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Hapax Legomenon is such a satisfying phrase to say. Even the opportunity to look at it makes my eyes happy.

Ah the snake oil merchants want another round of dim investor money I see.

Because they've focused on a different set of priorities from the ones he wants, thus they're incompetent and sadistic?

Ok.

Uber's main success was to take something that already existed (taxi services) but then found a way to work around local labour laws on a technicality.

Because Uber drivers are all self-employed, they're not unionised or protected in any way. Thus, Uber pays its drivers a pittance, and is able to undercut and undermine existing taxi services who are forced by unions and law to pay drivers a living wage.

That's the key to being Uber for X. Ask: can I use the internet and shady business practices to exploit workers to undercut a business that previously workers were protected in?

If the answer is Yes, then you can be Uber for X.

It does rather cement in people's mind the association that Twitter is now mostly a haven for bullying, trolling and harassment. Something POTUS uses twitter for regularly.

Twitter had been trying to shake off the negative image it had acquired, but Trump's unchecked behaviour is rather putting paid to those hopes.

Question is if there's sustainable business in being the largest interpersonal abuse platform on the net.

Probably, because Asians are positively stereotyped as being good at STEM. But a stereotype is still a stereotype.

I read it as "our biases are subconscious". A lot of the white men being jerks to their female and ethnic minority colleagues aren't aware they're doing it, or if they are it's justified because it's a "meritocracy" and the techbros ascribe significantly more merit to whiteness and especially maleness.

I was under the impression, it was miners that by and large were in favour if segwit and everything that goes along with it. Part of point of Cash was to try to reduce the influence of miners on the currency. So my guess is it's just bet-hedging for now.

I wouldn't let the fact that many polyphenols are known to be carcinogenic, mutagenic and genotoxic get in the way of enjoying so Mr Softee, now would I?

Don't want to tread old ground here, but since the gamergate clusterfuck, pretty much every single one of the gamergate "thought leaders" has turned out, to nobody's surprise, to be a nazi.

Anyway, the connections between Nazism and gamergate have been extensively detailed across the web.

But here's Stormfront endorsing the movement:

https://archive.is/YyKpX

I mean this week seems to have seen a very public and significant pushback against alt reich/gamergate/neonazi/MAGA idiots. It's been one of the worst weeks to be a white supremacist or racist in the US for quite some time.

So there are limits. Even Ted Cruz will eventually stand up and say: you know what, this is too fucking far. STOP.

They key to moving the Overton window is to do it gradually. Charlottesville was a massive overreach, and it backfired.

It feels like the preamble to a longer article that never materialises.

The fact that the dwarf fortress binary is just 'df' was asking for trouble. In hindsight seems amazing nobody reported this before.

Spiked Online grew out of a now defunct magazine called Living Marxism, which was successfully sued out of existence by ITN for incorrectly claiming they'd falsified evidence of Serbian atrocities during the Bosnian civil war.

Apologism for atrocities, and apologism for apologists, seems to be part of their DNA.

The idea of introverts and extraverts being distinct groups of people with completely different neurological responses to social situations is a largely false one, created by self-help woo merchants to unhelpfully pathologise the feeling that EVERYONE has from time to time that they want to be left the fuck alone.

You know what? It's a normal, neurotypical part of life as a homo sapiens to want to be by yourself sometimes. And equally, it's a normal, neurotypical part of life as a homo sapiens to want to socialise sometimes.

We're a weird species like that, the way sometimes we want something and other times we want the opposite.

Uber but for X demonstrates how a lot of startups are trying to reinvent stuff that already exists, but works around labour laws on a technicality.

Because (a) we don't have an unambiguous definition of what functional programming is and (b) we don't have a better term for what this style of programming is.

I guess it could be called combinator-oriented programming or similar.

Given the increasingly poor state of some of Google's biggest properties (YouTube is a prime offender, its user experience only ever seems to get worse) I'm obviously surprised to hear this.

Javascript developer: "We like to constantly replace all our frameworks every 18 months"

Cryptocurrency developer: "Hold my beer"

Here's a screenshot of all the local by elections held in the UK on Thursday to compare for accuracy:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DFMAyTLXsAAqM16.jpg

Pretty good.

There's a significant subset of Americans for whom in their mind Britain looks a lot like Narnia. Frankly the preponderance of cutesy Saxon village names that look and sound a lot like these are part of the reason.

That and the existence of people like Jacob Rees-Mogg.

There's drama, conflict, hacks, fuckups, civil wars, bugs, theft, more drama, bailouts and all of the growing pains that make a story worth telling.

Blockchain! Machine learning! Cloud! This is the most Buzzword Compliant mainframe we've ever made!

Many of these all examples of what Language Log terms "nerdview" (http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=4509), using in-business jargon incorrectly with outsiders because you either don't know or don't care that they won't really know what you're talking about.

It's held up as an example where your use of language, whose purpose should always be to be understood by others, shows an explicit or implicit contempt for your listener.

Is this article "Use Rust" or "Stop using C"?

I mean both are reasonable arguments that get made often on here, but the one doesn't necessarily follow from the other.

Curious as to why, out of all the hundreds of deprecated calls in the JDK, it was those six methods that got removed.

I know that it's open source, and open, interoperable protocols are a good thing.

But. I don't think IMAP is the real competition here. This is, for most people, a solved problem, and a problem that's been solved by exchange and gmail.

So for better or worse, showing you're better than IMAP doesn't cut it. You have to show you're better than exchange.

One of the things I don't understand is why email protocols were allowed to languish for so long, making proprietary groupware suites practically mandatory for getting work done.

My McMansion detector just went wild.

Facebook's app is so bloated because of one thing: Apache Thrift. Last I checked it came with over 16,000 stubs and serialisers for thousands of different data types.

I don't think Cheney properly understands the concept of "simplicity" fully. A language is not simple because it meets some arbitrary measure of smallness.

A language is simple if it decomplects unrelated concerns. Which go does admirably in certain areas, but its absence of generics certainly adds to cognitive overhead and unnecessary complexity elsewhere.