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by mundo 3y ago
You sound like you're arguing with me, but all of the rules you described seem to suggest that what the strikers did in this case was legal. They didn't blow up anything or steal anything, they quit working at an inconvenient time
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by mundo 3y ago
What a terrible analogy. This strike didn't hurt anyone, it cost the employer money, which is exactly what they're supposed to do! A strike that doesn't cost money isn't a strike, and a union that can't strike is
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by mundo 6y ago
The underlying assumption here, that there are some areas that decided to lockdown and others that didn't, and each had different pros and cons, seems wildly inaccurate. The reality is that almost everywhere in the world did a lockdown
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by mundo 6y ago
I can imagine that on a slow, lazy flip with a big coin, but is this realistic with what I think of as a "normal" flip, i.e. a US quarter, flipped rapidly end-over-end with the thumbnail, 2+ feet in the air? It's hard to bel
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by mundo 6y ago
Watching Urbit through the lens of HN comments over the last few years has been utterly fascinating. The hatred it attracts is unmatched - no topic has reached the front page only to be brigade-downvoted off of it again so regularly. And y
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by mundo 6y ago
I agree, and I would add that there is one good subjective way to measure the productivity of individual developers, and that is talking to their teammates.
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by mundo 6y ago
> In 2017, Pai voted with his fellow Republican commissioners to remove rules that prohibited internet providers from blocking or slowing traffic to particular sites and offering higher speed “lanes” at higher prices. Many major internet
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by mundo 6y ago
A number of commenters seem hung up on the actual measurement of information, which I think is a little ancillary to the point (which I think is valid). So I'll add that I think the author's point here is that the press has shift
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by mundo 6y ago
There's a lot of risky investments. Anyone over 18 can bet their life savings on roulette. That has nothing to do with this. "Well other investments are risky too!" does not apply here because "Investing in startups i
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by mundo 6y ago
If it was possible to make millions of dollars by fooling naive people into misusing matches, matches would be regulated.
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by mundo 6y ago
Lotteries, mortgages, and public securities are heavily regulated to make it nearly impossible to get ripped off. You can lose your life savings by buying AAPL, but you can't lose it despite AAPL going up because you didn't rea
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by mundo 6y ago
> Trail of Bits recommends using Curve25519 for key exchange and digital signatures... it is implemented in libsodium, which has easy-to-read documentation and is available for most languages.
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by mundo 6y ago
They did apologize, but not for the stuff Howard complained about. A: You kicked in my front door, walked in unannounced, and stole my TV! B: I apologize unreservedly. I should have announced myself.
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by mundo 6y ago
I'm dismissing it because it doesn't seem to contain any evidence of Joe Biden doing anything bad. It seems like someone hacked his kid's email, went through it for embarrassing stuff, didn't find much, and so released
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by mundo 6y ago
Who said it was fake? I assume that if it was fabricated, it would've been more substantial. But I'm not gullible enough to think Biden's kid's sex tape found its way to the media in October by some sort of wacky accid
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by mundo 6y ago
I read it, but did not see any new reporting. It makes a bold claim in the lede - "a de facto union of media outlets, Silicon Valley giants and the intelligence community to suppress these stories" and offers no specific evidence
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by mundo 6y ago
If we knew that (let's say) the Mexican government was trying to (let's say) keep Taylor Swift from winning a Grammy, and then a video of (let's say) Taylor Swift's cousin kicking a kitten mysteriously materialized the w
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by mundo 6y ago
Oooh! What kind of sex? Which drugs? ...yes, that would be the salacious hearsay I was referring to. If there's evidence that Joe Biden did something corrupt, I'd like to see it, but without the rest of the chaff.
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by mundo 6y ago
It seems impossible to hold a strong opinion on this without reading the article, and in particular, seeing how it is sourced. The elephant in the room (which Greenwald barely acknowledges in this essay) is that many mainstream news organiz
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by mundo 6y ago
> because it appreciates in value vs. fiat currency So did Beanie Babies, until they didn't. But the point of Bitcoin was not supposed to be a vehicle for speculation, it was supposed to be... well, I've been around HN long en
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by mundo 6y ago
A former job of mine forced candidates to fill out a form for one of those abominable HR candidate tracking sites, maybe ICIMS, and I saw the following gem from one applicant: Q: "One of CompanyCo's core values is Openness. How h
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by mundo 6y ago
And specifically, few people want to join services that are mostly populated by people who got kicked off of other services.
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by mundo 6y ago
The "ripple" of the graphene is described as thermal, i.e. brownian motion, so presumably this is not a closed system - i.e. the work dissipates a bit of heat from the graphene, which is replenished from the surrounding environmen
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by mundo 6y ago
https://github.com/MattIPv4/hacktoberfest-data
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by mundo 6y ago
I'm not missing that point, I'm asking whether it's true. The right way to answer that would probably be to find out how many of the new submitters from previous years went on to continue to become valuable contributors.
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by mundo 6y ago
I'm sympathetic, but I'd be interested to know whether there's also an increase in non-spam contributions. We probably need to wait a while to find out, since it's reasonable to expect the spammy t-shirt-seeking PRs to
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by mundo 6y ago
It seems like what you're describing as positive is only a small part of what the article is complaining about. How did you get from e.g. 'If you have "bad friends" on social media you might pay more for your loan'
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by mundo 6y ago
You don't have to choose. There are anti-Semitic books in libraries, yet libraries are not overrun with them. The problem here is not that lbry endorses or embraces bigots, it's that the non-censoring platforms are new/wonk
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by mundo 6y ago
Do you want a video platform that deletes stuff? Or one that doesn't? Choice A leads to the problem this thread is discussing. Choice B leads to the problem you're describing. Personally I would prefer a choice C, a platform th
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by mundo 6y ago
"John can dig a hole ten feet deep in an hour. How long would it take him to dig a hole five feet deep?" The first sentence of that problem is an axiom. It is absolutely 100% true, within the context of that story problem. It co

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