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by zzalpha 10y ago
Given that, having no growth is great news. Uh, no. Productivity is a measure of the number of widgets you can make with X people and Y resources (the most common measure being GDP / hours worked). If you can make the same number of
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by zzalpha 10y ago
I hope what you're really saying is that they need to do a better job of marketing to folks not already familiar with Haskell or similar ML-derived functional programming languages. And that's probably true. As for specifically co
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by zzalpha 10y ago
Pretty sure the "crap" he's referring to is white supremacism and not the music itself... but kudos on the self righteous parental advice.
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by zzalpha 10y ago
Any reason you don't pop a daily calcium and vitamin D supplement?
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by zzalpha 10y ago
My comment about mechanics was specifically with regards to information asymmetry. That is, 99% of people do not know enough about cars to determine if they are being fleeced. Now imagine dealing with the human body. Information symmetry le
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by zzalpha 10y ago
It's also not a service people can easily "shop around" for in an emergency, or go without. Heck, the information asymmetry, alone, between the buyer of the service and the person offering it (that is, the information requir
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by zzalpha 10y ago
Hopefully he won't die though, or be tortured with force feeding While I disagree what he did was as minor as you claim, I agree with that, and would agree with that no matter what he did. It begs an interesting question, though: sup
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by zzalpha 10y ago
The reality is all of those issues you mention are largely alleviated for frequent fliers, and I don't think that's a surprise given the revenues they generate. When I fly I get a free upgrade to economy plus (it ain't much b
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by zzalpha 10y ago
"This is a first person account of a confessed, unrepentant criminal starving themselves to death because they don't feel they should be punished for their crimes." Amazing how framing makes a difference, isn't it?
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by zzalpha 10y ago
Ah, so I see we're all for vigilantism now. Good to know! Now where did I put my pitchfork...
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by zzalpha 10y ago
Definitely not my use case. I frequently get instant messages from friends and family when I'm unavailable to reply (at work, at a movie, hanging out with friends and don't want to be impolite, etc). That doesn't mean I don
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by zzalpha 10y ago
There's a more basic problem, here, that'd be better expressed without couching it in the ever popular introvert/extrovert false dichotomy (aside: people really love picking labels for themselves): instant messaging tools don
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by zzalpha 10y ago
Well son of a gun. I assumed it was a full DOS implementation but you're right. Well TIL... 20 years later...
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by zzalpha 10y ago
Don't forget 4DOS. I loved that OS: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/4DOS
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by zzalpha 10y ago
Or don't waste your time and kill comments entirely. Demonstrate the cost/benefit advantage of having to police these garbage piles and maybe I'll buy it. But I don't believe that most people read the Times or CBC or Wa
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by zzalpha 10y ago
But equally there might be a problem with what you're writing if you're attracting trolls. I very much disagree with that. Let's just take the CBC as an example. It's an excellent news organization that writes top not
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by zzalpha 10y ago
a man that claimed to be God is either a liar, a lunatic, or God; to say such a man is a great teacher but not God stretches the limit of rationality. Ridiculous. The latter is certainly not implied by the former. It presupposes that a p
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by zzalpha 10y ago
Clickbait title. A great deal of science is rooted in the works of individuals who held a variety of religious beliefs, and in many of those cases, their works were directly motivated by those beliefs. So the fact that Bayes came up with hi
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by zzalpha 10y ago
If I'm understanding it correctly, what I may be thinking of is partial basic income (as defined by Wikipedia). Maybe.
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by zzalpha 10y ago
As you define it. I define UBI as having a floor on people's income, where the government ensures everyone is above that floor. So it's universally ensuring everyone had a basic income.
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by zzalpha 10y ago
Yeah, I was a bit baffled that was cited as a failure of some kind. This just tells me pre-acquistion they weren't charging what the market would bear for their product, by a factor of 50. Which is probably one of the reasons Oracle bo
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by zzalpha 10y ago
Of this list, delegating is hands down one of the most important, and also the one where technology helps you the least. Delegation does not come naturally. It's certainly not automatic. It's a conscious choice that many might
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by zzalpha 10y ago
My reaction exactly. And 2 days were lost to escalation while 2 were spent in test. Everything else didn't look crazy to me if the change is small but has a high system impact. For an industry that is implicated in downed spacecraft,
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by zzalpha 10y ago
There's also a great documentary that (around here) is on Netflix called The Search for General Tso that's quite fascinating. In addition to exploring the origins of the dish, it delves into the Chinese diaspora in the US and the
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by zzalpha 10y ago
Fake news is propaganda, full stop The Onion might disagree with that. The line between one man's satire and another man's propaganda is a pretty thin one.
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by zzalpha 10y ago
Ultimately it's a very hard problem to solve. Fake news, and its far more dangerous big brother, propaganda, can have an enormous effect on a society. Providing people with tools to identify real information from fake information seem
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by zzalpha 10y ago
Yup. To be blunt, customers often don't know what they need. Often they don't even know what their real problems are. But they know what their pain points are, and a good BA or Product Manager/Owner will know how to dig int
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by zzalpha 10y ago
Let's call it copyright violation, but otherwise, heck ya, its definitely a violation of the law.
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by zzalpha 10y ago
The fact that he views less than 50 hours a week (ie less than ten hours a day... ten!) as somehow worth bragging about says even more.
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by zzalpha 10y ago
So, first it stretches the definition of sci-fi beyond reason (how on earth is The Witch science fiction??), and then to add insult to injury it leaves one of the purest sci-fi movies of the year (The Arrival) off the list (though, I suppos

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