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by xapata 6y ago
Perhaps I should have said it more carefully. One should care about the distribution of outcomes and their magnitudes along multiple axes of impact, plus potential mitigation options. All this leads me to conclude that sometimes calling th
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by xapata 6y ago
Back when I bike-commuted, I used to pick routes and times for biking based on smog levels. I'd rather double my time on the road than arrive coughing from breathing exhaust.
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by xapata 6y ago
Python's builtins, the standard library, and many popular community libraries and tools use docstrings to generate tooling and documentation websites. Describing it as "useful for a certain workflow" is so understated it bor
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by xapata 6y ago
s/comment/docstring/
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by xapata 6y ago
Again, it's not a question of what the most likely reaction is, but how grave the worst reaction would be. You hold at least one insurance policy? If so, you understand the rationale in at least one domain.
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by xapata 6y ago
I'm referring to the irrational, perhaps insane neighbor, not someone who behaves normally.
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by xapata 6y ago
Maybe a bad prior, but one that arose from personal experience. If you haven't had to spend the night wondering whether your neighbor was going to barge in and murder you, waiting for the moving truck to arrive in the morning ... Well,
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by xapata 6y ago
Unfortunately, the risk of retaliation may be too high. While the likelihood may be low, the magnitude of the consequence is great.
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by xapata 6y ago
> young carefree professional Only about a third of Americans older than 25 have finished college. Not long ago, that figure was more like 1 in 4. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Educational_attainment_in_the_... &gt
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by xapata 6y ago
And they've designed their cities poorly.
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by xapata 6y ago
> Atlanta It's fine to walk in a nice tree-lined neighborhood, even in the peak of summer. Walking out in the sun, where there's concrete and asphalt everywhere, that's a big difference. > genuinely prefer American sty
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by xapata 6y ago
The interesting question is then what causes contributed to the change.
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by xapata 6y ago
I think the author of the linked article might disagree with the claim of historical accuracy for that novel. He wrote at length about Pressfield's misconceptions. https://acoup.blog/2021/01/29/collectio
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by xapata 6y ago
Scope matters. The purpose of the iterator is to encapsulate the state. An induction variable is not an iterator. A physical loop of tape is not an iterator. I'm starting to doubt your general point, because the specific isn't
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by xapata 6y ago
Using a loop induction variable is a form of iteration over the elements of a sequence, but it is not using an iterator (technique, pattern, or whatever you want to call it). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Induction_vari
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by xapata 6y ago
And I was confused by that word choice, thinking I was/am unaware of HBO's Chernobyl documentary, which they must have produced to accompany the excellent film/miniseries.
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by xapata 6y ago
I doubt the people high up the ladder think themselves without conscience. Quite the opposite.
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by xapata 6y ago
I had assumed from the comment that there were two shows, one a dramatization and one a documentary. Surely no one thinks that fiction was a documentary?!
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by xapata 6y ago
Ok, call it the iterator technique, but there's a difference between using the iterator technique and iterating, which you seem to be refusing to acknowledge.
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by xapata 6y ago
The iterator pattern is the use of an object or closure to encapsulate the state of the iteration. This is distinct from using a loop induction variable in the same scope as the loop block itself. In a language like C, which doesn't
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by xapata 6y ago
In a pithy form, it's the fact that in the long run we are all dead.
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by xapata 6y ago
While I am sympathetic to the author's claims, I was surprised to see that the author didn't "strong man" the prevailing economics views. Anyone trying to keep up with recent macroeconomics research could randomly sampl
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by xapata 6y ago
Seems like I should have better explained why the logic doesn't hold. Even if we grant that an ideal market is a good thing (which is debatable), it's still not certain that all motion towards an ideal market is positive good. T
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by xapata 6y ago
I share your distaste for cargo cult programming, but ... iterating over a list can be done in multiple ways, and doesn't necessarily mean one is using the iterator pattern. Using the jargon "iterator" to refer to an object
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by xapata 6y ago
Not spending. Disinvestment, or the refusal to reinvest, either way meaning that the capital flows elsewhere.
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by xapata 6y ago
Pricing power is proportional, it's not a binary state.
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by xapata 6y ago
Reverse that: How could one prove that Okta now has, but did not previously have monopoly power?
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by xapata 6y ago
No, that logic doesn't hold. Further, I think you're conflating two meanings of the word ideal. In the context of an ideal free market, the meaning is closer to hypothetical and is pretty far away from the sense of ethical or pr
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by xapata 6y ago
Or "monopolistic price gouging" is a dysphemism for having a stable business in a tough market. They need to make enough profit to avoid capital outflow.
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by xapata 6y ago
Who decides what's "Tier 1"? How will you fund their work? Currently there are a few vendors providing what you're asking for, including Anaconda ( https://www.anaconda.com/ ) and ActiveState ( https:&#x

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