taurath

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by taurath 5y ago
We need to make primary residences extremely more advantageous tax-wise, and punish investment properties.
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by taurath 5y ago
Do you have any examples what was better? Of the reasons I could think of that would constitute poor service, I've had as many Uber's just not show up as I've had taxis. I've had as many very poor drivers in Uber's
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by taurath 5y ago
You're right it is in a big city. A taxi meter except to/from an airport is almost always much cheaper than a rideshare. A cab that takes 15 minutes might require a 45-60 minute bus journey if you have to transfer. It was $30 for
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by taurath 5y ago
Having taken a $30 Uber to drive 15 minutes lately, when a taxi would’ve cost $10 or so, I don’t think they’ve ultimately created much value with their rideshare service. They’ve basically just moved the entities around, and now it takes a
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by taurath 5y ago
Salarymen working conditions I would guess. The extremely rigid gender roles expected by society are another.
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by taurath 5y ago
If they’ve got Google amenities I can see it but have you seen the side by side desks in open spaces sharing floors with salespeople that reflects most programmers work environments? Some places won’t even provide an ergonomic setup, and th
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by taurath 5y ago
The free market is not in play when doing cross border real estate deals, because if countries allowed foreigners to buy up all their land they wouldn't really have much of a country anymore eventually.
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by taurath 5y ago
One one hand it’s legitimately a lot better when your money goes a heck of a lot further. On the other hand if this happened en masse it would ruin a lot of the lives of people who live and work there by making housing costs go up. At least
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by taurath 5y ago
I have worked on several very large codebases for companies you've heard of in which mutable state, OOP and inheritance are used very heavily over the years. Its not a strawman - it has, despite everything I find wrong with it, generat
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by taurath 5y ago
I appreciate the thought process here, and I'd want to spend more time thinking it over before a full response - though I think it maybe goes a little bit too into etymology for my taste! My immediate comment is that working memory is
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by taurath 5y ago
I appreciate that info! Its an abstraction that I had used in the past to demonstrate to other engineers that I have thought seemed somewhat useful about OOP, but as I was typing I thought to myself I'd bet that modern performant games
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by taurath 5y ago
I think so, though I had in mind internal (hidden/abstracted) vs explicit states. And yeah, only in a very few cases would you want mutable states - abstracting naturally transient entities like network connections, times where memory
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by taurath 5y ago
I agree with this - and of course without any state whatsoever the program is unlikely to be useful. A database, a network connection pool, and initialized configurations are required pieces of state for just about any backend service, and
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by taurath 5y ago
> This is primarily because of inheritance, which seems counter-intuitive I agree that inheritance creates a lot more problems, but the usages of non-static methods and internal state even in classes with no usage of inheritance can feel
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by taurath 5y ago
In my mind, state is the real enemy impacting: comprehension, brittleness towards making changes, and the surface area exposed to potential bugs. OOP as frequently implemented, while claiming to encapsulate state, ends up creating so much
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by taurath 5y ago
To your credit I agree that it takes a particular type of person to be very thoughtful about ads but not have any thought whatsoever on their morality but rather in their utility. How anyone can look around with even the foggiest of eyes at
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by taurath 5y ago
Nonviolent communication is a very good one. It’s not “the one book” but it will help a lot of people immediately.
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by taurath 5y ago
Here’s the problem - if you don’t already watch a lot of YouTube the non pay version is such a bad experience that you avoid watching on it so you’d be unlikely to want to pay for it.
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by taurath 5y ago
I remember digg. Network effects can turn on you.
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by taurath 5y ago
Loving that the solution from the CIO of the air force isn’t “we’re going to move our resources into this problem” but “we’re going to ask for more funding so we can tackle this”. Which seems just stupid in its face, but then you realize t
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by taurath 5y ago
It’s interesting to me how indie gaming has started to really pop off at the same time there’s massive consolidation throughout the gaming industry. The ecosystem is really turning into blade runner, with these giant zaibatsu corps and a bi
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by taurath 5y ago
Why not the same place you bought them?
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by taurath 5y ago
Monoprice has been my go to for over a decade. Really easy return policy just in case, but I haven’t gotten a bad cable from them, very good pricing too.
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by taurath 5y ago
It’s a good point that offsets a bit of housing costs, when going from higher interests rates to lower. However when housing prices go up while the low rates stay the same housing still increases in cost. Rent amts have not stayed the same,
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by taurath 5y ago
I don't think it has to be one or the other. I know people who wouldn't work at certain companies and a lot who are working at those companies while holding their nose to get their paychecks. Turns out financial + lifestyle securi
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by taurath 5y ago
> Someone boycotting AMZN one day will be happy to accept a very healthy salary + benefits package writing legacy Java 6 backend code if it means a good double- or triple-digit percentage in compensatory promotion Unlikely these are the
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by taurath 5y ago
> It's not accessible to everyone, but calling it "fucking dire" is just fearmongering Individual economics are dire in terms of how much it costs to have basic security with housing specifically. Median home price in the
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by taurath 5y ago
People making regular salaries know their window of ever being wealthy is going away with every year they see 20-30% housing price increases. It is fucking dire making working class or middle class wages in most of the US unless you have a
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by taurath 5y ago
> So until these folks clean things up where they ALREADY have full control (on the web) I'm willing to cut apple a ton of slack. I spent years working at a place where apple wouldn't allow us to even link to a website to manag
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by taurath 5y ago
TBH, they've basically gotten away with it for years because consumers aren't effected in a way you can see, because the blackmail of the app store platform lock in is so effective. Its absolutely extortion since you literally won

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