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by viklove 7y ago
Clout. He wants to prove he's not a one-trick pony, but it's becoming increasingly apparent that he is.
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by viklove 7y ago
He had luck + skill, but he would not be successful if he did not start with wealth, from his rich father.
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by viklove 7y ago
Not if you go broke on your first or second hand. Most of us only have enough cash to play one or two hands. If you're the son/daughter of a million/billionaire though, you get to play way more hands, and thus have a much bet
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by viklove 7y ago
You're right, not pure luck -- it's 99% luck and 1% talent. If Buffet was born the child of a goat herder in Azerbaijan, he would not be anywhere near the position he is today. Basically, if Buffet's father was anything oth
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by viklove 7y ago
Provide a UBI so half the population isn't locked out of bidding entirely. The problem with capitalism is that 1% of the population ends up mega-wealthy, and 50% of the population ends up dirt poor, literally unable to afford food. Whe
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by viklove 7y ago
squints Yes, indeed
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by viklove 7y ago
This only makes sense if you have a significant equity stake in the company you're working for. For the vast majority of engineers, they really don't care about the long-term profitability/success of whatever company they&#x2
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by viklove 7y ago
> Extreme poverty has halved or so in the last 30 years. People love to bring this up, but always fail to mention the change is almost entirely in China and India. The US has completely stagnated and done pretty much nothing new in the p
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by viklove 7y ago
Never been to Yosemite, you? I would like to go one day, but I'd be happy to wait in a gov't queue to help limit human intrusion in wildlife preserves.
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by viklove 7y ago
This take seems similar to inferring intentionality from evolution.
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by viklove 7y ago
> If you need 4 hours to fix a yaml file Yes, recognizing a bug, investigating it, sourcing it to a yaml file, finding the offending line, fixing it and testing it, and getting the fix merged up probably took me a minimum of 2 hours, and
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by viklove 7y ago
Meaningful and objective are not the same thing
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by viklove 7y ago
def foo(): a() b() c() if test(): doSomethingIfTest() doSomethingUnconditionally() You can still write this, which is equally garbage because a, b, and c mean nothing to me. I know you&
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by viklove 7y ago
Java isn't a scripting language, python is. Why not compare apples to apples? At the very least compare Python to JS...
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by viklove 7y ago
> one exception a colleague of someone on a discussion board had once You're not even trying to have a reasonable discussion about this, are you. At least this guy has a datapoint. You just have a hunch that you can write code faste
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by viklove 7y ago
XML is way worse. An errant tab can totally screw over your config with no warnings. I've never needed a linter or had much trouble with JSON, explicit delimiters go a along way.
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by viklove 7y ago
> Food is not inhaled Right, but you know you breath and eat through the same hole, right? So if you swallow, then inhale, you could be inhaling whatever you just ate...
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by viklove 7y ago
I don't understand how people can think it's safe to eat food prepared by someone else, as long as you don't go near them. You know food is a transmission vector, right? If the cook or the waiter are sick, chances are they&#x
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by viklove 7y ago
You're thinking of the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle
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by viklove 7y ago
If you want to incapacitate yourself out of some irrational hatred for a programming language instead of just employing a tracking blocker like uBlock Origin, you kinda have to live with the consequences.
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by viklove 7y ago
Yes, and the answer is clearly not American capitalism
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by viklove 7y ago
I think you're the ones letting emotions get in your way. The whole point is to dilute the wealth in this country to bring million/billionaires down to the commoner's level. Then let society build its way back up, because you
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by viklove 7y ago
Coronavirus has already killed 100k, and we're still in the first quarter.
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by viklove 7y ago
> If companies do go under, that means that there WILL be long-term problems with the economy because we're lowering LONG-RUN supply. This is a false narrative. If a company goes under, chances are the long-run supply will not be af
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by viklove 7y ago
Seems like this doesn't have any relation to xrdesktop[1], which doesn't have mouse support! Really glad to see they have it here, any VR workspace is completely unusable if I have to use motion controls to simulate a mouse. Will
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by viklove 7y ago
Just like with oil, any industry can be gamed if a single player accumulates a massive stockpile of a commodity, then floods the market to drive prices down and make production unprofitable for competitors.
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by viklove 7y ago
The WHO is obviously in China's pocket. I mean they can't even bring themselves to use the word Taiwan in public communications.
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by viklove 7y ago
EARN IT will affect all encryption software, not just Signal. This bill is just the newest way Congress is trying to enforce required backdoors in all apps/devices. Last time it was under the guise of protecting us from terrorists, thi
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by viklove 7y ago
You're completely missing the point and using this as an opportunity to call wage laborers lazy. Nice. As automation becomes more pervasive, billionaires and VCs are not the only ones who should be benefitting from it. Wage laborers sh
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by viklove 7y ago
We truly live in such amazing times, where the principle of the transaction is more important than the achieved competency. This isn't Walmart, it's an education system. If they're not getting educated, the degree is complete

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