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811.
by xbar 4y ago
You are right. Limiting discussion groups to 20 people. Has anyone here organized a political discussion at work involving more than 20 people?
812.
by xbar 4y ago
You could argue all those things. The pre-existing policy that they are enforcing suggests that they came up with this ban at some point in the past. Perhaps during Trump-era nonsense. Which side were the execs on? I don't actually thi
813.
by xbar 4y ago
Fuck 'em.
814.
by xbar 4y ago
Both versions are useful. One makes me happier than the other. Yes, it's the other one.
815.
by xbar 4y ago
The author very clearly enumerates the trade-offs of choosing the if-statement solution and leaves it to the developer to decide.
816.
by xbar 4y ago
Well said. I wish I could have convinced more people to play TIS100. I will have to try some more.
817.
by xbar 4y ago
Agreed. The transparency of the entire event, end to end, becomes a "ho hum, thanks for telling me, i guess" sort of story. Which is, I suppose, why it's on HN. I mean, "guy loses usb with data, finds usb with data"
818.
by xbar 4y ago
I heard you say "we need to regulate cannabis more effectively." I think that makes sense. I also think we better get used to the consequences of an increasingly psychotic teen population.
819.
by xbar 4y ago
This one comes to the top: https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.1206820109
820.
by xbar 4y ago
Given a two-decade gap between 12% and 50% artist revenues, it seems like a series of label-oriented class actions should begin brewing, to the tune of tens of billions.
821.
by xbar 4y ago
This is an old 4% strength THC I-used-to-be-a-stoner argument that is completely irrelevant to the "real" dangers (multiple) to teenagers, which include: concentrated THC in teenagers causes psychosis; moderate THC in teenagers ma
822.
by xbar 4y ago
...and now you have 2 cakes.
823.
by xbar 4y ago
Can you hear the Google PR team whispering to Legal? "...don't touch it...."
824.
by xbar 4y ago
Same. Also, I liked thinking that a McCoy Pauley construct lived in my printer.
825.
by xbar 4y ago
I am not convinced of the spending priority today, but I am convinced that figuring out clean energy is the most important goal to achieve. I am mostly worried that a fossil-fueled extinction beats science to the storage solution of your dr
826.
by xbar 4y ago
Thanks Chidi for a great review and a blog with a lovely design.
827.
by xbar 4y ago
There are fairly simple economics of implementation that have prevented a complete transition over the past 20 years. It's not even close.
828.
by xbar 4y ago
I agree with your criticisms and support of the parent, but the thesis also included a chunk of "here is why I switched from a purely clean energy perspective to one that tolerates a bunch more nuclear." I have in the past year un
829.
by xbar 4y ago
I was born about 1970 and spent the next 11 years of my life learning to bake with my mom. 1 teaspoon from the 1968 girl, who seemed so very much my peer, was all my chocolate chip cookies needed.
830.
by xbar 4y ago
I got it to 43M with this basic idea and some experimentation with starting planet distances. Getting the dwarf star stable relative to the planets in the habitable zone allows you to drop a few more Earths into the habitable zone and push
831.
by xbar 4y ago
Calories per ton of CO2.
832.
by xbar 4y ago
I hope so. It's such an efficient source of food.
833.
by xbar 4y ago
Religious content bans happen all the time. Consider the ban of Lightyear in 14 countries last week. Also, it has never been easier to form geographically dispersed but aligned cultural groups. I don't know which Internet operators you
834.
by xbar 4y ago
Exactly. The comic is content-agnostic.
835.
by xbar 4y ago
This is a common refrain, and the implementers are baffled by any security or privacy concern about it.
836.
by xbar 4y ago
What would need to change?
837.
by xbar 4y ago
Have the narratives that would permit swinging back completely paralyzed the students who would want to swing back, along with those who are in control? If so, we are probably 2 generations away. Long-gone graduates mourn the loss, but I th
838.
by xbar 4y ago
Perhaps Stanford was culturally co-opted.
839.
by xbar 4y ago
No, it's a trade-off. Just like free speech. Banning free speech would "work" exactly as well for "fixing" exploitation. I think flatly making both of those trades against freedom is a mistake, just the same as doin
840.
by xbar 4y ago
This. I took a too-small percentage of my first startup. It haunted me for a very long time. My next was a 30% stake among 3. Much better.

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