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by colefichter 9y ago
The problem is so much bigger than that. Here in Edmonton, we have regular folks who campaign and crowd-source funding to install lights on bridges, buildings, just about anything for the sake of making things look 'nicer'. Which
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by colefichter 9y ago
Your post hits the nail on the head, but complicates things more than needed. The whole idea of "middle class" is a fiction that supports the behaviours discussed in the article. In the real world, it doesn't actually exist i
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by colefichter 9y ago
> 3. Invented async/await, by far the most ergonomic concurrency primitive yet created. This feels like a bit of hyperbole. The actor model seems much more intuitive than async/await. Indeed, message passing between actors is h
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by colefichter 9y ago
What you describe sounds like a consequence of Erlang's dynamic type system, rather than its concurrency model. Besides, don't most languages have "opt-in" error handling? For example, I work mostly in C# and if you don&
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by colefichter 9y ago
The quantitative easing FUD on HN is getting pretty tiresome. It gets blamed for everything from VC subsidies to house prices and just about everything in between. All three rounds of QE in the USA focused on mortgage-backed securities and
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by colefichter 9y ago
Don't forget another important point here: most lecturers at the post-secondary level are not teachers. That is, most of them have little to no formal training in how to educate others. It still kind of blows my mind that, to my knowle
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by colefichter 9y ago
The reason is that Oprah operates in what's called a "winner take all market". There are thousands of baristas, servers, and (probably) garbage collectors with failed dreams of stardom in Hollywood, etc. But you don't he
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by colefichter 9y ago
"On the internet, nobody knows you're a dog." ;)
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by colefichter 9y ago
Yeah, I have no idea. Just taking a guess at what the poster above was hinting at :)
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by colefichter 9y ago
> China creates their own debt free money as needed. The U.S government must borrow it. You ever notice how economic pundits have been predicting an economic crash in China for the last 30 years that never seems to come? It's becaus
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by colefichter 9y ago
Sounds like a reference to quantitative easing.
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by colefichter 9y ago
> You think the interest rates will rebound? It doesn't matter. If the bank pays you 10% on a savings account it's because inflation is high as well. In my opinion, bungie4 is giving you advice from a rather cynical world view.
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by colefichter 9y ago
> With software... when you write a program, the program is done. Most of your labor goes into R&D... Not by a long shot! The vast majority of the lifetime cost of software is in the maintenance (daily operations, upgrades, new featu
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by colefichter 9y ago
This idea that local residents are more entitled to the street becomes problematic, though. I live in a high-rise condo on a busy arterial road in the city centre. Should my enjoyment of the street override the needs of suburbanites to comm
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by colefichter 9y ago
I think the idea is that capital gets broken up into smaller chunks. When we're talking about creating middle-class manufacturing jobs, you obviously need to build, say, a factory to create those jobs. That factory requires a very larg
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by colefichter 9y ago
> Let's not forget the enormous in-built demand for fiat currencies via taxation. I understand that the whole libertarian-hipster-goldbug thing is in vogue right now, but what does this even mean?
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by colefichter 9y ago
> Work somewhere where software is the main product and not just a cost center. > Doing elegant things is very difficult... These are great! I would also add: be certain that the organization shares your values. If you really care a
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by colefichter 9y ago
You don't think advertisers want to market to children? I hope this was sarcasm and I'm just missing the joke. Have you walked down the cereal aisle in a grocery store?
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by colefichter 9y ago
Doesn't the word "cash" imply that the money is not invested? If they bought factories or something else productive, we'd usually refer to that as "capital".
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by colefichter 9y ago
You make a really good point. HN seems to venerate startups that fail, which isn't very different from defaulting on a loan (and in many cases these startups are defaulting on loans as they shut down). Yet, in any thread where Greece,
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by colefichter 9y ago
What a strange headline. In what way could anything about audio books be construed as a "reading trend"?
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by colefichter 9y ago
> ISPs won't sell information this granularly - not directly. That's not for certain. And anyway, what stops a purchaser of bulk data from reselling individual records as a value-add?
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by colefichter 10y ago
> programming is a profession We like to think that, but it's not really true. Professions tend to include some kind of guild, union, or association to represent the interests of practitioners and require/evaluate formal ongoi
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by colefichter 10y ago
> Could it be that the distance between the top and bottom 20% is less in Canada You're just describing the results of inequality: two things are further apart than two other things. It doesn't tell you anything about the cause
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by colefichter 10y ago
> basic income is actually just a continuation of the same inflationary alchemy This comes up in every BI thread, and I can't wrap my head around it. All the sensible proposals seem geared so that if you have income from a job, most
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by colefichter 10y ago
> to me, success is when you've managed to do something that a lot of people can't do. > I just have a different perception on what it means to be successful. Yep, I think these two things are the crux of the issue. The firs
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by colefichter 10y ago
> So being able to get through life with your basic needs and propagate is the definition of success now? For a lot of people... yeah, that's true. When people say that HN is a bubble, they mean it. I don't know anything about
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by colefichter 10y ago
> Taxes should not be a means to redistribute wealth. Isn't that more or less impossible? The whole point of a tax is that you take money from the broader population and spend it on something (a war, a road, libraries, public transi
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by colefichter 11y ago
Every town used to have their own local time based on the sun being at zenith at local noon. For example, a place like Oxford would be a few minutes behind London. With the advent of railways, it became necessary to standardize things a bit
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by colefichter 11y ago
It does seem strange, doesn't it? I've heard that it's because the BBC is forbidden from showing adverts to UK citizens, and since they have a little "promoted content" box at the bottom of the page they have to blo

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