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by Bratmon 5mo ago
I think the answer to this is that schooling/care for people with disabilities that make it impossible for them to succeed in normal school should be a totally different budget with different success criteria than the budget for normal
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by Bratmon 5mo ago
He's been independent since 2023
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by Bratmon 5mo ago
Citation: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/06/us/kentucky-organ-donatio... Organ harvesting of living patients hasn't fully scaled up as a practice yet, but it's definitely a major source of inc
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by Bratmon 5mo ago
This embodies what 538 and its defenders miss about 538's appeal: People didn't come to 538 for explanations on subtle points of statistical literacy (although those were provided). They came because, for whatever reason, they wa
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by Bratmon 5mo ago
Yeah, but the difference is that SQL provides a huge number of ways to solve the "My query got slow when it got complicated" problem. In Prolog, you have the cut operator, and when that stops working for your usecase, you're
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by Bratmon 5mo ago
In other languages, you can find the lines where the performance problems are and fix them without breaking the abstraction everywhere else.
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by Bratmon 5mo ago
This embodies why I don't like Prolog. Prolog's philosophy is that you should just write the predicates without thinking about how the engine works. But as soon as you do something actually complicated, you realize that the diff
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by Bratmon 5mo ago
> Finally, the title links the book to a political project that seeks to transcend markets and property rights as the organizing principles of society, and to imagine a future in which money no longer defines the scope and possibilities
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by Bratmon 5mo ago
> The origin of the corporation as we know it is as a vehicle for moving funds out of productive enterprises to asset-owners. It doesn't fill me with confidence that they got this completely backwards. The advantage of the corporate
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by Bratmon 5mo ago
Are you trying to tell me that the the book titled "Against Money" is not against money?
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by Bratmon 5mo ago
This article is a reminder to all of us programmers that there is a belief that is common among non-programmer intellectuals (especially the above-average-intelligence-but-not-genius types) but completely non-existent among skilled software
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by Bratmon 5mo ago
Browsers briefly tried that in the early 00s. It turns out that, from a user perspective, that's an incredibly stupid question- the user has no way of knowing how well the page works until they click "yes"!
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by Bratmon 5mo ago
This is like being surprised that the Obama the Obama Presidential Library is about is Barack Obama.
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by Bratmon 6mo ago
Finding one that doesn't would be very hard.
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by Bratmon 6mo ago
Wow, that's like kryptonite for people with ADHD
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by Bratmon 6mo ago
This is the dumbest PR tactic in the book, and it annoys me that it works on so many people. April: "The fact that we're doing X isn't news because we're only starting to do X" August: "The fact that we've
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by Bratmon 6mo ago
"Creating a Wikipedia page" is a weird suggestion. In 2026, it's actually not possible to create a Wikipedia page unless you're already a deep expert in Wikipedia culture. (Wikipedia nerds often say "No, anyone can
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by Bratmon 6mo ago
Doesn't that just turn bugs in test in n years into bugs in prod in n years? That seems like a downgrade to me!
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by Bratmon 6mo ago
> What happens if you flood the market with a bunch of implausible bets like "sun won't rise tomorrow"? Who does "you" refer to in this sentence? Polymarket itself? I'm pretty sure if Polymarket itself deci
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by Bratmon 6mo ago
You say that like it's bad thing, but really it's great! It gives us normies a way to see what the powerful are thinking.
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by Bratmon 6mo ago
Not if 100% of their power is being used to power data centers
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by Bratmon 6mo ago
Exactly! They've gotten very good at mark-identification over the years.
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by Bratmon 6mo ago
Email scammers often make their initial emails intentionally full of red flags to automatically filter out anyone smart enough to avoid the scam, and leave them with a pool of people willing to accept any amount of scummyness and abuse. Win
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by Bratmon 6mo ago
Data centers don't really help the material conditions of Mainers though. Here's the net effects of new data centers they'll really see, in material terms: - A brief boost in construction jobs - ~0 new jobs in the long term
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by Bratmon 6mo ago
Utility solar is VERY different from small-scale solar panels on houses. And, yes, there are already utility solar and wind plants around. There are also chemical plants, prisons, and garbage dumps. That doesn't mean the people of Ma
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by Bratmon 6mo ago
Mainers hate seeing wind and solar plants- they consider them to be a massive eyesore. The people of Maine won't consider "We'll build something you don't like but we'll offset it by building something else you don&
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by Bratmon 6mo ago
Abolish the H1B. Now.
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by Bratmon 6mo ago
Fairly inevitable. Like all YC companies, they were total frauds, but they made the cardinal mistake of defrauding other YC companies instead of the general public. Bad move.
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by Bratmon 7mo ago
The new times take now beneath the new time while new times take the new time.
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by Bratmon 7mo ago
Huh, I didn't realize it was time for Open Office's descendants to collapse and divide again. Open-office mitosis is one of the most beautiful and natural parts of the Open Source ecosystem.

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