Chaebixi

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by Chaebixi 9y ago
> but I keep getting hung up by the fact that a whole lot of Peterson's followers are fascists and racists. > Of course the same might have been said at one time about Nietzsche and Jung. Some Nazis loved Nietzche but it was not
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by Chaebixi 9y ago
> Cultural practices take time to adjust or to be adjusted externally. Move too fast and people won't be happy about it, and that should be understood. To your point, failing to accommodate this, and expecting everyone to immediatel
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by Chaebixi 9y ago
I found it on http://www.aldaily.com . They find some very good stuff.
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by Chaebixi 9y ago
> Especially now that Amazon owns Whole Foods, the vast majority of my disposable income is theirs. It would be very difficult for them to make Prime no longer worthwhile for me. I have a realized this too, but my response has been to ex
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by Chaebixi 9y ago
In my experience, that "credit" is really just a promotion for some other service they're pushing. Now all the ones I could get are for prime pantry, which I'm never going to use.
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by Chaebixi 9y ago
> From many conversations, and my personal experience, the reliability of prime for two day deliveries has gone way down Also they push Amazon Logistics on you, which is terrible. I've had so many problems with them. The worst t
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What’s So Dangerous About Jordan Peterson?(chronicle.com)
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by Chaebixi 9y ago
> You have paid 0 for the use of Google's servers and their software. > unfortunately you aren't the customer, although you might feel differently and they've definitely marketed things in a misleading way. That's
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by Chaebixi 9y ago
Also Android is a more open platform. I can't reasonably side-load personal apps in iOS.
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by Chaebixi 9y ago
> but for whatever reason they require me to enable App and Web Usage History (or something like that) for my Google account, so I decline, as I don't want to open that can of worms. Such as dictating new text messages in Android au
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by Chaebixi 9y ago
> I think this is called "shadow work"...Google has turned you into a mechanical turk without pay :) That's an excellent term! Also, I can't favorite this comment for some reason. The link is missing. edit: I guess r
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by Chaebixi 9y ago
> That's like saying a transistor radio needs to know where broadcast antennas are, which is obviously absurd. Cellphones are called cell phones because they divide the world into location-based cells which determine which antenna
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by Chaebixi 9y ago
That may be true, but it's also forgetting the fact that the Pixel-owner is a customer , whose needs and wants the product should be catered to. It's sort of like if Google sold a robot that happened to also steal money from yo
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by Chaebixi 9y ago
I think that attitude is exactly what I was talking about. I paid Google directly ; I am their customer. But they don't know what to do with user-customers, so they treat me like the kind of user-product that they're more famil
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by Chaebixi 9y ago
> Why? Well, the problem with Google is they have an incentive to do bad things to us, simply because we are not the real customer. I am one of Google's real customers, I bought an expensive phone from them, but, to quote Josh Marsh
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by Chaebixi 9y ago
> The problem with the patent system is not the concept of patents, but what they've been allowed to apply to and how long the terms have increased. Patents aren't copyrights. The term for patents is only about 20 years.
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by Chaebixi 9y ago
There are areas of the patent system that are legitimately in need of reform , but that doesn't mean the underlying concept is not sound. Many people seem to be looking at the areas where reform is needed and erroneously concluding t
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by Chaebixi 9y ago
> In the case of mathematics and computing, the invention can be copied easily by development costs are minimal as well. These is no compelling reason why someone should reap disproportionate rewards from a government-supported artificia
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by Chaebixi 9y ago
> Under a different system that doesn't incentivize holding back global progress for small amounts of individual enrichment. Patents were explicitly created to avoid, "incentivize holding back global progress for small amount
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by Chaebixi 9y ago
Trade secrets are worse because then the design never gets disclosed, and has to be rediscovered. Time limited patents are a good and explicit trade off between the personal benefit of the inventor and the benefit of society. > Michael
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by Chaebixi 9y ago
> There are plenty of people who wouldn't touch anything patented at all, sometimes even with a patent clause. Then that's their loss. This seems like the ideal scenario for patent protections: small inventor developing a genu
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by Chaebixi 9y ago
> Write a property based test, ie generate a bunch of random inputs, then assert that all of them are within some (loose) margin of error. So someone comes along later, look at your test, and wonders: why did you go through all that tro
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by Chaebixi 9y ago
How do you express "X is a dead end; we tried it and it didn't work because Y, so this is Z" as a unit test? The strength of prose is that it can be used express concepts with an efficiency and fluency that syntactically-cor
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by Chaebixi 9y ago
I'd love to do something like this, but I'm too afraid of dealing with the police if someone uses my service to do anything illegal. If it's very small (e.g. a neighborhood), might they just accuse the operator (me) and I&#x
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by Chaebixi 9y ago
> It hasn't prevented a false alarm, which is why it hit the news... That's because they forgot the lesson decades ago. It seems like the 1971 event is a forgotten piece of cold war history. I haven't seen any mention of
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by Chaebixi 9y ago
> Those who speak of “self-documenting code” are missing something big: the purpose of documentation is not just to describe how the system works today, but also how it will work in the future and across many versions. And so it’s equall
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by Chaebixi 9y ago
> A 64 GB SSD option was available for a whopping $999. > $1k is not expensive for a high-quality Ultrabook...In fact, I'm pretty sure the Macbook Air is still around that price. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I read that as b
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by Chaebixi 9y ago
Haven't the courts put extra limits on the terms that are enforceable in click-through EULAs? E.g. a court would strike a click-through term where you "contractually agreed" to pledge Facebook all your current and future inc
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by Chaebixi 9y ago
> For example they can use it to argue that sending an opt-out mails indicates that you have read the clause. It also indicates that you have read the TOS in general. It also indicates that you agreed to the rest of the TOS. Etc etc. You
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by Chaebixi 9y ago
> When a drill deviates from the actions taken in an emergency it becomes a pantomime of little value. Sending an emergency alert isn't an action that requires split-second muscle memory. I think slight deviations in the drill vs.

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