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by steve_g 6y ago
I think the US is better. Our last ethnicity-based concentration camps occurred 75 years ago, and have now been repudiated by all branches of government. And we never used the prisoners as organ banks.
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by steve_g 6y ago
There are trade-offs, of course, but I'm generally not a fan of using implicit defaults for business applications (i.e., the application infers the default when there's no data). If things go well, business data outlives business
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by steve_g 6y ago
Coincidently, I've just been re-reading Neal Stephenson's Fall , which is a fun story about simulating uploaded minds (or brains, or whatever). https://www.amazon.com/Fall-Dodge-Hell-Neal-Stephenson/dp/0
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Japan facing credit card number shortage(mainichi.jp)
180 points by steve_g 6y ago|344 comments
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by steve_g 6y ago
The first part of the first statement is objective. The second part is an interpretation of evidence - but by whom? I'm old enough to remember when masks were not recommended by most public health experts (that is, I was born before
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by steve_g 6y ago
It's clearly illegal now, so that would be a good reason to keep it on the down low. I'm not saying there is a conspiracy, just that one might be useful here.
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Google Blacklists Conservative Websites(theamericanconservative.com)
7 points by steve_g 6y ago|1 comments
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by steve_g 6y ago
I don't agree with you on this. Let me ask you, are there connotations in the word choices that make you think of "whiteness" in a certain way? Do you think the infographic treats whiteness as: - something to celebrate? - a
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by steve_g 6y ago
I reject your rejection. Cancel culture is terrible because the goal is to destroy people who hold unpopular beliefs. It not enough to refute the belief. The transgressor must be punished with the full fury that internet-enhanced social p
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Wallpaper kills your phone [video](youtube.com)
2 points by steve_g 6y ago|0 comments
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by steve_g 6y ago
I don't think it's fair to say that people who make a different assessment of risks and/or have different risk tolerance than you are "incredibly selfish". Lockdown, social distancing, mask-wearing, and other relate
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by steve_g 6y ago
Inverted World by Christopher Priest. An oldie, but a weirdie.
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by steve_g 6y ago
But sometimes it's OK to break the rules.
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Predicting Covid-19 Cases and Subsequent Hospital Burden in Ohio [pdf](idi.osu.edu)
3 points by steve_g 7y ago|0 comments
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SARS-CoV-2 by the Numbers(github.com)
4 points by steve_g 7y ago|1 comments
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by steve_g 7y ago
Read what EPA actually said. It's not unreasonable. https://www.epa.gov/sites/production/files/2020-03/documents...
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by steve_g 7y ago
Maybe it's not a big demographic on Hacker news (or non-US western countries either), but there's a lot of hand-shaking that goes in in churches. That was true in my church up until a few weeks ago.
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by steve_g 7y ago
Efficiency and human relationships don't necessarily go together. I agree with the author that delegating the contact for a meeting where you are asking for help comes off like you're not invested. It's just a perception; i
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by steve_g 7y ago
But when you're writing business software to solve business problems, many more people have a "right" to an opinion. Usually the business people know a lot more about the problem domain than the programmer. They are also th
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by steve_g 7y ago
Elements of Computing Systems by Nisan and Schocken has you 'build' a computer from basic logic gates to CPU/Memory to assembler, VM, etc. all the way to a running program. https://www.nand2tetris.org/
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by steve_g 7y ago
I think 2.1 ug/l is 2100 parts per trillion (where "trillion" means 10E+12) A ug is 10E-6 grams, a liter is about 10E+3 grams.
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by steve_g 7y ago
Sorry, I know that sucks. I've got chronic back pain, but I can keep it livable with Stuart McGill's Big-3. Google it. Other folks have already recommended the Big-3 on this thread.
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by steve_g 7y ago
That line stuck out for me too. Is MVC as a pattern really all that bad for the majority of web apps?
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by steve_g 7y ago
I'm curious about your heartburn with the "cone of uncertainty" from Code Complete. I think it's a very reasonable model for understanding software estimation uncertainty. What don't you like about it?
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by steve_g 7y ago
My dryer heating element broke last week, after 14 months of operation. It's awesome that I was able to buy one on Amazon and get it the next day (Sunday). But it sucks that it only lasted 14 months. I'm hoping my remaining life
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by steve_g 7y ago
"I" and "you" are pronouns in the post. Rewrite the post without them; it will be awkward.
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Do Citizens Have a Right to See the Algorithms Used by Publicly-Funded Software?
2 points by steve_g 7y ago|0 comments
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by steve_g 7y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman
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by steve_g 7y ago
I would guess it saves crane time for the supporting crane. If the bolts are loosened before the supporting crane begins operating, the total start to finish crane time can be less. Of course, the tower's resistance to overturning mom
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by steve_g 7y ago
I think this book could be helpful. I've only skimmed it; I gave it as a gift to someone. All the parts I read seemed realistic, affirming, and practical. https://www.amazon.com/Social-Skills-Guidebook-Shyness-Conve..

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