wonnage

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by wonnage 7y ago
1. you don't have to reply right away 2. chat being a set of open protocols has been a pipe dream of nerds for ages, the reality is that slack is your universal protocol now and everything preceding it forgot that actual humans had to
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by wonnage 7y ago
This won't work, because it means all the people who don't have money to buy a new car are now subject to your psychotic fuel tax. Your solution winds up being much more regressive than Tesla making rich people cars.
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by wonnage 7y ago
Well, they got their message across in a widely-published news article and you got your comment buried at the bottom on Hacker News
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by wonnage 7y ago
Not sure if you're being willfully ignorant, but it's from this event: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/01/technology/google-walkout... Seems like they did a reasonably effective job of conveyin
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by wonnage 7y ago
You carefully examined the picture and didn't notice the dates on the sign are from the walkout last November?
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by wonnage 7y ago
Sounds like we're a long way off from real fascism then!
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by wonnage 8y ago
China has been "about to implode" according to misguided Western observers since 1989 and shows no signs of doing so 30 years later.
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by wonnage 8y ago
US is less innovative than China at this point, which disproves this
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by wonnage 8y ago
People like you miss the point that companies like Uber could pay drivers more at the expense of paying you less, and come up with all sorts of handwavy econ 101 justifications for why that's morally acceptable.
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by wonnage 8y ago
Inflation was not the point, cheap loans = cheap mortgages = expensive houses.
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by wonnage 8y ago
AWS/Google Maps/Foursquare etc. bills probably add up. Customer service - Uber seems to have decided it's cheaper to just allow a few no-questions-asked refunds for cancellations than actually getting humans involved every ti
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by wonnage 8y ago
Anyone who's relying on driver assists as their primary safety (rather than just as a backup to their senses) is a bad driver. Bad drivers exist, and aren't going to magically become good drivers if you take away these aids, they&
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by wonnage 8y ago
What they're really asking for is multi-user accounts, which is a whole can of worms... also the address uniqueness requirement seems like it'll leak your customers' information. Also don't understand why the system for
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Considerations on Cost Disease(slatestarcodex.com)
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by wonnage 8y ago
Pretty much no Rails app at these large companies can even do something as basic as concurrent network requests. This is an area Ruby the language is weak in, and it's extremely difficult to graft on something like concurrent-ruby to a
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by wonnage 9y ago
The purpose of separating into young and old generation is that it's easier to find dead objects in the young generation (as you said, average object lives for a short period of time). You only have to scan this subset for a minor GC.
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by wonnage 9y ago
re: COMPAS > As noted above, a major criticism of COMPAS is that the rate of false positives is higher among blacks than whites [2]. Policing in America is racist. So anything that takes arrests into account (prior arrests, recidivism, e
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by wonnage 9y ago
Appeal to authority is one of the most naive arguments out there... especially when it's to some programmers attempting to design an economy
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by wonnage 9y ago
Another way of putting this: if people found strong epidemiological evidence that drinking water caused obesity (they haven't, yet), the nature of that mechanism would be subjected to intense scrutiny.
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by wonnage 9y ago
US number is annual and doesn't include deaths from other reasons. Albania number is sum of the last 25 years. So we could ignore other homicide weapons and say yes, this is equivalent to 48000 Americans a year. Considering that US gun
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by wonnage 9y ago
I have zero connection to Albania and completely agree. The whole tone of the article is of exploring some backwards nation. > Though it’s almost impossible to substantiate the statistics, aid organizations estimate that at least 12,000
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by wonnage 9y ago
In practice, you don't have to know any of these things to be (or at least pass for) a programmer. Work at a large company, someone else takes care of the build. Use a git GUI app/IDE to take care of source control. Don't use
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by wonnage 9y ago
If nothing else, these classes were great because they removed the mystery of what happens after you write your code. Many jobs boil down to moving strings around the network, and many programmers draw a line somewhere in the towers of abst
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by wonnage 9y ago
We eat meat too, primarily pork. FWIW, the PF Chang's menu has a couple of dishes reminiscent of actual Chinese food, even if the execution is slightly different - salt & pepper prawns, pepper steak, fried chicken wings, pretty muc
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by wonnage 10y ago
i believe amazon and expedia were part of the suit https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/02/yet-another-judg...
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by wonnage 10y ago
It's a great read, you shouldn't be so thin skinned
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by wonnage 10y ago
"eight megs and constantly swapping" seems so quaint :P
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by wonnage 10y ago
If the output of your fancy new NN classifies black people as gorillas it's absolutely the programmers' fault. It is useless for a large swathe of humanity, it creates a PR nightmare, etc. So nah, it's not funny.
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by wonnage 10y ago
It's really not so bad. I was reluctant to use 1password until being forced to by work, and discovered how wonderful having a password manager is. First off, your passphrase should only be used for the password manager itself. So if yo
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by wonnage 10y ago
Market forces either didn't work or were suddenly introduced (otherwise how did the price get so high?) in this case. But people buying epipens don't have a lot of options, and unlike the price of coffee or something you're d

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