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sddfd commented on Git is too hard changelog.com/posts/git-i... · Posted by u/ingve

varispeed · 5 years ago

To be fair I have seen a company who had a dedicated git guy who was committing, merging, pushing whatever on behalf of the developer after nth time some of them screwed the repo completely. When I started learning how to use I had people telling me it is difficult, but were not able to explain why they think it is difficult and I started learning having this in mind and that made it unnecessarily complicated. I think once you know all the terminology and a few workflow scenarios, then it is very easy.

sddfd · 5 years ago

Some companies have a commit queue that takes care of actually merging a PR as part of their CI that mitigates this problem.

sddfd commented on Losing the war against surveillance capitalism letting Big Tech frame the debate salon.com/2020/06/20/were... · Posted by u/jrepinc

sddfd · 5 years ago

The article mentions the key problems:

- once private information is leaked, it can never be undone - being treated differently by some party because that party had knowledge of private information about you is difficult to prove

The ultimate solution is to legally require that important services cannot depend on private information.

An example would be: define a set of properties health insurance cost is allowed to depend on, and then have health insurance providers publish their formula for the premium (that can only depend on that set of properties).

sddfd commented on Fidelity chief warns of global corporate solvency crisis ft.com/content/d6fd7d11-c... · Posted by u/samizdis

sddfd · 6 years ago

The western economic system cannot deal with lockdowns, and more generally, any kind of stop-the-world scenarios.

What will be most important now is how the west will be able to deal with this crisis in comparison to China.

If the Chinese system is able to deal with the crisis more effectively in economic terms, this may put the western system as a whole in jeopardy, in particular values like freedom and privacy.

sddfd commented on Why Is the Human Brain So Efficient? (2018) nautil.us/issue/86/energy... · Posted by u/rcshubhadeep

sddfd · 6 years ago

I feel uncomfortable at the ubiquitous, silent assumption that what is marketed as AI is a computer implementation of a brain.

I see how the term neuronal network reinforces this believe, but we (especially the researchers among us) should allow for the possibility that we are missing something.

sddfd commented on Underwriters and Short Sellers Manipulate Share Prices thefinancialoligarchs.com... · Posted by u/railing1650

sddfd · 6 years ago

I've followed Bitcoin for a while. What seemed to happens there was the deliberate manipulation of the price using all means available (ads, etc.) The result was a few winning big.

I have no reason to believe the same doesn't happen on the real stock market.

sddfd commented on An app that empowers people to review Vegan products. They donate $1 per review app.adjust.com/41g3mgo?la... · Posted by u/GlobalOwls

sddfd · 6 years ago

Oh I love the idea that you need to pay to leave a review. This way it becomes harder to fake a large number of reviews.

sddfd commented on MIP*=Re arxiv.org/abs/2001.04383... · Posted by u/soohyung

sddfd · 6 years ago

Could someone explain what this means? I read it as proof that quantum computers cannot compute more functions than Turing machines, is that correct?

sddfd commented on France to Raise Pollution Tax on SUVs and Trucks to €22k bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/hhs

growlist · 6 years ago

Call me cynical but - I'm guessing it's a lot easier to punish market sectors in which your own manufacturers are weak.

sddfd · 6 years ago

This is why the world is acting so sluggishly to climate change.

sddfd commented on Biopharma has abandoned antibiotic development endpts.com/biopharma-has-... · Posted by u/refurb

sddfd · 6 years ago

Tldr: privately funded research is not working.

I don't understand why antibiotics research can't be done at (publicly funded) universities?

sddfd commented on German voters would prefer a more ambitious timeline to phase out coal nature.com/articles/s4156... · Posted by u/ssijak

sddfd · 6 years ago

The German voter is against coal (the young climate concious), against nuclear (the old green party supporters), against wind (everyone when it appears in their backyard), and the government killed solar in 2015 which resulted in approximately 80000 lost jobs.

What the German voter doesn't want is to consume less and/or save energy.

It will be interesting to see how this plays out.

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KarmaCake day593February 8, 2017View Original