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by smus 5y ago
Can you explain what a regulated free market is? Doesn't the market stop being free once it's regulated?
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by smus 5y ago
It's unethical to publish content that promotes white supremacists, even indirectly. Don't see how it's unethical to censor it though
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by smus 5y ago
The classic sniffles that kills millions a year that we all know and love, right
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by smus 5y ago
> but facebook and google have very hard leetcode interviews and are known for the best software ...are they? whenever I go on facebook, I always have a slow, unresponsive, buggy experience just using the website, and that's on fire
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by smus 5y ago
> If they pushed me hard enough at the start, I would tell them and then fail them on the algorithms/reasoning component of the interview. I agreed with you up until this point, which seems unnecessarily harsh to me
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by smus 5y ago
>I think this approach is reasonable for any business It's reasonable for business, but not reasonable for society (because healthcare should be more risk adverse than a business). That's why the hospital system for op of this
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by smus 5y ago
That doesn't answer the question. A language committee not implementing changes someone wants cannot be and is not the source of someone else's life-long misery. I with the author the best in finding a more sustainable and healthy
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by smus 5y ago
Good point, devs should either just not write bugs OR be on call 24/7. That's a totally reasonable way of running things. I understand if people's lives are on the line. Otherwise, recognize that bugs happen, and either be ok
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by smus 5y ago
Totally, and I'd never suggest deploying on a Friday afternoon
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by smus 5y ago
hmm? Do you think the blockchain isn't also on a bunch of people's computers?
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by smus 5y ago
>But, though we have to do it all the time, no one has ever found a perfect way of assigning scalars to vectors and no one ever will. Write the vector (x, y) in [0,1]^2 in its binary representation as (x0.x1x2..., y0.y1y2...), resolving
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by smus 5y ago
If you're not getting calls, it's your resume that is bad. That either means the format, or the content. Seems to me the only change to the content that you can make is working on and advertising well written open source personal
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by smus 5y ago
Bits on a server representing your account balance also have no tangibility
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by smus 5y ago
I'm glad there's a dichotomy. I (a dev) never signed up to be on call 24/7 for production and it's ridiculous to just assume that I should be. I have a life outside of my work. If the system needs 24/7 uptime, they
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by smus 5y ago
I'd chip in dramatiq as a nice python tasks/message passing library
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by smus 5y ago
Why are we talking about the mortality rate and not the overall mortality of the virus? Seems that the metric that matters is how many people it kills. Especially since we are actively fighting the virus harder than most in the past few yea
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by smus 5y ago
Does this apply for technical interviews though?
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by smus 5y ago
>Even in the server world, Windows still has the highest market share. Source? Seems to contradict this page. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_operating_syste...
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by smus 5y ago
Yeah let's play this game! Let me count all the viruses that killed close to a million Americans in the last 2 years! 1. COVID
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by smus 5y ago
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/u-s-spends-public-money-hea... We already spend more per Capita than countries with socialized medicine, so it stands to reason we should be able to socialize our medicine with a reasonable
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by smus 5y ago
Wow, 36k a year! What a livable wage! Even your cherry picked example doesn't really prove your point, but the vast majority of other service workers are treated worse. And if you're truly arguing society could function if we just
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by smus 5y ago
Why not? There's a ton of people unable to live their life fulfilling due to their exploitative jobs. If we could remove some of the necessity of their job, then wouldn't their lives be improved? And isn't that a good thing?
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by smus 5y ago
> Why don’t they get another job? These people are inept and blame situations like getting cancer on their job? You're suggesting that the entire service class get another job not in the service class? So now there's no more re
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by smus 5y ago
Our service economy that we live in is structured around there being a poorly paid and poorly treated underclass. Sure some in that class could leave but there aren't enough good jobs for everyone. We're talking about a structural
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by smus 5y ago
The us government already could fund universal health care and chooses not too. People in the US are wary about taxation because we already have a comparable tax rate to other developed nations, with more prosperity, and yet we get comparat
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by smus 5y ago
That whooshing sound is the goal posts moving
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by smus 5y ago
What a narrow minded way of looking at things. You don't know other people's stories, or what their priorities are, or what situation they're in.
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by smus 5y ago
I think it's totally good and human to have preferences for one sort of math over another :)
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by smus 5y ago
Maybe it's the differential structure itself? Or an (over?)emphasis on the study of functions from space to space instead of the study of the space itself? Or the specificity of calculus (the study of one specific space) instead of the
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by smus 5y ago
I mean the notion of compactness is inspired pretty clearly from the continuum. I also have a degree in pure math and disagree strongly with your characterization of topology, which is literally defined up to homeomorphism which is itself d

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