qsymmachus

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by qsymmachus 2y ago
The end result is Google is getting it wrong, we just have two layers of machine slop at work
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by qsymmachus 2y ago
Yep, but for ideological reasons they reversed it.
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by qsymmachus 2y ago
USPS purchased the usps.com domain a long time ago specifically so they could control it and prevent phishing. The decision to replace usps.gov with the .com domain came later, with the tenure of Trump appointee Louis DeJoy. Right wingers b
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by qsymmachus 2y ago
I think we're getting ahead of ourselves as an industry if we think the ability to generate a convincing B- history essay from a prompt presages the enslavement of the human race
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Is `ioredis` still actively maintained?(github.com)
2 points by qsymmachus 2y ago|0 comments
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by qsymmachus 4y ago
Oberlin native here. I've been going to Gibson's since I was a kid. You're getting an incomplete picture of this sad drama and the Gibson family does not deserve your sympathy. I'll preface by saying that no one in this
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Crypto Risks Existential Threat as U.S. Crackdown Gathers Steam(bloomberg.com)
11 points by qsymmachus 5y ago|1 comments
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The agile workplace as a means of control(newleftreview.org)
2 points by qsymmachus 5y ago|0 comments
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Exxon lobbyists admit they have no intention of fighting climate change(unearthed.greenpeace.org)
10 points by qsymmachus 5y ago|2 comments
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You’re living inside other people’s dreams; and these are not good dreams(spikeartmagazine.com)
2 points by qsymmachus 5y ago|0 comments
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Indoor Covid-19 safety model(indoor-covid-safety.herokuapp.com)
2 points by qsymmachus 6y ago|0 comments
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Chevron Is Trying to Crush a Prominent Climate Lawyer(earther.gizmodo.com)
152 points by qsymmachus 6y ago|19 comments
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A Small California Town Takes on the Oil Industry(insideclimatenews.org)
1 points by qsymmachus 6y ago|0 comments
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by qsymmachus 6y ago
I see that STEM chauvinism is still alive and well on Hacker News. Believe it or not, there are some skills you can pick up studying the humanities that will set you apart from your CS major peers. Being able to write and communicate clearl
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What Fascism Looks Like(newrepublic.com)
4 points by qsymmachus 6y ago|0 comments
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Where did policing go wrong?(taibbi.substack.com)
3 points by qsymmachus 6y ago|1 comments
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A Go Gotcha: When Closures and Goroutines Collide(blog.cloudflare.com)
3 points by qsymmachus 6y ago|0 comments
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Our concept of “development” is destructive and irrational(currentaffairs.org)
1 points by qsymmachus 6y ago|0 comments
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It’s Time to Build a Better Political Culture(newrepublic.com)
1 points by qsymmachus 6y ago|0 comments
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Frank, the Platform for Worker Voice(medium.com)
1 points by qsymmachus 6y ago|0 comments
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by qsymmachus 6y ago
No one is arguing that Airbnb is solely responsibly for rent increases. It's one of many contributing factors, including limited supply as you point out. Contrary to your intuition on this question, Airbnb almost certainly a contribu
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by qsymmachus 7y ago
> Insane that this is happening without federal coordination Not surprising, because the feds are providing zero leadership right now. Just today, Trump told the governors on a conference call that they should "get their own ventila
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by qsymmachus 7y ago
Why not 4x8 hours
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by qsymmachus 7y ago
That's a good point, but I think it would be a shame if wireless charging completely replaced wired, because it's much less efficient. Something like 20-40% of input energy is wasted when using wireless charging versus a wire. If
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by qsymmachus 7y ago
David Graeber also pointed this out and came up with a rule of thumb: how much a job contributes to society is inversely proportional how much someone is paid to do it.
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by qsymmachus 7y ago
> Always in ear What percentage of Airpods owners do you reckon _always_ have them inside their ears?
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by qsymmachus 7y ago
It doesn't exist because many people don't want it to exist, chiefly due to privacy concerns. In the mid aughts the Consumers Union successfully lobbied against the creation of a 411 directory for cell numbers: https://
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by qsymmachus 7y ago
You could think of this as a simple "he said she said", but what possible benefit does the whistleblower stand to gain from making this story up? Whereas the governor has a very obvious incentive to deny the whole thing happened.
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by qsymmachus 7y ago
They probably care more about bad publicity than fines, especially since they're already under public scrutiny for their treatment of warehouse workers.
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by qsymmachus 7y ago
It's very easy to write JS in a functional style, since as you point out, it already supports first-class functions, which is the most important building block. To really go whole hog, try setting one constraint for yourself: only use

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