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by quxpar 4y ago
To be fair, those directors were told it was their fiduciary duty to maximize profits, and the systems surrounding them clamor with nonstop praise. We allow these empires of selfishness to be amassed, we have chosen which wolf to feed ever
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by quxpar 4y ago
Indeed, if self-driving cars killed 1,000 people a year they would immediately be banned, but 30x that in human-caused fatalities and nobody bats an eye. We have created a culture that idolizes the personal freedom of the automobile while i
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by quxpar 4y ago
It isn't difficult math - selfish flow of traffic produces extremely un-optimal results, and congestion is simply a function of how much traffic chooses a certain path. I highly recommend Tim Roughgarten's work if you want an acad
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by quxpar 4y ago
The site in question has regularly been used as a place to coordinate doxxing and serious harassment. AFAIK no measures have been taken by the owners to remedy this, and thus they've forfeited their rights to run a website.
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by quxpar 4y ago
Kingwood is the closest thing, because you can at least go for a nice nature walk or have your kids safely bike to school, but there is zero 'walk to the corner store' infrastructure. It's a shame becausse my mother grew up i
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by quxpar 4y ago
My counterargument: The real work is not increasing complexity, but boiling down complex concepts into ones that can be worked with and exchanged easily. This is why math is so vital, and why tools that 'hide' layers of abstractio
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by quxpar 4y ago
Yes, and the government learns a lesson.
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by quxpar 4y ago
We live in an age of profit pollution. Any farm doing this would be bought out by soy/corn growers, because the latter will be more profitable than the former. The same pollution is why your mailbox is full of wasteful garbage and your
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by quxpar 4y ago
I found my favorite probiotic via offhand HN comment buried deep in a subthread.
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by quxpar 4y ago
Delightful tone, something that feels both whimsical and approachable.
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by quxpar 4y ago
Dogs smell in stereo with detailed temporal information. They know which way a deer passed and how many days ago.
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by quxpar 4y ago
Americans have avoided this problem by making the overwhelming majority of phone calls spam, so any call not from an existing contact is ignored.
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by quxpar 4y ago
I want people to be critical of the method du jour, but these 'production-like code examples' defy most of the modern conventions that a React dev would use. For example the fetch example seems to ignore its own prior destructurin
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by quxpar 5y ago
Why would this case be the exception?
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by quxpar 5y ago
My kanto dms2000 is my favorite thing on my desk.
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by quxpar 5y ago
As a Doctor, giving my patient a placebo sugar pill once a month is primarily for you. Not the Doctor. I won't let my staff ditch them 100% as there's also a component where I use them to charge their insurance. But for the most p
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by quxpar 5y ago
The collusion between massive companies to keep out smaller competitors is the thrust of the matter, not what levers they pulled.
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by quxpar 5y ago
Exactly, every knows a company is run on good feelings from managers.
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by quxpar 5y ago
Signing a lease or building a new office is always a project by some highly paid non-technical person with 'executive' skills. I wonder why?
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by quxpar 5y ago
Under-paid developers with decent skills are so rare and precious, I can get $30k a head poaching them. I'll split the fee two ways if you want to let me in on your secret stockpile ;)
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by quxpar 5y ago
The problem with attention as a form of currency is that people are, almost definitionally, not aware when it is being taken from them.
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by quxpar 5y ago
These are a fascinating way to trace the evolution of games as a marketplace. The modern games storefront (pioneered by valve with steam) is far more Worth My Time than figuring out the latest torrent and cracking hokey-pokey. It feels rew
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by quxpar 5y ago
People are missing the point - NYT paid to have THE wordle of the day - talking to other people about your specific battle with that day's word was 99 percent of the fun. The act of whipping up a quick clone, while a a balm to the ego
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by quxpar 5y ago
Pretty annoying twice a year during pledge drives, but that's a small price to pay ;)
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by quxpar 5y ago
Worked great during the (surviving) workers during the bubonic plague. https://history.wustl.edu/news/how-black-death-made-life-bet...
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by quxpar 5y ago
Maybe the tone doesn't translate but this guy sounds insanely egotistical. I feel truly bad for his family and anyone he works with.
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by quxpar 5y ago
And I thought I was failing up!
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by quxpar 5y ago
They bought out a couple companies who made major leaps, 6D.ai for example.
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by quxpar 6y ago
Obligatory XKCD: https://xkcd.com/1357/
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by quxpar 6y ago
Came here to say this. I have no idea how an insane person with a gun is equivalent to voluntarily trading. Should I accept that gun-toting idiots are an inherent risk in my life, even if I never purchase a gun?

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