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by xapata 6y ago
> PyPi doesn’t allow namespacing Yet. I suppose it might wind up vaporware, but the feature request is under discussion/development. BTW, it's PyPI.
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by xapata 6y ago
Both AWS and McDonald's are good examples, because we should have a policy that applies at all levels of dominance with no discontinuities. Just as in programming, special cases are (legal) code smells. If the policy can't clean
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by xapata 6y ago
> requiring insurance That's effectively a tax, outsourcing collection to insurance companies. I'm fine with that, too.
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by xapata 6y ago
Depends on how much understanding you're talking about. I don't need to know how to build an x86 chip, but as an experienced and educated professional programmer I should probably have a decent sense of which kinds of instruction
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by xapata 6y ago
It's important to note that there are a handful of negative externalities created by market dominance. Even if it's not anticompetitive, it still creates systemic risk. The blast radius of an AWS outage is quite large. The tax
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by xapata 6y ago
> tries to make things work in a simpler, but wrong way To be fair, it is an old language. Before Python 3, it used the old assumptions about text being just 1-byte characters. We all know how much trouble it was to switch to Unicode.
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by xapata 6y ago
I'm not familiar with that. Sounds like more complexity for my taxes. I'd rather things get simpler. My proposal is a flat federal value-added tax, its revenue distributed weekly in uniform amounts to each domestically-residing
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by xapata 6y ago
> unnecessary to the economy I don't think that's the message of UBI. While one could view it somewhat as a charitable policy, with a more cold outlook it's a good policy as a mechanism to make free-market capitalism func
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by xapata 6y ago
Fair. However, because marginal rate differs by year, now we need to know what year's money that nanny's wage is being paid out of to make that 50 vs 70 calculation.
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by xapata 6y ago
What's unconvincing about UBI? What'd you think of the 2020 unemployment benefits?
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by xapata 6y ago
Wealth is different from income.
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by xapata 6y ago
Maybe not automation, but it is reasonable to tax the externality, which is disruption. Taxing the speed of change of number of employees commensurate to the difficulty those employees have in finding new employment. Then pump the proceed
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by xapata 6y ago
What if you don't earn income, would you say that the nanny's wage is lower?
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by xapata 6y ago
You get type errors if you try to combine two values with different timezones. I think of naive as a null timezone and it makes sense to me. Why is it so different?
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by xapata 6y ago
If four popular parsers all had serious bugs, 6 years seems not too shabby.
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by xapata 6y ago
Mind giving an example?
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by xapata 6y ago
It's true that some brands have bad distance options. I use the one that's ridiculously far. So far back that I'm never in the stink zone or afraid the automatic brake isn't going to work in time. I'm frustrated w
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by xapata 6y ago
If you have distance-maintaining cruise control, you can safely ignore this phenomenon. Also, learn to ignore that little voice in your head that equates being in front of another car with having higher social status.
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by xapata 6y ago
> humans have to deal with the consequences of "dumb" actions (e.g. by looking through their spam folders for false positives) Email programs generally have a mechanism for reviewing email and changing the classification. I th
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by xapata 6y ago
In [1]: def foo(a, (b, c)): ...: pass File "<ipython-input-1-8f113877c7ef>", line 1 def foo(a, (b, c)): ^ SyntaxError: invalid syntax
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by xapata 6y ago
That's a decent argument. It's more typing (in both senses!) to use a specific type as the parameter instead of unpacking in the signature, but it's just as or more readable that way.
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by xapata 6y ago
I'm not sure why they removed the ability to destructure sequences in args. It bugs me sometimes as well. There's probably a long discussion about the rationale in some PEP and an even longer email thread.
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by xapata 6y ago
I don't know what you mean by "pure-AI systems." I work in this field and have many times implemented a review in the loop, or a route for review. It's an old technique, predating computers. https://en.m.wikip
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by xapata 6y ago
Single examples don't refute the statement that many poor rural areas are quiet. However, if many poor rural areas are quiet, then the assertion that quiet is a luxury is contradicted.
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by xapata 6y ago
There are plenty of poor people with peace and quiet in rural areas.
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by xapata 6y ago
> You can’t teach a computer to see the “gestalt” of a situation like that. That's not necessary. You can teach a computer to recognize anomalies and route those to humans. Repeated failures is an obvious one. > A computer’s
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by xapata 6y ago
> humans look at those calculations and have a final say (and responsibility!) over inputting a decision into the computer in response to the calculations the computer did, plus any other qualitative raw data factors that are human-legib
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by xapata 6y ago
> my close circle of friends That's extreme selection bias. One of the major ways startups recruit is via friends.
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by xapata 6y ago
The question was about "static rather than unconstrained supply" not the relation to real wealth.
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by xapata 6y ago
> the dots will connect eventually ... To paraphrase Keynes, eventually we're all dead.

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