jchoca

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by jchoca 3y ago
Maybe "most companies" was the wrong choice of wording. How about "most large companies that actually influence the world?" >Most people in business, like most people generally, are ethical human beings. Good to deal
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by jchoca 3y ago
You say that, but it’s how most companies operate unfortunately.
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by jchoca 3y ago
I just started using this service: https://controld.com/ $20 a year and acts as an ad-blocker too. NextDNS is another one. It's nice you don't need to install anything (other than configuring DNS). Using DNS for a
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by jchoca 3y ago
Facebook bought it up because they saw the opportunity for that sweet behavioral surplus and just couldn't pass it up.
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by jchoca 4y ago
I think the problem is not with threads themselves but with Slack's implementation. Threads provide a much-needed way of creating a discussion around a specific topic that doesn't pollute the main channel. In Slack they seem like
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by jchoca 4y ago
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2989112/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23372809/ https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanpub/article/PIIS2468-
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by jchoca 4y ago
If we care about collateral damage done to animals due to plant farming, then we should still stop eating animals due to the efficiency loss in calories when converting plants to animal calories. 70% of soy is grown for animal feed, and so
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by jchoca 5y ago
>Those who choose not to get vaccinated are making a risk calculation; they are making a choice. Yes, but that choice does not only impact them. Being disallowed the luxury of going to restaurants and bars could be seen as a form of paym
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by jchoca 7y ago
I wish more companies thought like this in general. I often think about the nature of the work I'm doing as a developer and wonder if it's making society better off as a whole. The answer is usually a resounding no.
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by jchoca 7y ago
Having guests with opposing views doesn't make it less of an echo chamber when the host is totally biased towards one of the opposing viewpoints.
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by jchoca 8y ago
I wonder what effects the lack of variety might have on someone's gut bacteria.
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by jchoca 8y ago
If you haven't heard of John Carmack I highly recommend this book https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masters_of_Doom
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by jchoca 8y ago
Completely agree. I think it would be okay to pick up a book on React or whatever, but only after I've had some real-world experience with it so I can actually appreciate the concepts.
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by jchoca 10y ago
One of my friends started a company that basically does that. It's called Qualaris ( http://qualaris.com/ ).
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by jchoca 10y ago
A less related question: how do you decide between adding something as a property vs. creating a new subresource?