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by zwkrt 7y ago
Counter point: - my phone is always on me - I spend less than 20% of my time in front of a computer (and I work in tech!) - Everyone I know has a cell phone - I can start a group chat with anyone I know - iMessage is very pleasant and e
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by zwkrt 7y ago
I think a lot about how culture is sometimes forcefully changed from without. For example the western values that we hold dear were not really appreciated by indigenous people of all the places colonized by Europe. Most colonized people did
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by zwkrt 7y ago
Disney parks do this with their fast-pass technique: show up early to a ride, get a ticket for a later time and vastly reduced wait time. This allows patrons to have more manageable waiting times, but also allows the park to make more money
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by zwkrt 7y ago
The DDB query language is one of the largest warts on the face of AWS. “Select From Where” is a solved problem!
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by zwkrt 7y ago
Reporting can be emotional and true. Journalism and activism can’t be separated.
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by zwkrt 7y ago
This is not an argument in good faith. Alabama has no precedence of self governance, and that precedence is not being actively threatened by the US government. The thought that HK protesters (or Alabamians) just want to “marry their cousins
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by zwkrt 7y ago
A post I made a while back that seems relevant: > The proteins in a cell form complex organelles, each with a specific role to play in the functioning of the cell. The cells in your body each specialize to constitute a complex, conscious
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by zwkrt 7y ago
When the content and the advertisement have fully meshed, only then does one reach true nirvana. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9hepxidZyo
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by zwkrt 7y ago
I feel like this is some sort of maxim/law: Its inevitable that any product which currently does not include ads will eventually include ads.
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by zwkrt 7y ago
ideally there Is a trade off between staying private to have more control and hopefully make better decisions that aren’t quarterly-focused, vs having more capital. In practice it seems like a game of “how long can we get away with cutting
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by zwkrt 7y ago
> Amazingly, it turns out that in a vacuum, the activity of programming a computer isn't actually gendered. Also mirrored by the fact that other cultures do not experience this issue so acutely.
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by zwkrt 7y ago
On one hand it is dismissive to say that any innovation occurred due to the laws of physics and the starting condition of the universe at the Big Bang. On the other hand it makes your insight that most innovations were chance happenings les
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by zwkrt 7y ago
I guarantee that more people know awk syntax than pawk!
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by zwkrt 7y ago
Well you can even fall back to saying that all sensations are abstractions. After all when you feel wet there is no part of your brain that “gets wet”. But the constant mirroring of the external world by your mental abstractions is not some
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by zwkrt 7y ago
Both of your points are true of healthcare. No, not everyone will break a leg or need major surgery, but everyone gets old and dies. Flu shots come out at the same time as pumpkin spice lattes. From an aggregate standpoint I would wager hea
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by zwkrt 7y ago
Sidebar: does anyone else get the feeling that infrastructure as code is just cloud vendor lock-in by another name? Especially since the output of the code ends up being wild unstructured JSON/YAML files with no spec or discernible sch
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by zwkrt 7y ago
But all these sentiments are wrapped up in the way things are now. Why is welfare only meant for people who have fallen on hard times? I would think that working at McDonalds is a kind of vindictive welfare for people who have fallen on har
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by zwkrt 7y ago
Welfaring should be socially acceptable. Why should people have no choice other than to work?
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by zwkrt 7y ago
Non-physicist perspective, if I’m out of line, please say so. It seems silly to expect that the wavefunctuon is “real” just like it is silly to assume that the gravitational field is “real” or inches are “real”. They are mathematical constr
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by zwkrt 7y ago
Yes, but there was always a human at MTV deciding which videos to play!
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by zwkrt 7y ago
Yeah I didn’t think that it is worse or better, only different!
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by zwkrt 7y ago
It’s crazy how much sway Spotify and other streaming apps have over the future of what music is popular. Radio pop hits aside, I know lots of people who’s music preference is something along the lines of “a few bands I like and their associ
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by zwkrt 7y ago
It still seems like a net positive. Environments change an order of magnitude more quickly than ecosystems, and many orders of magnitude more quickly than evolution. But if you build it they will eventually come. Life abhors a vacuum...
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by zwkrt 7y ago
A self-hosted compiler is definitely not a case of the liars paradox, so I don’t think this applies. In fact, it doesn’t matter what the parser is written in, at some point you do have to trust that it actually follows the spec, probably th
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by zwkrt 7y ago
More info: https://puzzling.stackexchange.com/questions/12/are-there-pu...
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by zwkrt 7y ago
I don't know if I would consider this easy for a beginner, but it does lead to an interesting result in the 'contrapositive' case: Any recursive solution can be turned into an iterative solution if you store the arguments of
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by zwkrt 7y ago
There are sudoku puzzles which have a unique solution but which also force a “guess” in the solving process, so your approach doesn’t work in the general case.
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by zwkrt 7y ago
Just for the record, google is not in compliance. The law is not a switch statement where you just need to find that magic missing “break” and then the system is pwned. Justice is not a mathematical equation.
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by zwkrt 7y ago
When you have thoughts, including your inner monologue and what you say aloud to other people, they are entirely made up of words and phrases and ideas. If you had never been inculcated by a culture of people, you would have no complex thou
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by zwkrt 7y ago
I like this methodology, it’s like you’re dating a book before deciding to commit!

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