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by sidlls 5y ago
" but I think you pick the incorrect issues (bias and ideology) nor is it that we are bad or dishonest scientists." Of course there's no dishonesty. And to be bad would require what you do to be science in the first place. Fr
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by sidlls 5y ago
I think you've left out the most important problems in this space: the graft, turf building/protectionism, and corruption. Tech isn't going to solve those. That aside, this seems like a pretty decent idea for a company. Also,
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by sidlls 5y ago
Because the founders have some experience in the domain, but think since tech is the driving factor in "solving" the problems they've identified the name isn't as relevant.
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by sidlls 5y ago
I don't disagree with your last paragraph. I think we just disagree on where that line is reasonably drawn.
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by sidlls 5y ago
Yeah, not really. I've worked at some big companies, and currently at one you almost certainly have heard about in the news. The features you describe don't justify the complexity of these apps. Usually these features are implemen
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by sidlls 5y ago
Some of us don’t think it’s normal, nor do we want to put up with it. Fully 60% of the voting population is deeply invested in seeing their team win regardless of what policies they support. We have to fight both democrats and republicans t
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by sidlls 5y ago
Your comment reminds of the Facebook blog complaining that Apple couldn't handle their app's scale, and that's why it was so slow. Most "larger and complex [frontend/client] applications" don't need to be
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by sidlls 5y ago
This seems reductive to the point of uselessness. Technically every situation involving communication includes the judgement of a human observer: to extend your argument, we may as well assert there is no non-colloquial understanding of bas
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by sidlls 5y ago
Where do you get that? Do you mean software developers specifically?
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by sidlls 5y ago
Neither of these codes (which, by the way, I certainly object to) is anywhere near the scope of China's blanket ban on any activity (speech included) covered under the Article 51 quoted in a comment elsewhere here. Basically that'
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by sidlls 5y ago
Yes, article 51 that you quoted more or less makes any other article completely irrelevant. That's the whole point. In western countries there really isn't an equivalent to Article 51 in any meaningful sense. China's governme
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by sidlls 5y ago
The STL is meant to solve a fairly general class of problems. It isn’t optimized for a number of use cases, and frankly some of the design and nomenclature is terrible.
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by sidlls 5y ago
Not really. It’s a terrible approach that permits some really, truly awful patterns that the designers should have known better than to permit. But it’s not really “go is dynamic!”
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by sidlls 5y ago
Likely they'd just expand, like any other organization. PBS is somewhat better, but NPR is a cesspool of corporate sponsorship and journalism that's marginally better than some private, for-profit outlets but still generally low q
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by sidlls 5y ago
That may be the intent, but the result is that PBS and NPR still tailor their news content to their supporters' desires (or what, perhaps, editors at these organizations believe are the desires). NPR especially is terrible at presentin
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by sidlls 5y ago
On the other hand, the physicists, mechanical and electrical engineers I've worked with have been almost universally better engineers than the CS grads, with little or no formal CS training.
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by sidlls 5y ago
And almost none of them is any good. I like story heavy games and can tolerate some pretty bad art and graphics for a good story. Unfortunately most games these days seem to be terrible on both counts.
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by sidlls 5y ago
* The value of fiat currencies is "based solely convincing others they have value" - it is trust in the issuer.* You can continue to assert this, but that doesn’t make it true. And it is definitely not “hand waving” to make the ob
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by sidlls 5y ago
The notion that nation-state issued fiat currency is based “solely” on convincing others they have value is quite a reductive over-simplification. The existence of organized societies with some central government body has shown value, and
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by sidlls 5y ago
I don't think there are "15-year cohorts" so much as "era-defining bookends". I don't think anyone doing research (such as it can be called in a soft-science) seriously thinks there are clear, unfuzzy lines of
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by sidlls 5y ago
Then maybe the Rust community would be better served by not hyper-evangelizing it so much and at the same time bashing other languages? There's a perception issue here: people think that Rust people (not necessarily the maintainers or
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by sidlls 5y ago
No offense, but this is a tad outlandish and completely ignores the people who are actually working to get us there. It's not Bezos or Musk, though the latter exploits his PR acumen incredibly to make it seem like he invented modern
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by sidlls 5y ago
> I get confused why so much new jargon had to be introduced. Consider the source of the project for your answer (mainly, but not entirely, bored engineers who are too arrogant to think anybody has solved their problem before). > It a
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by sidlls 5y ago
People who are paid to write it and their managers.
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by sidlls 5y ago
Meanwhile for half the sale price of one 1200 sq. ft. 3/2 townhome on the Peninsula I could purchase 3 4-unit multifamilies on mortgage, each grossing about $50k/year in rents. Will the appreciation of these properties be the same
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by sidlls 5y ago
They're not incapable of either. Are they as motivated as the government? In general, no . Genocidal dictatorships are more motivated than random script kiddies and "evil" black hat hackers to go after high profile governmen
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by sidlls 5y ago
You're being deliberately obtuse about this. The simplest explanation for cyberattacks against high-profile targets coming out of countries like China (or the US, for that matter) isn't "rando script-kiddies having a laugh ha
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by sidlls 5y ago
Why? China wants to build an empire and views the US as an enemy. They will use their military and intelligence forces to achieve that, just like any other country does to achieve their respective goals.
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by sidlls 5y ago
It’s more like they think too highly of their own critical thinking skills and aren’t knowledgeable enough about the science to credibly judge the evidence, then pat themselves on the back for “independent thinking.”
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by sidlls 5y ago
Techies especially are a gullible lot, susceptible to new age nonsense, anti-vax style pseudoscience, and a glut of other anti-science things. At least in the Bay Area. It’s ridiculous to see how quickly they take to any fad.

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