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by vdaniuk 12y ago
Yeah, I am currently learning Haskell and was surprised by the apparent low performance of Yesod and Snap in comparison to the faster frameworks. I am wondering if I should spend more time on Clojure instead, as it seems to be significantl
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by vdaniuk 13y ago
No, its not ironic. That's exactly the difference between for-profit companies controlled by private interests and non-profit companies influenced by community interests. Moreover, trying to extrapolate one data point to draw conclusio
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by vdaniuk 13y ago
Ada initiative received various resources from Github on multiple occasions so the outcome is that they have less resources now.
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by vdaniuk 13y ago
I disagree. Your statement that regulators give a due weight to important priorities of a democratic society in theory is definitely true. However, regulatory capture is very real and I would hypothesize that majority of regulators are serv
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by vdaniuk 13y ago
Agree, criticism is good, but constructive delivery is better both for the criticized and the community at large.
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by vdaniuk 13y ago
More misdirection from mikeb85. While it is true that different Buddhism sects had and have various views(including discriminatory) in relation to homosexuality, it is intellectually dishonest to avoid mentioning that Dalai Lama (a most pr
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by vdaniuk 13y ago
Uniformity in user interfaces is an emergent property when many website owners optimize for UI ease of use. Who would want to sacrifice pageviews, conversion rates, purchases for non-standard interfaces? Also Bootstrap is very easy to use a
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by vdaniuk 13y ago
You still didn't provide rational facts that HN users are criticizing GS out of jealousy. And relative transgressions of GS to other banks doesn't matter at all. The list of controversies surrounding GS is really long: http:&#x2F
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by vdaniuk 13y ago
Isn't Goldman Sachs one of the most controversial financial companies on the Wall Street? What makes you think that GS is being bashed on jealousy and not for their unethical behavior? I don't understand how is it possible to comb
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by vdaniuk 13y ago
Thank you for clarification. I don't agree but this is a philosophical discussion that depends on semantics too much. And I don't want to engage in that.
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by vdaniuk 13y ago
I remember you. You are the one who was defending Eich and then HFT and now you are defending Goldman Sachs. You state in your profile that you are a student of philosophy. As a person who studies philosophy too, I am really curious, how wo
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by vdaniuk 13y ago
I am curious what exactly are you trying to say. Care to elaborate?
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by vdaniuk 13y ago
I want to express my great respect to David Attenborough and love for his documentaries. They are absolutely incredible. For me, this is a killer content for Oculus Rift, even if they are owned by Facebook now.
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by vdaniuk 13y ago
The important part you are missing is that there is already a monopoly on cab services precisely because of regulation. Uber is currently disrupting this monopoly. So what you said, but other way round.
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by vdaniuk 13y ago
Were you able to read all the other stuff that was posted on HN today(at least 4 pages deep)? If yes, then sure, your experience on HN was "degraded" by these stories. I doubt that, though.
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by vdaniuk 13y ago
I am not an American and equally despise bush and obama administrations for iraq war and nsa+drone strikes, respectively. It is your partisanship bias that is showing. And no, it's not hypocritical. The more boycotts and outrage at tec
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by vdaniuk 13y ago
Oh no, now you can build cool stuff and be an internet activist on HN. Waaait a minute.. Now I get it. These sly HN activists are forcing you to go into political threads, read them and participate in the discussion and you don't h
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by vdaniuk 13y ago
That's actually great that you admit the need for some catching up on learning entrepreneurship. There are nice moocs on edx and coursera and udacity.
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by vdaniuk 13y ago
Soooo If I can't commit fully to supporting only ethical tech companies I should either retreat to the cave or lose the right to boycott any tech products? Is that an argument that you are making? If yes, that's just ridiculous.
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by vdaniuk 13y ago
I do not use Apple and Yahoo products and limiting my use of Google products. So what?
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by vdaniuk 13y ago
My point is that your use of slippery slope was a logical fallacy. You haven't provided the analysis itself. Would you like to do that?
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by vdaniuk 13y ago
Incredibly smart, talented, connected and absolutely unethical person. I am boycotting Dropbox not because Rice is on the board, but because the board voted in favor of her joining. After this I simply don't trust any high ranking offi
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by vdaniuk 13y ago
What? Is it really tasteless and hypocritical to target anonymously an insanely well-connected individual that was at some point a #4 in the USG chain of command?
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by vdaniuk 13y ago
Thank you for educating me, I didn't know that. However, I feel that in this case, my point still stands.
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by vdaniuk 13y ago
It's not. Simple as that.
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by vdaniuk 13y ago
Slippery slope is also a logical fallacy, so there's that.
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by vdaniuk 13y ago
>over certain political views A misrepresentation. Dropbox is being held accountable for associating with a person who has committed certain political actions that had immediate and far-reaching negative consequences on local and globa
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by vdaniuk 13y ago
Political connections create multiple conflict of interests in various domains, namely providing access to power and information as long as the person in question doesn't act against those connections. It is very improbable that Rice w
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by vdaniuk 13y ago
Companies are not benevolent or useful for society per se. The positive or negative externalities of their actions are defined by their business models, business strategies, top management and board of directors . If Dropbox board of direc
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by vdaniuk 13y ago
The states of Sweden, Denmark, Holland, Finland, Belgium, Norway do no such things. US, China, Russia and others on the other hand do. So don't feed me this 3000 years crap. US is not trying to do otherwise, Rice wasn't trying to

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