SilasX

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by SilasX 10mo ago
Late edit: looks like you had already mentioned the link being dead, sorry.
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by SilasX 10mo ago
Was that because of Prop 65, though? The day-to-day effect seems to be alert fatigue and people ignoring the warnings because they're everywhere. I read the links to find the proposed mechanism (NIH link is dead btw), and it says that
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by SilasX 10mo ago
>Having discrete jumps on a mechanical analog clock is not a particularly hard problem. I meant at the creation of the first clocks. >For that matter getting a purely digital display out of a mechanical clock is not diffucult either e
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by SilasX 10mo ago
I mean ... there's a continuous scale of how much effort you spend to express gratitude. You could ask the same question of "well why did you say 'thanks' instead of 'thank you' [instead of 'thank you very
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by SilasX 10mo ago
That's a good point. The hour hand moves continuously as an artifact of technical constraints on the original clocks -- which I think is a great example of achieving a balance between UI and technical feasibility -- but we don't t
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by SilasX 10mo ago
Also the pedophile that tried to obscure his face in pictures with a swirl effect that they were able to reverse enough to identify him: https://www.minnpost.com/politics-policy/2007/11/you-can-swi... IIRC th
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by SilasX 10mo ago
This. Similar issue if you introduce someone to how you can "view source" and then edit (your view of) a website. They're like "omg haxors!" True story: one time I used that technique to ask for a higher credit card
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by SilasX 10mo ago
Did you read the second sentence of that paragraph? The same thing would happen with a legit adjective, like if the forum had been named "FinancialBets": "Guys, this is financial bets , not financial prudent hedges ."
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by SilasX 10mo ago
This. People act like it's a hyper-complicated rule that English speakers magically infer, when in reality, a) other languages do it, and b) it's a much simpler rule (that you've given) which someone overcomplicated. As a cou
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by SilasX 10mo ago
They...already do that? They stopped allowing unsigned addons, even if you allow them in about:config (a power-user feature). Even Chrome allows you to toggle the option to do that -- in a more user-friendly way! -- and actually honors it,
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by SilasX 10mo ago
But that's a false benefit. You don't want to stimulate the economy for the sake of it, you want to stimulate the economy to the extent that it satisfies genuine human wants. It would be better if that other person's salary c
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by SilasX 11mo ago
That's over the entire population, which includes the elderly. For the 18-34yo block, it's 8.3%, and you'd probably expect it even lower for ... well, the population that, to put it bluntly, succeeded in life enough to get in
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by SilasX 11mo ago
>there are other operations that aren’t quite involutions – “near-involutions”, one might call them2 – that nonetheless have the property that thrice is the same as once, four times is the same as twice, etc. ... Unlike mod-two arithmeti
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by SilasX 1y ago
I don’t see where I was disputing that point.
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by SilasX 1y ago
Yeah I was going to say, that sounds like a much more salient reason not to live near an airport than the possibility of that rare crash.
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by SilasX 1y ago
>As it is we have a system of private "insurance" that can't consider the risk level of those being insured. All that means is the companies charge everyone else more to subsidize the cost of those who are more at risk. Th
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by SilasX 1y ago
He was ahead of his time, definitely, and binary logic is one critical step in getting there, but we're a long way from having a formal language to represent all claims that would ever arise in human argumentation to the point that it&
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by SilasX 1y ago
>It turns out that, aside from their common interest in antagonising Isaac Newton, Hooke and Leibniz also shared an interest in mechanising scientific reasoning through the invention of a universal language for science. Leibniz called hi
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by SilasX 1y ago
>On the other hand, ".gouv.fr" is something used in France. gouv[ernement] is completely different than go[u]v[ernement] How are they different? Contractions and abbreviations drop letters. That's the point. .gov would hav
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by SilasX 1y ago
For another example of this, there was BritCSS someone made that lets you use British spellings in CSS: https://github.com/DeclanChidlow/BritCSS
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by SilasX 1y ago
Even so, it parallels a real thing that happens in non-joke contexts, where they avoid valid French when it looks "too English": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45773624
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by SilasX 1y ago
Haha there are other cases where there is valid French that isn't accepted in French speaking areas because it looks too similar to English. 1) Quebec wanted "arrêt" instead of "stop" on stop signs, even though the
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by SilasX 1y ago
Oh wow, I had independently formulated that as the duality/parallel between corruption and cheat codes: "The more out-of-band information you need in order to be treated normally/fairly, the more corrupt the system is."
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by SilasX 1y ago
Right, for the OpenAI case to be analogous, they would have to switch to a system where your chats are homomorphically encrypted -- i.e. OpenAI does all its operations without knowing either the input or output plaintext. In that case, they
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by SilasX 1y ago
That’s just hacking.
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by SilasX 1y ago
A true government shutdown, yes. But here, all the nation-state-defining stuff (military, border control, police) stays up, and only parts of it shut down.
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by SilasX 1y ago
But the intended insight isn't stupid, and "the exception proves the rule" is a natural, easily-inferred contraction of "the rarity of finding an exception proves the general validity of the rule".
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by SilasX 1y ago
Yes, but in common usage it has come to also mean "the [rarity of finding an] exception proves the [general validity of] the rule", and it was clear from context which one the parent meant.
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by SilasX 1y ago
Interestingly, it's common in the Midwest to add "'s" where it doesn't exist when referring to a brand e.g. calling Costco "Costco's". https://styleblueprint.com/everyday/why-do
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by SilasX 1y ago
>I think the order here is reversed: If you ask the public for money, it's fair to perform a public service. If you just do something you wanted to do anyways, and probably would have done anyways, then it might be viewed as less-th

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