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by tharne 2y ago
> The nation’s gun-homicide rate tripled between 2012 and 2022 What the heck happened in Sweden to make the gun-homicide rate triple in a decade?? That's insane.
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by tharne 2y ago
If they have an interview process that involves a take home project or something similarly time intensive. To me that screams, "I don't care about any family responsibilities you may have, I want a bunch of childless 20-twenty som
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by tharne 2y ago
> A lot of things have "said purpose" and the "real purpose" because of which such absolutely kafkaesque things survive in organizations. I remember sitting in conference room once and between meetings we started dis
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by tharne 2y ago
Relative to the amount of money and research that has gone into antidepressants over the last four decades, they have performed very very poorly with respect to their intended goal. They are not highly effective for most people, and even wh
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by tharne 2y ago
> People aren't born like this, and a solution of "wait for them to die" seems neither effective nor humane. Fair enough, but giving other people's money to government entities who have been failing to deliver on the
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by tharne 2y ago
> Many experts have said that money would be saved by housing people instead of letting people unhealthily sleep outside and then spending money on emergency medical care. To be fair, most of those experts are consultants, non-profit lea
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by tharne 3y ago
As a loyal Firefox user, I hate the leadership at Mozilla for this.
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by tharne 3y ago
>I don't know anybody not in the tech world who even knows about that There's a headline about it right on the landing page of today's NYPost, so by now quite a few folks know about it.
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by tharne 3y ago
> And it's unsuited for many roles because it has eschewed reverse compatibility. Sure, you can write an operating system in Rust, but you'll have to re-write it (and possibly introduce new bugs) in five years or so. That'
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by tharne 3y ago
All the major BSDs have relatively clean file systems, at least compared to practically everything else out there.
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by tharne 3y ago
> I'd say that MacOS is even worse which is impressive given that Apple has the absolute control of the platform and seemingly infinite resources and could have refactored the mess at any point. That's true, but also irrelevan
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by tharne 3y ago
> The first step to addressing a problem is to give it a name and cause. Solutionism without understanding is a waste of effort. Sure, but once things are given a name and a cause, you typically find very few people willing to actually
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by tharne 3y ago
> Are you implying that nobody should be writing about anything they don't have a practical solution to ? I think the commenter is implying that we live in a culture where people think they can change the world by whining loud enoug
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by tharne 3y ago
> What happened? Did paying customers suddenly boycott their favorite sofwtare upon finding out that a woman wrote the code for it? I'd love to hear some examples. Don't go confusing online culture warriors with pesky things li
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by tharne 3y ago
To be fair, most jobs where one is sitting on a computer all day run on bullshit.
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by tharne 3y ago
> Here's the idea: Code readability is highly subjective It really isn't. There may be things about it that are subjective, but readability is a fairly straightforward concept to most people. It's okay to make something le
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by tharne 3y ago
> If you are suggesting that people who still use firefox hate Mitchell Baker, you are mistaken. I dunno about that. I'm a Firefox user and I dislike Mozilla as an organization and think that Mitchell Baker is completely incompeten
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by tharne 3y ago
> What is this plethora of options people have for banking, paying rent, getting documents from their doctor... And this isn't just an issue with phone apps either. There are a lot of ways to pay bills. You named one that you happe
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by tharne 3y ago
> Care to explain further why there should be zero regulations on the UX of monopoly applications used by ~15%+ of world population? Because there isn't a monopoly on chat apps. What you're asking for sounds like rules for the
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by tharne 3y ago
> There should be law to mandate the UI of any app beyond a userbase of 100M. Gross. No thanks. If you don't like the UI of an app, just use something else for cryin' out loud.
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by tharne 3y ago
> When you're running a business, you don't care about any of that beauty or flexibility. You want code which is quick and easy to write, trivial to read, and understandable by even the worst programmer in your company. This is
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by tharne 3y ago
I feel like the introvert/extrovert thing is a lot like comparisons among GenX vs. Millennial vs. GenZ; just a lazy form of thinking used to generate pseudo-intellectual clickbait.
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by tharne 3y ago
It's fraud, but it's legal in the same way insider trading is legal so long as you're a member of congress.
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by tharne 3y ago
What happened to GE? Simple. Jack Welch killed the golden goose. During his tenure he shifted focus and money away from long-term R&D in the name of boosting quarterly profits. Product development took a back seat to selling "servi
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by tharne 3y ago
> Why isn't this considered illegal age discrimination? Because it's based on real risks and limitations associated with advanced age. I remember during the 2008 election when John McCain's age was brought up. There were s
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by tharne 3y ago
> Why might Apple have a mandatory retirement age? Interesting that you can be too old to be in this position but not too old to be elected President. This is pretty common in business, at least in the U.S. Most decent-sized companies un
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by tharne 3y ago
I'm sure that's true, but I just don't see the point. No one ever died saying, "man, if only I'd lived life more efficiently".
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by tharne 3y ago
I get that it was about offline Smart Homes. I just got stuck on the fact that the author said they weren't concerned about privacy.
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by tharne 3y ago
I 100% agree with you on this. And I don't carry a traditional smartphone for exactly the reasons you mention.
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by tharne 3y ago
This is one of the reasons I mostly gave up on protonmail. Sure all my email is encrypted on proton's servers, but everyone else on any given email chain is using gmail, so what's the point?

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