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fleitz··on The Usefulness of Abstracting Over Time
Send a message to a queue asking for refreshed data... ignore messages that occur within a given timeframe.

Or put your server in front of a CDN / Nginx, set cache headers for 30 seconds ;)

fleitz··on I founded Happy Cow Milk to make a difference in dairying. I failed
Cows and other animals involving factory farming are the least endangered species on the planet. There is literally zero effort to eliminate cows from the gene pool, except by activists who want to see these animals fend hilariously ineffectively for themselves in the wild. Their predators and their reliance on humans would ensure the genocide you speak of would actually happen.
fleitz··on Ask HN: Clever ways to run a media-heavy website on a budget?
Use the slice command in nginx and $slice_range your cache key ;)
fleitz··on It’s Surprising How Much Small Teams Can Get Done [audio]
Nah, it's just that large companies have a lot of smaller companies inside it losing money.

Without the safety net of the larger company these companies would go bankrupt in the real world and not exist.

Star developers mostly have figured out which teams are / are not going bankrupt and direct their internal business to those teams / figure out how to couch a problem in terms that make it seem like it should be given to a team not going bankrupt.

eg. If your web team is shit, but app team is rock stars then the UI should be an app, to prevent the web team from getting the job add a feature such as something with the camera/gps that makes it feel app ish.

fleitz··on Tesla ‘on Autopilot’ slams into parked fire truck on freeway
There's lots of autopilot systems that smash into shit, sailboats are one of them, you can put your sailboat on autopilot and it's going to smash into stuff.

Samething with an airliner, autopilot will not avoid another aircraft.

fleitz··on Bill and Melinda Gates Are Paying Off Nigeria's $76M Debt to Japan
Everyone has debt, it's a tool, not a sign of poverty/inability to repay.
fleitz··on Clang runs in the browser and compiles C++ to WebAssembly
At which point you have an OS... except adding the word ‘webassembly’ somehow imbues it with properties OS’s don’t already because somehow web assembly compiles to assembly with extra security with no performance reduction.
fleitz··on How Taiwan transformed its health care system
Yup, the idea for for profit driven healthcare sounds bad until you consider the alternative which is cost minimization driven, the easiest way to cut costs is to not provide service
fleitz··on Facebook’s Political Unit Enables Propaganda
To be fair to Fox News I don't recall anyone in the RNC resigning because they gave candidates debate questions they were privy to as corespondents. (Donna Brazile)
fleitz··on The Cajun Navy and the Vigilante Future of Disaster Relief
Probably because even children know about the declaration of independence...

Also the whole thing about thing being an opinion sounds as dumb as when someone says gravity is just a theory...

fleitz··on The Cajun Navy and the Vigilante Future of Disaster Relief
Or... start a business, and throw some ads on the side of it...
fleitz··on The Cajun Navy and the Vigilante Future of Disaster Relief
It's always hilarious when the grammar nazi has a spelling mistake in his grammar nazi post.
fleitz··on White House scraps proposal requiring airlines to disclose bag fees
It isn't required.

A lot of the value in things like the stock market is to disseminate the various information asymmetries in the form of price.

There's a reason guys like Paul Krugman write books on economics rather than trade the market.

fleitz··on White House scraps proposal requiring airlines to disclose bag fees
So you theorize that all airlines will implement completely random fees for baggage so no one has any idea what a flight will really cost...

It seems that at best there will be a small amount of information asymmetry and that should the randomness of bag prices get too bad, someone will be incentivized by the market to publish bag prices.

At worst, it will lead to something like GasBuddy where consumers input what flight they took and how much the bag cost.

The idea that the market for airlines will completely break down because there is no regulation on bag fees seems a little... far fetched.

fleitz··on White House scraps proposal requiring airlines to disclose bag fees
I have never ever heard of information symmetry being required for either the free market or capitalism.

