MadeThisToReply | 4 years ago | on: In praise of opinionated frameworks
What's wrong with Ruby version managers?
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MadeThisToReply | 4 years ago | on: We’re the founders of Substack, we just launched an iOS app. AUA
I think what GP is saying is that even with large, multi-million margins in the popular vote, the result can still be "close" because many of those votes count for nothing in the electoral college. Hillary Clinton could have received four million fewer votes in California 2016 and she would still have won that state while losing the electoral college. But if she had merely won an extra ~100,00 votes in a few crucial swing states like Michigan and Pennsylvania, America might have had its first female president.
I haven't checked the numbers but I think GP is arguing that the Biden-Trump result was "closer" in this sense than the Clinton-Trump result was; i.e. the margin in the electoral college and nationwide popular vote may have been wider, but 2020 was still a closer call in the small number of swing states that might have actually changed the overall result.
MadeThisToReply | 4 years ago | on: Ask HN: Any weird tips for weight loss?
This. When I lived in London I never got in my car except to make journeys out of London. Now that I live in a village (and not a particularly remote one; London is less than an hour away by train) I need my car to do anything.
MadeThisToReply | 4 years ago | on: Russian forces invade Ukraine after Putin orders attack
He's not a native speaker and his native language doesn't even use the Latin alphabet. Give him a break.
MadeThisToReply | 4 years ago | on: The Texas electric grid failure was a warm-up
Depends how you generate the electricity that powers the heaters. If it's coming from fossil fuels (as most of it does), it's obviously inefficient: you're burning fuel to generate heat, then using the heat to generate electricity, then using electricity to generate heat again. Far simpler to just burn the fossil fuel for heat directly.
MadeThisToReply | 4 years ago | on: No Place to Hide – U.K. campaign against end-to-encryption encryption
MadeThisToReply | 4 years ago | on: SAGE jumpstarted today’s technology and built IBM into a powerhouse
My first thought was the UK's "Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies", who have become a household name in Britain during the pandemic, and are most famous for having been repeatedly wrong about everything yet for some reason still taken seriously by many.
MadeThisToReply | 4 years ago | on: What the world will be like in a hundred years (1922)
What about horseshoe theory?
MadeThisToReply | 4 years ago | on: Show HN: OnlyRecipe.app – Remove clutter from recipe sites
This is also the reason why most food is full of garbage.
MadeThisToReply | 4 years ago | on: From Node to Ruby on Rails
What happened this week?
MadeThisToReply | 4 years ago | on: Pfizer and Biontech provide update on Omicron variant
My thoughts exactly. Why suffer through 1-2 days of sickness every 6 months to protect myself against an illness that I've already had and poses no threat to my demographic anyway? Sounds like the cure is worse than the disease. I smell a rat.
MadeThisToReply | 4 years ago | on: Why punish a scientist for defending science?
That's really interesting and tells me that I need to do more research into this case before forming an opinion. (Don't I always?) Thanks for sharing.
MadeThisToReply | 4 years ago | on: Google removes Pirate Bay domains from search results citing Dutch court order
Sorry, but you don't get to decide what words mean. "Tax evasion" is illegal by definition. "Tax avoidance" is legal.
According to Wikipedia, the term "tax noncompliance" (or "tax avoision"... bleargh) can be used as a general term to refer to both of those things
MadeThisToReply | 4 years ago | on: Google removes Pirate Bay domains from search results citing Dutch court order
But it is worthless garbage, unlike a lot of torrents.
MadeThisToReply | 4 years ago | on: Tvix: We Are Rewriting Nix
How do you pronounce "Tvix"?
MadeThisToReply | 4 years ago | on: Update on Omicron
So why didn't they skip "Mu", which as others have pointed out is a far more common name than Xi?
Everyone knows the real reason they skipped Xi, you're not fooling anybody.
MadeThisToReply | 4 years ago | on: Update on Omicron
They skipped the Greek letter "Xi"; no prizes for guessing why.
MadeThisToReply | 4 years ago | on: Books that changed my career as a software engineer
Anything you recommend instead?
Personally, I got a lot of value from Designing Data-Intensive Applications by Martin Kleppmann.
MadeThisToReply | 4 years ago | on: Vercel raises $150M Series D
> There’s no way this ends well
How do you think it will end?
MadeThisToReply | 4 years ago | on: Why thieves love to steal catalytic converters
What does "due care" mean here? Does it have a specific legal meaning? How is it possible to kill someone with your car while exercising "due care"?