jimmy1

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by jimmy1 7y ago
If you were really trying to engage in a thought experiment with me honestly, I don't think starting with a mischaracterization and inventing a fallacy ("appeal to hypocrisy") to tear it down is a good place to start. That al
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by jimmy1 7y ago
The replacing the existing keys is a good point. I don't feel the pain of the ESC key since I remap caps lock to it, I always thought "Function" keys were relics of a bygone era, (and unergonomic to use), and the little black
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by jimmy1 7y ago
I'm adding onto this -- I have a 2017 edition of the MBP for work, and I have a faulty keyboard. I hated it. "The touchbar is stupid", I proclaimed. I recently bought a 2018 edition for the wife because she has always express
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by jimmy1 7y ago
That's because the US made you as part of the Marshall Plan (assuming where you are from is Germany)
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by jimmy1 7y ago
I am fortunate to have had the experience of growing up with a rabid Greek mother who would get to the bottom of any shenanigans with any sort of insurance agency, bill collector or anything. I now have my own experience. Yes the first time
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by jimmy1 7y ago
I don't mean this to be snarky, but if what you are saying is true (Congress can't do anything), why do you think the governmental disfunction will not carry over to an expanded medicare-for-all program? Medicare is not without is
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by jimmy1 7y ago
I think your phenomena might be due to startups? Obviously this is a startup focused board so I am not saying this to mean go one way or another, but I ditched the startup, job hopping life a little while ago, and had to deal with "ins
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by jimmy1 7y ago
I find HN more rewarding than any other social site I visit. Healthy discussions, engaging topics and interests, no clear political slant in either direction, with multiple groups and opinions represented (you know, real diversity of though
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by jimmy1 7y ago
And the option to choose the algorithmic filtering based on my needs, in the rare cases that the number of individuals or volume of their tweets may be too large to take in chronologically.
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by jimmy1 7y ago
I guess some of us do. But then you have Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping, Kim Jong-un, The Saud family, etc.
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by jimmy1 7y ago
I have heard the NIMBY argument many times before but I just don't buy it. It's too easy of a target. Plus there is so much land. Ok fine, won't build in your backyard, I'll build in the next yard over. We have this exa
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by jimmy1 7y ago
Wow this is jaw dropping. > By one estimate from the California Department of Housing and Community Development, the state needs to build 1.8 million units over the next seven years just to keep pace with population growth You need to bu
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by jimmy1 7y ago
> It puzzles me that people hate taxes so much. People's problems with taxes typically fall into two buckets, sometimes both. 1. On a fundamental economics level, the Government is an inefficient third party spender: it spends other
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by jimmy1 7y ago
Going to the bank costs something, if not the opportunity cost lost. When you are poor, every opportunity or cost matters much more. Most banks require some form of ID or address verification, which again could require travel somewhere. F
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by jimmy1 7y ago
> There are no such equivalent mechanisms in private corporations. To the contrary, you can view the free market as a parallel system of checks and balances where the people have voice and opinion: your wallet. Yes you can actually &quot
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by jimmy1 7y ago
> they will either do nothing, or take an action that furthers their corporate interests. > - and look at how the banks are regulated! And you can view the US Government in a similar fashion, except exchange corporate profits for pow
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by jimmy1 7y ago
Not what I meant to come across as saying. Increased self control can help us all, and it can especially help poor people get out of debt and poverty.
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by jimmy1 7y ago
I learned the hard way the unit of measurement you use for R when calculating distance between two lat,long coordinates is what you get out. So if R is in meters, you aren't calculating the distance in miles. Hehe...should have paid at
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by jimmy1 7y ago
It's an extremely short term solution to make everyone feel happy and warm inside without any long term results. The lack of impulse control won't sudden vanish once the refund arrives, and they will be back in that situation aga
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by jimmy1 7y ago
We give content personalization far too much credit for the modern issue of both social and political polarization, it is much more fundamental. We've had "filter bubbles" since the dawn of civilization -- in fact it's w
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by jimmy1 7y ago
Eventually, those terms of service will cover not-so-outrageous things. If it happens in media and corporate comms, it's only a matter of time before it trickles down into software. As more and more, cueing my inner George Carlin here,
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by jimmy1 7y ago
You conflate regulatory expectation with consumer expectation. Most people don't want to see things they don't like. So they don't tune into channels, (YT or otherwise) that play things they don't like to see. The marke
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by jimmy1 7y ago
> All it can do is move money around. Not to be pedantic, but this is exactly how the economy works. One person's spending is another person's income and vice versa. An alternative definition of an economy is "the way mone
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by jimmy1 7y ago
It seems like a false choice. Can I go start my own oil refinery because I don't like Exxon, Chevron, BP, or Shell?
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by jimmy1 7y ago
I think this meme needs to die. I run 3 massive electron apps on the regular, in addition to my multiple IntelliJ IDE instsances and RDBMS clients on a 16gb Macbook Pro, the latter category being the biggest resource hogs.
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by jimmy1 7y ago
Seems like we need to relearn the concept of liberty, but again in the digital world. Yes, liberty is sometimes difficult, and it allows people to make bad choices . Liberty is hard . We've seen this story play out enough times to kn
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by jimmy1 7y ago
> . But there are quite few people in DC who desperately want it to fail to show that government is no good. And there are quite a few others that want to expand it to cost even more, so they refuse anything beside perfection to achieve
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by jimmy1 7y ago
And because the 99% use case is: "I plug it in and I want it to just work" This type of protection parent is referencing is "endpoint protection" and there are many industry standard solutions. Why should an OS be more l
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by jimmy1 7y ago
Often times, what one thinks another should do may not be immediately obvious or even remotely close to on another's radar. The beautiful (and sometimes ugly) reality in America is anyone can start a business, and pay some employee
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by jimmy1 7y ago
I think you were emphasizing the participation part? And I agree, but curious to where do you draw the line on what constitutes participation? Some argue simply paying taxes. Others say it is a list of things perhaps, called "civic dut

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