spicebox

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by spicebox 1y ago
The whole reason that hooks were created was that they could composed, as opposed to stuff like renderprops or mixins. When you create a custom hook that uses a useState and a useEffect, that's composition. They have the caveat that th
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by spicebox 2y ago
Matt Levine has talked about how this is how PE firms work too. No Harvard MBA wants to work for a midsize manufacturing firm, but they’d kill to work for a PE firm that going to make them work for their PortCo that’s a midsize manufacturer
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by spicebox 3y ago
Monads don’t compose, effects do. ‘IO a’ works great until until you need to add another effect, for example ‘Maybe’. Then you need to bring in monad transformers and create your own monad combining the two, then rewrite all your code to li
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by spicebox 3y ago
Being able to change the ordering of effects on the fly is a benefit of algebraic-effect systems. As you mentioned `State<S, Result<E, T>>` and `Result<E, State<S, T>>`have very different effects. Algebraic-effects l
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by spicebox 3y ago
Maybe you remember when the Israeli Military killed 223 peaceful protestors and injured over 9,000 more? ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018–2019_Gaza_border_protes... ) or when they presided over the massacre of thou
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by spicebox 3y ago
“They will still be able to bring their own alcohol to drink at the bars … The current alcohol ration allows Antarctic workers to buy up to the equivalent of 18 beers each week, or three bottles of wine, or a 750 milliliter (25 ounce) bottl
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by spicebox 3y ago
It’s not JavaScript, it looks like JavaScript but it works differently
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by spicebox 3y ago
It’s not espionage, it’s an expert network!
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by spicebox 3y ago
In defense of consulting the “sales pitch” on consulting is that the people on top, the partners and managers, have the industry experience to guide the more junior employees who don’t have experience but have good analytical skills. How tr
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by spicebox 3y ago
Like most good satire it’s based on reality
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by spicebox 3y ago
As someone with firsthand experience at a “top” consulting firm this article is pretty accurate, albeit with a definite negative slant. A couple parts that really ring true for me are: > The work will mostly be done by clever but pimply
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by spicebox 3y ago
Neither Accenture nor McKinsey are Big 4. The Big 4 are PwC, EY, KPMG, and Deloitte. Despite what the name suggests they aren’t actually the top consulting firms (the name comes mostly from their accounting work.The three consulting firms,
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by spicebox 3y ago
The issue is that lobbying has two different meanings. The literal meaning is trying to influence politicians but the common usage refers to when companies and special interest groups spend hundreds of millions of dollars on donations and a
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by spicebox 3y ago
> There is no good democratic outcome for $175K a year jobs that cost half a billion dollars to apply for. I would argue that this is a reason to reform our electoral system rather than just resign ourselves to a corrupt system. If it di
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by spicebox 3y ago
> Generally industries are much better than random politicians at predicting the consequences of rules This is true but when people are talking about restricting lobbying the kind of lobbying they want to restrict isn’t companies saying
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by spicebox 3y ago
Yes you can, even if you don’t want to restrict lobbying on free speech ground you can place donation caps and increase transparency requirements which would both limit the power of corporate lobbying
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by spicebox 3y ago
Why? What is the benefit to the public good of allowing corporations to use their massive resources to shape legislation to benefit them at the expense of the general public?
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by spicebox 3y ago
> You don't really care about Pokemon, but you know you can sell Pokemon on eBay[2], so you automate it with a device like this. People who are selling Pokémon on eBay are probably just hacking them in rather than going through the
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by spicebox 3y ago
There’s also plenty of evidence that improving educational outcomes for low performing students has an outsized impact. “Decreasing the number of high school dropouts by half would nationally produce $45 billion per year in net economic ben
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by spicebox 3y ago
Touché - “Science has widely come to be understood as a systematic assault on common sense. Common sense said the world was flat; science showed this to be false. Common sense said the sun and the moon were the same size; science showed thi
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by spicebox 3y ago
The idea that we have to choose between helping struggler or gifted students is a false dilemma. Instead we should be asking why we aren’t allocating enough resources to education.
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by spicebox 3y ago
Common sense is frequently wrong and is usually invoked by people who want their beliefs to be taken as fact without needing to provide support
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by spicebox 3y ago
“Chief People Officer Daisy Auger-Dominguez, who wrote a book on the workplace "inclusion revolution" but refused to give workers Indigenous Peoples Day off after Juneteenth made it onto the official company calendar for the first
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by spicebox 3y ago
I think generally the people who are against racism and facism aren’t the ones pushing for more child labor
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by spicebox 3y ago
> It’s weird to aim this at Meta. It also doesn’t say that they’re not receiving these benefits - just that Meta doesn’t pay for them, which is how I’d expect a vendor to work. I think the point here is that these moderators are basicall
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by spicebox 3y ago
The article says that they alleged they were fired after trying to organize with fellow employees
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by spicebox 3y ago
The first paragraph of the article talk about “workers forced to watch videos of murder, rape, and ethnic cleansing”. Idk about you but that doesn’t sound easy to me. I think you’ve thinking of power tripping reddit mods where as this is mo
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by spicebox 3y ago
Spreading an array requires looping over all the array elements which is O(n) compared to something like Array.push() which is just 0(1), although spreading has other benefits like copying rather than mutating
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by spicebox 3y ago
Usually things that don’t create economic value at least create some other kind of social value, which HFT doesn’t really seem to do
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by spicebox 3y ago
"It is an affront to justice and the rule of law to see that such methods continue to be used in the 21st century and that Palestinians collectively continue to be punished for the actions of a few," said Michael Lynk, the Special

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