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by 9rx 11mo ago
> Computers replaced humans as the best chess players, not computers with human oversight. Oh? I sat down for a game of chess against a computer and it never showed up. I was certain it didn't show up because computers are unable
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by 9rx 11mo ago
UBI sees everyone receive an income, typically with a clawback mechanism. GBI sees an income paid to only those who need the support (means-based). The difference is subtle, I suppose, but could have a dramatic effect on what the studies sh
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by 9rx 11mo ago
I don't know. You're the one who has studied the data, not me. What's the answer? If you are asking about what I've seen anecdotally, which is all you can expect of me given that I am not the one of us who is the subject
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by 9rx 11mo ago
> It's as much of a generation as people broadly accept it to be It has become a generation, but it wasn't . For those who are pedantically concerned with not being a millennial, they can take solace in knowing that they&#
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by 9rx 11mo ago
> Several decades of academic achievement data, psychology studies, etc. Right. That much was obvious. But what does that mean in more detail? If you pick a random, normally capable, person off the street and give them everything they
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by 9rx 11mo ago
> Online, where generational warfare is waged these days, many hold that the real Gen X range is 1961 to 1981 [...] The stakes of the argument are high: No one wants to be a millennial or a boomer. Millennial wasn't a generation.
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by 9rx 11mo ago
Reddit and Twitter don't have human conversations. They have exchanges of confident assertions followed with rebuttals. In fact, both of our comments are perfect demonstrations of exactly that too. Fairly reflective of how LLMs behave
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by 9rx 11mo ago
Not to mention that Reddit users seek "confident idiots". Look at where the thoughtful questions that you'd expect to hear in a human social setting end up (hint: Downvoted until they disappear). Users on Reddit don't wa
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by 9rx 11mo ago
> most humans are ill suited for that line of work. Based on what? Certainly there are humans with crippling disabilities that remove them from pretty much any kind of work, but of the "normally functioning" population? Most
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by 9rx 11mo ago
Every basic income trial I come across ends up being GBI rather than UBI. Which UBI trials are you looking at?
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by 9rx 11mo ago
> the “equation of capitalism and markets” is a tragic misconception Must be a big city isolation thing? In rural areas co-ops are a common part of every day life. The internet is provided by a co-op, the store is a co-op, the gas stat
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by 9rx 11mo ago
> Which part? The part that is detailed on rust-lang.org. > It's not available in no-std without alloc crate. no-std disables features. It does not remove them from existence. Rust's worldly presence continues to have GC
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by 9rx 11mo ago
It used to be way more informal and less institutional, but I'm skeptical that it was more communal. We're still heavily dependent on community to raise our children (e.g. school, spots, etc). Sometimes to the point of absurdity.
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by 9rx 11mo ago
> focused on how much the languages in question rely on GC for practical use. That's quite nebulous. It should be quantified. But, while we wait for that, if we assume by that metric C++ is not a GC language today, but tomorrow C+
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by 9rx 11mo ago
> I should have asked whether the existence of a fully-compatible garbage collecting implementation of C change anything about whether C is a GC language. In a similar vein, tinygo allows compilation without GC[1]. That is despite the
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by 9rx 11mo ago
> governance by elected officials is not democratic. Correct. In a (representative) democracy, one does not elect officials. They elect representatives. The representative is not an authority like an official is. They are merely messen
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by 9rx 11mo ago
> They were getting sick and died more often than us The comparison was with agrarian societies that were found in parallel, not "us", which presumably implies something about modern medicine. Have I misinterpreted you? > T
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by 9rx 11mo ago
C++ didn't add GC until relatively recently, to be fair. When people from 30 years ago get an idea stuck in their head they don't usually ever change their understanding even as life continues to march forward. This isn't lim
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by 9rx 11mo ago
> Or would C++98 also be considered a GC language due to auto_ptr? auto_ptr does not exhibit qualities of GC. > Are no_std Rust and freestanding C++ GC languages? These are not different languages. A developer opting out of certai
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by 9rx 11mo ago
Absolutely.
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by 9rx 11mo ago
...as part of the language. Hence it being a GC language. Is this another case of "Rustacians" randomly renaming things? There was that whole debacle where sum types bizarrely became enums, even though enums already had an establi
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by 9rx 11mo ago
But as the parent comment suggests, if the adults were getting sick it is unlikely that they would be able to: * Produce 5 kids in the first place. * Take care of the kids that they were able to produce, making survival of even half them mu
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by 9rx 11mo ago
You can add your own custom GC in C — you can add your own custom anything to any language; its all just 1s and 0s at the end of the day — but it is not a feature provided by the language out of the box like in Rust. Not the same token at a
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by 9rx 11mo ago
"Way after" is quite an overstatement. Smallpox is as old as agriculture. Most seem to agree that it was the transition into agrarian life that provided the necessary conditions for it to emerge, but it did so right as that transi
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by 9rx 11mo ago
> And then you have non-GC languages like Rust Rust is a GC language: https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/rc/struct.Rc.html , https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/sync/struct.Arc.html
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by 9rx 11mo ago
I'm not sure your characterization is all that accurate. Originally, they thought they could build a product that worked across many languages. That necessitated a "lowest common denominator" language, which is a void that ha
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by 9rx 11mo ago
Brainfuck also exists for a reason. That doesn't imply that you should use it.
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by 9rx 11mo ago
The hypothetical vanilla farmer hasn't reached a place of having value. Only after the vanilla is actually able to be captured as value does the farmer enter into trade with it. This scenario you've outlined is much like the entre
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by 9rx 11mo ago
Free as in beer.
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by 9rx 11mo ago
> you might not like to talk about research orgs. Though I think they are example Are they a good example, or are they simply an example of where the stakes are low to non-existent? If the farmer fails to make good on delivering value

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