PixyMisa

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by PixyMisa 4y ago
Hen3ry. The three is silent.
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by PixyMisa 4y ago
Nim is also easier to learn - if you know Python and any conventional statically typed language, it's a walk in the park. I was producing fast, working code in a couple of hours. Learn Rust for your job, Nim for your side projects.
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by PixyMisa 4y ago
Read Look to Windward, where Banks shows that there is no such thing as "post-scarcity". (Also it's a great book.)
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by PixyMisa 4y ago
So why don't you do it?
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by PixyMisa 4y ago
I can certainly understand that sentiment, but I personally wouldn't go that far. Choose not to work? Here's your bread, here's your cardboard box. Next!
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by PixyMisa 4y ago
> Advanced, industrial, technological societies should be able to guarantee comfort and stability for all people regardless of work. Advanced societies can and should guarantee food and shelter to all people regardless of work. They can&
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by PixyMisa 4y ago
Sure. But Musk is betting that Twitter is not profitable because of the people running it. And Twitter was profitable for a while before the marked management change in late 2018.
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by PixyMisa 4y ago
Correct.
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by PixyMisa 4y ago
They don't have effective content moderation or talent though.
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by PixyMisa 4y ago
Most of Twitter's staff aren't engineers. In fact, by their own descriptions of their workdays, most of Twitter's staff don't do anything at all. Twitter will function better with 75% of the staff gone.
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by PixyMisa 4y ago
Minor detail.
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by PixyMisa 4y ago
Also like Democratic communities that overpay teachers and wonder why their kids have no futures because someone with a brain built a robot to do their repetitive trivial job.
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by PixyMisa 4y ago
No, just the facts.
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by PixyMisa 4y ago
Every source you mention is left-wing. They all report the same stories in the same way. And worse, they all ignore or cover up the same stories in the same way.
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by PixyMisa 4y ago
Clarke's Corollary to Hanlon's Razor: Any sufficiently profound stupidity is indistinguishable from malice.
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by PixyMisa 4y ago
There are about fifty Nazis left on the entire planet. If it's a gateway, someone bricked it up a long time ago.
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by PixyMisa 4y ago
The point here is that the argument is not internally consistent. If Mary knows everything there is to know about colour vision, that includes knowing the experience of seeing the colour red. If she doesn't know that, it simply contrad
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by PixyMisa 4y ago
Right. It's very similar to Bishop Berkeley's argument for idealism, in that the thought experiment doesn't make sense unless you assume a priori that physicalism is false.
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by PixyMisa 4y ago
That's all true, but that's not what the thought experiment is about. The thought experiment states that not only has Mary read everything there is about colour vision, but that she knows everything there is to know .
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by PixyMisa 4y ago
The thought experiment simply contradicts itself. The premise is that Mary knows everything there is to know about colour vision. If this is true, then she knows what it is like to see colour. If she doesn't know that, then the premis
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by PixyMisa 4y ago
Check out Ben Eater's series on the "world's worst video card". https://eater.net/vga
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by PixyMisa 4y ago
And the author of the comment can be sued for defamation. This is what DMCA section 230 settled in the US.
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by PixyMisa 4y ago
The key problem with Jaynes' hypothesis is that it depends on there being a sharp distinction between the behaviour of the Bronze Age individuals described in the Iliad (for example) and modern people today. But there is no sharp disti
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by PixyMisa 4y ago
She's deadly serious.
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by PixyMisa 4y ago
"However, I am an expert in creating a common language for nameless phenomena in the teaching profession." Ah, good. I was worried my child's teacher might come up short in this critical didactic task.
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by PixyMisa 4y ago
"Possible"?
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by PixyMisa 4y ago
The problems really start when you try to deliberately shape society so that dreams are attainable by everyone.
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by PixyMisa 4y ago
Sedition is speech.
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by PixyMisa 4y ago
> Yes and yes he was impeached. the law of the constitution was followed. He was not convicted. That's the same as being tried and found not guilty in a court of law.
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by PixyMisa 4y ago
> Verbal abuse can be as damaging to people as physical violence. No it can't.

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