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by vec 8y ago
> Contract law, if I understand correctly, takes into account the relative power of the parties. It really doesn't, at least not in the US. There are a bunch of things that are necessary for a contract to be considered enforceable
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by vec 8y ago
I don't think these two ideas are as opposed as you're implying. They're describing two different perspectives on the same process. To wit: 1. Individuals have values and ethics that they'll make a reasonable effort to c
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by vec 8y ago
There is no "AMP itself" outside of Google. The AMP project consists of three parts[1]: 1. a specification for an HTML/CSS subset (almost) which is relatively easy for browsers to render efficiently. 2. an open source client-
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by vec 8y ago
I think this is the wrong way to look at it. It was never actually 100/0. Homemakers did (and still do) a large amount of informal and uncompensated labor that doesn't show up in the employment statistics. In essence, employees us
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by vec 8y ago
I dunno. Convincing my friends and family to care about Facebook's potential for abuse was science fiction, right up until it wasn't. Certain recent events in American politics took an issue that was abstract and invisible to the
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by vec 8y ago
GDPR doesn't make every site show cookie policies and popups now. It's entirely within a site's power to decide not to collect analyitics on their traffic, in which case they don't have to show or get consent for anythin
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by vec 8y ago
It is idealistic. Idealism is how the status quo changes for the better. The short-term effect of GDPR is ugly interstitial pages and mandatory consent, but that's not the point of GDPR. The point is to make legally collecting user dat
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by vec 8y ago
Is BofA going to redline all of their staff? No. But absorbing a spike at a single department or branch is another story, and it wouldn't surprise me if having excess capacity already on hand is more efficient overall than trying to re
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by vec 8y ago
> Starting on pen and paper This is really the secret. Pencil, pen, whiteboard, crayon, whatever. Anything that lets you rattle off half a dozen super low detail sketches in under a minute will work. It doesn't need to be pretty eit
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by vec 8y ago
I think there's a difference between what you're saying (doing it right is possible) and what the critics are saying (doing it wrong needs to be impossible). There's nothing that best practices can do to prevent a motivated n
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by vec 8y ago
It's worse than that because immutability and lack of human judgement is also the killer feature that smart contracts offer over good old fashioned paper contracts and binding arbitration agreements. Any attempt to make maintaining sma
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by vec 8y ago
> Blockchain smart contracts are often unchangeable, so you can't fix bugs This is the fatal flaw with smart contracts as a concept. If they can be changed by the author then they don't provide the security guarantees that make
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by vec 8y ago
Except that (to use your acronym) BFTSMRs are fairly common and well understood. Git, to choose the obvious example, probably qualifies. The only thing that's new about blockchain is that it removes the requirement for a quorum of node
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by vec 8y ago
Wow, that is a crazy headline! I wonder what the article actually says? > “We work with parents from birth...Just about how to set up a culture of consent in their homes. ‘I’m going to change your nappy now, is that OK?’ Of course a baby
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by vec 8y ago
I think you're getting too tangled up in the specific framing device the article uses. There's no easy way for Jeff Bezos to conjure up $40B in cash to hand out as bonuses, but there are plenty of ways he could have not made that
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by vec 8y ago
As far as I know, the only three System76 employees who are active on HN are myself, jackpot51, and cassidyjames.
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System76 and LVFS(blog.system76.com)
101 points by vec 8y ago|79 comments
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by vec 8y ago
Can we not introduce a dirty hack into the formal specification solely to work around an edge case introduced by another dirty hack that's already in the formal specification?
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by vec 9y ago
Don't leave us hanging. What's the other piece of advice?
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by vec 9y ago
I've lost count of how many times I've googled a question, had the first hit be SO, and the top answer concisely explains how to solve my exact problem, often with several other alternatives in the other answers and a nuanced disc
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by vec 9y ago
I actually find go extremely difficult to read. The abstractions tend to be both shallow and leaky, the syntax is noisy, and the very limited feature set forces a particular coding style whether it's appropriate for the problem at hand
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by vec 9y ago
Okay, "can't" is too strong a word. But I don't know a good word for "it's technically possible but is cumbersome, is not idiomatic, and requires introducing another stack frame for no good reason".
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by vec 9y ago
Go's a great language for Google. Their use case needs very high througput but can tolerate GC pauses, their code is a giant single-repo monolith with thousands of contributors where pedantry prevents conflict, and they hire a bunch of
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by vec 9y ago
The problem is that I can't declare the variable and set it's value as part of the same operation. I'm forced to declare a variable with a nonsensical or incorrect value then correct it later as part of a logically distinct s
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by vec 9y ago
1 is a subset of a smaller issue. Default params are just a way to declare variadic functions more easily, but the language doesn't allow variadic functions at all. In go trying to define `add(int x, int y)` and `add(float64 x, float64
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by vec 9y ago
I'm fairly financially stable but I generally only keep a few hundred dollars in my checking account at any given time. The rest goes into long term savings of one sort or another, and it's not necessarily easy to convert back to
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by vec 9y ago
I would argue that local channels matter even more now than they used to. Most of my day-to-day news sources are national or international. Most of the media and pop culture I consume too. I'm lucky enough to still have a local newspap
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by vec 9y ago
But if we do that we have to accept that there are tradeoffs in the first place. We have to recognize that reasonable people might disagree about which tradeoff to make. We have to accept that even good decisions are likely to leave someone
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by vec 9y ago
Looks to me like the Swedish people did, in fact, come to the conclusion their socialist policy didn't work and reversed it via the normal political process. According to the wiki, the Social Democrats retook power three years later an
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by vec 9y ago
For a value of "we all agreed" that expands to "was decided via a free and fair democratic process", then it appears that the Swedes did all agree, at least for a time, that this was a fair way for their government to us

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