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811.
by xapata 6y ago
WSB on Reddit had moderators. WSB on Discord, I'm not sure they could keep up.
812.
by xapata 6y ago
Usually it's the exchange that halts or throttles trading.
813.
by xapata 6y ago
It's not a zombie after you revive it.
814.
by xapata 6y ago
> “Take away the right to say ‘fuck’ and you take away the right to say ‘fuck the government.” -- Lenny Bruce That's a comedian being funny and cool. The right to say "fuck the government" isn't important. I'd
815.
by xapata 6y ago
Backwards compatibility. You remember all those folks complaining about Python 2 vs 3? Turns out even renaming Thread.isalive to is_alive caused a ruckus. Imagine how much yelling you'd hear if you changed float to Float. I've
816.
by xapata 6y ago
Intentional to improve tracebacks. There's trade-offs with every design decision.
817.
by xapata 6y ago
I'd argue that much of modern military research and engineering is more politics than defense, so in that sense the political angle of the news story has more meat than the technical.
818.
by xapata 6y ago
How many diseases did they significance test? What's the causal mechanism? Was there a proportional response, or was the causal variable thresholded arbitrarily?
819.
by xapata 6y ago
For all you Bitcoiners talking about how it's impossible for a government to turn off the internet, this appears to be a counter-example.
820.
by xapata 6y ago
Depends which government and where this person resides.
821.
by xapata 6y ago
> Just because a private company is legally allowed to do something, doesn't mean they should You don't expect coal companies to suspend operations because of pollution and climate change. Maybe I misunderstood what you meant
822.
by xapata 6y ago
It's private action, not government action. That's a big difference.
823.
by xapata 6y ago
All statements are true, except for where they're mutually exclusive: For both the Trumpist Insurrection and the BLM protests, some people were intending a peaceful march, some were intending a riot, and some were even intending or hop
824.
by xapata 6y ago
Anecdotes (US History) are useful for building hypotheses, but I like statistical evidence for testing those theories. Unfortunately, our best source of democracy data (Rome, at least 52 Greek city-states, Greek leagues, etc.) may be 2k yea
825.
by xapata 6y ago
That all sounds plausible, but I am skeptical that today is significantly different from other historical periods or nations that had/have similar tribalism. Look back far enough and you'll find rich stories of senators murdering
826.
by xapata 6y ago
That may have more to do with the pace of mining investment than the total amount of gold, which won't change (until the next meteor impact).
827.
by xapata 6y ago
Conda works fine with Pip/PyPI.
828.
by xapata 6y ago
Depends on how much "so much" is and what the work schedule is. I once had to prove to an over-zealous immigration official that in fact no one in Canada could be hired at any rational price to do the job I was arriving to do, gi
829.
by xapata 6y ago
> Second, it should be the default that the status quo is a bad thing; > Third, it should be the default to move fast, and value experimentation over perfection. These two bullets are the same. Rather, the latter is both necessary an
830.
by xapata 6y ago
> tiny fraction of folks appear to have an anaphylactic response It's one thing to know it's a tiny fraction, another to have a friend in the hospital overnight. I'll take my vaccine anyway, but ... yikes.
831.
by xapata 6y ago
Depends which team has the power. Sometimes it's the team auditing the results that's more respected.
832.
by xapata 6y ago
I posted in the Who's Hiring thread non-pseudonymously.
833.
by xapata 6y ago
Yep, just copy-paste a bit of REPL history for a docstring, then use `doctest` to make sure it holds. Pretty soon you'll have ~100% test coverage. Minus the error paths you didn't test in REPL.
834.
by xapata 6y ago
I also measure my candidates' ability to fix bugs by learning the details of a language feature they're not familiar with, by finding examples and documentation. I find that many junior-level candidates scrape by with Stack Overfl
835.
by xapata 6y ago
> I think people are just lazy Yep, that's me. > don't want to learn new stuff No, I like learning some kinds of new things. I read non-fiction regularly. I just don't want to practice algorithms. Yes, this means I p
836.
by xapata 6y ago
Leetcode, Project Euler, etc. may not feel like a programmer's daily tasks, but they may yet be a good proxy for many behaviors that large employers desire. For example, a large employer may want a willingness to do arbitrary, difficul
837.
by xapata 6y ago
> Yes but the amount of amber, gold, silver, etc. on Earth is a known unknown. There are presumably deposits of gold that we don't yet know about. There's a difference between known unknown with high variance and known unknown
838.
by xapata 6y ago
> net loss to society Not so clear, especially before internet search engines existed. As a consumer, I find it useful to know what's available for me to purchase.
839.
by xapata 6y ago
And in Coca-Cola's case (among others) the advertising is much of what creates the value. When you know it's a Coke, it tastes better. I've had a lifetime of absorbing ads that make me think of good things whenever I know
840.
by xapata 6y ago
The analysis is often performed by a different team, thus no conflict of interest.

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