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by shawnz 4y ago
where did you discuss outages of HN's previous provider?
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by shawnz 4y ago
This article doesn't get into the reason why Phillips and Robertson are tapered and prone to camming out: they were designed that way to prevent too much torque from being applied when tightening by hand.
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by shawnz 4y ago
Firefox with uBlock Origin is effective at blocking them.
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by shawnz 4y ago
So cider is simply an apple wine made with special apples?
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by shawnz 4y ago
What differentiates apple wine from cider?
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by shawnz 4y ago
As a counter-experiment, try thinking of some product and intentionally DON'T search for it or say or type it anywhere. Make sure it's also not something you heard about recently from a friend or in the media. If you then see ads
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by shawnz 4y ago
To be clear I'm not just trying to be a pedant and poke holes in your legalese here. I'm trying to show that it is genuinely hard to draw a line between what kinds of profit seeking are morally acceptable and what are not. People
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by shawnz 4y ago
Yes, exactly: the tiny amount of genuine innovation that exists in this particular area is not worth giving up interoperability and regressing back to the pre-micro-USB world of mostly terrible, rarely innovative proprietary connectors fr
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by shawnz 4y ago
So in the 15 years since micro-USB was developed, that is just one vendor which has been able to produce something better, and it happens to be the most valuable corporation in the world with access to economics of scale that no other manuf
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by shawnz 4y ago
Imagine you license a word processor this way, would it then be a violation to use that word processor to edit your resume?
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by shawnz 4y ago
You're purposely making it extra misleading with this analogy by adding "in a sealed room", and also by using an example of a process that's already well understood
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by shawnz 4y ago
Surely it goes without saying that the process only happens in the presence of the right precursors?
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by shawnz 4y ago
Doesn't your argument against using the third party agency DMAchoice apply just the same to the BBB?
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by shawnz 4y ago
According to wiki it's the third last item in their list, Artiodactyls pakicetus: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pakicetus > the closest living non-cetacean relative being the hippopotamus.
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by shawnz 4y ago
essentially Jevons paradox
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by shawnz 4y ago
It's not clear to me that the overlap between corporate and political career paths really has any meaningful impact on the way politicians vote on individual bills, so I wouldn't call that a fact
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by shawnz 4y ago
This is a tired argument. Of course people who have industry experience will continue to work in that industry. And if the chance of being rewarded with a "cushy" job after leaving office is so compelling then why are so few peopl
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by shawnz 4y ago
That seems pretty terrible to me, even discounting the fact that it's monospace (I use monospace for editing too). Especially notice how the letters have inconsistent thicknesses, sometimes thicker on the left vs the right or vice vers
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by shawnz 4y ago
> One of the things that didn't occur to me before I bought it was that _because_ of the modular design I can switch the side the power port is on. I'm not really sold on the integrated dongle design of the framework. Doesn&#x2
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by shawnz 4y ago
I generally enjoy his evidence-based approach to investing and this video is particularly good at addressing common FUD about today's situation being unique compared to the past.
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by shawnz 4y ago
This time is different, every time See for example this nice video from Ben Felix: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jh9Gn58r9Fw
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by shawnz 4y ago
That's only if you look at the worst case of individual incidents. You also need to consider the rate of incidents (due to the hugely greater consumption of coal plants for example) and other failure modes like long-term mishandling of
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by shawnz 4y ago
Isn't human failure and bad planning an even bigger concern for the handling of the 1000000x larger amount of coal that nuclear could replace?
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by shawnz 4y ago
Are you sure about that? I have only heard of Ritalin being a brand name for methylphenidate, where in the world does it refer to amphetamine?
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by shawnz 5y ago
You can always win even in hard mode with perfect play: https://www.poirrier.ca/notes/wordle-optimal/ > In hard mode, Wordle can be solved in 3.5076 guesses on average (with 6 guesses at worst, i.e. 100% of the
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by shawnz 5y ago
And instead force every application which needs to store large amounts of temporary data to implement its own swapping mechanism? Don't you think we will end up with a lot of even less optimized swapping systems that way?
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by shawnz 5y ago
Maybe they should not be required in the ideal state, but I don't think it's wise to design your processes to only accommodate the ideal state.
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by shawnz 5y ago
They didn't call it "functional" though. They simply said that it is more functional than it was previously. If you reserve the word "functional" for only the most idealistic implementations of those ideas then it j
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by shawnz 5y ago
Without closures it's a stretch, but yes I would say you can write in a functional style in basically any language.
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by shawnz 5y ago
It seems to me like this is just arguing that react is not purely functional. That doesn't disagree with what the other poster is saying which is that react is moving towards a more functional style.

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