w-j-w

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by w-j-w 2y ago
This misses a bigger issue with a baby bust: population composition. When birth rates decline sharply all at once, as is happening here, populations skew older and older. More elderly people being supported by fewer young people is also not
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by w-j-w 4y ago
You fell for the spaghetti-tree hoax of your own making.
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by w-j-w 4y ago
That's a bold claim. Calories as a concept can be derived from the principals of Thermodynamics, to which the human body adheres. The conception of calories does however ignore the body's natural response to calorie restriction, a
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by w-j-w 4y ago
Many people complain about how good individual producers, but few talk about effective front-line managers being moved to where they are less effective. In organizations it's often assumed that the best managers need to be near the top
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by w-j-w 4y ago
It's pretty easy to see the bright side of a deal that makes you incredibly wealthy.
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by w-j-w 4y ago
So? Vendor lock-in is just the price of using a vendor, and one which is often overwhelmingly worth paying. What you are saying is true, but it's not really enough of a detraction to justify building everything in-house.
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by w-j-w 4y ago
Is your city a 15 minute city at 8:30 AM?
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by w-j-w 4y ago
Are you trying to claim that the model would better understand the complicated, real world of law enforcement if it were MORE reductionist?
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by w-j-w 4y ago
I also do not understand which users anywhere using the internet wouldn't have access to an https capable browser?
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by w-j-w 4y ago
Low inflation, yes, but not stability. Many people in their 20s now watched a parent lose their job during the 2008 housing crisis. Just because they didn't see the 70s don't mean they haven't seen macroeconomic calamity affe
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by w-j-w 4y ago
If he is comparing meaningfulness as the parent comment would imply, then he has it right.
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by w-j-w 4y ago
> 4-5 years of runway > startup If this is your criterion for working at a startup, then you are too conservative to work at one. Every job carries risk, and looking to eradicate it is pointless.
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by w-j-w 4y ago
> small and hobbyist mail server operators From the perspective of an email receiver, I WANT things to be difficult for this group. Truly free email available to all would be unusable owing to spam. Oligopoly, I believe, results in the b
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by w-j-w 4y ago
> IMO the fact is simply that policymakers have become really good at ensuring that crashes like 2008 don’t happen again. So many people have lost so much money to ideas that rhyme with this one.
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by w-j-w 4y ago
Why? I am not dealing with a person. The ethical reasons for being honest don't extend to groups of people acting like psychopaths. Don't let profit driven corporations brand themselves as "family", or any other concept
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by w-j-w 4y ago
Shorter trains are better because they are lighter and easier to control. The additional cars don't just make derailment worse, it causes the derailments to happen at all.
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by w-j-w 4y ago
The ad-hoc solutions you're talking about are often highly usable, a virtue often forgotten by software evangelists. Nix's learning curve will keep away people who are disciplined in avoiding yak-shaving, as the language specific
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by w-j-w 5y ago
The Swiss government pays for it's citizens' healthcare, which is likely cheaper than damages paid in international tribunal. Also, these laws are typically very popular, even amongst smokers. Pursuing these laws is a no brainer f
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by w-j-w 5y ago
It's the classes. Roblox sells classes as a type of tech education after school activity, where they teach kids to build stuff in their game engine. Parents like it because they are often worried that regular school curriculums don&#x2
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by w-j-w 5y ago
Go solves this with problem with embedding. If a type is imbedded inside of a struct and has its own methods, those methods are implicitly available on the new struct.
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by w-j-w 5y ago
https://xkcd.com/1732/
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by w-j-w 5y ago
I keep seeing this comment on HN, but I never really get it. In the world of platform as a service, launching a database instance is far easier than managing disk based storage yourself. It also has a very obvious route to horizontally scal
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by w-j-w 5y ago
More lines is generally less good, but I hesitate to really give out this advice. Classes are useful because they make great nucleation sites for future complexity, and often, more simpler lines of code is easier to read (and change). Not a
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by w-j-w 5y ago
Scientists often think about one topic at length, and therefore tend to overestimate it's importance. This is a bias that needs to be corrected for. Thinking that a topic with which one isn't familiar is simpler than it really is
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by w-j-w 5y ago
Influencer marketing done well is scary effective because audiences often have a parasocial relationship with these influencers. The main downside with influencer marketing is that you have less control over how your brand is presented. Tha
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by w-j-w 5y ago
This is an even flimsier excuse than CSAM for my phone to spy on me, isn't it.
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by w-j-w 5y ago
I'm not really convinced by "John Carmack doesn't think it's a bad deal, so it's probably ok". He might very well be an incredibly talented game developer, but he also hasn't been in the position of being
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by w-j-w 5y ago
Have you considered just turning it off? Or adding a requirement for API keys and disabling any that they hand out to their customers. It would be pretty embarrassing for a large company that had a service go down because they refused to pa
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by w-j-w 5y ago
The landscape has changed. Most typical, everyday user have browsers that update themselves to the latest version. Supporting ancient technology (like IE6) doesn't provide a benefit that really justifies the enormous amount of work req
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by w-j-w 5y ago
Large standard libraries are good. The more things are in the standard library for a language, the more likely it is that other 3rd party libraries play nice together.

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