tachyoff

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by tachyoff 9y ago
> Voting is easy. Participation is difficult. In most cases, the local political system has evolved to perpetuate the interests of those who have been in power the longest. Creating change is 100x more difficult than maintaining the stat
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by tachyoff 9y ago
I’m blaming both: I’m blaming the humans who expect it, and the billion-dollar blob of JavaScript that enables it to be so.
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by tachyoff 9y ago
Not only do we shape our tools, but our tools also absolutely shape us.
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by tachyoff 9y ago
Everything old is new again. ;) Okay, that’s a bit flippant. Obviously Slack isn’t IRC (with several major differences), but I think as far as communicating with your coworkers goes, they both accomplish the task. It’s just a matter of how
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by tachyoff 9y ago
I know this was a joke, but do you by any chance know any shorthand? I tried to teach myself Gregg here and there years ago, but it requires more dedication than I was willing to put in to become fluent.
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by tachyoff 9y ago
Which usability features are they? The 3 GB of RAM usage, the battery-draining, or the culture of “always-on” availability and interruptions?
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by tachyoff 9y ago
I'm a big fan of Pinboard, personally. It's super cheap and the creator is committed to never selling off my data (obviously there's an element of trust there, but then again, all web services involve an element of trust). Oh
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by tachyoff 9y ago
ISPs absolutely could, but having worked near this space previously, it really isn't as easy as it sounds, both the detection and the mitigation, and ISPs are not particularly equipped to handle it themselves right now. There's a
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by tachyoff 9y ago
Yeah, he's doing calligraphy (either Spencerian script or Copperplate, maybe?) for coding, which is absolutely not a good hand for it. I mean, I personally take notes in cursive, but they're typically prosaic (e.g. "Fix the V
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by tachyoff 9y ago
We need to stop giving people reasons to be miserable then. I know too many millennials working two or three crappy service jobs for peanuts, never going to the doctor because being a server or Uber driver doesn't provide health insura
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by tachyoff 9y ago
> Few want to start anything, but many are willing to join in. And yet, nobody votes. Everyone is apparently so willing to participate in violent revolution (which typically ends badly, if you read history), but nobody wants to head over
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by tachyoff 9y ago
Not eliminate, but we should compensate service workers fairly to the point that they have basic health coverage and aren’t one paycheck away from being homeless.
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by tachyoff 9y ago
As someone with depression, I thought the same thing!
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by tachyoff 9y ago
You don’t have to bite the donut to know it’s sweet.
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by tachyoff 9y ago
My point is that if those needs are met, then happiness becomes a question of what personally makes you happy and not just what you need to not be homeless.
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by tachyoff 9y ago
I struggling with this constantly. If I have to fix another VPN issue caused by weird DNS server entries in OS X I’m going to scream. “Anybody else getting this error?” No, figure it out. I’m at a loss to explain how so many people wind up
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by tachyoff 9y ago
> Why should it be any higher? Because it can be. Because we’re the richest country in the world and yet for some reason we force people into bankruptcy because they didn’t have health insurance on the day they had a medical emergency. I
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by tachyoff 9y ago
I thought that's what the middle class was supposed to be (not-materially-insecure, that is).
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by tachyoff 9y ago
Not a Christian, but I spend a lot of time at church (long story). Anyway, self-sacrifice is one of the central tenets of Christianity, the idea being that Jesus Christ took on human form to suffer and die on the cross to save humanity from
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by tachyoff 9y ago
What a sad indictment of modern American life that our baseline for happiness is "not destitute". Really, I think that's telling, and as a millennial with lots of student loan debt and friends in a similar boat, it's not
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by tachyoff 9y ago
#1 is absolutely important. You can't just take valuable time and money from people to do "testing" that, in my opinion, wouldn't tell you anything anyway. It's insulting to all of the professionals involved, especi
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by tachyoff 9y ago
Which is interesting because in the Old Testament, "casting lots" was considered an appropriate way to divine God's will [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleromancy#In_Judeo-Christian_...
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by tachyoff 9y ago
Way easier to pay them like $0.15/hour in prison than the federally-mandated minimum wage. (That number might be hyperbole, but prison wages, if they even exist where you are, are abysmally, illegally low. I believe some of them are in
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by tachyoff 9y ago
> Come to think of it, why is the criminal justice system not "tested"? I can think of a few. 1. That costs time and money. Even if it would help, I see it being very difficult to justify, essentially, "secret shoppers&quo
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by tachyoff 9y ago
Eh, I tend towards “let’s not touch this if it works”. I’ve already had to upgrade from Webpack 1 to 2, and 2 to 3. If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.
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by tachyoff 9y ago
It's certainly better than the 200+ lines of JavaScript something like Webpack spits out when you statr a new project. I had to debug some of our project's build files and realized halfway through that my teammates didn't wri
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by tachyoff 9y ago
Mens rea (i.e. intent) is part of common law criminality (along with actus reus, which is the actual doing of something illegal). The United States, having its legal system derived from that of England’s (and thus being a common law legal s
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by tachyoff 9y ago
I don’t believe Pinyin is particularly popular within China. Might make Wheel of Fortune tough, though.
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by tachyoff 9y ago
> ...this sill fail every once in a while. Nah, it rains in the desert once in a while. Coinbase seems to fail so much you could set your watch by it. Day in and day out I see the publicity nightmare unfolding and I ask myself: "Why
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by tachyoff 9y ago
I’ve even considered ditching my smartphone entirely here and there. I’m not convinced its utility outweighs its use as an ad-driven anxiety rectangle constantly vying for my attention. Combined with the steady loss of features, I’m wonderi

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