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by sidlls 4y ago
I went from being a straight guy with kids in a monogamous relationship to a woman, to an openly bisexual one with a family (that woman and our two kids) and a boyfriend. In large part I didn’t explore that other part of my life because I g
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by sidlls 4y ago
You can't compare Western Europe to the US. Maybe to specific regions or super-urban areas, e.g., the LA to SD corridor or the Bay Area. In which case the two are comparable: there are few if any middle-class families in the bay area t
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by sidlls 4y ago
There is so much more to engineering than slinging code into the repo. Using commit logs as anything other than a superficial note of trivia is absolutely terrible for anything but the most junior engineers.
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by sidlls 4y ago
I don't think there are any (many?) studies on this subject. Much less that confirm this particular bias you've shown.
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by sidlls 4y ago
"Changing pervasively used structures in C++ or Rust can cause recompilation that takes over a minute. That is enough time to get distracted by something else, like Slack." That is...absurd, to be blunt, unless one has a medical c
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by sidlls 5y ago
There is a sizeable contingent who are into him because they are terribly ignorant of the history of our efforts in space and the relationship between NASA and SpaceX, and think he has stuck it to the crusty old government man and "dis
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by sidlls 5y ago
Eh, no. The problem with your analogy is that the “not linear algebra” bits aren’t esoteric, rarely practiced or used edge cases: they’re the core of the mathematical model.
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by sidlls 5y ago
This one was quite a prime specimen, however.
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by sidlls 5y ago
I'm not a fan of the US' record in many areas, especially oppressive, murderous aggression in other countries. I view the alternatives and marvel at how terrible human beings are, because they're all worse than the US. So tha
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by sidlls 5y ago
To underscore the sibling comment: at the point where a "% of revenue is millions of dollars" the company can easily afford to invest in an in-house solution if it's that important for their revenue goals. The tradeoff is hir
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by sidlls 5y ago
It is a bad step as it is usually taught, though (that is, as and end goal itself rather than, for example, as a means to better investments). Any astute kid is going to look at the “compound interest” argument as laughable. It only works
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by sidlls 5y ago
HN used to be a place where comments were considered charitably, and at least a passing attempt at replying to the actual comment and not a made-up version to score a cheap rhetorical point was more common.
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by sidlls 5y ago
Not quite the desires, but the access and availability of confirmation of those desires, through technology from MySpace to Facebook, and now TikTok and Instagram, almost certainly plays a role. I believe narcissism and hedonistic desire is
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by sidlls 5y ago
That isn't what I meant by equivalence; but you likely know that.
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by sidlls 5y ago
When did anyone suggest allowing Nazis "to do whatever they want"? Suggesting that people ought to be allowed to voice reprehensible opinions without fear of government locking them up isn't the same as suggesting they be all
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by sidlls 5y ago
The nazis preferred their country free of jews, and many, if not the absolute majority definitely the majority in power, were fine by that. This is one case where an equivalence argument is actually valid. To be blunt: your view is dangerou
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by sidlls 5y ago
We don't consider something a right based on whether it costs money or not.
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by sidlls 5y ago
Laborers at most levels in our society deserve better compensation and treatment. The lower on the socioeconomic ladder, the more so. That some are underpaid compared to the value they deliver than others isn’t controversial to me. What is
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by sidlls 5y ago
We are not obscenely overpaid. We're relatively more well paid than other workers in our class, but we're still generally getting the short end of the stick. Even people in my boat. I recently won a decent IPO jackpot at the com
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by sidlls 5y ago
There are strong network effects at the level where clearances are actually hard to obtain, though. People leave government service (both military and civilian) to start consultancies and other businesses that sell products and services to
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by sidlls 5y ago
It is completely irrational to have no skepticism, though. On any subject, including ones in which we trust the authorities (e.g., scientists). Because both the authorities and the rest have some agenda, and it isn't necessarily mine.
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by sidlls 5y ago
" writing for a niche seems to proliferate to the specialty sites just fine." Does it, though? I'd actually like to see a thorough study done on this. My hypothesis is different from yours: the proliferation of "specialt
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by sidlls 5y ago
Compound that over a person’s working years and it adds up to a non-trivial number at the individual level. At the aggregate level it’s already non-trivial without any compounding or the like.
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by sidlls 5y ago
Hardly. The whales are not always rich: often they’re just addict-type personalities who are extremely irresponsible with their money. It’s not a healthy business model for consumers, but ever since I saw the start of this industry trend I’
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by sidlls 5y ago
Whales are outsized in many games, but non-whales contribute substantially to this model.
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by sidlls 5y ago
Video games are like this because people pay for it. It didn’t start like this. Back when packaged games (i.e. shrink-wrapped cd/dvd cases) were the way games were delivered we had “online” modes that generally cost a fixed amount (inc
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by sidlls 5y ago
The parent's comment isn't about hospitals sending more money to Epic.
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by sidlls 5y ago
I don’t think the premise of market efficiency gains in capitalism rests on having a pool of free exploitable labor, though. Even in very strictly capitalist systems labor is supposed to be compensated (with money or equivalent value, not s
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by sidlls 5y ago
It's trivial to find dirt-cheap java programmers domestically and in overseas sweatshops.
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by sidlls 5y ago
Maybe. Almost everyone follows the same standard (some version of ICD, https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/icd/icd10.htm ) of coding. If it's much better outside the US I'd be surprised, though. The standard is a me

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