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by virgilp 5y ago
But, how is that not the logical conclusion? I agree on "people should think before putting a child into this world". Will you agree also on the following: * Despite the should , some people will not think before doing X. So th
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by virgilp 5y ago
Bucharest here. I'm fine at 25 but if you ask my wife she'll say that it's too cold. I do realize though that different people have different definition of comfort ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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by virgilp 5y ago
It was supposed to make it obvious that your tax proposal is absurd. If you don't plan to make murdering children legal, then what you are de facto proposing is making some people slaves. From X children forward, poor people become sla
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by virgilp 5y ago
Well, definitely not North America because there it seems to be a mandate that you gotta freeze inside during summer. But trust me, you (still?) can live without AC.
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by virgilp 5y ago
> 1.5 or 2 degrees do not seem like much Did not seem like much to me, until I realized that 28 degrees inside the house is "comfortable" while 30 is "too hot".
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by virgilp 5y ago
> one needs to continue to pay, while the children live? Can you kill them if you no longer afford the tax? (any answer to this question should suggest how ridiculous a tax like this would be)
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by virgilp 5y ago
> Deforestation It's not that clear-cut: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/08/planet-earth-has-more...
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by virgilp 5y ago
That's typically an argument that "iDevices have more value because you can use them longer than Android". You can't have it both ways - "old android devices" in this context are devices older than iPhone 4s, a
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by virgilp 5y ago
> almost always have nothing to do with my work TBH that's another argument I don't really get. Almost everyone agrees that basic CS knowledge trumps specific technology knowledge (I'd rather hire someone with strong CS f
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by virgilp 5y ago
Is HackerRank so bad? If one does "whiteboard problems", HackerRank says, "boo, whiteboard interviews, just let me code and be able to search on Google, whiteboard is unrealistic!". Now if the company starts with a Hacke
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by virgilp 5y ago
> Retail investors are not always stupid, Matt Levine wrote an article mocking them for buying Hertz stock, then a bit later another one saying "wait no that was actually a very smart thing".
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by virgilp 5y ago
I feel like this is a bit of a double standard. If we're questioning "focus on range of 400km or more" then we're already looking at the high-end EVs. Sure there are ligther engines around, but so are lighter batteries,
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by virgilp 5y ago
But... are we pretending here that the ICE and gas & all the plumbing etc don't weigh anything? It's not like PHEV have zero additional dead weight. A quick search says "Car engines can weigh up to 1,000 pounds" and
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by virgilp 5y ago
And besides, let's get real, nobody would look at the links - it defeats the purpose of copilot.
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by virgilp 5y ago
> arriving at the scene of a crime and believing the blood committed murder. It's more like "believing the death was caused by loss of blood" though, right? As in, it's not completely unreasonable to believe that if y
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by virgilp 5y ago
Even so, it would be 0.2% per EU country, right? Because the legislation is transposed into member states legislation. I doubt that anybody would really want to fight (& risk losing) in even 5 member states per year...
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by virgilp 5y ago
I mean, a good first step would be to start fining companies 2% of the revenue. Especially Google. And then maybe automate the GDPR fines, because it's definitely possible to identify that a site puts up a non-compliant banner. No nee
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by virgilp 5y ago
Wait no, that can't be true. Finite state machines are only as powerful as regular expressions; you need pushdown automata even for programming languages, surely you can't model natural language with finite state machines? (maybe
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by virgilp 5y ago
How would both of these be simultaneously possible? Surely, if it spreads to replace the naturally occurring one, it must reproduce naturally (or otherwise it can't "accidentally" spread/ without active involvement of th
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by virgilp 5y ago
The objections here would be trivially resolved if the pricing page said "Deepnote Standard is and always will be free" instead of "Deepnote is and always will be free".
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by virgilp 5y ago
I would bet on it being related to their identity server. It seems to almost work in browser(s) where I was signed on - but in a new browser, it gives HTTP 500 after SSO.
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by virgilp 5y ago
It can be WAY lower. When I worked as a freelancer, the best option here was something called "normed-income tax". Basically, for self-employed people, the state would offer you the option of doing no paperwork and letting them de
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by virgilp 5y ago
To the right it's the calendar on Jun 7 + the terminal; in center it's an iMessage conversation (one white bubble, one blue) but I don't think one can make out what that's about...
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by virgilp 5y ago
Thank you, again. Now I understand where you come from, much better; and I see which of my assumptions may be wrong. I think this is where we fundamentally both agree and disagree: > A manager's goal (especially a C-level exec or
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by virgilp 5y ago
Thank you for the long answer. The person I asked made it clear that the "HR failure" was a significant driver in the decision, so it felt like it goes beyond the points 1+2 that you discuss (+) On 3, no the HR failure is *honestl
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by virgilp 5y ago
My question was perhaps unclear. I'm fully aware other people have a different view, I haven't received yet the answer to "what exactly was wrong in what DHH did" - and not just in the 'maybe he could have handled t
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by virgilp 5y ago
Genuinely curious, why is "the mess they caused" a primary reason to leave the service? It feels like "even if the service was wonderful you'd still consider leaving because of <the mess>". What exactly makes
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by virgilp 5y ago
I don't think this is a good characterization. Black Swan is more about "Looking just at probability is misleading and dangerous, you need to look at severity too". I haven't read antifragile, but I don't think that
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by virgilp 5y ago
If SPY dropped to the level where it was at the start of the year, would we call it a crash? Also, maybe BTC is not like SPY but more like TSLA.
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by virgilp 5y ago
> C++ is pretty hygienic and safe these days. C++ these days still supports all the syntax and programming style of C++ in the 70s. You probably mean "you can program in a hygienic and safe way in C++", which is true, but also

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