ethanhunt_

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by ethanhunt_ 10mo ago
I have nothing against you, and was unaware of the historical usage of the phrase rootless cosmopolitan. It's terrible that as you say your family has no country to go back to. I am fighting hard to ensure that doesn't happen to m
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by ethanhunt_ 5y ago
Yes, I am aware that these donations don't fund browser development, and that hucksters laundered the reputation of Firefox to take donations to advance their social causes instead of the browser.
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by ethanhunt_ 5y ago
Anything to avoid working on the browser itself. Very sad to see the decline of Mozilla and Firefox. I wonder if someone could fork it and take all the people from Mozilla who are actually contributing to the technical mission (a small grou
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by ethanhunt_ 7y ago
While partially using annotations only allows you to eliminate /instances/ of bugs, if you completely apply the annotations then it can allow you to eliminate the entire class of bugs (theoretically). Consider nullabiliy in java.
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by ethanhunt_ 9y ago
Why should taxpayers subsidize unsustainable prices for the restaurants/shops/services? If it's just left alone, the market will react to this. If a 1BR apt costs $2500/mo, then the price of a sandwich might go to $25 to
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by ethanhunt_ 9y ago
Over the years, a common argument I've heard against the tactic of calling all kinds of right-leaning people Nazis and Racists was that one day we might really need to identify Real Nazis as Nazis and then nobody will believe it (the b
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by ethanhunt_ 9y ago
I tried to think of a realistic scenario where someone would be inclined to fake the existence of a restaurant: to make real estate look more appealing? If a RE developer built a development with several dozen houses, it could boost the val
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by ethanhunt_ 9y ago
> I also agree that there are differences between the behavior of men and women, on average. Isn't saying that a fire-able offense at Google? I hope YC is really sure that these are anonymous because if she gets doxxed her career is
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by ethanhunt_ 9y ago
The study doesn't control for companies are probably much more likely to have Diversity Programs if they are doing really well. Sounds like a study that finds people who buy Rolexes live longer. It's not the Rolex: it's that
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by ethanhunt_ 9y ago
Being quiet to not irritate the 39.2% of their customers is plausible, but in the case of Musk and Kalanick they didn't stay quiet. They left, and stated publicly the reasons why they left. I'm still inclined to believe that if th
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by ethanhunt_ 9y ago
That's not the right comparison, statistically. You'd want to compare the number of police encounters vs the number of police encounters that result in death, broken down by race. The statistic that you quoted would skew if one ra
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by ethanhunt_ 9y ago
> Obviously, people who leave these groups have decided that the liabilities of endorsing Trump outweigh all potential benefits. Obviously. The point of my OP was that there shouldn't be liabilities to advising the president (liabil
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by ethanhunt_ 9y ago
If the meetings are done for optics and not productivity, why have Musk and Kalanick not mentioned that? Musk said he left on principle, and Kalanick said being on the council was getting in the way of his goal.
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by ethanhunt_ 9y ago
A dichotomy: - executive power should be wielded (WITH | WITHOUT) input from leaders of the economy I'm not arguing that we should elect Trump. It's done. Now that he wields exec power, you think that "WITHOUT" is the be
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by ethanhunt_ 9y ago
The last bullet I could've better stated as "work together as much as possible to do what both parties believe is best for the country". I'm not saying the opposition party should support all the policies of pres, but th
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by ethanhunt_ 9y ago
If that's true, then why didn't Kalanick or Musk say that when they left? None of them said anything about it being for show/endorsement/photos.
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by ethanhunt_ 9y ago
> Saying you're 'fully against policy X' while cooperating with someone who is implementing policy X is a self-contradictory position. No it's not. The president has an enormous jurisdiction, and you can cooperate on
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by ethanhunt_ 9y ago
He sits at the table with Musk etc to work with them.
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by ethanhunt_ 9y ago
It's cutting off your nose to spite your face. No one is better off by sabotaging our economy except those who want to further their political careers by saying "I told you so" at the end of his term. It's politicking of
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by ethanhunt_ 9y ago
These meetings should not have any cost to their reputation and for the most part they don't. No matter what you think of the President, it is unquestionably good for America for our savvy CEOs to be advising him. People trying to puni
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by ethanhunt_ 9y ago
Not sure if LTV for blue apron is in their IPO docs or not, but to put that number into perspective: their cheapest plan is $60 per week, so if they hold onto a customer for 6 months, that $1560. 20% profit margin would mean $312. No idea i
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by ethanhunt_ 9y ago
Self-driving is an engineering problem so I think a good guess is that a strong engineering company will get it to market first: Google. If that happens, wouldn't Google just start their own ride-sharing service, and drop it right into
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by ethanhunt_ 9y ago
Ironically the sister-post to your parent post complains about a vampire being killed in the 19th century, when it's the same mindset that caused that and that wants to crucify Kalanick. The five-minutes-of-hate culture and public lync
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by ethanhunt_ 9y ago
The difference between Tesla and Google is that Tesla actually has to ship these cars to customers right now . Wouldn't LIDAR double the cost of a Tesla right now?
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by ethanhunt_ 9y ago
> They prefer to leave them behind and focus on maximizing the good parts. That's normal, expected, generally healthy, and also not what the parent comment was saying. The "4chan parable" is saying that though.
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by ethanhunt_ 9y ago
You make a good point, but his argument then quickly boils down to anarchist style stuff which isn't worth a debate in my opinion. If you removed all these power structures somehow, they would just be replaced by other (probably identi
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by ethanhunt_ 9y ago
> A Predator drone dropping 100lb bombs on an embassy in London? Obviously that wouldn't happen, but there's more discreet ways of killing someone than that. Obama has an enormous amount of people assassinated without trial, in
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by ethanhunt_ 9y ago
I think the specific psycho phenomenon is that if there were 5 good things and 5 bad things about dating in the 50s, we generally remember the good things and talk about the good things. Now with tindr there's also 5 good and 5 bad and
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by ethanhunt_ 9y ago
> It has nothing to do with other nation's being an effective check on U.S. power. The example proves you wrong. Without another gov't protecting him, Assange would absolutely be in a US jail right now, or dead. I didn't s
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by ethanhunt_ 9y ago
He wasn't saying to go back to 1200s, his point was that, ,=since then, those states fused into countries which was good, therefore we should keep fusing into (presumable) the inevitable one-world government.

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