Kamq

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by Kamq 4y ago
That's what the term "formally equivalent" means here. You can do whatever you can do with one of them, with the other one. Actors as well.
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by Kamq 4y ago
No, a cult leader would say that nobody outside the group is free. Only the group is free, and the freedom comes from the cult-leader in some way (flavor that last part to the kind of cult).
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Our willingness to do things in non-efficient ways is one of the ways we consume so many resources.
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by Kamq 4y ago
Never underestimate humanities ability to consume resources. They thought the US had enough land that it would take 20 generations to settle (it took 2). That being said, we should probably still do it. Seems like a slower death route.
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by Kamq 4y ago
I believe the equivalent here means formally equivalent. But, really, you can use each of them to emulate the other. If you want to emulate objects with functions, you just have your function return a bag of closures over the state. Your fi
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by Kamq 4y ago
> Are you considering penitence to be a subset of rehabilitation? Yes, I would consider it part of the rehabilitation process. > Also, this is a nit but deterrence is usually considered to be about both the incarcerated individual and
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by Kamq 4y ago
> So is prison meant to reform or punish? Both, and some other stuff. Traditionally, the justice system is supposed to have 5 recognized goals, they are: deterrence, incapacitation, rehabilitation, retribution, and restitution deterrence
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by Kamq 4y ago
There's no way Elon would have any respect yet, there hasn't been nearly enough time (respect is earned). There are going to be power games for a couple of months, until the new management identifies a subset of the old staff that
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by Kamq 4y ago
There is a difference between consensus around something new and consensus around something that's been studied for a hundred years. They can definitely both be wrong, but one is a lot more likely to change in the near future.
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by Kamq 4y ago
Of course there is. You can generate studies that show roughly anything. It may not be the majority, but if the research is all done in-house by various firms, there's no way for anyone to know that.
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by Kamq 4y ago
> It's ridiculously easy to influence people through propaganda. Sure, but in democracies (or any system where legitimacy depends on the "will of the people"), why the people believe something isn't usually considered
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by Kamq 4y ago
> The official ways of this society is that fun is what your free time is for, and work is for getting things done and make money. Why is this different for software development? Two reasons. 1) Because devs generally have other employme
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by Kamq 4y ago
> I still don't get how we ended up from there to so many people linking their real life name, location, sex and even workplace to anything they post publicly It's in the interest of the large internet companies to encourage th
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by Kamq 4y ago
> They have no power outside that which is given to them is the point. That's true for literally every human with power. If everyone* just stopped listening to the government, all government officials would immediately lose all of t
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by Kamq 4y ago
> If the people who are in power cave to pressure from a bunch random people on Twitter, that's on the powerful, not on the otherwise powerless tweeters. I feel like you can't call a group that can get "the people in power
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by Kamq 4y ago
I think people don't realize how much of the economy relies on agreements to not be a piece of shit. Sort of like the highway system relies on an agreement not to play bumper-cars. There's nothing actually stopping anyone.
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by Kamq 4y ago
> However, they also tend to be heavier. Sure, but 95% of business laptop use is sitting on a desk somewhere. The other 5% being carried to/from a couple of conference rooms and/or a car.
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by Kamq 4y ago
> and possibly the NDA itself Depends on the NDA. A lot of NDAs won't require you to never mention that there is a thing that's under NDA, just from divulging the information in question.
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by Kamq 4y ago
The devs integrating with your solution are going to hate it at a certain point. This may or may not be your fault (underlying technical limitations you've papered over will look like your fault from the outside at a certain point). De
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by Kamq 4y ago
There's not one network with mastodon. Depending on which node you start in, you can get different graphs (from what I remember, mostly due to differences in value between valuing free speech vs preventing hate speech).
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by Kamq 4y ago
> Can someone explain why a Mastodon account is so intrinsically tied to the instance it was registered on? There's no central server, and not all of the instances talk to each other. Where... where would you put the account data?
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by Kamq 4y ago
I mean, if you're self taught, you can take whatever path you want. My comment was in the context of students, which generally is backed by public funding. I'm worried about getting less value for the same number of public dollars
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by Kamq 4y ago
Oh come on now, you're being a little harsh. They prefixed the comment with "Almost certainly would be a bad idea"
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by Kamq 4y ago
Does the amount of money you can make creating these things play into it at all? For example, meth is pretty difficult/dangerous to make (relative to things the average person makes), but making it for a profit has caused the knowledge
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by Kamq 4y ago
> What are the tests that people have to take to gain US citizenship? I mean, you're not wrong, but that's not what the majority of schools' funding is staked upon.
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Schools are optimizing for standardized tests. There's no standardized tests on civics.
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by Kamq 4y ago
> Hi-Point is the same price and works way better Ok, so the reasoning here is that the price is ~equal, and one is more durable (not necessarily a good thing when you're using something in a crime, but I'm willing to entertain
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by Kamq 4y ago
Interesting hypothesis. It seems like we're planning on testing it.
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Yes, but if learning X beforehand required learning Y, then we might be expecting the value of learning X to be the combined value of learning X + Y. It should be noted when adopting this approach, that you're lowering the expected val
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by Kamq 4y ago
Which brings to mind a question. What's the point of a gun buyback if they won't accept 3D printed guns? If it's to get guns off the street, it seems like you'd explicitly want to get cheap guns that are hard to trace (s

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