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by skohan 5y ago
No certainly not. I would say that common carrier regulation should be reserved for things which behave like utilities, especially if there are very few comparable players in the market. The precedent would be something like the railroads
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by skohan 5y ago
they would need fabs to do anything about the shortage
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by skohan 5y ago
> with major breakers every release Source? I was under the impression that Rust took an aggressive approach to back compat. And I'm also not a proponent of rewriting in Rust for it's own sake, but the other commenter was sugg
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by skohan 5y ago
Why x86 assembly? Seems like the world is moving away from a single dominant instruction set
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by skohan 5y ago
That seems like a very nihilistic view. If government is futile, what on earth should we do to maintain a society? I have to say, since I moved to Europe I have become much less convinced of the inherent futility of democracy.
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by skohan 5y ago
Some would argue it should be up to government/democracy to decide which speech is and isn't allowed.
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by skohan 5y ago
I mean I would be surprised if there are many humans at all vetting domains registered on godaddy. It's probably a mainly automated process with some smoke testing, and automated scanning for illegal content - if that.
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by skohan 5y ago
The problem is that there is very little historical evidence that governing in terms of "morality" has any kind of success at creating favorable outcomes. When you rely on subjective standards, you risk very bad outcomes if you ha
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by skohan 5y ago
The only point where I disagree is that I believe the line should be drawn by democratic means. It's all fine and good when a company can unilaterally set the standard so long as it's something we agree with. But what will you t
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by skohan 5y ago
Yeah I don’t think it’s quite good enough. In the 19th century we could have let railroads play favorites, because after all it was still possible to transport goods by canal or by wagon, but it was much better for the growth of the US for
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by skohan 5y ago
> It'd be sad if the DNS system becomes political There's already precedent for this. Cloudflare de-listed a major neo-nazi website a few years ago if I recall correctly. As much as I might loath one website or another, I thin
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by skohan 5y ago
It is interesting. On the one hand, I can see how the previous model could be sightly alienating to anyone who's skin color doesn't obviously map to "Simpsons Yellow". However, whether people pay attention to it or not
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by skohan 5y ago
These kinds of social movements always arouse the armchair anthropologist in me. This one in particular, because I think it has to do a lot with the rise of social media. My theory is, what people might refer to as a "woke discourse&q
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by skohan 5y ago
Do you actually think this is at risk of happening? I understand the argument you are making, but it seems like Amazon is one of the most successful companies ever, and is absolutely printing money. I'm not saying you are wrong, I just
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by skohan 5y ago
What application could you imagine needing a static workforce of 60 developers?
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by skohan 5y ago
Yes but how many thousands of new grads come into the job market every year? With the salary they're offering, there's always going to be demand. They might lose the best candidates, but I don't think they will have an issu
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by skohan 5y ago
Yeah for me it's more around the ergonomics (and imprecision) about using indexes. It's a perfectly workable approach, but passing around offsets feels like I'm breaking the contract a bit. The compiler doesn't know whi
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by skohan 5y ago
This was specifically front-end developer headcount. Would you really ever need separate developers for separate localizations?
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by skohan 5y ago
For all the people like you who might have reservations, there's a line out the door with slightly worse, or even comparable qualifications who would be head-over-heals for an offer from Amazon.
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by skohan 5y ago
When I see numbers like this, I wonder what on earth those 55k people will do. Like I recently interviewed a candidate who was working on a team of over 60 iOS developers working on a single mobile application. I've built fairly compl
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by skohan 5y ago
This seems like a very cool project! Have you ever thought about putting a simple code example right in the README? Maybe it's too early days, but I know that's always the first thing I'm looking for when I stumble across a
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by skohan 5y ago
I agree. The point where I'm not totally convinced on Rust's model is when it comes to lifetime semantics. People talk about the problems colored functions when it comes to async, but in my experience the real issue you run into
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by skohan 5y ago
You need some way of managing ownership, but it doesn't necessarily need to bubble up to the user level. For instance Swift is going in the direction of leaning heavily on value semantics, plus the actor model to wrap concurrent data,
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by skohan 5y ago
> These "big idea languages" tend to assert a kind of "programming ideology" over reality, and tend to, in my opinion, distance you from the thing you are trying to do, often, they claim, "for your own good"
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by skohan 5y ago
How does it work? Does it render itself, or delegate to native UI components?
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by skohan 5y ago
I actually had the opposite reaction. A few months ago, I was researching a project involving a counterweight, and the periodic table led me to tungsten on account of its density. That was until I saw the price. Ever since then I have bee
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by skohan 5y ago
It seems like your argument is that cryptocurrency needs to use over half of the computing power on earth at any given time to consider it secure. That's a very bad standard. Visa and MasterCard don't need this much computing po
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by skohan 5y ago
Off the top of my head, I could see it as reasonable to pay a 5-10% cost in energy efficiency comparing with traditional transaction systems to enable a truly decentralized model. Bitcoin is nowhere near that in terms of cost/transact
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by skohan 5y ago
That's a value judgement, which is different than the case with POW which structurally devalues the output of each additional GPU.
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by skohan 5y ago
You can't seriously be conflating all the money laundering and ransomware attacks enabled by crypto with a tiny bit of crime which happens at the margins of ML (like it might in any industry) can you?

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