MrPatan

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by MrPatan 2y ago
The Chesterton fence defense (yeah!) doesn't apply. Did you care about Chesterton when the previous set of fence-smashers went around smashing (much older) fences?
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by MrPatan 2y ago
You mean "hotel booking sites offer discounts to non-bay area customers", surely?
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by MrPatan 2y ago
Intuition forms because it works. When it doesn't it's remarkable to the point of writing books and movies about it.
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by MrPatan 2y ago
You're right, no badness there.
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by MrPatan 2y ago
I couldn't make it to the end of the "Badness 0 Knuth's version" paper because of the keming. Is it on purpose? I can't tell, it was too distracting to keep reading. Ironic.
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by MrPatan 2y ago
In UX, the right way to think about your users is not that they are dumb, but that they are very smart but very busy, and don't have time for your app's bullshit. It puts you in the right frame of mind when designing interfaces.
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by MrPatan 2y ago
Waves on what?
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by MrPatan 3y ago
Can't spell "copilot" without "clip"
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by MrPatan 3y ago
Is that 5% growth? Or is that a piece of paper with a number "5" in it? There is a difference.
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by MrPatan 3y ago
> any foreigner who lent Evergrande money thinking this wasn't a huge risk is a moron. Or they are very smart while investing your money. Check your country's pension fund, see who manages it and what they invest in. Or bette
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by MrPatan 3y ago
It's not taboo in the slightest, it's everywhere. It's just that it wouldn't work because any group defecting and having more children would inherit the earth and you'd be back to square one, only now not even in co
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by MrPatan 3y ago
The market, made up of a lot of people, seems to think the richest man in the world is pretty valuable. A subset of people around here don't think that way. Why? I have my own opinion, not very flattering.
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by MrPatan 3y ago
Not a lot of humans do
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by MrPatan 3y ago
The world is easier to understand when you replace "fair" with "good for me and mine in the shortest of terms"
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by MrPatan 3y ago
The non-austere "Free stuff for you! Vote for me!" political strategy has worked pretty well while technology improvements has made stuff faster than politicians can give it away. But it's a precondition. If technology ever
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by MrPatan 3y ago
Do you also worry that rogue employees or literally anybody with the keys to the office of a printer could have been changing the texts of laws as printed in official publications and books for the past few hundred years? If not, why not?
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by MrPatan 3y ago
Is the secret in the running of it? The policies? Or is there a source of funds in the Isle of Man that is not applicable to the rest of the world? Like, if it was applied to the rest of the world the funds would stop going to the Isle of M
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by MrPatan 3y ago
I'd call it a puzzle more than a game. But yeah
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by MrPatan 3y ago
Yeah, you never saw it
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by MrPatan 3y ago
Preach. Angular 2+, btw, can (and should) be used the same way. V=f(S) is the only sane way to live. Just don't change application state from a component lifecycle function and you're golden.
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by MrPatan 3y ago
Does it contain a drill?
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by MrPatan 3y ago
Just solved it, finally, it only took me ten years of seeing it on HN and attempting it.
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by MrPatan 3y ago
I wonder if the "banned books" line is earnestly trying to fool anybody. Is it just for internal self-deception? Shibboleth? Mood affiliation? Maybe it can be said it succeeded in changing the topic from "What's in those
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by MrPatan 3y ago
Sure. You'll find plenty of evidence for Navalny's lawyers as well, funny how that works. You still haven't told me how you're going to tell them apart. I mean, I know: You start with the conclusion and work back fro
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by MrPatan 3y ago
There are no mistakes, just print it now if it aligns with the narrative you want to push, and you'll correct later when nobody cares if you got it wrong.
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by MrPatan 3y ago
Yeah, I do wonder as well, how come Trump can't hire better lawyers? Wait, I'm getting a weird brain wave. Could it be because any lawyer representing Trump will get targetted, disbarred and destroyed? No, that can't be i
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by MrPatan 3y ago
How will you be able to tell which is which? Take it step by step
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by MrPatan 3y ago
The scarcity of your skillset will protect you. Nothing else can.
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by MrPatan 3y ago
The participants ignore the health of the participants quite a bit already in many a sport. Let them do what they want, I say.
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by MrPatan 3y ago
This may be one of the only known instances where the plane-with-bullet-holes meme is applicable: Some people see all those (planes) software projects (coming back from war) being live ridden with (bullet holes) technical debt, and the firs

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