Retra

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by Retra 7y ago
Waste is not a good thing. And when choice leads to waste, it is not so simply a good thing either.
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by Retra 7y ago
By that same argument, murder laws are ineffective because they don't stop serial killers. And traffic laws are ineffective because they didn't stop a big pile up that one time. Earthquake-safe construction is ineffective because
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by Retra 7y ago
When I moved frequently I bought an inflatable bed or cot. I didn't buy a king sized bed and throw it out every two years. That's insane.
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by Retra 7y ago
AFAIK, there was only one timeline, it was just a closed loop. Skynet was built using technology from the first Terminator (and presumably would never had been developed otherwise.) John Conner knew to send Kyle Reese back in time because h
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by Retra 7y ago
Speaking of the richness of low-information states... there's also a kind of opposite to this: a lack of richness of high-information states. Consider a beam of light entering a liquid like water. There's a great deal of noise and
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by Retra 7y ago
What other timeline is there?
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by Retra 7y ago
Choosing a curated language subset is exactly the "how do I curate the language" problem being referred to. The solution is not to subset a language, but to refuse to superset it. Stop building DSLs and frameworks and domain-speci
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by Retra 7y ago
Forcing people to commit murder is bad, therefore the opposite -- forcing people to not commit murder -- must be equally bad, because they are both forced. This is not a strong argument.
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by Retra 7y ago
I believe this is largely the reason Galileo is often considered the first scientist. When Copernicus argued for a heliocentric world-view, he was largely doing so on the basis of aesthetic value: it simplified the mathematics. But it was a
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by Retra 7y ago
The nightly compiler is unstable, not insecure. If it is insecure, that has nothing to do with stability. If the insecurity is not discovered, it can be stabilized just the same as any other problem can. Your concern is that the instability
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by Retra 7y ago
That wouldn't mean that all of Rust is undefined behavior, it means the compiler is the spec, and the behavior is defined by what the compiler will do. The language having no specification only means that you can't easily determin
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by Retra 7y ago
I would argue that the privacy of the state of your mind (including knowledge of any passwords) is very far removed from the privacy of the state of your non-person property, and deserving of complete protection in all cases.
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by Retra 7y ago
Or maybe you cringe at your old 'good' code because you spent too much time on things that ultimately didn't matter.
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by Retra 7y ago
How is "go to my bio for a link" better than just providing the link?
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by Retra 7y ago
There are. Look into a microscope.
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by Retra 7y ago
You are supposing that there exists a peaceful YouTuber who's (a) dedicated to the peaceful advocacy of their interests, (b) banned from YouTube, and (c) unwilling to advocate their interests on any other platform except through the u
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by Retra 7y ago
You are making an assumption which contradicts your conclusion. If we are assuming that (1) YouTube is effectively the public square and that (2) people will advocate for their interest peacefully, then you cannot conclude that people will
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by Retra 7y ago
Why do you think they won't be able to do it peacefully?
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by Retra 7y ago
I don't see the relevance of that question.
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by Retra 7y ago
And the world is a more violent place because of it. Nevertheless, there is big difference between the way violence is advocated for between moderates and extremists in terms of severity, frequency, and justification. I didn't ask you
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by Retra 7y ago
If their interests are to advocate for violence, why would you expect their ability to advocate in public to lead to peace?
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by Retra 7y ago
Why do you assume they didn't? People make decisions. That's how decisions are made the world over.
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by Retra 7y ago
The constitution provides a framework for this contradiction. + Congress has the power to propose law. + The court has the 'checking' power to rule on the law. + Congress has the 'checking' power to change the law to inv
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by Retra 7y ago
While I agree with you, you can also look at a gene as a particular process for synthesizing its effects. It's not much different from source code in that perspective; doesn't matter how you created it, it matters what it creates.
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by Retra 7y ago
Small nitpick, but patents protect novelty, not uniqueness. If someone creates a human gene that is not available in nature, then it is novel.
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by Retra 7y ago
Of course, there's a good chance the person you're talking to will not see it that way, instead making the same mistake dTal did.
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by Retra 7y ago
It seems you understand why perfectly well: it's a lot of work to do for little actual benefit. >Another tool, I forgot the name I suspect you might be referring to labVIEW?
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by Retra 7y ago
I don't understand your surprise. Text has many compatibility, readability, and uniformity advantages. How are you going to diff a tree? How are you going to make the display consistent across platforms & tools? How are you going t
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by Retra 7y ago
The best solution is to avoid the cat. I've spend my whole life around cats and dogs, and getting scratched and bitten is pretty much a given -- it's instinctual hunt and play behavior. It's just life, if you ask me; it&#x2
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by Retra 7y ago
When I was a kid, I roved around with my friends, but not really ever in places where adults were able to observe me. So there might be some selection bias at play here.

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