funkysquid

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by funkysquid 10y ago
"Helping people directly can be a noble thing. Forcing other people to do it with great inefficiency? Not so much." Just because scaling a process results in inefficiencies doesn't mean there's no need to scale it. If yo
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by funkysquid 10y ago
"donating $1.25 million is a lot more than speech" It's somewhat easy to argue that someone should not face professional repercussions for their support of a candidate. It's harder to argue that they should be able to do
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by funkysquid 10y ago
That's infuriating - is there some way we can contact the app review team to complain about their "final" decision?
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by funkysquid 10y ago
This really sucks - just bought a copy of his MacOS app through his website to try and help compensate. At this point I'm starting to avoid buying software through the Mac App Store unless it's not available anywhere else. Even if
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by funkysquid 10y ago
That's what I thought as well, but watching some other videos on their site, they say the boost happens in "the last second" https://youtu.be/xYYTuZCjZcE?t=2m34s . Any sign of thrust before landing really isn&
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by funkysquid 10y ago
I've gotten that exact error - good to know what was going on :P
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by funkysquid 10y ago
I'm sure this is not the intended use case, but considering the trouble I've had trying to use UPS/Fedex/USPS to print shipping labels for my personal use (many of the websites suck), it'd be great to see a desktop
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by funkysquid 10y ago
True - although I feel like every other job that deals with high stress situations finds other ways to give people that training. Also you can always drop out.
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by funkysquid 10y ago
This is fascinating - I wonder what sort of information they're able (and interested) to communicate to each other - food? locations? types of food? captivity? That could become an awkward conversation...
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by funkysquid 10y ago
Yeah, you're pretty much stuck. Come to think of it, there's no reason you should be. Asking someone to commit to something like military service before trying the (degrading) training is total BS. If they think letting people lea
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by funkysquid 10y ago
I'm not sure gitmo qualifies as humanitarian aid.
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by funkysquid 10y ago
I don't think they should have said anything at all in this case, beyond their condolences. 1. Autopilot didn't cause the accident, but they're sort of making it sound like it did by bringing it up 2. If people are arguing th
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by funkysquid 10y ago
"He couldn't hold down a job and regularly missed appointments." I think this is part of the problem - right now in society, if you can't be on time and hold down a job, you'll go hungry and have no place to live. B
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by funkysquid 10y ago
Are you saying that people commit crimes because they have too much time on their hands?
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by funkysquid 10y ago
I'm not sure how you get from, "this is a difficult problem that won't be solved soon", to, "throwing money at this problem is pointless". It seems like the best way to solve problems is not to give up, but to
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by funkysquid 10y ago
Agreed. I'd also say if people are using them to discriminate on race, they shouldn't allow the hosts to see profile pictures of prospective renters.
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The Boy Who Played with Fusion(popsci.com)
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by funkysquid 10y ago
Interesting idea, but it feels a bit like "how to use the stock market instead of a bank account". The author mentions fluctuations but seems to think bank fees would be more of an issue - but bank fees could be like $100 at most,
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by funkysquid 10y ago
Good question - Elon tweeted this https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/728459808270000128 - sounds like they could end up with a backlog ;)
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by funkysquid 10y ago
"but when we dug into the data we found that the votes for Pinboard look dramatically different from the votes for the other startups." Examining the data, we found that there were oddly more votes cast for Pinboard than the other
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by funkysquid 10y ago
Yeah, I feel like going and redesigning parts of the system that are usually other peoples' area would result in some interpersonal problems at the least. I'm sure the dev ops people will be happy I converted our automation from C
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by funkysquid 10y ago
As one of these problem people myself, it's helpful to know that this is considered bad behavior. I'm not sure it should be though... The thought process is that many times the barrier to adopting a better technology is just the t
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by funkysquid 10y ago
If you're curious what the hoax post was (the answers have since been merged onto a different question) - http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:6y3HTYv...
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by funkysquid 10y ago
> Or if you are outside for a long time in the cold with no jacket, upon feeling very cold, you don’t say that you have "a coldness disorder". A better example for anxiety or depression would be standing inside in a warm room,
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by funkysquid 11y ago
To me it sounds like it's coming from someone who has had to use JIRA in the past. Harsh, but personally I can relate to all of it.
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by funkysquid 11y ago
This is exactly the problem. The police are obviously not always in the wrong, but when people automatically assume that, regardless of what victims say, the police are in the right, that's why nothing changes. Nobody is calling for an
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by funkysquid 11y ago
If anybody is acting rashly here, I think it's probably the police officers who profiled him, threw him in jail, put a bag over his head, and then charged him (after 2 drinks) with "public intoxication", because " we&#x2
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by funkysquid 11y ago
Agreed - it seems like the largest problem they faced was using Scala build tools - so it's funny the blame is placed on Javascript.
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by funkysquid 11y ago
I don't use an ad blocker, but I'm thinking of installing one just for wired, if only to see how they implement this. And because I don't support hiding content from people who don't want to pay with their eyeballs and p
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by funkysquid 11y ago
Chelsea Manning

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