weberc2

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by weberc2 7y ago
Because that’s what people mean by “gun violence” 99% of the time and the distinction is reflected in policy—you don’t ban large magazines and suppressors to reduce the suicide rate, after all.
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by weberc2 7y ago
Small world! That stop is only a few blocks away from me. There are shootings in uptown, but it’s almost always gang-related. Carrying guns on the L is already illegal, so I don’t see any reason to be more afraid of states with more lax law
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by weberc2 7y ago
I’m really sorry that happened to you, Steve.
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by weberc2 7y ago
Good point. I wasn’t thinking of threats of violence or suicides. If you define the term more broadly to make the “most people know a victim...” statement true (even with the broader definition, I’m not sure it would be true), then we shoul
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by weberc2 7y ago
Is this true? Almost no one in my social circles knows a victim of gun violence, and I live in one of the most violent cities in the country. Even if you count suicides (and you really shouldn’t), I would be surprised if this were true. I s
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by weberc2 7y ago
> There’s less pressure to put something in a specific release when they happen less frequently. I think this phrasing contradicts your point. Do you mean "more frequently", or am I missing something?
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by weberc2 7y ago
I think you meant to respond to me as the quoted portion is mine. Anyway, this is a really interesting perspective that I hadn’t considered. Is this a pretty accepted perspective on consumption tax? If no, what is the counterargument?
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by weberc2 7y ago
That seems like a reasonable history of the events, but I don't think it supports the original position that these tech companies had an unfair advantage. Or if it does, only for some definition of "fairness" that is subject
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by weberc2 7y ago
> Having the option to not comply with laws, is an unfair advantage. All parties in this scenario are legally compliant. > VAT is a sales tax, effectively, but even that is managed away fairly easy. It's an efficient tax, but whe
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by weberc2 7y ago
> Why have 20% of Taxi revenue (or whatever it is) leave the country if basically all of the service is provided in country, and the internet taxi company takes the large cut over a sustained period through a combination of first-mover a
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by weberc2 7y ago
I'm trying to follow the argument in good faith, so bear with me... > This gives you an unfair advantage over, say, a brick-and-mortar store or a physical ad agency in Paris that's trying to compete online. Are you sure it&#x27
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by weberc2 7y ago
> Those large tech companies can make money in France because the french government provides all that is necessary for a free, fair and functioning market. How could Google make money in France if there was no french police force, educat
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by weberc2 7y ago
Pretty sure you can still monkeypatch the class instead of each instance, but I’m too jet lagged to think it through at the moment.
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by weberc2 7y ago
If you are writing code that adds or removes properties at runtime. I.e., when you want to write shoddy code.
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by weberc2 7y ago
> Why design them to fit together if they won't always work right? I too don’t understand dynamic typing. ;)
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by weberc2 7y ago
I’m pretty sure Go does not do any LTO at all.
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by weberc2 7y ago
I mostly have too, but GTK itself is a bummer. Doing most any interesting thing is a ton of work.
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by weberc2 7y ago
Gender matters more than race or height (I.e., race doesn’t make one markedly stronger or un/able to birth children or any of the social roles that emerge out of those properties), and as I mentioned elsewhere, multiracial societies we
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by weberc2 7y ago
Race is fundamentally different than gender in many ways. Contrary to your claim, you can’t discern race as easily as gender—there are far more racially ambiguous people than there are gender ambiguous people. Unlike how gender proxies for
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by weberc2 7y ago
> But if the US government bails out Boeing, should countries around the world also impose business destroying duties of 300% on Boeing because of the unfair government support? It’s not a question of fairness but of self-interest. If it
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by weberc2 7y ago
I misunderstood your point. I thought you found it remarkable that we expected to be able to discern gender quite quickly. In any case, I don’t know how much our gendered language indicates our values as a society, probably that gender is j
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by weberc2 7y ago
This shouldn’t surprise you. Most people can infer gender from visual appearance alone with well over 99.99% accuracy without being explicitly told. If you know their name and other gendered indicators, it would be a marked anomaly NOT to k
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by weberc2 7y ago
The debugger isn’t great. Most things just work, and they just work well for the most popular use cases. Documentation is just comments—no special syntax to memorize and no need to maintain infrastructure to parse docstrings and publish to
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by weberc2 7y ago
I agree that nil is error prone, but I don’t think interfaces add any additional confusion so long as you think of them as a reference type and reason accordingly. Also, I think you’re mistaken about “true nil”. A “true nil” only requires t
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by weberc2 7y ago
I think it’s for different reasons. Go as a language is just fine, but Go as a framework for building software is just fantastic. The tooling is comprehensive and easy to use, testing is built in, and the happy path is almost always highlig
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by weberc2 7y ago
I was of the impression that even regular pointers could allow for memory unsafety but I can’t recall exactly what I had heard that gave me that impression...
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by weberc2 7y ago
I don’t understand people’s beef with “typed nil”. If an interface is just a fat pointer and the data is itself a pointer, then it stands to reason that the interface can be not nil while the data can be nil. If you understand the concept o
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by weberc2 7y ago
“Free speech” isn’t just an amendment, but also an attitude or an ideal.
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by weberc2 7y ago
Interesting point, but that wasn't my experience. The office suite was consistent, but SharePoint differed markedly (at least in ~2010 when I last used it). IIS was different yet. I'm trying to think of other business-oriented MS
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by weberc2 7y ago
Microsoft has never had a consistent look and feel across its suite of applications. Windows Live Mail, Zune media player, Windows media player, the Office suite, etc all looked different and they all looked different than other Microsoft a

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