a
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by sershe 6y ago
Some of these things are (more or less) free, some are just a matter of perspective. E.g. a place being decrepit is fine, or becomes fine over time, it just blends into the background. The noise is spot on, I guess I meant 150sqft of ok-qua
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by sershe 6y ago
How is that so? Race, sexual orientation, gender, age, sure. Religion on the other hand is no different from ideology (or rather, in my view many left/right-wing ideologies are not very different from religions) - they can be chosen an
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by sershe 6y ago
The difference is that the security is objectively verifiable - either they were able to compromise data/access/..., or not. Despite the different incentives for the company and the hackers, if you can't break in, you cannot
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by sershe 6y ago
Interesting, I have two conflicting feelings about this. On one hand I agree with you and I am super paranoid about being poor. On the other hand, one thing that I definitely learned from growing up poor (I like the original article say &qu
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by sershe 6y ago
Aside from the socioeconomic circumstances of one's birth, luck favors the prepared. I also come from a poor background and got "lucky" a few times in my life (in particular the sequence of events leading to me joining a US t
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by sershe 6y ago
I suppose that could be true in small organizations... not a problem in a more regimented on-call setup. My phone is on alarms-only at night when I'm not on-call, so they cannot physically call me :) I suppose people could still ask du
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by sershe 6y ago
I am not sure if taxes were used by GP for any particular reason; I think the key is that the governments actually forces other to use the currency for transactions. So, as long as the govt itself doesn't drastically change the rules,
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by sershe 6y ago
Every single software team I've worked in or heard of in the USA? ;) Usually it's tied to the first meeting, I have a mind-destroying train wreck of a "scrum" 3 times a week at 11am so it doesn't make any sense to s
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by sershe 6y ago
The usual way to handle the "different system" issue is to have on-calls in each team, so you could loop them in for their stuff or even transfer the ticket and go back to sleep; and on-call-focused documentation within teams so y
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by sershe 6y ago
Then why not come up with a better word? They say to never attribute malice to something that can be explained by incompetence, but I cannot help but wonder if tying essentially class-based activism against "systemic racism" where
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by sershe 6y ago
The focus on power and oppression, and viewing everything (in this case, including actual knowledge, hence "ways of knowing", standpoint theory, etc.) thru that lens. That is why, for example, Asian-Americans are sometimes (often?
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by sershe 6y ago
I would highly recommend the "Cynical Theories" book for some background on the academic disciplines and "scholars" this stuff is coming from. I feel like the book is in fact too kind, but it is a good background (and it
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by sershe 6y ago
I think it's more typical for apartments.. I've only rented a concrete condo once (in Vancouver), and I distinctly remember getting out of the elevator and feeling like I just walked into a heavy metal concert, then getting into m
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by sershe 6y ago
Do you have any actual arguments against Pinker, or really any coherent arguments? See my other comment - while "privilege" is post-modernist BS (really the entire edifice loosely based on foucaultian power/knowledge is), in
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by sershe 6y ago
1) What in "evolutionary biology" can you cite for this preference for striving over comfort? What you are referring to is more like evolutionary psychology, and barely even qualifies as a just-so story. 2) I understand very well
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by sershe 6y ago
Well, let's start with the important stuff, establishing my standpoint-theoretical credentials. I grew up in Russia during its economic collapse, in a "lower-middle-class" family. Food stamps were not a thing, but my mom defi
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by sershe 6y ago
I recommend reading Pinker's Enlightenment Now. Forget middle ages, median lives in the poorest countries today are better by many metrics than the life on the world's richest ones 150-200 years ago.

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