I can't even find much on the subject compared to information asymmetry.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_asymmetry

fleitz··on macOS lock screen: “I just sent my session pass to my whole team”
I guess I got down voted for Obj C code, here's the swift version:

   func viewDidAppear(){ 
     super.viewDidAppear() 
     passwordField.becomeFirstResponder()
   }
fleitz··on macOS lock screen: “I just sent my session pass to my whole team”

    - (void) viewDidAppear{
       [super viewDidAppear];
       [self.passwordfield becomeFirstResponder];
    }
fleitz··on Volkswagen Official Gets 7-Year Term in Diesel-Emissions Cheating
It probably net extended lives by allowing those benefitting from the better gas milage to enjoy a higher standard of living.
fleitz··on The easiest way to undermine good science is to demand that it be made “sound”
1992 because it's the first report.

Here's a decent summary: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_warming_hiatus

'climate is classically averaged over 30-year periods.[5]'

'Publicity has surrounded claims of a global warming hiatus during the period 1998–2013. The exceptionally warm El Niño year of 1998 was an outlier from the continuing temperature trend, and so subsequent annual temperatures gave the appearance of a hiatus: by January 2006, it appeared to some that global warming had stopped or paused.[2] A 2009 study showed that decades without warming were not exceptional,[6] and in 2011 a study showed that if allowances were made for known variability, the rising temperature trend continued unabated.'

Essentially in 5 years we'll have enough data to confirm / deny the 1992 predictions, currently it's an unproven theory because of a lack of forward data. We're essentially using consensus as a proxy for a falsification of the null hypo

fleitz··on The easiest way to undermine good science is to demand that it be made “sound”
I understand the math, they have a bunch of simulations that produce wildly different results, they average these and make predictions based on a number of models running a number of simulations. The predictions have so far yet to have come true. (Although temp is rising, it's not to the degree predicted by the average of the models, despite there being more CO2 than the models were given input for, obviously the average of models are inaccurate. )

I believe it's not happening to the degree the IPCC said it was in 1992 which is why in the 2000s they observed a warming 'hiatus'. This is why people talk about consensus rather than data, or falsifications of the null hypothesis.

fleitz··on The easiest way to undermine good science is to demand that it be made “sound”
Or GMO's... or Colony Collapse... beliefs unsupported by science exist everywhere...
fleitz··on Bitcoin ‘Ought to Be Outlawed,’ Nobel Prize Winner Stiglitz Says
It's designed to appreciate in value / create depreciating asset prices. The fundamental issue is that people dislike depreciating asset prices. If people can adapt to depreciating asset prices bitcoin will work well as a store of value.

I see intrinsic issues as an in person medium of exchange due to transaction times.

fleitz··on Parents now spend twice as much time with their children as 50 years ago
'grueling' is key. Since I don't do any 'real' work I need to go to the gym pretty regularly to keep my mind / body sane.
fleitz··on Parents now spend twice as much time with their children as 50 years ago
^ This.
fleitz··on Parents now spend twice as much time with their children as 50 years ago
I find one of the most effective ways to do more with less is to ignore work after work, enjoy my life and show up the next day well rested and not stressed.

If it's important you'll get a call. When I do work at a place that prides itself on people being available around the clock, i'll delay send / reply to something right before bed and then plugging in my phone in another room.

Gives the appearance of working the most hours, interrupts other people / ruins their sleep, doesn't really affect my life in any material way.

fleitz··on Parents now spend twice as much time with their children as 50 years ago
And yet people wonder why children grow up to be completely unprepared for the world...
fleitz··on Woman offers WaPo false tale about Roy Moore in effort to discredit the paper
That’s funny given that deportations are down 80% since the previous admin, also far less wall has been built than the previous admin was able to build on a yearly basis...

Wouldn’t you characterize that as scaremongering given the facts?

fleitz··on Woman offers WaPo false tale about Roy Moore in effort to discredit the paper
And on the flip side it's Donate or get deported. Scare tactics work, both sides use it.
fleitz··on The Bear Case for Crypto, Part II: The Great Bank Run
You should make a blockchain based on smashing an iPhone taking a picture of it and then hashing the picture. You could probably make a lot of money and drive up the value of old iPhones. Revolutionary new proof of work algorithm.

Call it Instachain or something.

fleitz··on The Bear Case for Crypto, Part II: The Great Bank Run
It's like gold, it's an asset (technically a ledger) not a currency, it's an asset because people want it, and like gold has practically no uses other than being shiny.

If the history of technology is any indication it will become obsolete before becoming devalued as cryptofinance people move on to better scams / technology.

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