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by squirrelicus 7y ago
> arbitrary scale If you have arbitrary funds. Point is serverless costs more per unit deliverable
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by squirrelicus 7y ago
Okay. What's the boundary between those that have the right to not spend money implementing accessiblity in their website and those that don't have that right? Seriously, what's the boundary? What is the fundamental ethical r
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by squirrelicus 7y ago
Have fun making the "unnecessarily" argument to a judge when you do your startup.
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by squirrelicus 7y ago
This was highly unethical. There is a minimum operational overhead to offering minimum care, including the availability of emergency equipment and staff. I have a local ER I've visited twice this year and there's almost never any
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by squirrelicus 7y ago
Yeah. There was one recently around Domino's and accessibility that made me cringe so hard. But the general sentiment from HN seemed to be in favor of a new regulation to mandate all websites implement accessibility. Scary.
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by squirrelicus 7y ago
My favorite part is the anti-NIMBY culture that usually dominates here is experiencing cognitive dissonance right now and they don't even know it. Bring up housing in SF and the people complaining about no trees right now are suddenly
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by squirrelicus 7y ago
Trying to help you fight the down votes. You might be technically wrong because you forgot the most important part: the hill. Humans love high ground more than we love trees, for the reasons you cite. Treeless flatlands are terrifying.
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by squirrelicus 7y ago
Wait... A protractor isn't out of date :P
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by squirrelicus 7y ago
Hang on... Three points 1) Obviously accessible is better. Everyone agrees. When all cost is opportunity cost, do things that don't scale. Target your market aggressively. Cut your market to reduce your opportunity costs of getting to
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by squirrelicus 7y ago
You ever think how this might apply to, ianno, startups? Seems like all humans should be on Domino's side, at least all techies. Edit: before the cacophany decends to tell me how easy accessibility is, let me preemptively highlight tha
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by squirrelicus 7y ago
Sure, my statement is merely metaphorically true. It's meant to communicate the point that the CEO must optimize for being right enough frequently enough to be successful. Competition surely drives whatever that number is up, and good
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by squirrelicus 7y ago
Setting up a game world is notoriously imperative and makes every OOP-minded dev rip out their hair trying to do it how they think it should be done before realizing the truth that, for this kind of problem, ugly and imperative is good. In
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by squirrelicus 7y ago
A CEO only has to be right 51% of the time to be successful.
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by squirrelicus 7y ago
Empirically, it turns out the answer is yes.
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by squirrelicus 7y ago
Good ideas come from all skill levels. But good idea vs bad idea ratio is fundamentally what separates those in or out of brain space. To get your ratio up, you need training and experience in making good ideas more frequently and bad ideas
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by squirrelicus 7y ago
Hahahaha. "Adjustments" is quite a way to describe it. I wonder how many large bodies exist today because an impact sightly nudged them from catastrophe to orbital stability. My arm chair astrophysics training tells me the answer
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by squirrelicus 7y ago
Some people barely want to birth on Earth, where there's freedom and opportunity and sights to see and a very vague threat of potential modest temperature increase where you can just walk away at a snail's pace from the climate ch
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by squirrelicus 7y ago
Not quite because you can still go outside where there's air and water and you can bring fire with you to keep warm.
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by squirrelicus 7y ago
Underground is the only way to live on Mars. So if you can find people on Earth who want to spend all their time underground (with no external food/water/air supply network to fall back on), you have a start. The next step is find
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by squirrelicus 7y ago
So true. Not only is it annoying micromanagement, it kills the problem focus, so there goes 15 minutes of reengagement with the problem. Oh but there's a meeting in 30 minutes? Might as well get a snack and read a tech article now inst
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by squirrelicus 7y ago
That's the finding. The IQ you end up with as an adult isn't affected by your tutelage.
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by squirrelicus 7y ago
I agree with all the things you said. I have one commentary: The fundamental problem with racists and group identitarians in general is that the things you know about a group don't tell you anything about the individual. The promise of
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by squirrelicus 7y ago
Can we please agree that recognizing the rigorous science on the heritability of IQ does not imply racism?
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by squirrelicus 7y ago
IQ definitely does not measure anything learned. Malnutrition and genetics appear to be the dominating factors.
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by squirrelicus 7y ago
It's not just a problem, it's an incredibly tragic reality that we're not socially equipped to dispassionately discuss how we should respond to it
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by squirrelicus 7y ago
That's part of the problem. IQ does predict educational achievement, but education has very little effect on IQ. For example, early intervention education has a temporary effect on children that disappears as they age. In other words,
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by squirrelicus 7y ago
There's a third option: as you grow in your career as a developer, learn the ops stuff so you can make good choices from square one.
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by squirrelicus 7y ago
I don't agree life sucked before PaaS. I've been responsible for responding to far too many production issues where the PaaS tooling got in the way of rapid response. PaaS is a problem for me because so many developers don't
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by squirrelicus 7y ago
Don't be discouraged by the docker love in tech right now. I'm not saying it's a fad (it's basically critical for local dev these days), but nothing will replace the joy of simplicity and empowerment of working with the
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by squirrelicus 7y ago
Can we agree that the militaries of the West try extraordinarily hard, especially by historical standards, to not harm civilians during wartime? Can we also agree that zero civilian casualties during war is at least adjacent to impossible?

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