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by Lazare 7y ago
> Valid defenses include: the statement is true Also a defence under Australian law. > The statement is the speaker's opinion. Also a defence under Australian law, as long as the speech falls under the concept of "fair comme
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by Lazare 7y ago
> Where is your line for where a culture starts and stops? In my view, culture is pretty fundamental, and when we run across a culture alien to us, it's quite disconcerting. And so a monoculture is one where you never run across any
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by Lazare 7y ago
Well yeah, guns are not toys. And thus logically, toys are not guns. > toy, noun, an object for a child to play with, typically a model or miniature replica of something. A model of something is not the thing itself, therefore, toys are
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by Lazare 7y ago
> The fact that DJI releases a [toy] for kids that has a working cannon feels super icky from my western perspective. I don't think that's a western perspective, I think that's your perspective. The actual western pers
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by Lazare 7y ago
I can only conclude they've actually met a child, unlike the Anki designers then. :)
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by Lazare 7y ago
Well yeah. Or probably even more importantly, a tax that most people wouldn't be paying. Efficient taxes tend to 1) be broad based and 2) be very hard to avoid by changing behaviour. And that means they will impact a lot of voters
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by Lazare 7y ago
This seems like a pretty good idea; hopefully the execution will be up to scratch. I'm not adverse to paying for a performant, privacy respecting browser.
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by Lazare 7y ago
> Are there any types of tax that are: 1. Reasonably within the means of cities to levy, and 2. Economically efficient? Economic orthodoxy says that taxes in order of efficiency (from most to least) are: Land value taxes > property t
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by Lazare 7y ago
Huh. Well, that's how you handle a post mortem! You outline what you did wrong, and then you outline how you're going to fix it. And it looks like the proposed fixes are appropriate, so... DO, like (nearly?) all companies (not to
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by Lazare 7y ago
...the article is very, very clear that it absolutely will not.
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by Lazare 7y ago
> This is not remotely the same thing. A RAID offers no protection against logical corruption from an erroneous script [...] But S3 is already storing your data in three different data centers That sounds like...the same argument? A RAID
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by Lazare 7y ago
That doesn't follow. It's absolutely possible for drivers to be net losers. Imagine than in some quarter Uber collected $3 billion of fares, received $5 billion in services from drivers, paid the drivers $4 billion, and made up th
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by Lazare 7y ago
A bit of backstory: NZ has socialized medicine, with a central drug buying agency (Pharmac) who tries to save costs where it can. It also has a drug safety agency (Medsafe). Not uncommonly, Pharmac reckons they can save money by switching b
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by Lazare 7y ago
Absolutely. My long-term partner was in this exact situation: She did experience some fairly mild side-effects, complained about them to me, but didn't consider that the medication switch might be the cause until she saw others comp
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by Lazare 7y ago
I'm a bit sceptical here. As it happens, my partner was taking Effexor (a branded formulation of venlafaxine) and was switched to the generic Enlafax. She complained to me that she was feeling a little bit worse starting around this p
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by Lazare 7y ago
> It’s unrealistic to expect this of a tiny startup. I could not disagree more. There's a right way and a wrong way to do this, it's trivial to do it right, and the risks of doing it wrong are enormous.
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by Lazare 7y ago
Back in the day, we used to talk a lot about how RAID is not a backup strategy. The modern version of that is that S3 is not a backup strategy. > So what is the purpose of the massive level of redundancy that you are already paying for w
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by Lazare 7y ago
My impression is that most criticism (certainly the criticism I've found valid and troubling) has been focused on whether Go is community driven , or controlled by a small team of core developers who just happen to currently work for
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by Lazare 7y ago
I've been meaning to give Firefox another try; I haven't used it actively in years, and this is a good prompt. And after a couple hours.... ....Firefox is pretty impressive! I'm actually going to switch to using it as my &quo
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by Lazare 7y ago
> But really my point here is just: there's no point in the Go team engaging on this, because I literally can't think of a single thing Russ Cox could say to defuse this drama. As others, I think the easiest thing Cox could say
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by Lazare 7y ago
I would say it's what happens when a community is explicitly not allowed to solve a problem. PHP, for all its warts, is 1) very community driven and 2) solved their package management problems via the community (with Composer). Go wa
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by Lazare 7y ago
Yes. Canola is, basically, the edible type of rapeseed oil. The name was originally a trademark, but is now a generic term. Australia and NZ also call it "canola", but it's the same oil either way, and it's fairly decen
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by Lazare 7y ago
If you heat them past the smoke point , yes, they lose a ton of nutrients and become quite unhealthy. In normal use, no, not really. The impact of heating them is quite small. And comparing them to animal fats...they're clearly sligh
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by Lazare 7y ago
There's a lot of data suggesting sugar is unhealthy. Fruit contains sugar, so clearly eating a moderate about of fresh fruit is unhealthy, right? This stuff is difficult to reduce to a pithy tweet.
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by Lazare 7y ago
Canola oil contains low amounts of trans fat, comparable to all other oils, and while heating it does increase the amount, it's slow . Using canola oil in a deep fryer for 7 hours per day for 7 days resulted in boosting the trans fat
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by Lazare 7y ago
A lot of fear mongering there. His argument boils down to: 1. Beyond burger has canola oil in it, and canola oil is responsible for diabetes, dementia, depression, anxiety, aggression, and kills kittens. Okay, I made the last one up, but he
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by Lazare 7y ago
Depends what you mean by "big", but between Docker, Influx, Cockroach, etcd, all the hashicorp projects (consul, nomad, terraform), caddy, grafana, bolt, etc., there's a fair number of pretty big golang project around. And
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by Lazare 7y ago
> What is your reply when folks point out that the "community-driven" modules solution did not meet the needs of anyone managing a sufficiently-large project with independently-developed (i.e. 'community'!) dependenci
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by Lazare 7y ago
> It seems to me, as an outside observer, that golang is OSS. That seems fair, yes. Although while some people are unhappy because they're just not fans of that model, I think more of the unrest is because the Go team keeps saying
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by Lazare 7y ago
His comments are fine, but don't engage with any of the criticism or concrete points others have made. The "Go Is Not a Community Driven Project" post really dug into detail how, in a specific case, Go did not behave as a co

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