everdev

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   by everdev 7y ago

   Thanks, I think it was a relevant anecdote.
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   by everdev 7y ago

   That's an interesting example of information being stored in parts of our body besides our brain which is a theory gaining more popularity. I wouldn't be surprised if further study confirmed this. A soul usually implies a religiou
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   by everdev 7y ago

   Any blanket criticism of millions or billions of people is bound to be highly inaccurate and also have some non zero degree of accuracy just due to the sheer numbers of people and how common these traits are in any population. Racism is tak
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   by everdev 7y ago

   Same. It was a hard pill to swallow because I took a lot of pride in being "informed". But, at the end of the day you're along for the ride. I figured it makes the most sense to stay current about news that is relevant to my
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   by everdev 7y ago

   True, but the reference is to Riker's island which is a public prison.
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   by everdev 7y ago

   Hyatt with an ankle bracelet? /s
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   by everdev 7y ago

   I'd imagine the cost of arrests and incarceration are sunk costs though. It's not like we pay the police $2,000 for each arrest, or pay the prison $500/night per inmate. Does anyone know if these numbers were taken by adding
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   by everdev 7y ago

   I had the same experience where as a sole proprietor health insurance for a family of 5 is now $2,000/month. $24k/year not for great healthcare, but for the privilege of paying a "discounted rate" on "select service
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   by everdev 7y ago

   His companies are exciting and I think we're all rooting for him to succeed. I'm glad he's doing it privately though. If the government was spending the same amount of money (yeah, yeah, if the government was really doing it
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    by everdev 7y ago

    Same. 9 times out of 10 I don't want to learn a new tool, just use an intuitive, predictable UI. If I need to "read the instructions" first, your app is probably trying to do too much. Keep it simple and only use onboarding i
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    by everdev 7y ago

    > Between YouTube, Google Docs, and several other Google properties posting IE6 banners, Google had given permission to every other site on the web to add their own. This was one of the happiest days off my web development career when I
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    by everdev 7y ago

    What's better?
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    by everdev 7y ago

    Apex Up is a similar service: https://github.com/apex/up/
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    by everdev 7y ago

    Indiscriminate click fraud means small advertisers get screwed too.
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    by everdev 7y ago

    Wouldn't that be click fraud?
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    by everdev 7y ago

    Try an ad blocker: https://github.com/ghostery/ghostery-extension
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    by everdev 7y ago

    Or just a feature to whitelist numbers, block all others. I've gotten some helpful calls from neighbors though whose number I didn't have saved.
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    by everdev 7y ago

    Or simply: "In the scheme of what I want to do with my life it doesn't matter."
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    by everdev 7y ago

    I always search for "golang" instead of "go", seems to provide good results. Same with crystal, searching for "crystal lang" seems to help. Slight inconvenience, but not a deal breaker.
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    by everdev 7y ago

    Yeah I've never heard of carbon neutral cows. If you're saying that the grassland would be replaced with concrete, then there would be a reduction in carbon sequestration. But still, I don't think it's close. Cows produc
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    by everdev 7y ago

    222.2 lb / year sounds high! I'm not sure if 7M vegetarians would move the needle much, but even ignoring them, that's about 0.6lbs of meat every day for every man, woman and child. Assuming toddlers and the elderly don'
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    by everdev 7y ago

    How would grass fed beef generate a negative carbon footprint?
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    by everdev 7y ago

    Right... Let's not be too hard on the tobacco companies because you'll lose the vote of every blue collar farmer that's wants a stable job cultivating tobacco. It's a pretty routine argument that says if you threaten my
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    by everdev 7y ago

    Yes, it's sad on many levels. Never heard of a billionaire farmer though. Maybe Purdue (chicken)?
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    by everdev 7y ago

    If the dead remain on social networks in perpetuity they'll make up a larger and larger % of the user base and actually have a significant statistical impact on the ratio of accounts vs. active users. It would take some sustained high
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    by everdev 7y ago

    I wonder what the cost basis is of an Impossible Burger vs. a beef patty. The meat industry has built up some economies of scale but it's hard to believe that raising and slaughtering cows is the most cost effective way to feed people
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    by everdev 7y ago

    > she'd lose the vote of pretty much every blue collar worker that aspires to have a stable job somewhere like Boeing It sounds like you're suggesting that we shouldn't hold Boeing too accountable because they wouldn'
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    by everdev 7y ago

    It's almost always revenue, but I'm not sure why. I'd pay more for a business doing $500k in revenue with $250k profit (50% margins) than a business doing $1M in revenue with $100k in profit (10% margins).
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    by everdev 7y ago

    So let's not make a fuss about safety, because of jobs?
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    by everdev 7y ago

    > Flow is a complete platform for writing apps in a functional programming language that can run everywhere. It says that Flow apps run everywhere (Android, iOS and the browser via HTML5). Maybe I missed it, but how does it do this? Does