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by voz_ 4y ago
No, I am not sure it is attributed to him, at least, not with any proof. Voltaire is often a good target for fake quotes.
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by voz_ 4y ago
Does it prey? I think scratchers / casinos / sports betting / online poker / more general kinds of gambling is far more addictive and malicious, because the dopamine fueled reward->attempt cycle is a far tighter loop
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by voz_ 4y ago
This is a weird take, very HN/Reddit. At best it misses the point, and at worst it insults the poor. Its not a "tax" - it's just fun. The odds are terrible, but the dream / "what if?" aspect of it is fun.
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by voz_ 4y ago
This doesn't mean much without benchmarks
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by voz_ 4y ago
Yes.
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by voz_ 4y ago
I am a teenager at heart I guess, because + anything and I was cracking up. I needed the laugh, thanks a lot, this is fantastic.
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by voz_ 4y ago
We have absolutely different perspectives here. I do not justify anything in terms of quantity of human life. The destruction of critters and wild plants to me is as painful as the destruction of human lives. Also, we rob future generations
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by voz_ 4y ago
> but even so, the status quo is certainly far superior to an un-engineered Colorado River Basin. Making an uninhabitable area, habitable, at the cost of a total destruction of natural resources does not seem like its "far superior
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by voz_ 4y ago
Awful take. How are there so many bad takes on HN today. Is reddit down?
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by voz_ 4y ago
What is your point?
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by voz_ 4y ago
Absolutely loony take. How does an engineer get like this?
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by voz_ 4y ago
There's soooo many things like this on HN - why is it better than drawing the picture in something like google docs or lucid chart?
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by voz_ 4y ago
Wrong all over. Check the other comments, they are def not the same. The condescending and cynical tone also destroys any inquisitiveness. "Lay" people can absolutely tell the difference.
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by voz_ 4y ago
Uber won't ever 2x, let alone 10x.
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by voz_ 4y ago
I didnt say it can be built with 15, but at 2017, features peaked, and maintenance is much easier than creation.
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by voz_ 4y ago
I worked there for 5 years, it's not that complicated, Uber just made it way too overcomplicated.
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by voz_ 4y ago
I think your NYC centric anecdote kinda reinforces my point, in an old-man-yells-at-cloud kinda way. The eats usecase was supposed to be around delivery for places that did not already offer it. If you are talking about the eats experience
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by voz_ 4y ago
Uber is an example of a company that wants to be a tech company, but (1) really shouldn't (2) kinda lacks the technical leadership to really be one. It feels like the right call, around 2017, was to either: (A) double down and build a
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by voz_ 4y ago
That depiction of Babel is by Peter Bruegel, a fantastic artist but obviously just making stuff up (1563) vs supposed biblical occurrence (far before that - but probably not real at all). Its also far closer to the Colosseum, if we are comp
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by voz_ 4y ago
Companies switching to cloud? It makes sense why they do it - that layer of problems was solved for you, and solved well enough. Your company should focus on what it does best, theres surely tons of other challenges in the interesting parts
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by voz_ 4y ago
That's fair, I apologize. It struck a nerve because of how blase it was with dismissal, but I too am guilty of that at times, I suppose. Also, I am not close to the project at all - learned about it here.
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by voz_ 4y ago
If only there was some way to know! Some kind of... hyperlink, with text, where the answers you seek were available in a language you know, English, perhaps?
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by voz_ 4y ago
did you even read this?
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by voz_ 4y ago
> from below the poverty line to 6-figure incomes. In SF, thats the same thing man.
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by voz_ 4y ago
That book was garbage, so probably not.
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by voz_ 4y ago
Russian atrocities in Ukraine are horrific, but they are certainly not even close to the cold extermination machine and bureaucracy employed by nazis against Jews, Poles, Homosexuals, etc.
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by voz_ 4y ago
Insanely important, especially with the renewed rise of antisemitism - sad to see this downvoted.
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by voz_ 4y ago
Is this that jacobin article again?
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by voz_ 4y ago
The jacobin has completely lost the thread, I used to love this magazine.
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by voz_ 4y ago
Maybe in theory, but they've become "I agree"/"I disagree"

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