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> so your hipster javascript developer gets the same weight as a coal miner in rural Ohio

Except it doesn't do that. It gives the farmer in Wyoming more power than either.

And no, it wasn't designed to be this way. Not to this extent.

> Being eager to label (and therefore dismiss) half the country does make you as bad as them.

They argue that Trump "Won the popular vote outside of NY and California". That's dismissing millions of voters.

They call people liberal elitists.

They love the "real americans" idea.

I do think calling people bigots based on voting for Trump is ridiculous though.

He's a billionaire and a TV star. Are you a billionaire and a TV star? No? Then you are not comparable to Trump.

He's not an outsider. He's absolutely a member of the elite.

America won't even accept an Atheist member of Congress, at least not openly.

They have powershell for that.

> But try using a tiling WM,

No. I don't want to. i don't get off on tweaking window environments and other BS. I don't want an ugly half baked interface.

This is why I honestly do think "linux is free if your time is worthless" is more than just a snarky comment.

> After having spent, maybe, two weeks total effort customising my environment

Two weeks. That's absurd. I can go into the apple store and buy a mac and just install homebrew. takes minutes.

There was a story I saw a while back that the Rogue One director was saying Disney has (at least?) 4 restored.

Gonna be a while though. Fox has distribution rights to 4 for forever and 5/6 until (IIRC) 2020.

> If you're willing to break the social norm, why not go all the way and be free?

Because Linux is only free if your time is worthless is still about as true today as ever before.

Oh sure, I can use most of my hardware without too many issues. It took me hours to configure my monitor because of some issue with EDID, but I'm willing to count that as an outlier.

The problem is I get Ubuntu working and then I still have to deal with fucking Unity.

OSX works out of the box with the hardware, and the OS is just a much more pleasant desktop experience while being a good enough OS to get work done (vs windows being more difficult).

> Which is more interesting - a massive touch screen computer that moves weightlessly, with a hockey puck sensor that makes those cool radial menus we see in every other science fiction movie, or a laptop with a touch screen above the keyboard?

The former.

Which would I buy? The latter. Which would I rather use? The latter.

> 40" curved screen iMac

why?

> MacPro replacement that looks something like the Razor Blade Stealth where a full powered GPU attaches via USB-C.

oh god why?

both of these just seem like gimmicks instead of just making a top notch dev machine.

Lots of ram, good CPU, discrete GPU option, fast SSD, decent port selection, great battery life (tweak machine options to get a bit more or less, but always good).

That's why the 2013 was such a great machine. Mine is still easily good enough today.

Now we have gimmicky touchbars, the ram hasn't increased, the CPUs are older models, they have dropped a bunch of useful ports (HDMI, magsafe power supplies), and the battery life isn't even what it used to be.

A big discrete GPU box that works over thunderbolt is just a gimmick. Windows laptop makers do stuff like that but their touchpads are still pretty much meh.

> Why give employees big payouts, when they'll work just as hard for mere unsubstantiated promises of such payouts?

That's why we should start teaching people that they won't get rich.

So sit and wait for a couple seconds for a spot to be open before you move across the intersection.

You are supposed to enter the intersection when turning left (then turn when safe), but not if there is no room to complete your turn in the target lane.

The whole point is to not have people clogging the intersection and preventing movement when the lights change. That's what creates gridlock instead of just a backup on one street.

I view it as evidence that their interviews are easily gamed. You cram in some algorithms knowledge and off you go.

That graph is about the best evidence I've seen that interviews are garbage. Years of experience doesn't matter at all? Coursera courses are the best thing ever?

> The concept of 'moving out' of your parents home is baffling for most of us.

Yeah, it's almost like we have radically different cultures.

> Worst hit, would probable be the automobile industry

They use metric.

How is this a test of UBI? It's just a welfare system.

I think a lot of people don't like doing it because it feels wrong to be in the intersection and turning on a red, assuming you get stuck and turn on the red.

I got told by the instructor on my test to pull out into the intersection.

It's what you are supposed to do. Pull in to the intersection and wait until you have a gap to turn. Other cars have the right of way, but are supposed to (yeah right) yield to you when the light turns yellow. Even if they don't you are in the intersection so you just go when safe (even if you have to wait for the red).

> I could tell that the car was in self-driving mode because it didn't step into the intersection like humans would do - not even slightly.

So it's a bad driver.

Knowing how to drive and having insurance both sound like reasonable things for people to do, but we still mandate driver licensing and insurance.

Why couldn't you start a new DE C corp instead of converting?

> I hate that. I've actually put off doing breaking changes simply because I didn't want to bump the major version number

Get over it? It's a number. If you want to base it off a consistent semantic reasoning then do so. Otherwise don't do it at all.

That's gotta be a separate system which just reads data and displays it right?

right?

Uber just doesn't get the whole concept of regulations do they?

I understand violating ones that are "dumb" and hurt your business (e.g. taxi medallions) or those that it's easier to just do it and figure out hte results later (e.g. insurance) but this is literally "get the permit first".

They should process this nice and sloooooooooooow.

> My guess at a marginal tax rate would be ~40%.

Sounds high for Seattle.

Hey, I hate lawns too but if you must have one then it should probably be kept at a reasonable length.

Of course watering it every day then cutting it in the summer (rather then just let it turn a bit brown and stop growing) is idiocy.

> The status quo is drivers driving well beyond the physical capabilities to stop given the conditions at hand.

because that's not the most efficient way to move traffic. Yes, a road at it's limit is going to be worse off. Perfect merging and other better habits will help in a lot of places. Just think of all the times you see some idiot merge in at 50 way before the end of the lane.

How is china not communist?