BlackFly

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by BlackFly 7y ago
Historically, some of the most discriminated people have been people of a different religion. In principle you can "stop believing in your religion" as easily as you can stop believing that immigrants are destroying your country.
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by BlackFly 7y ago
That sounds like the details I was hazy on. Thanks.
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by BlackFly 7y ago
I like having a semantic difference for async values (maybe not computed yet) and for optional values (maybe no value). Thus you get Future<Optional<T>>. It is of course helpful since the "Do this when a value happens, do t
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by BlackFly 7y ago
The fifth dimension is theoretical, yes. It turns out that you can get classical electricity and magnetism out of the Einstein equations by adding a fifth, rotationally symmetric spatial dimension ( https://en.wikipedia.org/w
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by BlackFly 7y ago
Isn't this just covered by ordinary tort law? There is a duty of care, there is a lapse of said duty. The issue seems to be that people are putting valuable items into it and then signing a contract that says that the limit of liabilit
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by BlackFly 7y ago
Once they start deleting this data because of the potential fines they will wonder why they were collecting it in the first place.
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by BlackFly 7y ago
I (and seemingly other people) consider https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks to be a good set of performance benchmarks for use cases many people around here would be facing. I guess they haven't been updated in near
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by BlackFly 7y ago
You get that "flood of low-quality papers" on Arxiv but most researchers filter through papers daily and are generally capable of isolating the relevant and interesting from the dull and unimportant. Probably a lot of citations to
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by BlackFly 7y ago
It was probably an oblique reference to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grievance_Studies_affair and more generally the idea that gender studies is actual more about taking grievances at gender bias than neutrally studyi
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by BlackFly 7y ago
If you read the article, you will find out that you are only supposed to use the exception on historical names. Most people use it incorrectly and drop the trailing s any time the word ends in an s. Arguably for Bayes, he is historical enou
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by BlackFly 7y ago
A bit of a mixed bag, and overly long. Could benefit from some distillation and less back patting. Given point 3, they seem to spend an inordinate amount of time complaining about vandalism, even going so far as to call out sockpuppets and
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by BlackFly 7y ago
Well, if you want to be a pedant, it should arguably be Bayes's theorem: https://www.bartleby.com/141/strunk.html . That "Drop the trailing s to form possessives" exception needs to die.
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by BlackFly 7y ago
Some of the oldest professions have a notion of "privilege" with sensitive information. Client-attorney privilege, Physician–patient privilege. While some of these have been eroded at various times, there was a reason for their cr
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by BlackFly 7y ago
I also found this sidetrack to be a bit of a straw man. A large proportion of physics is devoted to dynamics: the study of change. There are mathematical descriptions for dynamics whereby a thing is updated x ↦ x + v * dt, v ↦ v + a * dt. Y
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by BlackFly 7y ago
You shouldn't be in that situation. Antibiotics are not supposed to be discretionary medicine that you take until you feel better. Your son should have finished the prescription. Stopping antibiotics prematurely is one of the ways that
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by BlackFly 7y ago
"Corporations are people, my friend!" Corporations are certainly not pass through entities. They own assets, they exert influence on society. They benefit from government institutions. They amass wealth so that they can spend it t
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by BlackFly 7y ago
They are available in the runtime, so you can do runtime reflection on the annotations and perform dependency injection if that is your thing. In that sense they do something: they provide information to the runtime which you can use if you
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by BlackFly 7y ago
I have this same experience in python. In Java, I did this a lot less because I could rely on the type of the interface to know what I was going to get back from the function call (with the caveat it might be null). I knew exactly what the
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by BlackFly 7y ago
I agree with everything you are saying. Let me rephrase what I was saying so you can see we more or less agree. The article is complaining that there are no randomized control studies and using this to conclude that there is little evidence
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by BlackFly 7y ago
The answer to your question is, "No, there is no proof." This is similar to the answer to, "Is there any proof that RSA is uncrackable?" The security is based upon the assumed hardness of certain mathematical problems.
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by BlackFly 8y ago
That there are no randomized control studies is hardly surprising: nobody would ethically assign a person into the "no dental care" control group. I am reminded of the randomized control study they did on parachutes which showed t
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by BlackFly 8y ago
You seem to have the gist of it. She doesn't seem to see the irony in: > someone who pirates the book was never going to buy it anyway, so it’s not a lost sale. Yet her whole story is pointing out that there was a point in time when
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by BlackFly 8y ago
This is an ignorant position. When you extend an open invitation to the public to enter your private property, it becomes subject to public regulation under common law due to the open invitation. Under civil law, they can just dictate the r
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by BlackFly 8y ago
I try to avoid calling them "Western" values to disentangle things which are empirical from things which are less so. For instance, "Western" medicine is undeniably better than "traditional X" medicine. Because
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by BlackFly 8y ago
Of course it is freedom of speech. The only thing that was distributed was text: an encoding of an idea. The act of using that idea to build something to defraud someone is the criminal act. Jurisdictions censor all kinds of speech, and may
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by BlackFly 8y ago
Or in this case, since the IThingyInteractor can do exactly the same thing with an IThingy if IThingy has a name() method, you can just implement it with single dispatch. I don't know if I have ever actually seen a true implementation
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by BlackFly 8y ago
Freedom of expression. We humans have created all kinds of things that get misused. The Nobel prizes were set up exactly because people were blaming Nobel for the violent use of dynamite. Let us not further hobble the spreading of ideas wit
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by BlackFly 8y ago
It is not that westerners come from a different set of base assumptions, it is that western society has moved past those base assumptions. Western monarchies were divine rights, people died fighting against those viewpoints. It is not an as
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by BlackFly 8y ago
Before I respond, please don't misinterpret me. I think it is perfectly acceptable to choose Rust over Java saying nothing more than, "We felt Rust would be a better fit for the team," or "We were more excited by Rust.&q
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by BlackFly 8y ago
> Java was excluded from consideration because of the requirement of deploying the JVM and associated libraries along with any program to their production servers. This was an amount of operational complexity and resource overhead that w

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