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by toolz 3y ago
> older people in traditional cultures with healthy physical activity and consumption levels continue to live long regardless I agree with the point on physical activity, but the implication that traditional cultures have as long or long
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by toolz 3y ago
as far as I'm aware the most popular job queue library in elixir depends on postgres and has performance characteristics that cover the vast majority of background processing needs I've come across. I wonder maybe if you've l
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by toolz 3y ago
I don't know much about go, but AI is so much better at chess than humans there is no number of humans you could throw at the problem to beat the engine.
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by toolz 3y ago
Just because you're joining in the application for one code path doesn't mean all of the code paths are doing the same thing. There are certainly valid use-cases for joining in the application because application layer can often t
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by toolz 3y ago
It was in China's own self-interest to under-report their casualties to covid. They were forced to choose some form of action, but that does not mean their choice was the correct one. Also, there was little to no independent verificati
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by toolz 3y ago
Today? It should go without saying we shouldn't have locked down. Somehow there are still people holding onto the idea it was a justified measure, but what we know today simply makes that option look absurd in hindsight. Sweden in part
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by toolz 3y ago
That was the goal of both Korea and China, both of them early on appeared to reach this goal. That goal is not nefarious, but choosing the Chinese model when we watched it fail in Italy does appear to be gross incompetence since we did know
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by toolz 3y ago
Does it matter if the document is incorrect? It's an official document from the committee of foreign affairs showing that the U.S. stance on China is that they lie about various things. I don't care how substantial those things ar
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by toolz 3y ago
Indeed, and that was always the logical conclusion. We've never made perfectly effective vaccines that fast and we knew the virus was global. It was always going to find its way into China and run rampant to everyone without immunity w
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by toolz 3y ago
> Private enterprise was caught as unprepared as everyone else, and has subsequently struggled to produce a tenth of the innovative counter-virus workarounds their Chinese counterparts managed to dream up (and that under much greater tim
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by toolz 3y ago
also important to read the nuance of them "feeling" like losers. Obviously if you're working in tech there's little chance of you actually being a loser in your career (which is probably the most difficult place to find
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by toolz 3y ago
This isn't really contextualizing the problem space well imo. How many companies exclusively used react pre-1.0? How many people using the "straight forward" vueJS had ever read the source code to understand the internals? Wh
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by toolz 3y ago
I'm firmly in the camp that it's all perception. The studies I've seen aren't what I would consider conclusive, but they certainly suggest there is very little difference in the output and bugs of dynamic vs static langu
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by toolz 3y ago
I don't know anything about this situation, but to play devils advocate here, if my goals were not in alignment with the union bosses or whatever group is trying to get me to sign. I would avoid even reading the terms if there wasn&#x2
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by toolz 3y ago
thank you for linking to source material, but I don't think it's very useful to reply with teasers expecting us to read a book to understand one tightly constrained topic of conversation/debate.
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by toolz 3y ago
> Malthus considered population growth as inevitable whenever conditions improved Interesting how the most developed nations have the lowest birthrates. I don't think his findings in the late 1700s have withstood the test of time. e
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by toolz 3y ago
> over 7,500 paintings, drawings, and wax models commissioned by the USDA between 1886 and 1942... > ...After investing $300,000, they had made $600 in fees in five years. They couldn't get better art for 300k?! First inflation a
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by toolz 3y ago
I don't really measure it, I wouldn't know exactly where to start, but there are people who try to measure it. https://worldhappiness.report/data/ and admittedly I haven't looked at their methods at all,
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by toolz 3y ago
It only depends on if it's a social contract, which implies some localized majority. You may believe your ideals are the best in the world, but I assure you many other people with vastly different ideals than your own believe different
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by toolz 3y ago
In an ideal world we respect that what other people do is largely none of our business. I don't agree with any ideal that thinks everyone should agree on some set of rules and we respect anything that doesn't violate those rules.
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by toolz 3y ago
If you can't provide better than "a somewhat better" system at continually growing extraordinary costs[1] then you have no business doing anything. Pointing fingers is getting us nowhere. Someone needs to behave rationally an
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by toolz 3y ago
maybe if the centralized government gets smart we'll actually have a good time...as it stands our healthcare in the US is abysmal and neither political leaning has any right in name calling - both ideologies have failed miserably.
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by toolz 3y ago
Using it as a means of exchange is not rare. It's far from the majority use-case, but something that happens to the order of many billions of USD worth of exchange a year isn't rare.
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by toolz 3y ago
if you care to see twitter replaced you would regularly go to twitter and make sure it doesn't have unique, value-add content and migrate that content to a platform you deem more worthy. finger wagging and boycotting a free-to-use webs
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by toolz 3y ago
I've been writing elixir for 8 years. I've never once wanted to write erlang, nor have I ever written erlang programs.
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by toolz 3y ago
I'm not sure of anything but our potential. It's only been roughly 150 years since the first internal combustion engine. Today a 50lbs machine mows my lawn by itself by communicating invisibly with hunks of metal in outer space tr
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by toolz 3y ago
I can be a bit of an over-optimistic person, but I've always been of the opinion that mass extinction events are always going to occur without intervention and while humans certainly seem to have contributed towards speeding up the tim
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by toolz 3y ago
I probably worded my statement poorly, but my intention wasn't to claim it was the only language with a great stdlib. I would disagree that go has a good stdlib, I think it's quite poor, but I do believe plenty of other languages
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by toolz 3y ago
Plenty of languages can get a solid standard library to write most code with, but only elixir gives you a modern, simple standard library with the tools to scale an app as high as apps can be scaled. Whatsapp famously got to 1 billion messa
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by toolz 3y ago
I imagine it depends on the cat. I've moved cities and states with a few cats a few times and they were back to mostly normal within a couple days and only stopped eating out of stress for maybe a day. Takes them weeks to completely re

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