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by Jiro 5y ago
This HN post is useless. The article here is about the Decadal Survey which is about to come out as of the date of the article. It came out literally a day later: https://www.aip.org/fyi/2021/astro2020-decadal-
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by Jiro 5y ago
Because your rule will be implemented by people applying the rule to their own beliefs. And everyone thinks their own beliefs are correct.
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by Jiro 5y ago
>This line of reasoning only makes sense if you think that moral positions have no qualities other than how strongly people hold them. Of course there are differences in moral positions other than how strongly people hold them. But if y
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by Jiro 5y ago
Remember that aphorisms like that don't only apply to your side. Every time you say something like that, imagine that someone whose sense of injustice is opposite to yours is using it. Maybe they think that abortion is literal murder.
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by Jiro 5y ago
>Here's a reason article about several attempts If you read the article carefully, -- This is about leases. Leases come with conditions. You're not buying the land. -- The first example is about someone who lied and made a bi
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by Jiro 5y ago
>I hope that physicist Dennis Whyte was being misquoted here. Why? Because quantum leaps are small? The metaphor is not comparing it to the size of the quantum leap; the metaphor is that quantum leaps are discontinuous .
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by Jiro 5y ago
>What if you're wrong and they wanted to inflict anguish on their users? Well, the market is pretty good about fixing those problems, at least with commodities like lights. The problem with this idea is that consumer-unfriendly thin
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by Jiro 5y ago
>Surely this claim requires moral relativism, right? No, it just requires not calling mistakes evil unless you should have known better. And not every example where you might hurt someone is one where you should have known better.
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by Jiro 5y ago
I noticed the "FAQ" doesn't include the question "will you be paying out money to people who read your email and spent money on a lawyer checking it out?"
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by Jiro 5y ago
What's to prevent them from responding to this by asking for an invoice? (Note: If your answer is "well, send them an invoice", the problem is that you'll probably have to contact a lawyer to make sure that the invoice i
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by Jiro 5y ago
What if your phone system is poorly designed and only accepts 500 phone calls a minute or it crashes, should there be legal consequences for getting 600 people to call during the minute? What if your web site is poorly designed so that mor
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by Jiro 5y ago
Do we even still have Moore's Law? All indications are that it died out a while ago.
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by Jiro 5y ago
I don't want a Hippocratic Oath for software engineers. "That software is used by abortion clinics, so I am morally obliged not to write it." And even ignoring cases like that, there are too many situations where the program
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by Jiro 5y ago
>Apart from network effect, and Google's Ad Monopoly, what does YT have that has made it a clear winner in this field? What would a competitor need to take on them? Apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public or
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by Jiro 5y ago
>Open Source provides a way for some authors to publish software optimized for quality This is literally true because of the word "some" in there. But if you mean that it especially leads to quality, rather than just "s
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by Jiro 5y ago
Any time someone tries a new method of execution, activists pounce on it and take it to court, making any new method expensive because of court costs and tied up in years of cases. The only methods of execution that can't be filibuste
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by Jiro 5y ago
The reason this advice hasn't been taken in the last 23 years is that with all the questions and answers in this page, there's one question that was missing. "Doing the things you advised us to do in the other questions cost
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by Jiro 5y ago
>Both of which are things you can personally change something about. No, because "how Chrome surfaces a lack of SSL" is about your users' Chrome, not your own instance of Chrome. You cannot personally change the Chrome th
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by Jiro 5y ago
I was referring to this text from the 0readme.txt: >Most of the "later" and "Marvel" games were published in SAGA+ format (with a better parser). These versions are not included because ScottFree cannot play them yet.
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by Jiro 5y ago
Not to say I disagree with you at all, but everything you say here applies to GNU.... (Well, maybe it's not so common a word, but it's still a written word for something that you're supposed to pronounce it unlike the Englis
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by Jiro 5y ago
I can get many of your adventures from your old website. The readme file says that four of the later adventures are in SAGA+ format and are not included because ScottFree can't play them. Since this was written 24 years ago, is there
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by Jiro 5y ago
Yet another article claiming that Facebook isn't censoring properly and needs to do more censoring. Because that's what it amounts to. It's buried, of course, in concerns about things that Facebook actually does wrong. But
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by Jiro 5y ago
Names are used to communicate. If you have to tell people "it's pronounced G-new" like a Monty Python sketch, you make it harder for people to take you seriously.
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by Jiro 5y ago
For a long time, the 3DS hacking subreddit (3dshacks) specifically permitted pictures of 3d shacks, though they don't seem to be allowing it nowadays.
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by Jiro 5y ago
Pedestrian protestors have developed the tactic of gathering on high speed highways, surrounding cars, and trying to assault the drivers. If the driver is not permitted to "mow down" protestors (meaning trying to get away when th
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by Jiro 5y ago
It's still fudgeable, because of things like whether everyone who dies while having Covid should count as a death from Covid.
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by Jiro 5y ago
This would be a lot less objectionable if they enforced the policy evenly. But it's actually "accused of a violent crime and politically incorrect". Also, you know, being accused isn't being found guilty. What next, di
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by Jiro 5y ago
Something that surprisingly, almost nobody has said: In order to use somebody's wi-fi, you have to do things that affect the source of the wi-fi. Wi-fi is inherently a two-way thing; wi-fi that only went from your neighbor's ho
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by Jiro 5y ago
>B-b-but I thought Facebook wasn't one of the Mafia families? I think you're just saying words for funsies. The analogy is that one Mafia family can turn in another Mafia family. Facebook has always been a Mafia family in this
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by Jiro 5y ago
"The police" would consist of government bureaucrats and cancel mobs. Facebook can be and is being reported to them with the full expectation that they will ultimately be able to force Facebook to censor in different ways. > O

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