adamlett

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by adamlett 1y ago
> There were some premodern societies where land possession was very fluid. Yes, commons, rotating field systems, and similar arrangements show that. > But. There were plenty of others where land ownership worked almost exactly like t
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by adamlett 1y ago
Possibly, but what we think of as land ownership today — land as a commodity that can be freely bought and sold, and as something that gives the owner near-total control over how it’s used — is actually a fairly recent development. In feuda
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by adamlett 1y ago
It's also not falsifiable. Dang can disclaim it but Gruber's next step would just be to write "of course dang would say that." If all Dang did was deny, then yeah, it would be quite reasonable to not trust him. But pre
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by adamlett 2y ago
I sometimes give to panhandlers, but it’s mostly for my own benefit. I don’t believe my actions do anything to solve a problem, but I also don’t want to desensitize myself to the misery of others so much that I can easily ignore them. As fa
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by adamlett 2y ago
That means we hire only the best person for the job, we seek out and demand excellence, and we unapologetically prefer people who are very smart. We treat everyone as an individual. We do not unfairly stereotype, tokenize, or otherwise t
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by adamlett 2y ago
I read somewhere something to the effect of this: Some languages solve deficiencies in the language by adding more features to the language. This approach is so common, it could be considered the norm. These are languages like C++, Swift, R
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by adamlett 3y ago
That's not entirely true. Continental European law tends to be far more detailed than Anglo Saxon law, but still relies on precedents set in previous cases when there are ambiguities in the law, and when it comes to metering out punish
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by adamlett 3y ago
Even worse, this thread is full of armchair lawyers ... Any actual lawyer would tell you Assuming you're not yourself a lawyer, doesn't speculating about what an actual lawyer would say or do make you an armchair lawyer?
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by adamlett 3y ago
A personal anecdote: I was charged with adding a cookie banner to my company’s website after having successfully resisted having one for many years. The reason given to me by the new owners of the business being that the marketing departmen
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by adamlett 3y ago
When working in an environment where there are serious consequences to being late, everyone has an easier time accepting that hard choices have to be made to get a solution out the door before the deadline. The paradigm shifts from “we want
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by adamlett 3y ago
For Apple to be able to take a cut from other app stores, they need to have full control over said stores No, they just need a legally binding agreement.
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by adamlett 3y ago
Thank you for taking the time to write such a long and informative reply. I found it enlightening.
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by adamlett 3y ago
It depends on individual requirements. Most Apple laptops have better battery life than all of my laptops, but current ones have less memory available to run virtual machines unless I pay a huge premium which raise would raise the price 7
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by adamlett 3y ago
Which company makes better laptops than Apple?
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by adamlett 3y ago
I think you can safely assume that unless someone is part of the absolute poker elite, they are unlikely to be earning anything near the median software engineering income. It’s not impossible, but it would require access to some unusually
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by adamlett 3y ago
The article didn't cite IEA making an argument or even presenting any facts; rather, it reported an assertion that carbon capture isn't enough. Maybe we read different articles, because I distinctly remember reading in the artic
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by adamlett 3y ago
Asking you to consider an analogous situation is hardly the same as claiming you said anything you didn’t.
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by adamlett 3y ago
If you can’t spot a flaw in the facts or the arguments, I guess you can always cast doubt on the credibility of organizations presenting the facts and arguments. That way you don’t have to think about something that’s making you uncomfortab
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by adamlett 3y ago
I think you are mixing things up. Apple was experiencing a sales slump but was far from dying in 1985. Jobs got ousted in a power struggle between him an Sculley who was CEO. In 1997, when Jobs returned, Apple was reportedly months away fro
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by adamlett 3y ago
No. Two people with access to the highest level of state secrets have in public acknowledged something which although officially a state secret, has in fact been public knowledge since the Snowden revelations.
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by adamlett 3y ago
This would've been useful if you knew what kind of number it was... JSON isn’t ambiguous when it comes to this. Numbers are arbitrary precision decimal numbers[1]. I’m guessing your issue is with how Javascript interprets JSON numb
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by adamlett 3y ago
Here are a couple of things to consider, to help you determine if you should buy $APPL or not: * Do you think the stock is currently undervalued? If yes, at what price would you consider it to be fairly valued? Overvalued? * Can you afford
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by adamlett 3y ago
People who say "it depends", without also explaining what it depends on, are not worth listening to. Someone who advocates for a silver bullet solution to a problem is more helpful than someone who won't make any recommendati
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by adamlett 3y ago
It doesn’t seem that difficult to me. It’s obviously net worth.
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by adamlett 3y ago
If only other countries existed that had implemented these policies, then we would have some evidence to indicate whether you were right or wrong.
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by adamlett 3y ago
Possibly, but let’s not lose sight of the goal, which is to get people to drive less. There is no solution to this problem that allows everyone to keep driving the same amount as they always have! It may seem unfair that a small number of s
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by adamlett 3y ago
We should encourage less driving for many reasons, which is why municipalities should have fewer, not more parking spaces. If there aren’t enough available parking spaces, that’s a failure of pricing. Increase the price of parking to a leve
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by adamlett 3y ago
1. Corporations are not citizens. 2. From reading this thread, it seems US citizens are scared out of their minds. Scared of making a mistake, when filing their taxes. And it appears that Biden's proposed reform aims to alleviate tha
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by adamlett 4y ago
> Why is the stylesheet single use? The classes can be used anywhere, as they should be. Make components in the CSS and call them by their classname in HTML. You are building generic components here. The problem with reusing CSS comes, w
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by adamlett 4y ago
> This makes Tailwind seem like a lot of machinery (in the sense of bundle size, running code, and pseudo-language) just to avoid opening a file at dev time. It’s not about avoiding opening a file. It’s about avoiding the risk and&#x2F

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