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by whakim 5y ago
I think the question isn't particularly relevant because many programmers are just using bcrypt in a simple way that's very well documented. I think it's reasonable to expect people to know that "auth is dangerous, don&#
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People are vegetarian for a number of reasons. Personally, I really enjoy the taste (which includes the mouthfeel!) of meat, but I'm vegetarian for a number of reasons and have been for 13 years now. I don't think I'd want to
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by whakim 5y ago
Hmmm. Perhaps this is true, but in my experience the ballot propositions in San Francisco (where I live) are almost as inscrutable as the state-level ones. I'd much prefer to elect local officials that align with my own views so that t
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by whakim 5y ago
While this might be tongue-in-cheek, one big issue is that it's hard for millions of busy people to fully inform themselves on the minutiae of complicated ballot initiatives in their spare time. There are huge opportunities for informa
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by whakim 5y ago
Economics tells us that the marginal propensity to consume is higher among low-income individuals than high-income individuals. So without delving into the details, I think it's reasonable to assume that a much greater percentage of in
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by whakim 6y ago
I feel that you've kind of missed GP's point, which is that we tend to take for granted the functions of the state, when in fact those functions have shifted over time. For example, it was not until relatively recently (i.e., the
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by whakim 6y ago
This article didn't make any sense to me. I didn't even see any actual numbers suggesting Heroku's revenues or userbase are stagnating/declining! The main arguments for Heroku's "decline" instead seem to b
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LG phones have often suffered from a number of issues: really poor displays (bad calibration and/or poor power profiles due to LG's in-house displays lagging far behind); poor camera hardware and software (Samsung has definitely m
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This is literally the first search result on DDG: https://www.usaspending.gov
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I mean, this already exists - there are tons of sites that slice and dice US spending with nice visuals etc. etc. Sure, I didn't see an itemized "bill" on page 1 of Google, but such a thing would be insanely incomprehensible
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by whakim 6y ago
While I understand that insider training is illegal, I do find it pretty ironic that part of the "value prop" of a Bloomberg Terminal is that you pay money to get access to market information before everyone else does.
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by whakim 6y ago
One recommendation I have (although I'm not sure if it fits the bill here) is Stephen Owen's Anthology of Chinese Literature. Owen is a total genius (speaking of the Taiping Guangji , I remember sitting in a seminar with him wher
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by whakim 6y ago
When I was a graduate student, one of my advisors tried to steer me away from focusing on periods of history where textual sources are/were more, shall we say, fluid. (In my particular case, this was Warring States China - I ended up p
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by whakim 6y ago
I just tried this and it's pretty nuts. First of all, their implementation of reCaptcha just didn't work at all for me in Firefox, and I had to switch to Chrome to even submit the request. (Captchas on CCPA request forms? Seriousl
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Societies which aren't/weren't heavily monetized (and did most of their transactions in kind) tended to not really understand most of the basic theories of modern economics. Merchants (like you just described) actually tended
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by whakim 6y ago
Even with greater awareness of the biases inherent in e.g., training data, better and better models (and larger and better datasets) are going to lead to AI applied to ethical grey areas. This article doesn't discuss explainability and
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Again, that doesn't reflect my experience working at a newspaper, where many other factors play a much stronger role in headline selection. Perhaps you're right and I don't see that deep-seated bias that's informing head
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Why would you believe that? Copy editors don't spend a lot of time on each headline. Publication style guides for headlines aren't particularly ideological. Copy editors aren't like reporters, who narrowly focus on a single
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I don't disagree that headlines matter. I don't think it's a good headline. But I was simply stating that I don't believe the headline was written in service of an alarmist agenda to use "misinformation" as boo
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> The definition you just gave could be used to justify censorship of any truthful information. Do you not agree that truthful information can sometimes cause harm? What if I, say, reveal the identities of all CIA agents operating in Chi
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They probably write click-baity headlines because those sorts of headlines work though - so bit of a chicken and egg scenario, isn't it?
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by whakim 6y ago
I appreciate your reasoned response. But the misinformation that we tend to focus on isn't "we faked the moon landing" or "the sky is a layer of impenetrable foil." It's anti-muslim riots in Sri Lanka[1] or the
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At most news orgs the reporters aren't the ones writing the article titles. I agree that the headline is alarmist, but it's probably just written to be clickbait-y, as far too many headlines now are. I disagree that "articles
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by whakim 6y ago
Yeah, but those companies were de facto monopolies created by their governments . When they no longer served their purposes, those governments stepped in, defanged them, and took over their operations. Those companies may have been larger
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I don't believe that it simply boils down to "advanced freedom." Although this is a very fraught topic, most sociologists would say the East Asian countries you mentioned generally engage in more "collectivist" mode
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It isn't really "picking one battle at a time" when this is a valid counterpoint. Do you think that these same scientists would claim that researching, say, eugenics, is an acceptable use of an academic institution's res
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by whakim 6y ago
Again, developers != rich people. Developers are just businesses like everything else, not some evil cabal. Developers build the housing units that we both claim to want, and if you make it harder for them to build anything then no housing
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by whakim 6y ago
You stated that "progressive supervisors are focused on public investment in affordable housing and taxing the rich to fund it." This is not what Prop I does. Instead, the >$10M real estate tax would mostly be paid by developer
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This is a mischaracterization of the YIMBY position. Most YIMBYs are not opposed to raising taxes so that the city can pay for the construction of affordable housing units. (Note that the city doesn't build housing even if they pay for
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by whakim 6y ago
In my experience (which is admitttedly mostly anecdotal, but comes from having attended a number of public forums/planning meetings etc.) another huge group of people fighting hard against new development are the ultra-left wing of SF

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