Gormo

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by Gormo 2y ago
I don't think elected leaders in the executive branch should be allowed to supersede the role of the elected legislature in formulating public policy. The whole problem can be sidestepped by pulling back on the excessive levels of disc
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by Gormo 2y ago
> No, the biases and incentives are different in government than in business Not really, no. Certain cognitive biases and elements of self-interest are fundamental to all humans in all situations, and while different scenarios lead to t
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by Gormo 2y ago
I've taken this approach, and found that it's trivially easy to distinguish people relying on LLMs from people who have thought the problem through and can explain their own decision-making process. I had a couple of people who, w
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by Gormo 2y ago
> No there isn't. You can't, rightfully, campaign to make rape legal for a day without your life being ruined through ostracization. You can't control what other opinions people will have of you, or suppress their expressi
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by Gormo 2y ago
> It would be interesting if you asked random people if they'd like to sit down and read something for 45mins how many people would accept. I wouldn't expect many to do so, but I absolutely wouldn't expect people who dec
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by Gormo 2y ago
> Bureaucracies are a common good Bureaucracies are just organizations of humans, who have the same motivations, biases, and incentives ans everyone else, everywhere else in society. They're not a "common good", they'
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by Gormo 2y ago
No, that's not quite correct. A lot of subcultures and echo-chamber type social contexts certainly do have extreme policing of extremely particular taboo subject matters, but in more general contexts, especially in American society, t
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by Gormo 2y ago
A lot of people do not understand economics, and think that tariffs are somehow fees charged to foreign countries rather than taxes levied against domestic consumers and businesses. I've had this exact discussion more than once, and h
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by Gormo 2y ago
You're saying you come here to participate in discussions about articles you can't be bothered to read in the first place? Isn't that a little bit disingenuous?
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by Gormo 2y ago
I don't care about 99.99% of Twitter posts enough to read them, but I'd certainly not call them "massive" -- in fact, much of my lack of interest in microblog posts comes from them being far too short to convey any ideas
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by Gormo 2y ago
I didn't get any sense of magical realism from this story. It seemed to delve a lot into the internal thoughts and reflections of someone dealing with the absurdity of the outside world, so Kafkaesque seems the best description.
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by Gormo 2y ago
Definitely seems intentional. The author generally uses past tense to reflect the mental state of the protagonist, and present tense to describe events as they unfold. I found nothing jarring about the tense switches.
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by Gormo 2y ago
So you found it not worth your time to read the story, but found that it was worth your time to participate in discussions about it? That's certainly an interesting set of choices.
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by Gormo 2y ago
Or, perhaps, the author wrote the piece to fulfill his own intrinsic motivations, and then published it on his website so that anyone who did happen to find it worth reading could do so, without necessarily expecting anything of "every
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by Gormo 2y ago
> You may absolutely have retained memories from that age, but it's just as likely that someone told you and your turned it into a memory. I suppose this is possible, but I personally have many extremely detailed visual memories o
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by Gormo 2y ago
> They become a continuous stream around age 2 and everything around age 3 starts being as clear as anything else. I'm pretty much exactly the same, with the same age thresholds. I remember every detail of the house my family moved
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by Gormo 2y ago
No constitutional basis at the federal level, and ad valorem taxation is already implemented at the state level (as a pragmatic approach, without being rooted in incoherent ideologies like Georgism).
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by Gormo 2y ago
> I'm American, and 50.2% of Americans did not vote for this. In all fairness, a good portion of the other 49.8% probably didn't vote for this (or didn't know they were voting for it) either.
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by Gormo 2y ago
With the added detriment of also being incorrect.
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by Gormo 2y ago
Or increasing taxes on the domestic industries that use steel and aluminum, in order to prop up the orders of magnitude smaller domestic steel and aluminum industries. The likely result will be a net loss of jobs and a net negative to
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by Gormo 2y ago
Their desktop chassis and keyboard mechanics are made in the US. Where are they getting the motherboards, CPUs, RAM, storage devices, microcontrollers, etc. from? Do you think System76 runs their own silicon fab? And even for the parts th
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by Gormo 2y ago
It seems really strange that a library that wraps FFMpeg is being discontinued due to patent concerns with the underlying codecs, but those codecs are only implemented in FFMpeg itself, which continues along without issues.
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by Gormo 2y ago
Support for USB controllers in DOS and Win3.1 is, of course, basically nonexistent. However, with the correct BIOS settings, a USB storage volume can be treated as a conventional hard drive (naturally requiring a traditional, non-GPT parti
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by Gormo 2y ago
My sincere personal thanks for this. My main laptop is a Ryzen-based ThinkPad running Linux that I suspend and hibernate regularly, and I sporadically encounter this issue. Looking forward to 6.14!
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by Gormo 2y ago
IIRC, Jerry Pournelle was was still writing hardware and software reviews right up until the very end, well after Byte . He was publishing on his own Chaos Manor blog, which was always a great read.
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by Gormo 2y ago
To be fair, Windows 3.1 can still be run on modern computers.
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by Gormo 2y ago
> As I've found out from other comments, "better" requires rooting your TV, This is not accurate. Most alternatives, in fact, do not require rooting your TV. Look, if you like Plex, you like Plex -- you don't have to
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by Gormo 2y ago
The comment that I suggested you re-read was the one where I explained that you can install Kodi from Homebrew Channel via developer mode without rooting your TV. > First card "Root your TV" Now look at the second card -- t
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by Gormo 2y ago
Cthulhu fhtagn.
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by Gormo 2y ago
Most of the limits on free speech don't pertain to the speech itself, but rather the speech being related to some other form of criminal conduct. Incitement to violence can be punished because of the violence; fraud can be punished be

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