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by vearwhershuh 7y ago
It's a start. Now do the Sacklers.
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by vearwhershuh 7y ago
My fear is that the only way to get decent industrial design, like the nest, is to finance it with consumer spying.
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by vearwhershuh 7y ago
The year is 2035. Your refrigerator refuses to work because of a comment overheard by your thermostat that was construed by AI as being insufficiently supportive of your countries corporate foreign policy objectives. If you have nothing to
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by vearwhershuh 7y ago
Great article in general, but this is absolute gold : "Before you rush to embrace the microservices paradigm, I offer you the following rule of thumb: if two pieces of information are dependent on each other, they should belong to a s
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by vearwhershuh 7y ago
The Enclosure Movement is worth reading about. People tend to think of the Anglo-Saxon world as having been individualistic (in theory, and oligarchic in practice) since time immemorial, but it was much more communal until relatively recen
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by vearwhershuh 7y ago
"What’s in it for the finder to be honest enough to hand in the item?" By asking this question, you deny yourself access to its answer.
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by vearwhershuh 7y ago
The author presents a long list of laments (some reasonable, some comically oblivious in that way that only older college professors are capable of) but appears to regret the one thing that will actually improve any of them: the falling of
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by vearwhershuh 7y ago
I know it is not a popular view but I think WWII was a major mistake It's a plenty popular idea, but people won't say so publicly because of social pressure: The Greatest Generation, The Good War, etc.
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by vearwhershuh 7y ago
It depends on jQuery and if you use history support it will need localStorage, so pretty broad browser support.
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by vearwhershuh 7y ago
This is a long and interesting article that, because it is attempting to preserve the system, ultimately misses the mark: My obsession over the past three years has been trying to figure out how our national immune system works, where it d
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by vearwhershuh 7y ago
"These things, they’re basically bulletproof. You can put 15,000 hours on it and if something breaks you can just replace it.” Amen. It is true that there is always someone saying "Things were better back then." But that do
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by vearwhershuh 7y ago
Thanks for mentioning intercooler! I think a lot of people would benefit from adding it to their toolbelt in 2020.
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by vearwhershuh 7y ago
Until we address the monetary system I don't see how much else matters in restraining the elites. Generational wealth will just move even more so into non-taxable things like art, favors, interlocking directorships, foundations and so
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by vearwhershuh 7y ago
Don't think of it as your business "failing" because you pursued microservices. You are just participating in an evolutionary process. It's all good.
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by vearwhershuh 7y ago
The author confuses the elites with "us" (presumably excluding him , of course) throughout the article. The average brit or burger is a victim of the elites and, in particular, elite divide-and-conquer tactics, not a co-conspira
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by vearwhershuh 7y ago
The problem with any big book is that, at the end, the author has you over a barrel: either you loved it and the author is a genius, or you hated it and you are a sucker. Lots of people claim to love long, ponderous books just to avoid be
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by vearwhershuh 7y ago
Yes. We should structure society so people can have kids. With stay at home moms. Not just impossibly rich older guys. Everyone.
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by vearwhershuh 7y ago
Of course. Wilhelm Reich and The Marquis de Sade said the same thing. They just disagree with the author on ends.
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by vearwhershuh 7y ago
Social trust has been falling for decades[1], and will continue to fall. All of these epiphenomena will get worse until we take social trust seriously. [1] - https://www.bi.team/blogs/social-trust-is-one-of-the-most-im.
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by vearwhershuh 7y ago
If you think about it, blackmail must be one of the primary tools in real politics. Relatively cheap and a perfect carrot-and-stick: play ball and you can keep doing what you are doing, go rogue and we ruin your life. Funny that it never c
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by vearwhershuh 7y ago
Right, but with the main information channels (popular media, academic media, history) being at least in part a system of disinformation and control, and with the alternative channels easily overwhelmed by state and non-state actors as well
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by vearwhershuh 7y ago
I disagree. In as much as any of those distract you from raising good children, they hurt more than they help, and voting and political activity in general is pointless (at best) in most countries. The elites are going to get what they wa
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by vearwhershuh 7y ago
You can't. Despite the social shame associated with it, I no longer even believe main stream history around things like the kennedy assassination. I don't know what happened, but I'm skeptical that what they say happened a
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by vearwhershuh 7y ago
Say what one will about the man, but at least Nietzsche didn't demand a happy ending.
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by vearwhershuh 7y ago
I've seen plenty of projects blown up with massive, fearless refactors to do thing "the right way". Careful with that axe, Eugene.
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by vearwhershuh 7y ago
It's all a category error. HATEOAS was descriptive , he was describing the early web architecture, and it was implemented without thinking about it in web 1.0 apps. It only became problematic when we tried to shoe-horn it into tradit
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by vearwhershuh 7y ago
Every 1.0 web app developer in the world implemented HATEOAS to a great extent without even thinking about it. It's only toilsome when you try to shoe-horn it into a traditional data API, rather than accept it as a unique descriptive a
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by vearwhershuh 7y ago
The primary innovation in REST is HATEOAS (which isn't mentioned in the document at all.) JSON isn't a hypertext, it just isn't a good format for REST-ful services. http://intercoolerjs.org/2016/01/
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by vearwhershuh 7y ago
Hillaire Belloc made the interesting claim that it was thanks to Latin that the various European languages were able to develop so freely: you could always communicate in Latin when you traveled. He also noted that the various lingua franca
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by vearwhershuh 7y ago
That's probably way too low given todays prices. The NYTimes has a good calculator for understanding if renting or buying is a better deal: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/upshot/buy-rent-cal...

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