junkscience2017

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by junkscience2017 9y ago
I feel like go-kit is quite antithetical to the Go mindset...it presents a lossy abstraction as a means of future-proofing against eventualities that will almost certainly never be encountered to be honest it strikes me as the sort of libra
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by junkscience2017 9y ago
No, but combine cloud APIs, AI, and market consolidation and you will indeed see a reduction in the demand for code. I write much less code than I did ten years ago. I spend more time integrating others' code now than I do writing my o
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by junkscience2017 9y ago
the movie sucked but at least this satire review was funny
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by junkscience2017 9y ago
exactly. it is a mall, not a town do you really want to live in a mall? outside of santana row is winchester blvd and steven's creek blvd...aka nothing
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by junkscience2017 9y ago
The UC system was created to serve residents of the State. These are publicly funded institutions. They are here to serve the taxpaying public. Private schools exist to serve aspirational foreign students. If residents feel the system does
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by junkscience2017 9y ago
In 1977, education was 27% of the California State budget. In 2008, education was 37% of the California State budget, it is now 42%. And the absolute size of the budget itself is rising. So in fact funding is increasing as a percentage of
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by junkscience2017 9y ago
No, foreign students are keeping UC corrupt. UC has been plagued by scandal after scandal, horrendous waste, graft, patronage...etc etc The UC system needs more oversight, not more funny money. Cal had enough money to build a gorgeous footb
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by junkscience2017 9y ago
Schools like Cal are still offering too many slots to foreign students despite being chartered to serve the families of taxpayers who provide their funding. The same issue will eventually plague Canadian schools...foreign students will simp
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by junkscience2017 9y ago
but in the first .com bubble, companies lived and died only on their stock activity. these days, the winners have enough cash piled up that a recession would actually be welcome; it would allow them to buy companies and employees on the che
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by junkscience2017 9y ago
"If only there were some sort of mechanism for it to skim off of real estate value and use the money for public goods. We could call it... property taxes." what schools? land has to be set aside for schools. no developer makes thi
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by junkscience2017 9y ago
that includes the US, where taxation still is mostly borne by the rich
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by junkscience2017 9y ago
yet we often celebrate the very wealthy buying up strategic properties and setting them aside as nature preserves just recently a chunk of California coast was preserved in such a way by the founders of map company Esri. we also set aside v
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by junkscience2017 9y ago
but NIMBYs still have not had their core claim dismissed: that new residential capacity is not being augmented with better transportation infrastructure or even schools. most NIMBYs gave up on neighborhood parks, they seem just impossible n
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by junkscience2017 9y ago
sounds like you are needlessly wound-up about this. it is merely a thought-experiment detailing some amusing anecdotes regarding the progress of society. your idea that this is some rebuttal to undermine the issue of inequality seems to be
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by junkscience2017 9y ago
somewhere out there, one brave last LifeHacker is combining this with the Power Pose just because
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by junkscience2017 9y ago
Patton's strategy was borrowed from his inspiration...Sherman. The goal was to make war intensely in order to end it quickly and let his soldiers return to their lives. Software development is not war.
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by junkscience2017 9y ago
" 18. Don’t shy away from leading without doing, it is unavoidable, so just do it. Then do some work to stay pertinent. 19. If you are not able to hire and fire people, leave. Or stay for the retirement fund if you can stomach it. &q
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by junkscience2017 9y ago
You have to be careful. I am currently in an org that has embraced this philosophy. Instead of making the survivors feel valued, it has motivated most of them to move into more stable environments. These employees have dependents and don&#x
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by junkscience2017 9y ago
It would seem that assisting at auto accident scenes now constitute 95% of actual calls firefighters make (i.e. discounting false-alarm calls)...which makes me wonder why there isn't an effort to situate fire stations right on major hi
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by junkscience2017 9y ago
Much of this is easily debunked in accessible books and even YouTube videos. The original Bolsheviks had indeed read their Marx. They knew that a revolution needed to happen not in Russia (which everyone knew was a pre-industrial state), bu
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by junkscience2017 9y ago
I'm frankly surprised the situation in SF has not garnered more attention. At Ed Lee's funeral, it was endless adulation. You wouldn't know what the city had become. We've gone well beyond trash-chic...SF has become down
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by junkscience2017 9y ago
most cities are reporting this trend
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by junkscience2017 9y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_Detroit "Detroit has the second highest murder rate in the United States" violent crime is down everywhere in the US, so it is still useful to see the relative ranking
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by junkscience2017 9y ago
The poor have been priced out. Go to big cities that still have a large segment of objectively poor people and you will see the attendant crime.
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by junkscience2017 9y ago
my Nexus 9 has worked well for years and of all of the Nexus products I have purchased (4,5,9,10,5x), it has been the most reliable over time. I don't see anything to replace it with.
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by junkscience2017 9y ago
the Pixelbook will fail because it is too expensive. I love Chromebooks and think they make sense in a lot of cases...but at a $350 price point. I still use my Nexus 9 (typing this on it)...and skipped the Pixel C due to costs and bad revie
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by junkscience2017 9y ago
you may be recalling a Hacker News from another era...at this point it is mostly aging software developers bemoaning change and harumphing most everything. there might be a forum for legitimate hackers who are genuinely stymied by governmen
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by junkscience2017 9y ago
so ELI5 why we shouldn't just get rid of HIPAA? from the way people talk, all HIPAA does is guarantee that things will always be awful(?) how does HIPAA help if it just keeps us in the past?
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by junkscience2017 9y ago
Yet Bombardier itself is subsidized to the point where many have suggested it would be easier to just nationalize it...yet no one is critiquing that arrangement
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by junkscience2017 9y ago
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