umanwizard

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by umanwizard 5y ago
> you can transfer them verifiably on the secondary market while giving a royalty to the issuer, use them to access a concert, and keep them as a souvenir like a traditional ticket stub. Which of these can you not do on TicketMaster toda
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by umanwizard 5y ago
“Order of magnitude” is a colloquial, imprecise term that doesn’t actually mean “exactly ten” (otherwise, people would just say “ten”).
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by umanwizard 5y ago
Nor does it constitute an argument for learning Chinese, assuming both parties already know English.
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by umanwizard 5y ago
Nobody is talking about 1% of Instagram users dying, and furthermore, nobody ever said it’s not a big problem.
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by umanwizard 5y ago
You are correct, but none of what you said contradicts what I said. I just said that the original comment was not a logically sound argument; I didn’t make any counter-argument of my own, nor did I even say that his conclusion was necessari
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by umanwizard 5y ago
Alcohol makes some depressed people more depressed, and they kill themselves. Is it disgusting that liquor companies know this yet keep manufacturing the product?
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by umanwizard 5y ago
> your app is going to be responsible for a significant number of suicides. No matter how FB spins this, it’s just disgusting. It being “disgusting” may well be true, but doesn’t follow logically, and therefore needs more argumentation t
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by umanwizard 5y ago
No, Latin was the main international lingua franca among educated people in Europe for about a millennium after it stopped being spoken natively. As such, scientific and otherwise intellectual works of all kinds were primarily written in La
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by umanwizard 5y ago
The concept is much older than Rust and Haskell. It was present in ML which is from the 70s and has strongly influenced most modern languages (and yes, Rust and Haskell particularly strongly).
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by umanwizard 5y ago
> my dream would be for Python to actually enforce type annotations at runtime when they exist Does any mainstream language do this? For sure most don't, even statically-typed ones. I'm all for enforcement of types, but why doe
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by umanwizard 5y ago
Why does it go against the Go ethos? (Asking out of curiosity. I’ve never used the language.)
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by umanwizard 5y ago
It's not possible at most companies in the US either, although of course, your manager would have a lot of influence on the decision.
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by umanwizard 5y ago
Your metric seems silly given that there are several groups of people actively trying to kill each other for religious, ideological, or ethnic reasons in various parts of the world. People in the US may well hate each other more than people
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by umanwizard 5y ago
Or barley.
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by umanwizard 5y ago
The pandemic is still going on in plenty of countries other than the US. Trying to blame a global phenomenon on the politics of one country with less than 5% of the world’s population is extremely parochial.
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by umanwizard 5y ago
There’s a spectrum. Some stuff is explicitly intended for outside consumption and a lot of effort goes into documentation, marketing, polish, etc. (e.g. PyTorch). Some other stuff like you said is just thrown over the wall.
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by umanwizard 5y ago
The comment you’re responding to didn’t mention Facebook’s hiring practices at all. > The folks are every bit as good as the hiring practices would indicate. These people meet a problem, and in the average case haven’t read the relevant
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by umanwizard 5y ago
Yep, this 100%. I worked on Facebook iOS app perf/reliability/efficiency for a couple of years. The company is structurally and politically incapable of making a lean app (thousands of engineers have their performance reviews tied
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by umanwizard 5y ago
Plenty of countries in Western Europe too have mandatory employee contributions to various social programs.
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by umanwizard 5y ago
A lot of people don’t use IDEs to write C. That said, I believe the two mainstream C compilers (GCC and Clang) can both be configured to emit a warning here.
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by umanwizard 5y ago
There is some justification for nearly all authoritarian laws. One can point to the low crime rate in Singapore relative to the United States, for example. People who oppose authoritarianism do so because it's not worth the cost, not b
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by umanwizard 5y ago
> You ask me for funding for a project. I give you funding, in cash or in kind, and I get (partial) ownership of the project. If it does OK, I get some money. If it does better than that, I get more money. If it does badly, I don't
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by umanwizard 5y ago
> You're making the mistake of conflating Australia's COVID-19 restrictions with this legislation, when they're entirely unrelated. They’re related in that both are examples of a level of authoritarianism that seems extrem
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by umanwizard 5y ago
What is your point?
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by umanwizard 5y ago
> You can actually learn things that you wouldn't have learned otherwise. I’m not so sure. Why do you need to pay someone to give you lists of books to read, rather than just buying and reading them yourself?
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by umanwizard 5y ago
What are the “nine-teens”?
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by umanwizard 5y ago
I think you mean Western Germany, assuming you’re talking about the floods that happened in July. Or were there more recent ones in the East too?
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by umanwizard 5y ago
People in NYC get so many “severe” weather warnings for random parts of the metro area far from where they live that they just tune them out. My reaction when I got the Ida updates was “yeah, I get it, it’s raining”. I left my house as norm
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by umanwizard 5y ago
> Does same applies for maps of New York City in general? That is those showing larger area than just Manhattan? Sometimes, yes. The most iconic example is probably the MTA subway map which is visible in almost all subway cars.
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by umanwizard 5y ago
Latinoaméricain is not derived from Spanish; it follows native French conventions for demonyms (e.g. New Zealanders are néozélandais ). The term Latin America ( Amérique latine ) was in fact often used with the explicit intent of highlig

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