weberc2

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by weberc2 7y ago
So all we have to do is get a significant number of Americans to buy into the right culture and wait for the effects to manifest themselves in federal government? What a brilliantly trivial solution! Why has no one considered this before?
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by weberc2 7y ago
It depends on the audience. Many businesses don't want to restrict themselves exclusively to the subset of UK banks that follow that initiative. And government intervention is hardly a pragmatic solution (how many companies can afford
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by weberc2 7y ago
What percentage of the world's banks are covered? Or perhaps what percentage of the world's population banks in those covered institutions? Or perhaps what percentage of the total banked wealth (terminology?) is held in covered in
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by weberc2 7y ago
Seems like many of these sensationalist articles are coming from the same publication or cluster of publications.
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by weberc2 7y ago
I was hoping for a more substantial reply than "America sucks; it won't work".
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by weberc2 7y ago
Hard to say since they drop that statistic without bothering to provide any context or citation.
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by weberc2 7y ago
If the FDA is broken, I wonder if some private entity couldn't audit brands and/or grocery chains and publicize a consumer health rating. "But private auditing can't work because for-profit incentives!" Well, there
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by weberc2 7y ago
I agree with this, but I think to the extent that such tools are lacking (or at least that the overhead is prohibitively high for smaller projects), the parent is correct. Thanks for tipping me off to peru; hadn't seen that before.
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by weberc2 7y ago
The article isn't making any such equivalence. It doesn't so much as imply a pre-60s meritocracy. The fact that two things are contemporary doesn't suggest a causal relationship. Perhaps if the article mentioned desegregation
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by weberc2 7y ago
There were a lot of things going on in the world in the '60s. Whatever you think of TFA, it's simply arguing for more rigor in education. Unless you think racial minorities are less capable of rigorous study, there's no reaso
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by weberc2 7y ago
I was struggling to understand the GP as well. Thanks for articulating this question for me.
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by weberc2 7y ago
I could see that but it doesn’t explain why my recently refurbished downtown Yankee office building is a frosty 67F in the height of summer. :P
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by weberc2 7y ago
Americans don’t think this is normal, but rather a nuisance that we have to put up with for some unknown reason. The building engineers responsible for maintaining the temperature of large office buildings presumably haven’t recalibrated th
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by weberc2 7y ago
FWIW, I'm worried that we (millenials) will do the same with Republicans who are only nominally concerned about the budget and Democrats who aren't even nominally concerned (#CancelMyDebt #GreenNewDeal etc).
855.
by weberc2 7y ago
If people could muck with builtins in Python, they would. And worse, they'd do it with inheritance and metaclasses. I say this as a Python dev.
856.
by weberc2 7y ago
The topic is security research, not security practice. Security practice has improved, but security research has not (or that's the thesis, anyway).
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by weberc2 7y ago
There’s no evidence that those languages are better at engineering at scale than Go is. In particular, all of them are riddled with anti-features e.g., inheritance and all of them have ridiculously convoluted tooling (especially build tooli
858.
by weberc2 7y ago
It don't think it matters whether it avoids success deliberately or accidentally.
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by weberc2 7y ago
I had already addressed this in a sibling subthread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19975618 Anyway, they do ; that they do so imperfectly is not a counterargument, since (as I've mentioned several times), relig
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by weberc2 7y ago
I think most societies are morally absolute. Relatively few accept the "that's your truth/morality, you can't impose that on me!". This doesn't imply that all morally absolute societies have the same mores.
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by weberc2 7y ago
Pretty sure those are almost all of the most popular statically typed languages (absent C#, which has about the same verbosity as Java). I'm sure I'm wrong if you're willing to lower the threshold for "popular" enou
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by weberc2 7y ago
After thinking about it for some time, I think I'd like to simplify my model: In a morally relativistic society, credibility is distributed along tribal lines because there are no higher principles. Everyone is motivated to look out fo
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by weberc2 7y ago
And Haskell's market success is still very limited. This isn't a very compelling argument for community-driven language design. I think a better one would be Rust (to the extent that we can agree that Rust is designed by community
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by weberc2 7y ago
> proper software engineering Only if you define this in such a way that it's tautologically true. If your definition of software engineering incorporates some degree of economic success, then no, these languages don't work wel
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by weberc2 7y ago
Go is a language for software engineering, which entails pragmatic human factors. It's not a computer science language, which emphasizes theory.
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by weberc2 7y ago
This is absolutely not best practice. It's perfectly idiomatic to insert an item into a slice (without the copy shenanigans you describe). The slice will manage the copy if necessary.
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by weberc2 7y ago
Gah, I realize that I think I was unclear. I didn’t mean “liberals and egalitarians are reactionaries”, but rather the people who are critical of tech diversity quotas are often motivated by liberal and egalitarian beliefs. Hopefully that’s
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by weberc2 7y ago
I agree, but I don’t think your point refutes mine. See my sibling comment.
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by weberc2 7y ago
I’m not following, sorry.
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by weberc2 7y ago
Sorry guy, I’m not here for a flame war. Best regards.

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