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by songshu 6y ago
I never understand why doctors are not blamed for prescribing these. Are doctors not supposed to be responsible for prescriptions? If they are not, should we stop allowing them to prescribe? Why don’t doctors unions throw out members who wo
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by songshu 7y ago
What are you using for non-blocking database access? Is not JDBC a roadblock?
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by songshu 7y ago
I agree. It’s a golden age to be a developer. We can be truly agile with system architecture. The last big system I wrote went through at least three complete architecture overhauls, but all that means is a fun few afternoons on the AWS con
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by songshu 8y ago
Can you imagine how much more software developers would earn if we were unionized as lawyers are? If you couldn't practice without a license? If you needed to go school for $$$ before being licensed?
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by songshu 8y ago
I looked briefly and, correct me if you know better, but I believe The Law Store is a business partner of Walmart rather than being owned by it. So when you pay them you are not paying Walmart shareholders but its owners (who are lawyers)
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by songshu 8y ago
Also the reason lawyers make so much is that they have the best trade unions ever. There’s a reason you can’t buy legal services from Walmart.
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by songshu 8y ago
The problem is people treating women worse than they treat men. There's sexism at play when people consider which approaches are appropriate when they are attracted to someone.
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by songshu 8y ago
Men are currently taken seriously when they complain about sexual assault and as a man there's no way I would voluntarily give this up. Why would I? What could possibly be in it for me?
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by songshu 8y ago
It's like saying there are no secrets to computing and to just imagine a computer as a Turing machine, forget about stuff like pipelining and caches and whatever. On the other hand, I do believe the supposed "secrets" have a
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by songshu 8y ago
I get that it can seem unreasonable that people expect police to behave legally even in the presence of difficult or rude people. After all, very few of us enjoy dealing with difficult or rude people. Maybe very few of us are qualified to
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by songshu 8y ago
Yeah I'm calling this badge-equivalence. The camera (with active indicator light) is the badge. If you don't have a badge you're not a police officer. If you don't have a camera you're not a police officer. The
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by songshu 8y ago
The problem with Brexit is that "leave the European Union" is not a policy, it's an outcome. All of the thinking about how to do it should have taken place before the vote, and then we could have voted on that (this is actua
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by songshu 8y ago
Yes Goldeneye made amateur speedrunners of most people who played, as you had to get times to get cheats. You'd be amazed to see the fastest runs on Facility now. One particularly amazing thing is that the time for the invincibility
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by songshu 8y ago
I love RWhiteGoose and the GoldenEye speedrun community generally. There's a core group of 50 or so people who've spent literally man-decades optimizing that game. If you haven't seen his "speedlore" series on You
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by songshu 8y ago
If a glitch is severe enough it will result in a new category of competition being created. A glitch that saves a second here or there would likely be accepted in the main category. Frequently speedrun games also have categories for how m
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by songshu 8y ago
I’ve been wanting a Rohloff build for years but feel I don’t have a trip planned to justify it. One day...
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by songshu 9y ago
A friend of mine found some shoes she liked in the right size at the wrong price in one store, and in the wrong size at the right price in another. She bought both and "returned" the wrong sized ones to the higher priced store.
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by songshu 9y ago
Do some French people do social kissing? How do you feel about that?
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by songshu 9y ago
I hadn’t seen this before. It’s really cool. It’s quite validating to see a lot of things I’ve handrolled implemented into a framework like this, for example the environment corner ribbon. I’d use it for sure for a new project.
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by songshu 9y ago
The boring Java enterprise way, 2018 edition. Back end: Java 9 JVM, Spring Boot web service, Kotlin, plain SQL via JdbcTemplate working with Kotlin data classes, Liquibase for DDL and migrations, Spring caching with redis if need be, Postgr
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by songshu 9y ago
In addition to the general prohibitions, Texas have an explicit list of banned books. Reproductions of it have appeared in the media but there is no way of knowing the current up to date list. And many states claim that book deliveries are
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by songshu 9y ago
The GDPR is beautiful and an example of the best outcomes democracy can produce. The winners are pretty much everyone. It's sad that the US can't implement public policy like this.
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by songshu 9y ago
Two things I don’t get about the robovisers: first isn’t there an ETF which does equivalent for any given risk profile? If not why not? And secondly whenever I look at a roboviser I check all of the risk happy YOLO boxes and they still reco
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by songshu 9y ago
I love my iPhone SE but I can’t say it inhibits my web browsing although my eyes didn’t like it compared to the 6 I had before. Smoking was hard too and that didn’t stop me doing ten years of it.
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by songshu 9y ago
I’m looking forward to Amazon Fargate which is less extreme than Lambda but still server less in some sense. Basically you can still write proper apps (Spring Boot apps in my case) but, so long as you containerize them, you don’t have to pr
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by songshu 9y ago
I didn’t say it was on topic, so I’m not wrong about that.
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by songshu 9y ago
That’s fair. You’re not a hypocrite. I’m just not sure commenting on it is effective.
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by songshu 9y ago
Honestly I can’t see YouTube being that much less liberal with this kind of thing, given how big of a deal he is. However he does have a history of self-publishing and I wonder how well he could do out of that
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by songshu 9y ago
You have the power to leave it. You have chosen not to.
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by songshu 9y ago
There’s plenty more where he came from. The reasons for his popularity may be just as random and capricious as the reasons for his downfall. Look at another example, Kevin Spacey. Sure he’s a good actor but is he so good that he should have

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