GavinMcG

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by GavinMcG 6y ago
So would I, but that really doesn't have anything to do with the article. Let's judge it on its own merits.
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by GavinMcG 6y ago
That's just not feasible. "Those people" still have to eat, so they still have to come in contact with grocery store employees, for example. They still need medical care, so they still have to come in contact with a variety o
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by GavinMcG 6y ago
I wouldn't say that, and my comment wasn't an accusation. If you want to be guilty of something, I'd say it was approaching the conversation adversarially rather than charitably. "You were asked for a source" treats
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by GavinMcG 6y ago
jedberg is the former chief architect and operations manager of reddit, fyi.
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by GavinMcG 6y ago
You live in a place where the COVID statistics improved after a lockdown and mask mandate. New York went from having eight to ten thousand new cases per day to having seven or eight hundred per day throughout the summer. And what bubble
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by GavinMcG 6y ago
Now who's taking the extreme position? But your accusation applies just as well to you: putting individual choice before anything else will make the life we live impossible. Should I get to choose whether taxes work for me or not? Sure
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by GavinMcG 6y ago
> Then why are we locking down a second or third time Most places didn't lock down a first time. You live in NYC, so you got the brunt of the first wave and did actually lock down. I lived in Arizona when it was the next hotspot,
728.
by GavinMcG 6y ago
There is zero doubt at this point that mask-wearing and reducing the number of people one comes in contact with do have a positive effect. And your slippery slope fallacy is also unconvincing. I have a reasonable choice about whether to mee
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by GavinMcG 6y ago
I really wish people stopped digging graves for 275,000 people and counting by being able to tell the difference between basic public health measures and fascism.
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by GavinMcG 6y ago
There is if someone lives in a smaller community where being non-mainstream reduces offerings or closes the theater entirely.
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by GavinMcG 6y ago
The comment said that it ruins lives just as effectively, not that it's as addictive. Two things don't need to be equally strong or powerful to each get the job done.
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by GavinMcG 6y ago
"What did they expect" is a knee-jerk response to a lot of things that completely avoids thinking about who is responsible for what. I suspect you meant it sarcastically, here, but a lot of people don't. I think it leads to a
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by GavinMcG 6y ago
Didn't the author address that? > In effect, the major selling point of the “object”-style design here is also a major downside: you don't have guarantees about the specific representation of data, which means your programs can
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by GavinMcG 6y ago
No, it's not. It uses Haskell's data types but it's explicitly not about Haskell's data types. It also explicitly addresses two definitions of "object" so as to constrain vagueness.
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by GavinMcG 6y ago
Ironically, "when no additional words can be removed" is the same number of words as "remove words that don’t add necessary context" but communicates less by leaving out the concept of context. Changing "To be bri
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by GavinMcG 6y ago
That's the point. Each line violates the rule it states.
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by GavinMcG 6y ago
Summary: + Reallocating the spectrum involved an auction that had a multi-year planning and implementation phase. + Existing licensees were incentivized to sell their spectrum into the government-run auction. All told, there was $10 billion
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by GavinMcG 6y ago
The ABA does not do anywhere near as good a job of protecting their market. There are far more law school slots each year, and that's reflected in salaries for lawyers, a huge portion of which are well under $100k/year.
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by GavinMcG 6y ago
Given that it's a non-American media source, and that the specific location within Utah wasn't released, do you think there's a more appropriate visual that they should have used?
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by GavinMcG 6y ago
But words sometimes mean more than one thing, and for better or worse, "Aryan" is far more frequently used in the sense developed in the scientific racism movement of the 19th century. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wi
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by GavinMcG 6y ago
Not killing people who aren't a threat is about the best one-size-fits-all policy I can imagine.
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by GavinMcG 6y ago
I'd second Google Maps, unless you need to get realllllly granular with food category. My primary search for restaurants on Google Maps is "chinese food" or "hamburger" or the like and I always get appropriate resul
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by GavinMcG 6y ago
I concede as often as I can, actually. Partly it's because I view being wrong as a temporary state of affairs, that doesn't reflect poorly on me as a human, and that I can grow from. Partly it's tactical: by conceding, I can
744.
by GavinMcG 6y ago
Let's assume you're right and there isn't a different definition. Still: by focusing on the use of the term, you're driving the conversation away from the substance of what the other person is saying and toward a linguis
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by GavinMcG 6y ago
> The strange thing is I always hear people talk about things how functional languages like say... Haskell are more expressive and more powerful than imperative languages. They are technically wrong. These languages are LESS powerful. Yo
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by GavinMcG 6y ago
I think that's likely mythical thinking, and not something based in data. It's fairly common for plaintiff-side lawyers to work on contingency when they believe you have a case. Less likely here, given the somewhat unexplored terr
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by GavinMcG 6y ago
The idea that our mechanism for understanding how others feel recruits or works through our mechanism for feeling things seems a likelier and simpler explanation than one where those two mechanisms are entirely separate.
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by GavinMcG 6y ago
Legal services can get involved just fine if you file suit. You'll just have to establish that Google owed a duty to you (by contract or otherwise) and that you were harmed by their breach of that duty. (Roughly. I am not a lawyer.)
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by GavinMcG 6y ago
We don't all understand the meaning. And yes, here, the purpose was ellipsis: the original text was "Uber bought itself a law. Here's why that's dangerous for struggling drivers like me" and the submission was eli
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by GavinMcG 6y ago
Ellipsis is accomplished with an ellipsis, not a dash. Use ... next time.

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