MarxOk

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What is 'pink-slime' journalism and has it infiltrated Australian media?(abc.net.au)
9 points by MarxOk 4mo ago|0 comments
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by MarxOk 4mo ago
It's the pay, it's always the pay. If our salaries were closer to the U.S. this wouldn't be happening.
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by MarxOk 4mo ago
As a Canadian who travels to Europe about once per month I am very excited for this :D
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by MarxOk 6y ago
Sites like this often go down when they reach the HN first page. I've naively deployed stuff on AWS free tier with no scaling or anything that's handled thousands of concurrent requests out of the box. Is the HN kiss of death that
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by MarxOk 6y ago
This is epic, maybe it can help fix @dang's pagination problems :-)
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by MarxOk 6y ago
I have had a lot of success cold emailing them after signup with something that's clearly not automated. Most people are surprisingly responsive.
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by MarxOk 6y ago
Yeah! I think Rust is mature enough now that this isn't necessary from a novelty perspective. And it's not really an obscure language. "In Haskell" for eg is still warranted because it's obscure and uncommon, but I
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by MarxOk 6y ago
Is it just me or is Heroku mostly dead now? Most people I know have given up on "PaaS" and gone back to plain EC2 etc. It's just not that hard to spin up an instance and deploy a rails/django or whatever app, especially
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by MarxOk 6y ago
Big Pharma is a classic example of what happens with private enterprise becomes so powerful that "regulatory capture" occurs. They can charge what they like, and undertake other dirty marketing practices, because nobody can compet
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by MarxOk 6y ago
UBI has always been a no-brainer. It's economically sound, the research is clear. But it's just not popular enough, because people are scared of the socialist undertones. Look at Yang's treatment in the last election.
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by MarxOk 6y ago
How does one possibly elicit causation versus correlation for something like this? There are so many possible variables that could explain the connection (risk-taking behaviour for example).
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by MarxOk 6y ago
If only the stakes were as low as the scroll lock key...
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by MarxOk 6y ago
It's surprising how often "utterly useless" project turn into huge companies. I for one will keep pursuing them :D
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by MarxOk 6y ago
In the majority of human evolution (I'm vegan, and doing just fine :))
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by MarxOk 6y ago
All useful except butchering a hog - a human being does not need to eat hogs to survive and thrive.
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by MarxOk 6y ago
It sounds like you're advocating drugs as a kind of shortcut to resetting the mind and noticing thoughts as passing arisings. Can you talk more about your experience with this?
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Socialist Calculation Debate(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by MarxOk 6y ago|0 comments