Kednicma

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by Kednicma 6y ago
Yes; there's a listing [0] of violence committed during the protests since they started earlier in the year. I think that the police will continue killing people until they are disbanded or restructured. History tells us that police in
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In Different Voices (2007)(bactra.org)
3 points by Kednicma 6y ago|1 comments
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Psychometrics is fascinating because it might be obvious and clear bullshit, but people are so insistent on classifying and measuring each other that they don't care. The g-factor might not exist, and similarly this new D-factor might
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https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0310126 is an interesting walkthrough of how they might have computed some lunar calendars.
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It's a depressingly common choice for educational installations. Folks are trained to use ICC instead of GCC and then they keep using ICC when they leave school.
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If I understand correctly, Powell's owns their downtown property, including the parking garage. The rent on their adjacent location may be high, and they did renovate and change those adjacent locations a few years ago, but that should
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I've got news for you: You aren't in Powell's target market. Powell's is for Portlanders, and on any other year of their existence they would be swarmed daily, busier than any food cart. In this part of the world, Powe
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I hope that we're not stuck writing piles of low-level code for all eternity. We don't need more than a few pages of each low-level language, and while I do really like Zig's qualities compared to C, I'd still like to mi
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On one hand, yes, antifascists like myself intentionally voted for our new DA because we expected him to be not just tough on crime, but also tough on cops. On the other hand, though, the other candidate for DA was explicitly pro-policing a
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by Kednicma 6y ago
Where are you from and which media outlets have you been consuming? From a local perspective, the national attempts to portray the protests are rather futile, since the area under contention is only about two blocks large [0] and it's
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On one hand, no, there's no new protections. On the other hand, trees already have citywide code protecting them [0]; we can't cut them down or prune them beyond reasonable basics. For example, a neighbor recently had a small fi
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by Kednicma 6y ago
Congratulations, you've fallen for ancient propaganda. Educate yourself [0][1][2] and don't have weird links in your profile. [0] https://acoup.blog/2019/08/16/collections-this-isnt-sparta-p... [1]
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Read again, but from the other side of the looking-glass; imagine that you have a bunch of code in E or some other object-capability-safe language, and you want to audit it for Spectre vulnerabilities. As the article makes clear, other conc
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The best lesson from Sparta is that fascism is ineffective. Secret police don't suppress slave rebellions. Myths alone can run a society, but mostly just run it into the ground. Legislators should be selected by the populace, not appoi
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The Kuwaiti oil fires were indeed an environmental disaster [0]; the main lasting effect is increased acid rain from sulfur dioxide. The fires produced half the USA's entire sulfur dioxide output daily while they burned for months. The
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Because we'd pull out the guillotine. We know exactly what happens with populist rationalist movements. This might not be a morally bad thing, or an overall net negative in terms of utility; when politicians are bad enough, executing t
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by Kednicma 6y ago
I agree that current protests are not "carefully crafted campaigns", but I think that that is largely due to the simplicity of the message: They want less police brutality and murders. The resulting system is not really set up to
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Spectre seems serious. Even the E family of languages (E, Monte, Joule, Grace), which have similar lineage to ECMAScript but have always been focused on isolation, don't have ready answers for how to mitigate Spectre and related attack
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Indeed, the rules are slanted to give bad-faith word-salad as much of an advantage as possible. Even the site's layout is hostile to correcting those posts; in addition to the rules prohibiting us pointing out that the article doesn&#x
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One doesn't have to resign in order to influence managers. In fact, it's easier to not resign. Simply tell management flat-out, in front of co-workers, when what they ask would amount to a crime or other ethical failing. It's
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The excerpt is too small to fully articulate a complete point about ethics, but I agree with the small ideas: We have no idea what we're doing, we aren't good at thinking for ourselves and demanding ethical behavior from our emplo
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No, the impoverished lifestyle of small farmers prevented them from having coins for trade. It's easy to imagine that these farmers were impoverished because they were oppressed, but it's just as true that they did not have opport
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I wonder if the lack of extraction will doom cryptocurrencies to not being suitable for the impoverished masses; without a government which needs the cryptocurrency to be used for taxation, it seems like coin usage would ebb and flow along
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Worse, we need to keep in mind that stereotypes can be totally wrong if they aren't inferring the correct causality. If we have three observables P, Q, R, and physical causations P -> Q and P -> R, then stereotype-style pattern
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The joke's content is a little dated, but I still enjoy how two of the most common fallacies are clearly on display: Getting deduction backwards, and assuming the law of excluded middle.
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Bread, How Did They Make It? Part IV: Markets, Merchants and the Tax Man(acoup.blog)
112 points by Kednicma 6y ago|12 comments
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No, typically this sort of legal argument goes through because the exception exists ; it doesn't matter exactly what the nature of the exception is. Epic's got a solid point: Either Apple does or does not grant exceptions, and th
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I brought this up in a grand-cousin thread, but to what degree does numerical analysis matter here? I mentioned [0], which is a must-read paper for folks doing numerical work, and the author brings up two examples (sections 9 and 11) where
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Some of us like to talk of numerical accuracy as an arcane and trivial detail, but there is no automated technique for always eliminating accuracy problems [0], and this article is showing us that there are real consequences to applied prac
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As a fellow non-expert, I use tables like [0] to help keep everything straight. Yes, the Copenhagen interpretation says that the wavefunctions we manipulate are epistemic; they exist in our mind and on the blackboard but not necessarily IRL

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