lyudmil

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by lyudmil 7y ago
I would urge you to do research to confirm your assertion here. What I described is not a fringe view, it's literally a summary of the Criticism section in the Wikipedia entry for the law in question: https://en.wikipedia.or
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by lyudmil 7y ago
Ah, but that's the issue. As currently constructed, the espionage act cannot be challenged in court. Assange would want to argue that he isn't a spy, but a whistleblower. The argument would be that he willingly broke a law in orde
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by lyudmil 9y ago
It's perfectly okay to use inequality as a personal motivator like you do, but it doesn't follow that inequality is a good thing. What you may find gives you drive might crush others, who would otherwise lead a fulfilling life in
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by lyudmil 9y ago
Would you still view inequality as efficiency if you were the one whose work is deemed less valuable? It's strikes me as a very easy statement to make when you can afford not to live like the people depicted. Efficiency is about prod
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by lyudmil 10y ago
I agree with you completely and I think this cannot be controversial. If we cannot agree that sort(my_list) is better than its inlined function, our profession truly is at square one. The interesting part of this is that although you kind o
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by lyudmil 10y ago
This is a stimulating argument to think about. One possible counter-argument is that the resulting procedural code is more difficult to unit test. In the video Brian acknowledges that he doesn't think much about cyclomatic complexity,
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by lyudmil 11y ago
No, but in societies with more freedom like the US and the UK there generally tends to be more propaganda, because in those societies the government can't use force to coerce the population. They need people to agree with the official
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by lyudmil 12y ago
In general I think there is a case to be made for "slow" programming, but this article falls short for me. I happen to think that software development is a knowable discipline, that we're in the process of figuring out how to
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by lyudmil 12y ago
I don't pretend to know the answer to this, but I can share when I've been tempted to do such things in Java. You know how fairly often when writing OO code you want to have an object that takes a bunch of optional inputs in its c
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by lyudmil 12y ago
I think the OP saw a lack of nuance in the argument and explaining was speculating about where that comes from. I don't think anyone suggested that the European way is better. In fact, your reading of the OP's argument is very &qu
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by lyudmil 13y ago
Why would comparing those two scores make any sense? The US has a good education system if you compare it to the world average. It's no surprise that people in that system would do better than wherever their ancestors are from because
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An Interactive Course on Gauging the Strength of Evidence(bigthink.com)
1 points by lyudmil 13y ago|0 comments
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KitKat: A Closer Look(kitkat.com)
2 points by lyudmil 13y ago|1 comments
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Learn to Identify Rhetorical Fallacies(bigthink.com)
1 points by lyudmil 13y ago|0 comments
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by lyudmil 13y ago
> This is a double standard. To have its “great” hardware support, a given release of OS X has to support a few dozen hardware configurations. Agreed. Linux and Windows, as operating systems, are solving a much different and more diffic
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From Web to Native: A Journey in Interface Design(momentjs.com)
1 points by lyudmil 13y ago|0 comments
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by lyudmil 14y ago
Everyone's natural tendency in situations such as this (ones where valid moral principles are in conflict) is to try to look for the easy solution. We want to determine who's right and who's wrong by determining which should take precedence
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by lyudmil 14y ago
I'm not a person whose opinion on the subject matter should matter to anyone, so I'm not commenting because of a vested interest in this argument. I'm commenting because I think you're misapplying the principles of the scientific method, wh
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by lyudmil 14y ago
I agree the situations aren't identical, but what theory do you think best explains all the observations? Just to be clear, my answer is: Each country's problems are rooted in the collapse of the US housing market and the resulting financia
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by lyudmil 14y ago
I don't think I follow. Isn't the idea that you weigh the cost of doing so with the cost of a prolonged recession? I have a general ignorance of exactly what Keynesian economics actually means, but from what I gather, it's not one thing.
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by lyudmil 14y ago
That is part of it, but I think there's another piece to the puzzle. The private sector in general is in crisis because the banks won't lend. They won't do that because of the problems on their financial sheets - they know they hold toxic a
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by lyudmil 14y ago
That's a hypothesis, but it seems unlikely since there are four other European economies facing identical problems - Spain, Italy, Portugal, and Ireland. Spain in particular was a very reasonably managed economy before the crash, running su
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by lyudmil 14y ago
Completely agree. If Paul Krugman isn't enough to sway people, Joseph Stiglitz, another Nobel laureate, has echoed his analysis. So has Dean Baker, who is the first economist to my knowledge to predict the housing bubble and the resulting c
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by lyudmil 14y ago
There's obviously little point in continuing this further. I originally wanted to point out that you were making some bold assertions. I also admitted ignorance, but I pointed you to Michael Albert's work, who both theorizes about and follo
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by lyudmil 14y ago
Regarding your first point, Chomsky does agree with it, but you said "his analysis." I was pointing out that it isn't his analysis and also wanted to stress that he's referring to a much larger volume of work (a book), rather than making an
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by lyudmil 14y ago
First, it's important to note that this isn't Prof. Chomsky's analysis. You are actually quoting Chomsky quoting David Noble. Going a bit further, the concern you raise regarding the plausibility of worker self-management is absolutely a va
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by lyudmil 14y ago
I was disappointed that the article didn't do a better job of separating opinion from evidence. The introduction seemed to imply that a usability test had taken place, but the results were never used to back up any of the article's criticis
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by lyudmil 14y ago
If you truly believe the market is the best way to sort it out, why not let the government compete? Have a single-payer system and let people opt-in. Also, repeal the laws that currently prohibit the government from negotiating drug prices.
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by lyudmil 14y ago
NOTE: This is meant as a reply to guylhem's response below. It is true that the percentage of GDP the US is spending and will be spending in the future is not sustainable, but you're making an argument for universal healthcare. The reason
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by lyudmil 14y ago
I disagree strongly with pretty much all of your points. You acknowledge that the vast majority of the evidence points towards universal healthcare systems being more economically efficient in your first sentence. You then proceed to make a

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