Mickydtron

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by Mickydtron 10y ago
If Minnesota or California can protect the rights of their citizens, then good for them, but it does not protect LGBT individuals in Texas or the Midwest.
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by Mickydtron 10y ago
Yes, but Hacker News is not exactly a random slice of American voters. I would expect to find some, but not many, Trump supporters who are going to find and use a site like this.
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by Mickydtron 10y ago
In order for it to be a legitimate alternative, as opposed to only being of interest to ideologues and academics, shouldn't it actually be competitive with existing technologies in areas like fees, user experience, or speed? If it was
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by Mickydtron 10y ago
A well designed fiat currency system would not rely on the moral code of humans, but rather on having created an incentive structure such that the actors in power are pushed towards doing the correct thing. We have not fully accomplished th
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by Mickydtron 10y ago
Regarding the trustworthiness of social institutions, there are mechanisms for creating more trustworthy systems on top of less trustworthy parts. A simple example is TCP. It is a leaky abstraction at times, yes, but it is more trustworthy
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by Mickydtron 10y ago
He provides links to the repo where the test code is, anyone is free to run it themselves and see if it matches up.
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by Mickydtron 10y ago
The documentation for Effect Managers is basically "If you don't already know how to make one, you shouldn't be making one." I get that it's an "expert feature", but I want to learn and try anyways! I&#x27
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by Mickydtron 10y ago
A related anecdote: One of the major reasons I decided to give elm a try was when Richard Feldman was giving a talk about writing Dream Writer in elm, and he got to a point where the performance was noticeably slowing down. He started tryin
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by Mickydtron 10y ago
I have a hobby project that uses Elm on the front end with Elixir and Phoenix on the back end, and that has been working really well. Elm's event machine like architecture goes well with Phoenix's native support for channels, alth
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by Mickydtron 10y ago
As someone who has started to explore (and enjoy) elm, I have to say that speed is not one of the major selling points for me. Rather, seeing that it has at least competitive speed is just dodging a potential deal breaker. It could smother
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by Mickydtron 10y ago
It would be hard to detect the best time to deliver the message. Naive approaches could get it almost exactly wrong, as one of the times when I really don't want to be interrupted is when I'm just sitting and reading something, an
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by Mickydtron 10y ago
It seems like the "Watch" feature would actually take care of this. If both people are watching the same chat, they would both get real time notifications, and could chat in real time. The app limits how many threads you can be wa
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by Mickydtron 10y ago
I actually am struggling to see the real relevance of the military examples there at the end. It seems to be there to show that stubbornness and/or courage results in winning (to rather grossly simplify). But it should be obvious that
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by Mickydtron 10y ago
The core insight here, while interesting, ended up being much more generic than I was expecting it to be after the initial examples. It seems to boil down to "There exist mechanisms by which a small group can either grow to dominate a
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by Mickydtron 10y ago
He says that he rolled down his window, and the cop approached from the passenger side and demanded he roll down the rear passenger side window.
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by Mickydtron 10y ago
You might be able to approximate the triangle in line by using slash and backslash. 2/3\ = 8. 2/\8 = 3. /3\8 = 2. Not nearly as pretty, but if you're familiar with the triangle in a hand written context, it might get the
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by Mickydtron 11y ago
Being too successful is of course a good problem for github to have, but for the individual maintainers, it's still a source of frustration that can lead to maintainer burnout. If too many people get frustrated and leave, then it can q
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by Mickydtron 11y ago
I agree that that's probably how it started, but it seems that once the cultural expectation has been set, it's hard for a single project maintainer to set a different custom just for their own project. People are going to use the
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by Mickydtron 11y ago
Are there statistics on how often non-violent protesters escalate to violence in the face of failure?
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by Mickydtron 11y ago
I think our watchlists are already past "small, focused, and accurate". edit: Zikes beat me to it, and said it better.
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by Mickydtron 11y ago
I actually had a hard time, early in the article, telling which side he was on. Specifically, "liberties also cherished by free people...the right of a nation’s citizens to be free of punishment by their nation except in accordance wit
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by Mickydtron 11y ago
Some of the examples given seem either unrelated or rather disturbing if they are related. Specifically, the reference to Tim Hunt and Justine Sacco seem to be there to promote a "Free expression and liberty are under attack!" nar
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by Mickydtron 11y ago
Right, exactly. I didn't put enough conditions on my "should". I meant that in a crazy utopia, we would never be put at risk because of others, the real world is very very far from this utopia, and we put high levels of impli
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by Mickydtron 11y ago
While this is statistically true, people don't act as if this were the case. While trusting someone with your physical safety should be a high-trust decision, we treat it cavalierly enough in our day to day lives that most people clear
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by Mickydtron 11y ago
One could argue that mandatory vaccination laws, which are being passed in some states, are a form of force. I think that these laws are good and useful, but they do point out that even Westerners need coercion at times. They also point out
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by Mickydtron 11y ago
It seems like the funding coming from outside investors wouldn't really increase the incentive for lawyers to drag things out. If they're paid by the hour, then they already have that incentive, and resist it or not at their own d
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by Mickydtron 11y ago
This seems like a broken patch to a broken system. To use the main example from the article, Cat would crush Miller if Miller didn't have access to this method of financing their lawsuit, and Miller's lawsuit looks at least plausi
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by Mickydtron 11y ago
I was also overall impressed with the tone of the article. However, there were a few phrases which somewhat worried me. Specifically, "there is a broad recognition on both sides of the Atlantic that we live in dangerous times" and
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by Mickydtron 11y ago
I think it would be very interesting if the civil courts of the US and EU each forced the other entity into passing stronger privacy protections than they have currently. Specifically, I'm thinking of a scenario where the collapse of S
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by Mickydtron 11y ago
"That's terrible, and no one should do that." I find that I really enjoy talks that go through some of the antipatterns before showing the way they are showing off. It both helps build a pattern match of when I should be thin

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