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by zwkrt 7y ago
If people are confused by a ternary statement I don't want them editing code I have to maintain.
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by zwkrt 7y ago
The classic way that this has always happened in the past is by solving a specific problem in a hacky-but-cheap way as compared to existing tech. The issue I see here is I can already run Unix on a smartwatch or a car radio, so it seems dif
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by zwkrt 7y ago
'Contribute to society and to human well being'. So your personal ethics are only not present if you wear giant blinders around this statement. So many software devs hold positions that they could probably not defend ethically in
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by zwkrt 7y ago
I actually had the exact same thought on different lines. A software code of ethics will be toothless without a financial code of ethics. But a financial CoE is antithetical to finance's goals. Edit: to be clear that doesn't mean
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by zwkrt 7y ago
Anthony Bourdain has a lovely quote on this topic: "I understand there's a guy inside me who wants to lay in bed, smoke weed all day, and watch cartoons and old movies. My whole life is a series of stratagems to avoid, and outwit,
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by zwkrt 7y ago
1. We are agreeing, not sure why the argumentative tone. 2. If you have 10 employees, late shift only twice a week, only 3 of them are trained to open the store, and employees constantly swapping hours, it can be hard to provide consistent
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by zwkrt 7y ago
Sorry if I was unclear. My point is that gig workers in the US and other people of transient employment status do not generally consider themselves to have access to healthcare, even though they technically do through the accumulation of un
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by zwkrt 7y ago
If the current way we structure our economy and society is failing large swaths of people, gigs might be a good stop gap, but how many people can be gigified before the whole thing breaks? What is the acceptable percent of people for whom i
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by zwkrt 7y ago
It isn't doing it quietly, it's running around yelling in the streets banging pots and pans. Outside the bay area I have never had an Uber driver that did not drive as their full-time job. (Actually my most strange memory of San J
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by zwkrt 7y ago
I think the op was asking if other cities had characteristic prose.
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by zwkrt 8y ago
What a horrible, misanthropic viewpoint!
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by zwkrt 8y ago
This is a problem with ML approaches, right? Instead of water boiling at "100C" it boils at "99.98C +- 0.04C". Normally this is ok, but sometimes it isn't!
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by zwkrt 8y ago
My point was that designers don't get to decide what products get launched, the market does. If there was an alternate design that created excitement and was relatively affordable, it would very quickly become popular. Products are cre
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by zwkrt 8y ago
"People don't design ships, the ocean designs ships". The black slab is popular not because people are making it, but because people are buying it. This doesn't mean that it is optimal, but companies have to respond to m
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by zwkrt 8y ago
These two statements don't seem to have many analogies, why is this relevant?
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by zwkrt 8y ago
Inflammation can also be heavily reduced for "free" with a lifestyle change though, so I'm not exactly buying it.
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by zwkrt 8y ago
"Insured" can be interpreted very broadly; moral hazard is whenever the negative outcomes of a risky decision are directed away from oneself. A CEO considering the option of a layoff is a moral hazard as she will make her board ha
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by zwkrt 8y ago
It's almost like human health and wellness shouldn't rely on the economy!
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by zwkrt 8y ago
I understand the concern, but if you think about it a lot of the old brick apartment buildings that came before also looked very similar. There are tons of older brick apartment buildings with stairs up to a covered entrance, the only real
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by zwkrt 8y ago
My theory is that they have metrics for selection they are trying to optimize. If customers only bought the 10 best of any item, how could some PM get a promotion for increasing phone charger selection 100x?
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by zwkrt 8y ago
Correct, they also hire thousands of engineers to make the little cars move on the map.
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by zwkrt 8y ago
Google of all companies should have cross-browser compatibility on all sites. They have the engineering know-how and employee base to automate testing even, I suspect. When Firefox is broken on a Google website it is hard not to feel some m
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by zwkrt 8y ago
The word "objective" is problematic here. Normally people mean by this term "explainable by some quantitative criteria". In the case of AI this is technically true, but seems to lack substance. the workings of a neural n
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by zwkrt 8y ago
This is such an interesting topic and I really don't know where to stand on it. On one hand, this is an argument that systems such as laws, lending practices, etc. should be based on repeatable and explainable rules. Rules will end up
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by zwkrt 8y ago
This is the podcast, Hi Phi nation: https://m.soundcloud.com/hiphination/episode-9-the-ashes-of-...
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by zwkrt 8y ago
I listened to a podcast with Errol Morris on the same subject, and got a similar impression that there was no need to be so harsh. IIRC Errol's main academic argument against Kuhn was that he simultaneously touted his idea of "par
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by zwkrt 8y ago
No, they were getting wellfare from their government!
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by zwkrt 8y ago
It wasn't progress, it was change.
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by zwkrt 8y ago
> how well does what we're doing support people who are in a position to make musical contributions that people value? This is the best possible time to support an artist you enjoy. You can buy physical and digital copies of any art
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by zwkrt 8y ago
If you are getting suggested these things it's because people with similar viewing habits as you watched them. I get suggested riposte videos to such content without ever seeing the original "bad" video. I'm assuming thi

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