SkyBelow

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by SkyBelow 5y ago
>This is not a criticism of the driver, because everyone does it, It is a valid criticism of the driver and not everyone does it. It is a major problem that so many people treat safe following distances as great places to cut someone of
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by SkyBelow 5y ago
I've noticed a lot of directed outrage as a result of people unable to find a MSRP graphics card that I would almost treat as funny if it wasn't so scary to see how the internet culture changes. I can't speak to the motivati
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by SkyBelow 5y ago
One could make taxes very easy in a way that would definitely boost the popularity of the anti-tax crowd. Makes taxes a single bill sent out at tax time. No tax collections, not withholdings, etc. You get a bill, you log into an IRS webs
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by SkyBelow 5y ago
>Personally, I don't think that holds water. While not quite as deliberate an action as (great?) grandparent was suggesting, I could see the possibility existing where fixing the machines is too much hassle until a competitor opens
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by SkyBelow 5y ago
Is part-time teenager labor the same as low skilled labor? In general but also more specifically to the time period you were referencing? While teenagers generally have low experience, some of them are have the ability to perform at a leve
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by SkyBelow 5y ago
Electronic game or video game?
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by SkyBelow 5y ago
>Can we be so sure? We have enough studies on the impacts of nutrition in the womb and the impact of experience and neglect on brain development in children that we can be sure that intelligence is more advanced. More complex languages
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by SkyBelow 5y ago
Riots are sort of like protests that have lost control. We have just protests. If we compare it to war, would a riot be like a certain subset of war that's lost control, like a slaughter, though that name doesn't perfectly fit an
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by SkyBelow 5y ago
>whose power cannot be really removed by traditional means Can't it be removed by just not using the crypto? Crypto only has value if people buy into it making it a democratic system. People vote which crypto is best based on whic
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by SkyBelow 5y ago
>Obsessively following anything or anyone is not good for you and that's very likely a 99% universal advice. I think the problem with reducing the advice to this level is that it reduces away the idea that some information is much l
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by SkyBelow 5y ago
>Yeah what's next? Making other behaviors that have a small but established likelihood of endangering the lives of others or their property illegal at little to no cost to the liberty of an individual? Pretty soon I won't be ab
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by SkyBelow 5y ago
>I hope this puts a permanent stop to all the thread on HN arguing one way or another whether Apple is a monopoly. Are those threads arguing about a legal definition, because if not then this would have little impact on them. Even if th
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by SkyBelow 5y ago
This is something I've struggled with in the past as well. I have a player, NPCs, enemies, and wild animals. Should they have any class hierarchy at all? If my code matches the game world, what happens when I was to add golems and le
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by SkyBelow 5y ago
Any domain where the code will be used by a consumer who will go with a mostly correct program that has a fraction of the cost over one proven correct. I suspect this to be the majority of code written.
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by SkyBelow 5y ago
>It's interesting to me that the next few steps of this technology evolution might be that we loose the ability to prove our code correctness forever. Every program will just be a certain - measured by tests - percentage of accuracy
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by SkyBelow 5y ago
By that view, does anyone expect "basic decency"? For example, I could say that I expect "basic decency" to not kill each other. But I also support having a law making murder illegal. As part of that law, you have the
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by SkyBelow 5y ago
>And IMHO those benefits far outweigh how much you (or anyone else) wants to stick it to those dirty criminals. To clarify, I'm explaining why it would be unpopular. I'm not saying I personally agree with it. Please try to no
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by SkyBelow 5y ago
>By this logic, getting clean is a reward to substance abuse disorder so we shouldn’t offer programs to substance abuse disorder sufferers to get them clean. Is your help getting clean only offered to substance abusers that assaulted ano
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by SkyBelow 5y ago
To clarify, I was giving an example of both volunteering and hiring. Hiring someone doesn't change the economics of it, maybe even making it worse because you now have the state spending someone on a law breaker. Does it spend as muc
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by SkyBelow 5y ago
>Here in germany we don't turn prisoners into slaves. Do you tell them where they must live and how they must behave? If they disobey and go about their daily lives ignoring what you tell them (meaning they don't even show up
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by SkyBelow 5y ago
>it creates an incentive for them to lobby keeping drugs illegal. Does it? As far as I can tell it expands it but does not create it. This is an important distinction because that incentive exists even with 100% public prisons. Even w
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by SkyBelow 5y ago
Rehabilitation implies getting help from people who can rehabilitate. While there is charity and volunteering to some extent, the needs of rehabilitation throughout society (not just in prison) is so great that the amount of work people ar
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by SkyBelow 5y ago
>If our culture treats the accused poorly, that's not the fault of nor is it caused by public mugshots. Not sure how that works. Another person taking action between a cause and effect does not remove the cause from being responsib
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by SkyBelow 5y ago
There is a distinction between what is legal to do and what is socially acceptable to do. While black mail over illegal actions are the most common example used, a society that is very liberty focused in the law but who has strict standard
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by SkyBelow 5y ago
>it seems that average IQ in large population groups is mostly a function of culture rather than genetics. Probably environment more than culture (unless you are counting environment in that). Just look at the effects nutrition during p
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by SkyBelow 5y ago
Combination between efforts to avoid COVID and viral interference of those who were exposed would drastically reduce the ability to spread. Could it perhaps have reduced it enough to have stopped a flu season from developing?
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by SkyBelow 5y ago
One problem is what counts as politics. For a past example, someone talking about their opposite gender partner would not be seen as political as someone talking about their same gender partner. Someone talking about getting married may n
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by SkyBelow 5y ago
In general bad faith means that someone is lying to you, either implicitly or explicitly, when engaging you. An example of this might be to act interested in a point, request sources to back it up, but with the intention to never look at th
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by SkyBelow 6y ago
Psychology studies in the past showed people were altruistic. Then psychologist accounted for social capital/good will and worked to remove it from their altruism tests. People stopped being overly altruistic when it stopped benefitt
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by SkyBelow 6y ago
That would incentivizing matching people with those whom they want to message but aren't likely to start a relationship with.

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