viklove

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by viklove 7y ago
> You can buy property Most people can't afford to buy property. That's sort of the crux of this discussion. Half of Americans live paycheck to paycheck and about the same amount have less than $10k in the bank. > I've
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by viklove 7y ago
The only way your argument makes any sense is if you can somehow show that conviction rates have gone down since encryption became widespread. I think you'll have a hard time doing that because people will usually find some other way t
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by viklove 7y ago
Turns out space is expensive
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by viklove 7y ago
> One's wealth isn't automatically a result of bad actions. It almost always is, though. Skin color never is. I don't agree with your take at all.
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by viklove 7y ago
> like a lot of areas in Europe. You misspelled America. Europe has a pretty high population density in comparison.
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by viklove 7y ago
That's sort of a feature, because it forces you to adopt a strategy that prevents this type of exploit.
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by viklove 7y ago
> They earned their property through voluntary agreements with other individuals. Employment is not a "voluntary" agreement for many people.
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by viklove 7y ago
Your skin color isn't based on your actions, but your wealth is. It's not a fair comparison to make. You should be judged for your actions.
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by viklove 7y ago
It's frustrating to me that we would rather pay people to dig holes and refill them than just provide a UBI so they can spend more time actually enjoying their lives.
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by viklove 7y ago
Care to reproduce your calculations here? I'm certain you're off by a factor of 10 (at least). Flying is probably the worst thing you will do in your entire life as far as the environment is concerned.
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by viklove 7y ago
My strategy is to not work places where I need to be on call, and quit if it ever becomes a requirement. I've never been paid enough to give up my free time .
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by viklove 7y ago
This is a classic strawman. Which researcher or medical professional is just saying "formula is bad"? It's obviously more nuanced than that, and letting your child go hungry because you can't breastfeed is obviously not
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by viklove 7y ago
Yeah that's a fair point, thanks for the feedback!
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by viklove 7y ago
I know the dark theme can be a bit alienating to some -- thanks for the feedback!
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by viklove 7y ago
This is why I started developing an alternative to Reddit a few years ago. It was clear from their leadership that they would continue to move towards satisfying their newly acquired VCs (for example Tencent), and do so by selling out their
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by viklove 7y ago
I'm not sure I understand this comment. I have a simple script (under 100 lines) using the aws sdk that pushes my assets to an s3 bucket where my site is hosted. I'm able to trigger it with an npm script with a command `npm run de
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by viklove 7y ago
If the functionality you're writing is truly that abstract, an abstract variable name is fine. Your example didn't include the method signature though, so I assumed it was a part of some larger (concrete) code block.
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by viklove 7y ago
Solar/Wind/Nuclear can easily replace Oil today.
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by viklove 7y ago
{int k=0,i=0;for(;i<500;++i)if(do_something(i))++k;return k;} This is an unreadable mess I would never let anyone on my team merge...
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by viklove 7y ago
Naming a variable solely after its type is never particularly useful. A name like `currentChar` would probably enhance readability. Of course if your code is just 2 lines long, `c` works just fine (that's not usually the case though).
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by viklove 7y ago
> Again that isn't customer facing value. It absolutely is customer facing value. If shipping this feature 2 weeks later means you can ship the next 10 features in 6 months, and the alternative is shipping this feature today but wit
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by viklove 7y ago
As a software engineer it's hard to trust code that you know has flaws, because there could be a flaw that causes autopilot to automatically turn on. Extremely unlikely, I know, but it's definitely a nagging thought. It would be n
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by viklove 7y ago
> with no JS on the main thread Why?
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by viklove 7y ago
I dunno, maybe the one being talked about in the article we're commenting on? That's not a state university.
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by viklove 7y ago
> The solution to climate change is not to make energy producers like oil and gas companies go out of business. It absolutely is... Or at least make them change into non-oil and non-gas companies.
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by viklove 7y ago
Your analysis isn't entirely incorrect, but you're kind of missing the point. Oil and gas companies one day were necessary and provided more value than destruction (as far as we knew). At this point though, it's clear that oi
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by viklove 7y ago
Bernie never said that, only people like you. Norway follows a system of democratic socialism , which is colloquially referred to as "socialism" by some. They're definitely not capitalistic. You're just presenting the e
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by viklove 7y ago
It doesn't matter if there's no warning when it hits 1%, it matters if the behavior of the device changes several years into the product's lifespan for the worse, and without any warning that it will change or has changed.
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by viklove 7y ago
> such that they would fall apart as soon as we stop putting energy into fixing flaws This is not true. The only reason software needs constant updates is because new features are constantly being added to stay competitive. If you stop a
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by viklove 7y ago
Well, people are having less children now than ever before. That doesn't mean those children are moving out when they reach adulthood.

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