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by zorga 8y ago
Which is fair; I shouldn't have to ask for consent from the user to have analytics on my site. Having analytics is a necessary part of running a web app successfully.
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by zorga 8y ago
Simple, block the EU, problem solved.
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by zorga 8y ago
You're putting the cart before the horse; until you change the government and thus the bail system, we need bondsman. Making bounties illegal won't stop judges from setting bails people can't afford and is thus not a valid so
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by zorga 8y ago
No one said anything about the federal government; state governments are just as absurd and just as divided.
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by zorga 8y ago
Most other countries don't have our intractable political system; bondsman solve a problem, they let people get out of jail when the government is being absurd.
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by zorga 8y ago
It's essential in a system where changes to how government operates largely aren't possible due to partisan divides; bondsman are a free market solution to absurd government policies on bail. When you can't fix the governmen
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by zorga 8y ago
No we don't, it's a terrible law that unnecessarily burdens business and just makes it even harder to run a business. We don't need any more legal hoops to jump through; it's not the users data, it's our data about
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by zorga 8y ago
> How about we start with not allowing people to legally kidnap individuals? Then you'd have to give up being able to afford bail; without bounty hunters, bondsman would have no recourse when you didn't show up to court and thu
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by zorga 8y ago
He's correct, Taleb is a crank troll, not an expert in the field, and is talking entirely out of his narcissist asshole. There's no solid argument there at all.
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by zorga 8y ago
Taleb doesn't know what he's talking about, he's not remotely an expert in the field; he's just a crank trader that snatched a bit of fame with his concept of the black swan and he's very bitter he isn't more f
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by zorga 8y ago
> Being “smart” implies there’s a set of “un-smart” kids that don’t have the same fitness or goodness, and since it’s innate, they’ll always be that way in an ungifted underclass. Which is true. You're against teaching your childre
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by zorga 8y ago
> A brilliant mathematician like Terence Tao may still very well consider themselves a dullard when faced with, say, the musical intuition of a piano virtuoso, or the effortless foresight of a chess grandmaster, or the rapt attention com
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by zorga 8y ago
> do other HNers also feel that a high comment:code ratio probably indicates quality? Nope, imho code with lots of comments is generally crappy code. It's littered with comments to explain the sloppy code they couldn't make cl
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by zorga 8y ago
I didn't attack anyone, what a preposterous accusation. I was perfectly civil, you're wrong dang.
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by zorga 8y ago
> I've witnessed it repeatedly, and I have never seen it succeed in convincing those witnessing it to adopt the view of the person doing the mocking. Nor has it succeeded in leaving a positive impression on me when I have witnessed
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by zorga 8y ago
Mockery is otherwise known as peer pressure, and it's quite effective to make an argument clear to those on the fence who don't feel strongly either way, particularly when many are mocking. To say mockery is not effective is to cl
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by zorga 8y ago
> when a white person starts arguing about IQ scores, which is an explicitly white supremacist argument No it isn't. IQ scores are a perfectly legitimate thing to debate, and whites don't top that scale, Jews do, followed by As
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by zorga 8y ago
> What does it achieve to try to offend? Mockery is quite useful to onlookers.
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by zorga 8y ago
In a free society, it's always OK to offend; offense is not given, it's taken. The offended person chooses to be offended, they are responsible for their own emotions. > By that logic plenty of people are justified in offending
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by zorga 8y ago
> Yes, but if that calculus were true, tube sites (which display viewing figures) would be dominated by amateur content and they're not. That's not a logical conclusion, so no. The market demonstrates a clear preferences for fr
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by zorga 8y ago
> Any language with named tuples has a type system that is sufficiently expressive to handle joins without any sort of impedance mismatch Incorrect. Named tuples will give you nothing back but a result set; the impedance mismatch refers
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by zorga 8y ago
> Performers like getting paid because they like to eat and not be homeless, and suggesting that most of them don't want to be paid is simply not true. He suggested no such thing, you should try reading more carefully. > Amateur
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by zorga 8y ago
> Have you ever implemented an ORM? I did. Several actually, which is why I know what I'm talking about; I've explored this area extensively. When Fowler first released PEAA I dug and went nuts and spent years coding up and exp
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by zorga 8y ago
> In practice, the way you write the query matters quite a bit. Which is hidden in the query interpreter for said db implementation. Each implementation can break down that abstract query into whatever implementation specific query work
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by zorga 8y ago
> So do you object to mandated nutritional labels and ingredient lists? Absolutely. Do I like them, sure, and I'd happily avoid any product that didn't provide them willingly. > To say if you want to enter food and food stuf
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by zorga 8y ago
If you have to even ask, throw it out.
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by zorga 8y ago
And they're correct to object, the notion that we need apply authoritarian control over labels is absurd and wrong. You don't need to force GMO products to be labelled when non-GMO products are perfectly free to advertise that on
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by zorga 8y ago
That objection doesn't make sense. Queries are nothing more than a tree of predicates, how the backend end uses those predicates is not relevant to the API of specifying the predicates. Things like indexes whether in Mongo or in SQL ar
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by zorga 8y ago
Why? Seriously, JSON is lame, it's an idiotic trend, a fashion from the UI that's infected the back end for no gain whatsoever for anyone not using JavaScript. XML is better and we've just watch JSON slowly reinvent everythin
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by zorga 8y ago
Function abstraction is not only about reuse, it's about separating the high level details from the low level details. Separating the flow of logic, from the details of each step, is always valuable and should be done right from the

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