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by mvhvv 4y ago
Why do you think that folks discussing this situation find it upsetting, stressful and/or maddening? The idea that blocking the billionaire owner would prevent me from noticing Twitter is struggling is a little silly.
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by mvhvv 4y ago
I see this mentioned a lot, but I don't think it's entirely true. The book was apparently well liked in the USSR due to the obvious anti-capitalist reading. The film was imported by the government intending to screen it as a propa
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by mvhvv 4y ago
I think the distinction between tracking a private jet and tracking a private car is fairly clear cut. The point isn't to actually show where Musk is at any one point (who cares?), but I think the intent of the account is to show the i
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by mvhvv 4y ago
What do you think the value is in a stock that doesn't pay dividends? It seems to me that if you remove them, you're getting into pyramid-scheme territory.
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by mvhvv 4y ago
I personally prefer to watch most things with subtitles. I'm usually extremely conscious of how much noise I'm making in the house, and I rarely ever want to watch something at cinema volumes. Good quality subtitles rarely ever fe
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by mvhvv 4y ago
I'm unsure exactly what the above poster is trying to say, I generally find Rust development very pleasant with nothing but vscode and Rust-analyzer. But... I'll admit there is one major stumbling block so far. Debugging iterator
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by mvhvv 4y ago
It's definitely unclear what "inaccurate" means in this sense? Is an entire track inaccurate if a single sample is inaccurate? In that case then yeah, rather than measuring some level of audio purity, this is measuring your l
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by mvhvv 4y ago
One thing I think is missed from these kinds of back of the napkin calculations is all the bizarre thermodynamic side-effects you'd encounter if you were somehow able to drill an actual hole through the core without it collapsing. I im
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by mvhvv 4y ago
I'm not sure if things are different outside Australia, but it's probably been 15-20 years since I've lived in a house with a hot-water storage tank. As far as I know most places seem to have instant/continuous systems t
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by mvhvv 4y ago
I'm no power-plant engineer, but vaguely remembering back to thermodynamics 101, in a perfect heat-engine efficiency is relative to the temperature delta. You can't just turn heat to electricity, so below a certain threshold it&#x
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by mvhvv 4y ago
You made me stop and question myself for a second, but this definitely isn't right. Usually when people talk about "TCP/IP" it's shorthand for the whole "Internet Protocol Suite", but even naively TCP and
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by mvhvv 4y ago
I think this is really just a factor of what you're used to, because none of those Python examples seem like an issue to me, and the Perl examples seem much harder to parse. I personally prefer print as a function rather than a stateme
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by mvhvv 4y ago
Where do you think Python has failed as a scripting language? I'm not very familiar with Perl, but overall I can't think of any obvious advantages aside from some of the syntactic sugar around invoking shell commands and string ma
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by mvhvv 4y ago
I sympathise with your desire to replace shell scripts, but I don't see why that replacement should be Perl of all things. Like you said, Python has displaced Perl due to ecosystem support, so why chase history here?
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by mvhvv 4y ago
It's interesting seeing this conception of post-modernism 20 years down the track. I think the article almost gets at the point, but overshoots and ends up in navel-gazing territory with: "Look at the big picture. Don't focus
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by mvhvv 5y ago
Yes, like I said, I read the article, and I read the linked notes. The article was not really about people criticising his book without reading it, the article was about not engaging in qualitative criticism of his spreadsheets. Caplan in
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by mvhvv 5y ago
I agree it's a positive move to bring formal logic and statistics into other fields, but (at least where I'm from) the social sciences do engage heavily with epistemology. And as a STEM major myself, I'll admit it's ofte
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by mvhvv 5y ago
I read the article, and I even read through the presentation linked in the article. I didn't read the book, but I'm also not giving a qualitative review of the book. I'm talking about why people don't think it's wor
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by mvhvv 5y ago
The thing is, Caplan is a distinguished economist sure, but he is an interloper when it comes to education. As you said, it's also worth noting that the community of "distinguished economists" is itself a fairly insular and
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by mvhvv 5y ago
Assumptions and reductions are always required, there is no researcher in the world that reads every book or paper released in their field, and for those that do read voraciously, only a tiny fragment of that is remembered or understood on
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by mvhvv 5y ago
I agree that capital allocation and management are real and valuable skills, but it doesn't require any significant amount of talent to move industry offshore. It's simply shopping around for the cheapest price that meets requirem
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by mvhvv 5y ago
If you're going to maintain ancient legacy systems and refuse to modernise, then really your inability to attract talent is your company's own fault. I love computing history, but a career in computing is a learning pathway too. I
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by mvhvv 5y ago
It's entirely possible for Caplan to be correct about his material analysis, and that still not be the right conclusion. If the government doesn't subsidise education, then anything that doesn't promise a return is financia
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by mvhvv 5y ago
With a grain of salt, as someone who has not read the spreadsheets (and has no interest in doing so). The author just seems to misunderstand the relativity of ideology. In particular they bemoan their critics as "..go[ing] with their i
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by mvhvv 5y ago
I also prefer a real scroll bar because it's easier to accurately scan through huge files, but I'm honestly confused at the idea of not having a scroll wheel in 2022. Excluding touch/gesture mice like the Magic Mouse, I don&#
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by mvhvv 5y ago
Is it reasonable to assume AV will be lower-cost than rideshare? The key thing that makes Uber more affordable than a taxi is that vehicle purchase/maintenance/depreciation/liability are all externalised. In a full-self-drivi
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by mvhvv 5y ago
Just because you don't want to think about externalities doesn't mean they don't exist. There are a lot of strong ideological assumptions you have to make to handwave all these away as "bullshit".