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by zukzuk 4y ago
SF is a city fully controlled by a wealthy elite who buy themselves a sense of moral superiority and/or clean conscience by dabbling in "progressive causes". If you're insinuating that progressive politics per se somehow
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by zukzuk 4y ago
That's exactly it. The bot espouses facts with the same tone of confidence regardless of whether they're true or entirely fictional. I understand it has no sense of knowledge-of-knowledge, so (apparently) no ability to determine h
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by zukzuk 4y ago
Keep in mind property rights can have the opposite effect too — impinging on the greater good in favour of the property rights of the few. The obvious example being NIMBYism; for example higher density construction that would benefit the ci
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by zukzuk 4y ago
Yes. Very much a hide your kids hide your wife situation.
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by zukzuk 4y ago
More than half of France's nuclear reactors are out of commission right now, so for the foreseeable future that "70%" is more aspirational than anything. We are obviously not going to meet all of our energy needs — especially
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by zukzuk 4y ago
The paranoia pertains to burying metal plates underground, preparing for a post-collapse future. As if bitcoin will be a viable currency when we're all trying to figure out food and shelter.
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by zukzuk 4y ago
I suppose it's easier to justify this to yourself when you know most of the people whose money you're gambling with are also driven by the same greed. The cryptocurrency bubble was very transparently built on delusion and avarice,
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by zukzuk 4y ago
Because they are so utterly pointless. Plastic straws are a symbol of an almost entirely unnecessary use of plastic. And that symbolism — as seems to be the case with just about anything with any semblance of symbolic value nowadays — has b
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by zukzuk 4y ago
So does cow milk. 7g* of added sugar in a cup of Oatly, about 8g of various sugars in a cup of milk. Oatly add the sugar to more closely simulate the flavour of milk, but it tastes about as sweet... and both are way too sweet if you ask me.
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by zukzuk 4y ago
The parts of Paris that were most affected by Haussmann's renovation are arguably still kind of awful. The Champs-Élysées for example is a horrible place to actually spend time in, and is currently undergoing major redevelopment to mak
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by zukzuk 5y ago
Why would it not being Ruby-based be a plus? Go is a big improvement over Ruby in some use cases, like where performance or concurrency is important, but this is not one of those cases.
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by zukzuk 5y ago
Everyone's got their pet theory on what's behind Canada's housing crisis. In reality it's probably a combination of different factors. The NIMBY theory is probably part of it, but definitely not the full story. For one,
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by zukzuk 5y ago
I wrote a masters thesis about the more general problem here ( https://tspace.library.utoronto.ca/bitstream/1807/65616/11/Z... ). The tl;dr is that there's an almost infinite number of ways to atomize
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by zukzuk 5y ago
But that's like half the fun of being orthodox!
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by zukzuk 5y ago
Everyone's context is different, but I've found the exact opposite to be true. Airflow is simple and dumb enough that it can be easily understood and managed by a small team, but it's also flexible and powerful enough that we
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by zukzuk 5y ago
Flights is a great piece of writing though. Definitely not for the Lem crowd, but I guess there are weirdos like myself who like both.
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by zukzuk 5y ago
That first point is exactly what dbt ( https://www.getdbt.com/ ) does. It's an amazing tool, with extremely well thought out developer ergonomics.
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by zukzuk 5y ago
Designers design for usability. The idea that design is about "making things pretty" is on par with the idea that software development is about making computers crunch numbers.
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by zukzuk 5y ago
Up here in Canada, there is absolutely no doubt that we're in a bubble. By every measure we're in trouble... consumer debt levels, income-to-price and price-to-rent ratios... This infographic has been making the rounds and pretty
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by zukzuk 6y ago
By most accounts Gödel lived an anxious, unhappy life. He died, basically, from paranoia. Not to say that von Neumann lived a happy life — he sounds like a bit of an asshole — but I wonder whether Gödel would have traded his achievements fo
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by zukzuk 6y ago
... which is just a special case of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox
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by zukzuk 6y ago
Airflow is great, right up to the point where you try to feed date/time-based arguments to your operators (a crucial bit of functionality not covered in the linked article). The built-in API for that is a random assortment of odd macro
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by zukzuk 7y ago
zerohedge.com is leaking again
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by zukzuk 7y ago
https://ironcast.tv maybe? I want to buy a new TV in the next few weeks and I'm really tempted, but worried about this being a Kickstarter project and the display quality not being up to par.
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by zukzuk 7y ago
In Toronto they got in a spat with the city over street parking and pulled out about a year ago. Really unfortunate as it was a great service, and seemed successful in terms of adoption. There's a new one in its place called Commune Au
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by zukzuk 7y ago
Not exactly a special set of glasses, but probably as close as you're going to get right now: https://www.buycott.com/ That said, the idea that you can enact change by making "good consumer choices" is probab
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by zukzuk 7y ago
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/539747/winners-take... Great book on this very topic!
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by zukzuk 7y ago
Tezos, which is itself written in OCaml (what originally attracted me to the platform), already has a relatively well design language for writing contracts called Michelson ( https://tezos.gitlab.io/master/whitedoc/
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by zukzuk 7y ago
Canada is one of the few (the only?) countries where it is specifically illegal to offer privately a service that is covered by public insurance. For the most part, there is no option to opt in for private care as an alternative.
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by zukzuk 7y ago
Or not! Here in Toronto we've had a req open for a senior Ruby dev since like last October. We're seriously debating switching over to something else for no reason other than lack of available Ruby talent. Relatively view new devs

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