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by stupidcar 6y ago
The DoD's Industrial Capabilities report to Congress[1] that got posted on HN last week recommended exactly this: > "Outside of the United States, foreign governments and their citizens pay the lion’s share, one way or another,
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by stupidcar 6y ago
I am consistently surprised at how anti-inequality activists return, again and again, to the same tactic of restating the numerical and relative degree of wealth inequality. Like how, every new year, the media publishes the same stories abo
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by stupidcar 6y ago
I've read it. Almost the first thing I saw was: "Slate Star Codex was a window into the Silicon Valley psyche." This is just so obviously, insanely wrong that it's impossible to take anything else in the article seriousl
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by stupidcar 6y ago
The entire statement is in fact a falsehood, as Amazon does not embody that idea, regardless of its veracity. Amazon has never paid a dividend, and is guided as much or more by the pursuit of growth (and also "customer value" al
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by stupidcar 6y ago
The answer is most likely an image hosted on an academic's personal site on a university server somewhere. Although how you would ever figure which is the actual oldest, I have no i idea.
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by stupidcar 6y ago
Another possibility could be office politics. Perhaps the researcher played golf or whatever with somebody quite senior and convinced them to back his pet project. The senior person's juniors know it's nonsense, but they fund the
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by stupidcar 6y ago
What your describing still sounds incredibly dodgy. The price of anything is a result of its some intrinsic value and the volume of supply. So a precious stone is valuable because of its beauty, but also because it's rare. If someone m
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by stupidcar 6y ago
I don't think the EU is really expecting to receive a legal remedy. If they were, they wouldn't be publishing the contract or making such a public fuss. What you're seeing with this publication, with the aggressive statements
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by stupidcar 6y ago
If my employer tries to remain 100% remote I will leave and go somewhere with an office. I find working from home too lonely, and I detest spending hours of every day on video calls. Of course, I'm just a single data point, and perhaps
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by stupidcar 6y ago
I watched it. It was dumb. A textbook example of some major fallacies: The first is mistaking your level of desire for something to happen with the actual probability of it happening. It's clear he doesn't just think web program
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by stupidcar 6y ago
Weird edge cases: You create a tulpa, but then you’re so busy socialising with other tulpamancers you neglect it until it gets lonely and decides to create a tulpa.
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by stupidcar 6y ago
Things break down and things eventually need to be replaced. This has been a fact of life since time immemorial. I do tire of programmers acting as if the necessity of maintenance is some novel and unexpected problem, unique to software dev
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by stupidcar 6y ago
This article is confusing. It starts off by saying this is an analysis of "best" and "worst" case scenarios for continued growth in cases, but later it says: > HSJ understands that the briefing was part of an attempt
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by stupidcar 6y ago
In tier 4 areas, which included London[1], no mixing was allowed over the Christmas period, including Christmas day. Source: Being in London during Christmas. [1] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-55380644
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by stupidcar 6y ago
It's interesting to me how Hades incorporates a lot of the aesthetic and techniques from free-to-play games, but within a paid game. The result is incredibly addictive. It's a constant stream of vivid animation and sound, coupled
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by stupidcar 6y ago
Reading this is like talking to that one friend who has something negative to say about every movie, TV show and musician you like. Even when their criticisms are valid, the relentlessness of their cynicism is obnoxious.
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by stupidcar 6y ago
I've come across a lot of similar sentiment from ex-Flash devs, who romanticise its heyday as a period of fertile creativity (true) and say that HTML5/JS/CSS/SVG is an inadequate replacement (false). In truth, the fundam
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by stupidcar 6y ago
They have. It’s called Webpack. There are also various similar tools. EDIT: I got downvoted for telling the truth? The website is here if you don't believe me: https://webpack.js.org/ It literally does what the post I
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by stupidcar 6y ago
I occasionally take some paracetamol if I've suffered some upsetting emotional event, like a bad argument at work. It's most likely just a placebo effect, but I do feel like it numbs my emotions a bit and helps me stop fixating on
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by stupidcar 6y ago
Isn't this is what meditation is for?
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by stupidcar 6y ago
Did you seriously just link an IETF document as the basis for an argument about the law? Never mind the difference between "should" and "must", do you understand the difference between an RFC and the law? And there is no
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by stupidcar 6y ago
I'm now imagining a Pythonesque comedy sketch where he accepts the offer, but it turns out it really is just some obscure agency, and your professor goes wandering around the fjords talking in code to perplexed Norwegian fishermen.
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by stupidcar 6y ago
> this isn't the typical HN pedantry This is the absolute definition of it.
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by stupidcar 6y ago
We've encountered huge performance problems using TypeScript with the styled-components library. Something about how that library is typed results in multi-second delays before the VSCode intellisense updates on any file in our project
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by stupidcar 6y ago
> Now, do I think that the developers set out to create a sanitized defense of colonialism (much less an apologia for Nazi race ideology)? Of course not. But they ended up doing it anyway. I agree with the article's main points, but
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by stupidcar 6y ago
> Turchin noted that a person can be part of an ideological elite rather than an economic one. (He doesn’t view himself as a member of either. A professor reaches at most a few hundred students, he told me. “You reach hundreds of thousan
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by stupidcar 6y ago
They are finally making reactive forms strongly typed, at least[1]. On the Observables point, the Ngrx folks have created the @ngrx/component[2] and @ngrx/component-state projects[3] to try to build true reactivity into the comp
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by stupidcar 6y ago
It's anecdotal, but that SVG path editor that recently made it to the top of HN was a brand new Angular project: https://github.com/Yqnn/svg-path-editor And on npm it's gaining popularity: https://
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by stupidcar 6y ago
It's extremely disappointing that, other than Firefox, browsers have refused to implement subgrid[1]. As I understand it, this feature was deferred from the basic grid spec with the understanding that it was still necessary and would b
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by stupidcar 6y ago
> They now have 1 desktop, updated every few years, one laptop, updated every few years. Not true. They have three desktop form factors — Mac Mini, iMac and Mac Pro — and three laptop form factors — MacBook Air, 13" MacBook Pro and

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