argv_empty | 8 years ago | on: Stanford CS007: Personal Finance For Engineers
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argv_empty | 8 years ago | on: Reddit CEO Cracks Down on Abusive Content to Protect Users, Attract Advertisers
The subs I've heard about banning were echo chambers dedicated to the idea that "this group of people I don't like ought to be [starved|exiled|thrown from helicopters|raped|enslaved]" and such things. If that makes you think the policy is "right leaning = bad, left leaning = good," that says some pretty nasty things about the modern right, doesn't it?
argv_empty | 8 years ago | on: The Downside of Full Pay Transparency
Then A is free to do so, but if he's not actually worth more, then he's likely to find out in his job search that he can't command B's salary. WSJ seems oddly unwilling to let the free market resolve this issue.
argv_empty | 8 years ago | on: It's Time for a New Old Language – Guy Steele [video]
A quick `s/DSL/library/g` and the result is just as true and just as much of an issue.
argv_empty | 8 years ago | on: Why Isn’t It a Crime to Kill a Cyclist with a Car?
If you can't see what's in front of your car in time to react appropriately, you are going too fast for the current road conditions. Reckless driving is a risk created entirely by the driver, not the cyclist who happens to be in front of the driver at the time.
argv_empty | 8 years ago | on: What happened when I opened a restaurant in Portland
It is perversely fun to read stories of people who started their own business in order to not have a boss, only to realize that they suddenly have a dozen bosses who don't even coordinate with each other to keep their combined demands reasonable.
argv_empty | 8 years ago | on: ‘Daily Stormer’ Termination Haunts Cloudflare in Online Piracy Case
It's a popular idea that there are two legitimate sides to every issue. It's also a wrong idea. "Tolerance" as a societal ideal does not require treating ethnic cleansing as a legitimate goal, a respect-worthy political platform, etc. This comment thread was initially about the Daily Stormer, not something that is merely "distasteful."
argv_empty | 8 years ago | on: ‘Daily Stormer’ Termination Haunts Cloudflare in Online Piracy Case
we don't arrest and convict people for thoughts
If whether they're getting arrested is your concern, there's no need to worry. Simply being a white supremacist doesn't get you arrested. Though it looks to me like the thread started over the question of what sort of non-government concession a tolerant society owes to white supremacists and the like.
argv_empty | 8 years ago | on: ‘Daily Stormer’ Termination Haunts Cloudflare in Online Piracy Case
What do you do when murder is a political idea?
argv_empty | 8 years ago | on: Equihax
This seems a bit like replying to a suggestion that the world would be a better place without nuclear weapons by telling the other person to unilaterally disarm.
argv_empty | 8 years ago | on: What Monoids teach us about software
Has someone claimed to have a better name?
argv_empty | 8 years ago | on: What Monoids teach us about software
The original argument was that naming them "monoids" reduces cognitive load.
The argument as I see it written is only that naming them reduces cognitive load. I don't see anyone suggesting that the specific name they happen to have carries any special power.
argv_empty | 8 years ago | on: Why Type Systems Matter
Like GP, I often wonder what untyped languages offer over typed languages for prototyping, and this "soooo much annotation!" thing just isn't a satisfying answer anymore. "Typed" does not mean "as verbose as C#/Java."
argv_empty | 8 years ago | on: GOP lawmakers shamed on billboards for trying to repeal net neutrality rules
If Netflix had to write some of the check
You say this like you think Netflix is somehow using the internet for free.
argv_empty | 8 years ago | on: GOP lawmakers shamed on billboards for trying to repeal net neutrality rules
Those are not the ISP's users, and the ISP has already been paid for the traffic going there.
argv_empty | 8 years ago | on: GOP lawmakers shamed on billboards for trying to repeal net neutrality rules
It is entirely appropriate to limit the speed and size of large trucks (high bandwidth users) on roadways or charge them more.
This has nothing to do with net neutrality. ISPs already get to sell their users as much or as little bandwidth as they choose to. If the ISP's users are sending a lot of traffic to one web site, that's only possible because the ISP's users are sending a lot of traffic. They can't stream movies unless they're already paying for a connection fast enough to stream movies. Which web site streams those movies doesn't matter.
argv_empty | 8 years ago | on: Internet turns on white supremacists and neo-Nazis with doxing, phishing
Many fear being outed from photos
It's not "outing" once you've already been doing it in public.
argv_empty | 8 years ago | on: Google launches Hire, a new service for helping businesses recruit
Do you have the same complaint about, as another user mentioned, not being able to recover your data when you forget the password to an encrypted drive?
This is a pretty disingenuous analogy. GP did not ask about recovering data from the device. GP asked about starting over from scratch. Most people do have the expectation that an old encrypted drive can be reformatted and repurposed without knowing the key.
argv_empty | 9 years ago | on: Ending the cult of the CEO
That seems like what stock compensation is aimed at. If the company gets a better deal on something, it retains more of its assets and is thus worth more to its owners.
argv_empty | 9 years ago | on: Why MIT Switched from Scheme to Python (2009)
if you want to really understand how most modern computers actually work, there's probably no better way than to learn C
I have found advice like this to be a good sign that the speaker has a very limited understanding of how modern computers actually work.
Why do you bring up the straw man of buying individual stocks? Trying to get clever about picking stocks and when to buy/sell is directly contrary to the course's advice. Nobody but you seems to be recommending a non-diversified approach here, and you seem to hold some strange ideas as to the historic performance of various asset classes.