FPTP might be the worst, but IRV is a close second. Just like FPTP it gives significant artificial advantage to a certain kind of party. Specifically, IRV tends to elect a party that is most people's second-choice…
There is no such thing as a megacorp's indifference to increasing their profits and achieving their strategic goals. You can't plausibly claim indifference when Google's business processes that took many millions of…
I think it's less about the difficulty of manual changes and more about the cost to verify that all of the changes actually work. Dynamic typing on the language side, and a less than perfect test suite on the user side…
Yes, gmail, calendar, youtube, etc. are slow and sometimes broken for weeks in various ways in FF. Of course there likely won't ever be hard evidence that they are doing this deliberately. There are many ways for them…
> For more than two decades, McElroy was suspected of being involved in theft of grain, gasoline, alcohol, antiques, and livestock, but he avoided conviction when charges were brought against him 21 times—often after…
Personally I'm really annoyed with Scala community's obsession with Gitter. It's such an inferior tool. Gitter search UI is the worst, and search itself is useless, often returning no results when you can spend an hour…
Can you please explain which of these actually constrain your freedom of expression, with examples? Do you send kiss emojis to your open source contributors? Call them little b*tches or refer to transgender people by a…
I don't know why you picked Stalin. He wasn't exactly tolerant of religion, and would never agree to auch a CoC. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/USSR_anti-religious_campaign... David Duke on the other hand would happily…
> I really don't understand the west's fascination with these codes and statements. Why not just do your work and avoid drama? And you will never understand it if you look at "the west" as a single organism. Its…
Sure, I follow the categorical imperative myself. The author had a chance to make his CoC the golden rule. But instead he made a deeply religious statement. He has full right to do what he wants, but to also claim that…
That's as much inclusiveness as "stop hitting yourself" is your friend's good advice. If the CoC started with "First of all, purge any God from your heart" you wouldn't have thought twice about condemning it. But no,…
Consider Chromium Embedded Framework, or Sciter. These too let you define your UI with JS/HTML/CSS, but you're not shipping a node.js server with your app, which makes your app much lighter.
To put it in an even less flattening way, the real problem are developers, not the paradigm. Your company's code will be as good as your developers are regardless of the paradigm. Microservices will not help you if your…
Re: health – that's because what you really want is a single-payer health care system funded through taxes, not commercial health insurance, but your country's ideology does not allow for that.
Re: Eliezer Yudkowsky, also "Three Worlds Collide": http://robinhanson.typepad.com/files/three-worlds-collide.pd...
Public healthcare is not inherently better than private, it has its own problems. I think it is easier and cheaper (both technically and politically) to fix private healthcare incentives than to go the public way.
FPTP might be the worst, but IRV is a close second. Just like FPTP it gives significant artificial advantage to a certain kind of party. Specifically, IRV tends to elect a party that is most people's second-choice…
There is no such thing as a megacorp's indifference to increasing their profits and achieving their strategic goals. You can't plausibly claim indifference when Google's business processes that took many millions of…
I think it's less about the difficulty of manual changes and more about the cost to verify that all of the changes actually work. Dynamic typing on the language side, and a less than perfect test suite on the user side…
Yes, gmail, calendar, youtube, etc. are slow and sometimes broken for weeks in various ways in FF. Of course there likely won't ever be hard evidence that they are doing this deliberately. There are many ways for them…
> For more than two decades, McElroy was suspected of being involved in theft of grain, gasoline, alcohol, antiques, and livestock, but he avoided conviction when charges were brought against him 21 times—often after…
Personally I'm really annoyed with Scala community's obsession with Gitter. It's such an inferior tool. Gitter search UI is the worst, and search itself is useless, often returning no results when you can spend an hour…
Can you please explain which of these actually constrain your freedom of expression, with examples? Do you send kiss emojis to your open source contributors? Call them little b*tches or refer to transgender people by a…
I don't know why you picked Stalin. He wasn't exactly tolerant of religion, and would never agree to auch a CoC. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/USSR_anti-religious_campaign... David Duke on the other hand would happily…
> I really don't understand the west's fascination with these codes and statements. Why not just do your work and avoid drama? And you will never understand it if you look at "the west" as a single organism. Its…
Sure, I follow the categorical imperative myself. The author had a chance to make his CoC the golden rule. But instead he made a deeply religious statement. He has full right to do what he wants, but to also claim that…
That's as much inclusiveness as "stop hitting yourself" is your friend's good advice. If the CoC started with "First of all, purge any God from your heart" you wouldn't have thought twice about condemning it. But no,…
Consider Chromium Embedded Framework, or Sciter. These too let you define your UI with JS/HTML/CSS, but you're not shipping a node.js server with your app, which makes your app much lighter.
To put it in an even less flattening way, the real problem are developers, not the paradigm. Your company's code will be as good as your developers are regardless of the paradigm. Microservices will not help you if your…
Re: health – that's because what you really want is a single-payer health care system funded through taxes, not commercial health insurance, but your country's ideology does not allow for that.
Re: Eliezer Yudkowsky, also "Three Worlds Collide": http://robinhanson.typepad.com/files/three-worlds-collide.pd...
Public healthcare is not inherently better than private, it has its own problems. I think it is easier and cheaper (both technically and politically) to fix private healthcare incentives than to go the public way.