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by wcarss 5y ago
I couldn't find a link to the actual study anywhere in the article: https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.09293
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by wcarss 5y ago
Debtors aren't just divided into "can pay" and "can't pay", there's a huge category in there of "can meet the minimum payment required to avoid default (and potential legal problems) for a very long t
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by wcarss 5y ago
related, people over-estimate impacts in the short run and under-estimate them in the long run. For example, a common 2015 sentiment: "self-driving cars are going to put everyone out of work imminently", compare to a common 2021 s
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by wcarss 5y ago
This happens with google too (though thankfully much less often): when it expires your credentials, it could be for mail, calendar, drive, meet, etc., it all redirects to just a generic "log into google" form, with no mention even
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by wcarss 5y ago
I'll clarify that I'm on board with what you're saying. Definitely if you need N machines to split the traffic load, or an application that will auto-restart under certain conditions, you ought to just use kubernetes. It&#x27
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by wcarss 5y ago
To be fair, it also can get overwrought: it's far from impossible to end up using a programming language to emit a templating language that emits a configuration language that itself describes configuration files. Sometimes, for simp
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by wcarss 5y ago
Coming from Canada: my last experience with the stripe, >3-4 years ago, was more like: pull out the card. Swipe it (it doesn't work), Swipe it (it doesn't work), Swipe it slowly (it doesn't work), wrap a garbage bag arou
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by wcarss 5y ago
hmmm, I think you should be able to use four leading spaces on HN to get monospaced text: | class | handles payments | video lessons | interactive | | Udemy | Y | Y | N | | Slip | Y
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by wcarss 5y ago
Expanding a little on #2 and those discussions, I've come to appreciate this adage: 'if you want advice, ask for money. If you want money, ask for advice'. The adage seems to still often apply after substitution of 'the
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by wcarss 5y ago
CDNs are a great example where, if you don't have the problem they solve yet, using them correctly might not be worth your time. You may now have separate asset domains, interactions of cache expiry headers across different servers, cu
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by wcarss 5y ago
It seems like you might not understand the purpose of the website, and have made an assumption based on the name. Rotten Tomatoes is not a satire or joke site, it is just a review-aggregator, like metacritic is for videogames. It boils medi
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by wcarss 5y ago
One request: allow searches by name/role, e.g. performer/writer/producer/director. For example, when I started to pay attention to these things, I noticed that Greg Daniels show-ran or co-created The Simpsons (during its
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by wcarss 5y ago
I think the parent post agreed with you and was just being facetious -- 'just ban general purpose computing' isn't very likely to be a popular sentiment on hn!
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by wcarss 5y ago
It's true that building the chips is hard, but making it hard to buy general purpose small computers, or digital camera sensors suitable for vision, or rotor blades, or batteries, or antennas, is also going to be very difficult. Prolif
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by wcarss 5y ago
It's a fair point that humans don't magically make this go away, but the thrust of the argument above is that robots are likely worse, because they lack any capacity at all for questioning or for remorse, and they also allow great
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by wcarss 5y ago
It's a much harder weapon to control via regulation and treaties than nuclear weapons: there is no nuclear material required to hook guns up to computers en masse in factories, let alone improvisationally. Once this cat is really out o
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by wcarss 5y ago
I think the biggest selection problem is the Minority Report UI problem: hanging hands are not precise tools, nor are they comfortable to hold up for > ~a minute. In particular, it is very hard to do even one pixel-perfect point+grab+rel
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by wcarss 5y ago
this and () => {} syntax have always been moderate to strong wins in my book for js when creative-coding
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by wcarss 5y ago
I've heard this kind of expression differently formulated (I think often by Steven Sinofsky while he was the head of Windows) as the complexity of the software unavoidably increasing quadratically with either time or with feature-cou
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by wcarss 5y ago
I spent the last 25 minutes trying to find out exactly that, and have so far come up nearly blank, but I agree that dollars inherited is a way more useful question. The meme of "a high percent of people who are millionaires are first-g
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by wcarss 5y ago
Thanks for updating the page and for clarifying here! Bought on steam and patron'd :)
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by wcarss 5y ago
you said this so much more concisely than I did
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by wcarss 5y ago
Hi rezoner, this tool (both versions) look so cool ! I saw you ask on twitter a few days ago for explanations from people who may have looked but then didn't buy, and I'd like to offer my own experience if you're interested.
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by wcarss 5y ago
The prior article in this series from ~a week ago is 'Hardware Memory Models', at https://research.swtch.com/hwmm , with some hn-discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27684703 Anoth
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by wcarss 5y ago
pretty consistent/simple line here: a matter impacting human lives -> sentimental, i.e. cognizant of human cost a matter impacting my program's performance -> not very sentimental, i.e no human cost to be cognizant of
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by wcarss 5y ago
I'm not a big fan of chrome for a lot of reasons these days, but recent-ish chrome got a feature of a button in the top-right that's present whenever audio is playing somewhere in the browser, that shows all media playing, and t
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by wcarss 5y ago
> and therefore more prosperous In sum, perhaps. But how much more prosperous, and to what end is that prosperity used? If prosperity were expressed in terms of apples, what's more beneficial for humanity: 80 apples in a shed that t
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by wcarss 5y ago
Interesting. That implies an authoritarian dictatorship is necessary for central planning -- what reason is there that democratically elected representatives cannot operate centralized systems of resource procurement/management/al
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by wcarss 5y ago
30 Rock was ahead of the curve on this one! Some of the episode Operation Righteous Cowboy Lightning[1] has the central characters singing an argument to each other to the tune of 'Uptown Girl' by Billy Joel, to stop a reality tv
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by wcarss 5y ago
This reminds me of why I think Wargames is likely the best hacking movie of all time: the crux of the final moments is about poisoning an AI by giving it bad data to bias it's outcomes! This kind of vulnerability is not really on man

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