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neosystem | 3 years ago | on: Supreme Court limits EPA’s power to cut emissions

Everything you say may or may not be true, but it doesn’t address the point of the ruling or what's under debate. If you don’t believe that the Congress is representative of the will of the people, your issues are not with this or that law or SCOTUS ruling, but with the fundamental structures of the American republic.

neosystem | 3 years ago | on: The Psychology of not wanting to know (2017) [pdf]

Timely article — I can’t help but to relate it to my investing/stock account lol. I’m mostly invested in big tech and not so much growth — so things probably aren’t so bad — still, I haven’t checked that account in a couple months. I have it set up to make recurring purchases in things like Apple, so I’m just waiting it out and hoping that the old adage “time in the market beats timing the market” holds true.

neosystem | 3 years ago | on: Monorepos in JavaScript and TypeScript

While I haven't read this article yet, this is my favorite coding blog/resource, especially for React. His post on organizing a React project was really helpful when I was first getting started (1). There's also a bunch of other really useful stuff on Docker, Babel, Testing, Web Components, etc.

(1) https://www.robinwieruch.de/react-folder-structure/

neosystem | 3 years ago | on: Show HN: Unlimited machine translation API for $200 / Month

Really interesting.

I tried out "Hey, how are you? I don't understand how it can be so warm today." in my native language, and systran is the only one that got it 100% correct. Google was close, but reversed an article and a noun. The others mixed up "don't understand" with "don't know", which are similar but different enough to sound unnatural.

I've always thought that the best way to assess these systems is how they handle colloquial speech, stuff that we often take for granted but that's really quite strange to translate "literally". I bet even that phrase -- "take for granted" -- would be difficult to translate even though I'm certain most languages have a phrase for that exact sentiment.