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by xapata 4y ago
The USA has plenty of land and food. We can invite more immigrants for a long time. https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/636499/one-billion-...
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by xapata 4y ago
You're saying that your friends and family don't post to Facebook? In this light, your first comment was misleading. You implied that Facebook's post-display algorithm was suppressing your friends and family.
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by xapata 4y ago
> anyone Yes, it's almost certain that someone does. From your comment, it seems like you do.
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by xapata 4y ago
"Nobody goes there, it's too crowded."
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by xapata 4y ago
> Buying a used car from a dealership is ... worse than buying a new car. Yes, that's what I said. > Of course they're buying from an individual. That was not clear.
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by xapata 4y ago
Used car salespeople are even worse! Are you buying from individuals or from a dealership?
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by xapata 4y ago
Yes, it seemed so, and thus not helpful for the discussion. But, you can see in the other branch of the thread, that commenter seemed to believe the hyperbole as fact.
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by xapata 4y ago
There are bullies and is anti-intellectual sentiment in "good" schools as well.
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by xapata 4y ago
Can you point me to an example of a $500k USD degree on French poetry in the 17th century? Or anything similar?
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by xapata 4y ago
Are you talking about Disney casting a Black woman as Ariel, or Alex Jones saying the murders at Sandy Hook were faked? I think they're different categories.
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by xapata 4y ago
One solution is to invite more immigration to balance the falling birth rate. More workers means more tax revenue.
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by xapata 4y ago
Yet, we shouldn't abandon humanities education.
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by xapata 4y ago
Yes, try Numba.
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by xapata 4y ago
MyPy doesn't require everything to be type-hinted. It's fine to sprinkle in hints where you want them.
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by xapata 4y ago
I think you mean `__init_subclass__`
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by xapata 4y ago
Craig Newmark has roughly $1B.
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by xapata 4y ago
Maybe it's time to switch to 1.0? https://0ver.org/
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by xapata 4y ago
Also, it might have been defensive. If competitors are burning money, you might feel like you need to keep up, even if it's not the ideal trajectory.
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by xapata 4y ago
Luckily, these days we value lessons learned from mistakes.
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by xapata 4y ago
Perhaps so. Let's let that happen first, before we debate it. Oh, and there's nothing special about DNA in this respect. It just happens to be something collected during a rape investigation.
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by xapata 4y ago
Branding matters, too. It may be difficult to serve both horny and "no horny" consumers, so you need to decide which market you prefer.
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by xapata 4y ago
> We might all be better off if experts understate the uncertainty in their projections when they make their case to policy-makers. Frustrating, but true. I was recently asked at work to stop adding statements on certainty, to be more c
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by xapata 4y ago
> pettier offenses Really, any offenses. We could imagine that there's some method for abusing a policy of disallowing use of a victim's evidence to prosecute that victim for unrelated crimes, but until it happens, it's r
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by xapata 4y ago
Not all success has deterministic causes.
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by xapata 4y ago
Different. SQL's syntax is funky.
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by xapata 4y ago
It's common. Look at an old person's hands, especially one with arthritis.
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by xapata 4y ago
While the phrase has become used more loosely, I believe (could be wrong, of course) that it is best used to explain that the cause of being false is a category error. It's like the distinction between a type error and a value error.
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by xapata 4y ago
It's not categorically false, just false. Some phrases written by lobbyists survive in some bills.
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by xapata 4y ago
It may not be hard, but it can be time-consuming. Knowing how long someone has written Python is useful information for how to onboard them, and how to interview them.
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by xapata 4y ago
The more expertise I've gained with my preferred language, the more I value that expertise in others. If my teammates are new to the language, they'll be frustrated when I use its idioms and take advantage of its idiosyncrasies.

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