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by zzalpha 9y ago
I'm also willing to bet that the people in those areas, even if it isn't true, believed that the extra parking spaces and extra traffic lanes benefitted them more than the bikes. If they didn't, they wouldn't be destroy
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by zzalpha 9y ago
Exactly what I was thinking. We have a gently used, 10 year old Fit and have been casually considering an upgrade in the next few years. Looks like our timing couldn't be better...
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by zzalpha 9y ago
I don't think you know what that fallacy is, or alternatively didn't actually read my comment. That fallacy would apply if I was claiming bad managers aren't managers. I'm not claiming that. I'm saying not all manag
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by zzalpha 9y ago
Only bad managers forego creativity and progress. Don't blame the role for the mediocrity of some people who play it. Strangely, people don't hold the same view of conductors, even if they don't play the instruments. Or dir
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by zzalpha 9y ago
It's neither cherrypicking nor misleading. 'Compare averages' is your idea, I honestly don't understand why that's interesting at all. Much more interesting (and sensible) - here's an app that represents the c
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by zzalpha 9y ago
I don't believe that's correct. Steam is built using a custom GUI framework: https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/VGUI_Documentation Yes, they embed Chromium for rendering web content, but the application
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by zzalpha 9y ago
The scaling issue is more a problem of Windows than it is Qt, per se. And, good news, they're fixing it in the next major version! That seemed to work well, but I think JS/HTML5 would do the same. With the same memory footprint
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by zzalpha 9y ago
Sure, but the least you can do is compare averages. IME, the average Electron app is a memory hogging piece of battery exhausting garbage. Cherrypicking outliers to make the case is, to say the least, misleading.
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by zzalpha 9y ago
Then you're not thinking very hard. I'm too bored of this discussion to look at Xamarin, but for Qt, just looking at the Wikipedia page and cross-referencing with my experience with them, we have: VLC, Stellarium, VirtualBox, Tel
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by zzalpha 9y ago
Convenient you pick VS Code as your bar, given it's probably the one acceptable Electron app anyone can think of. Meanwhile, I can think of a dozen native apps that behave better than Slack or Spotify or Atom, just to name a couple of
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by zzalpha 9y ago
People weren't writing cross-platform desktop apps before Electron. Oh. Wow. Are we really at the point where people are rewriting history that profoundly in order to justify Electron? Let's see... on my computer, right now, I
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by zzalpha 9y ago
I could point out that rapacious pharma companies and corrupt politicians are key facets of the failed medical and mental health system... so in that respect you're just widening the blame rather than redirecting it.
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by zzalpha 9y ago
It's an over-the-top title to be sure, but the article itself is, I think, a pretty interesting survey of some facts I did not know about women's rights in Warsaw Pact countries, written by a scholar who studies the history of the
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by zzalpha 9y ago
You're still not actually addressing the substance of the article itself. First, based on a cursory search, the documentary was inspired by an actual study in the 1980s, so you're basic claim seems to be flawed. I can try to find
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by zzalpha 9y ago
Please explain your statement and engage in meaningful debate. This comment, taken alone, is just empty venom, and if I wanted that I'd be on Facebook. The article is driving at a point the current generation should be able to relate
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by zzalpha 9y ago
Honestly this is hair splitting. Ultimately the point remains: there isn't sufficient market activity to build a real value for Libor so it's basically made up from whole cloth Your nuance, while interesting if you care to dig dee
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by zzalpha 9y ago
And Matt Levine, who said the exact same thing in an article posted in this comment thread? But a second problem is that the banks might not even know. Libor surveys asked banks each day what they would have to pay to borrow money unsecure
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by zzalpha 9y ago
For folks who feel like they knew about this story already: read the article. LIBOR fixing is one thing. But the realization that there is no market that LIBOR measures is truly astonishing! 2021 will be an interesting year...
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by zzalpha 9y ago
> That's basically saying "opt out of modern society," Hahahaha... oh man... at what point did a photo sharing social media website become "modern society"? > These companies that spend b/millions on psyc
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by zzalpha 9y ago
I wonder if it goes down to the level of physics. I posit a fundamental Law of The Conservation of Fruitcakes. Specifically, of a fruitcake is destroyed another one is created, and vice versa. This also means that the universe was created
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by zzalpha 9y ago
Didn't add much to the discussion, unfortunately. The post is just material copied from Hooked (which is a creepy book worth reading!), plus observations that have already been made (social media causes us to compare ourselves to every
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by zzalpha 9y ago
That blog post cites numerous relevant studies throughout. It'd be a waste of my time to replicate them and a waste of yours to read my amateurish attempt to duplicate that effort.
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by zzalpha 9y ago
You forgot the coda: "Takes advantage of controversy to enjoy fifteen minutes of fame. Arguments ensue. Nothing of value comes of it."
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by zzalpha 9y ago
Is this not a partial explanation of the phenomena we are observing? Partial? Sure. But while these tendencies have measurable effects at the population level, at an individual level they're statistically very small, multivariate ef
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by zzalpha 9y ago
Well, if we're going to just appeal to authority, I guess I'll do the same: https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/sexual-personalities/20... The article points out that for most of the biases cited in the
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by zzalpha 9y ago
He acknowledges that in practice the gender differences are real, but small. Then uses the existence of those small differences to justify fundamentally changing their hiring policies. The latter does not follow from the former. Again, as w
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by zzalpha 9y ago
I'm just gonna copy another comment I made elsewhere: The problem is that the gender differences cited cannot, in aggregate, explain the 70/30 bias toward men in the industry. There's a real similarity to the global warming d
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by zzalpha 9y ago
The problem is that the gender differences you're referring to cannot, in aggregate, explain the 70/30 bias toward men in the industry. There's a real similarity to the global warming debate, here. There are many factors tha
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by zzalpha 9y ago
Yeah, fortunately products like keepassx can auto-type into those fields, which works around the problem, but it's still absurd...
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by zzalpha 9y ago
Many of the left seek to win culture wars not on the merits of arguments and ideas but simply by punishing and silencing any who disagree. As though that's a unique aspect of "the political left". Folks in the GOP, for exa

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