scatterhead

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by scatterhead 3y ago
This is obviously not what people mean when they use the word. You've "resolved" the difficulty by just avoiding it.
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by scatterhead 3y ago
A company is not separable from the regulatory environment and culture in which it's based. A British company opening a diamond mine in Botswana is a very different story from a Namibian company opening the same diamond mine.
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by scatterhead 3y ago
> If it is legal in the US, it should be legal for everyone That's a strawman. No one is arguing against that. How a resource is being used by foreign corporations is an important input to policy decisions. We're at a point in
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by scatterhead 3y ago
It's wild to me that we frame legitimate concerns as xenophobic. The second sentence explains why the nationality matters: > Some farms are foreign-owned and are shipping the crop to Saudi Arabia, where it's illegal to grow bec
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by scatterhead 4y ago
> I didn't notice anything different about addresses I mean.. they don't have any. So maybe you didn't pay attention. Sure, if you're typing in the name of a tourist destination, that's fine. But how do you find
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by scatterhead 4y ago
Indeed. If former employee startups were the major concern, they wouldn't pay so much. It's financial independence from working at faang that enables lots of devs to leave to start or join startups.
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by scatterhead 4y ago
This may be true, but it doesn't explain the problem. If there's a bigger problem with bullshit today than in the past (and the article certainly does zero work to convince us of this), it's not because it takes too much effo
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by scatterhead 4y ago
Maybe tell us how?
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by scatterhead 4y ago
I prefer it more concisely: It's all about incentives.
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by scatterhead 4y ago
> if Obama and Pinker are bullshitters, I'm not sure the label has much meaning They aren't. Nathan J. Robinson (author of this article) is. Here's the full quote from the Obama speech. > I face this challenge with prof
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by scatterhead 4y ago
Systems of Engineering Management. Leaving out the of makes it sound like a much more interesting book, IMO ;)
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by scatterhead 4y ago
> In this scenario, the whole database is a single CRDT. But why? These ideas are elegant but usually not practical. Performance usually ends up forcing us back to ole faithful (mutability).
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by scatterhead 4y ago
The fact that it could not be otherwise doesn't make it incoherent to say that you didn't choose your genes. What's the underlying point you're trying to get across? It doesn't seem like a productive thing to go on
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by scatterhead 4y ago
> The child is more akin to the reward the lottery gives out than the person getting the lottery. You seem to be missing the point that we are stuck with who we are. Our mental and physical faculties are handed down to us. We receive the
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by scatterhead 4y ago
Nothing about the parent's comment assumed a metaphysical identity. It's unambiguously true that no one chose their genes or their childhood environment. That statement doesn't require a metaphysical chooser who might have ma
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by scatterhead 4y ago
It's just a dumb name to represent an idea. "an era of increased skepticism towards the idea of objective truth" is the idea.
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by scatterhead 4y ago
I think it's more correct that people appreciate being liked. If you don't feel liked by this person, you'll gravitate to a different person. Calling it "servility" is really stretching it. > seem 'interes
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by scatterhead 4y ago
It needs to be subtle. So maybe "profuse" is the wrong word. For example, throwing in phrases like "with your experience, you would know that..." or "that thing you said was hilarious" make people feel good, ho
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by scatterhead 4y ago
Servile or mysterious? That doesn't resonate with me at all. Could that be a function of your personality and not a widely applicable thing?
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by scatterhead 4y ago
> there will be some blur for anyone with less than absolutely perfect eyesight. Computer graphics are meant to be perceived through human eyeballs. So we can count on the eyes continuing to blur point lights whether you're looking
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by scatterhead 4y ago
> I can't just read every document the company has on the topic in vain hopes for the answer. If your documentation doesn't have a search feature, that's the first thing you need to fix. If you're just bad at searchin
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by scatterhead 4y ago
This article doesn't support its claim. It references an article that claims Google asked managers to rate a certain percentage of employees as poor performers . But the claim that Google intends to lay off these poor performers see
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by scatterhead 4y ago
First thing I always wanna know with these things is what happens with my data after your servers die? Why? How often does anyone do anything with the data they've exported from some service? Maybe it's just me. But I feel like
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by scatterhead 4y ago
> The code is not transformative because the quoted code is not used for some other purpose like as part of an article discussing whatever the code does, it is used to do exactly it's original job. Hmm.. > The printing press is n
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by scatterhead 4y ago
> What is a Golang person... a Goist? A Goer (hehe, Monty Python). Since I am a goer, I'll use Goist here. Gopher. > Is it the Erlang or the Elixir folks to just say, paraphrased, "let it die"? That sounds like panic .
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by scatterhead 5y ago
So it sounds like Facetime's Firefox support is better in your experience?
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by scatterhead 5y ago
My original submission had many more tasks and interruptions throughout the day. I had to take them out to come in under the character limit. I feel like I'm burning out without even accomplishing anything. Does anyone else feel this w
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Ask HN: Can't multitask, slow reader, forgetful
2 points by scatterhead 5y ago|4 comments