Retra

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by Retra 7y ago
Tracking people is like 90% of what every organization does. It's why we have names, phone numbers, addresses, id numbers, license plates, etc. "Tracking people = bad" is an untenable assumption.
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by Retra 7y ago
And if everything is dogma, then we must simply fight to the death. I am arguing it is not , precisely because that is not the outcome I want to occur. You can disagree -- but you do not improve anything by doing so. As I've been sayi
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by Retra 7y ago
You keep framing this conflict as though it is a purely political/value-based disagreement. It is not. When somebody denies basic facts about the world or the validity of rational methods and/or scientific reasoning, you are not s
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by Retra 7y ago
Just because people have different values does not mean we don't share values, and more importantly, that we don't share reality. The things that I am intolerant toward are a disregard for the facts, a disregard for demonstrated r
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by Retra 7y ago
Rust doesn't move through the pointer, it moves only the pointer, which should be perfectly fine.
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by Retra 7y ago
"Why are you so socially awkward" -- person who mistakenly thinks this is a 'graceful' conversation starter.
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by Retra 7y ago
What is your point? That every person who has to make decisions with costs may as well be in prison? Going to school and serving in the military are only different kinds of prisons because you can't escape them? You can't escape c
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by Retra 7y ago
What society has done or is doing is a rather different matter than what it tends to do.
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by Retra 7y ago
>Even in capitalist societies there are still places like that, with free healthcare, basic necessities available for everyone, guaranteed roof over your head, and even full employment. These are called prisons. Or "schools". O
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by Retra 7y ago
It's no wonder that a new language is lacking the maturity and features of an old language. Of course you can attribute it to 'avoiding the hard work', but that's the same reason you don't live in a crystal castle.
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by Retra 7y ago
Perhaps 'inspired by', but not 'derived from'.
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by Retra 7y ago
It would appear that all of your code quality arguments are "people are too lazy to actually write good code." So it's not clear why you would decry that assertion. I don't have a horse in the race one way or another, bu
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by Retra 7y ago
I don't see any evidence that society tends to be driven toward stability or tolerance, and even if it did, why you would attribute that to religion.
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by Retra 7y ago
That's true, but you're also dancing around the relevant thesis: not all agendas are created equal. Some agendas are better than others in very real and practicable senses, and thus if you assume people are able to optimize thei
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by Retra 7y ago
All groups do that. Even you're doing that with your comment right here. "Everybody should do X." That's what humans do with our shared moral languages. It is inevitable. But you probably think it's different when y
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by Retra 7y ago
That would be 50% men, 50% women, and 50% minority.
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by Retra 7y ago
I would too, but I would never support that as an official policy option, due to the extortion angle.
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by Retra 7y ago
People have built actual cults around far less useful things.
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by Retra 7y ago
>Without risks no rewards. This is a fallacy. The vast majority of people are rewarded for minimizing risk, not taking it. People justify extra risk for disproportionate reward, not reward in general. You have to take risks if you want r
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by Retra 7y ago
But also free land, and a reliable market for the goods produced on it.
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by Retra 7y ago
Now suddenly having dedicated parents and high-quality education is not a reward in itself. Why be king of a minor gold hill, if it cannot entitle you to rule a mountain, am I right?
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by Retra 7y ago
I feel like your analogy is predicated on missing some pretty important facts. Sales and usage numbers, maybe. Obviously the fad for communicating between humans will gradually fade, as the time-proven wonders of shouting at a rock on your
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by Retra 7y ago
Did you write that comment with speech-to-text? Why not? If it's such a good interface, why use a keyboard to write text?
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by Retra 7y ago
I think it is probably more useful to prove that something isn't Turing complete, and explain why. Finding things that are Turing complete is the basically the same task through a complementary lens.
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by Retra 7y ago
I don't believe you can distinguish the two, especially when someone takes a deliberate and motivated action which they can fully expect to land them in prison. (See: organized crime.)
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by Retra 7y ago
If a lane is shut down due to an accident, it is better to have five spares though.
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by Retra 7y ago
Murder is not something you rehabilitate against. I should not be able to murder people if I can just act real nice to get away with it.
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by Retra 7y ago
I use great software with subpar tooling all day long, and it is not a good feeling. It feels like sawing of your own arm to feed your hungry customers.
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by Retra 7y ago
>This makes zero sense. Choices matter. Not in models that don't contain them. >We use pseudorandom number generators precisely because it is impossible to have true randomness within a deterministic system. "Nondeterminism&
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by Retra 7y ago
Everything is just bits of energy being shuffled around. There is no value in seeing computers as being unable to comprehend things, when comprehension is little more than maintaining an internal model of some processes. And computers do th

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