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by SquishyPanda23 5y ago
> in your metaphor joe ate the same as everyone else at the restaurant. That's not anywhere in my metaphor. > The benefits of society as a whole are not equally shared. This is true but not relevant to my point. > The wealthie
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by SquishyPanda23 5y ago
This is an odd line of reasoning. It's like responding to "Joe didn't pay for his main course at the restaurant" with "yeah but he paid for some of the appetizers."
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by SquishyPanda23 5y ago
> I just don't trust governments or corporations to maintain, inspect, manage and operate nuclear power plants at scale. I think this is a big point. This would be expensive and there will be a temptation for politicians to underfun
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by SquishyPanda23 5y ago
The people running the disinformation campaign usually decide.
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by SquishyPanda23 5y ago
> The flip side that wasn't discussed This has been discussed ad nauseam. Nature isn't a foreign policy magazine, so it's not really the greatest place for advising how the US should respond to a disinformation campaign. B
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by SquishyPanda23 5y ago
Are you sure you want to memorize it? It seems better to understand it well. If you do want to memorize it, then some form of flashcards with spaced repetition. If you want to understand it, keep reading and dig deeper into the topics that
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by SquishyPanda23 5y ago
I personally like k8s a lot, but my general approach is to fake it until you make it and only add things once it's clear why I need them. I have a few old boxes that run VMs. Some of these VMs make up a virtual k8s cluster, but almost
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by SquishyPanda23 5y ago
I wasn't counting changes to project metadata like gitignore
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by SquishyPanda23 5y ago
It's not clear which company you're referring to, but - Instagram was at one point a startup. It's common for startups to write in a scripting language to optimize for speed of adding features. Then if you grow or get acquire
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by SquishyPanda23 5y ago
Some of the Python FFI tools are listed here: https://ocamlverse.github.io/content/ffi.html . But clicking through to GitHub, the repos haven't been updated in a while.
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by SquishyPanda23 5y ago
> The public is not presently pro-regulation and nobody really knows what form the regulations should take. A majority of Americans support regulation of big tech https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2021/07&#x
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by SquishyPanda23 5y ago
Ah I see what you mean. Although in that case the author had a contractual requirement to clear the book and didn't. In that sense it's similar to defying an NDA or publishing your company's trade secrets.
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by SquishyPanda23 5y ago
> highlight what is politically incorrect and indefensible in society The big one here of course is communism. Arguably the most censored idea in the history of American politics. The government even held hearings to track down adherents
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by SquishyPanda23 5y ago
I was encouraging you to reflect on why you think this is lying, because you are really grasping at straws. You have not established any point where he lied or stretched the truth. What you have established is your personal axe to grind aga
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by SquishyPanda23 5y ago
How would you have given a point estimate that both accurately reflects the scientific confidence interval estimate and also serves as an aspirational target for public policy? Keep in mind that if your estimate is too low many people will
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by SquishyPanda23 5y ago
> think we have to ask if this won't have a chilling effect on open discussion by moderate voices You have to weigh that against the known chilling effect caused by the disinformation campaign. You also have to include the fact that
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by SquishyPanda23 5y ago
> The alternative to debate is force The alternative to debate is usually emotional manipulation such as rhetoric, advertisements, emotional art, memes, etc. That has done most of the work in shaping people's opinions historically a
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by SquishyPanda23 5y ago
He also described himself as "violently anti-communist, and much more militaristic than the norm". In that context it doesn't sound as sarcastic.
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by SquishyPanda23 5y ago
Sure, and I agree that this problem isn't worth spending a lot of resources on if the level of toil is acceptable. But most paywall sites do display the title so that you know what great journalism you're being asked to pay for. I
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by SquishyPanda23 5y ago
> information (like titles) can be meaningfully extracted From a technical perspective it's probably simpler to just grep the page for the user-submitted title.
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by SquishyPanda23 5y ago
> Flaky tests are an indication of non-determinism either in your test or your system Or in the system that runs your tests. That can itself be non-trivial.
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by SquishyPanda23 5y ago
I'm looking forward to lab- grown meat, but I don't understand how provenance will work. It seems inevitable that if you order lab grown meat, many restaurants will just serve regular meat at a markup. The less economical lab meat
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by SquishyPanda23 5y ago
> how can we remain informed and how do we decide what is important enough to be informed about? I stopped reading the news several years ago. I replaced it with becoming more informed about the world. I read a lot of books about the sor
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by SquishyPanda23 5y ago
That is all true. In the context of the original comment, though, this does narrow down the market that can be addressed by a company running the Next/Apple playbook. It seems vastly cheaper to solve these issues than to start a new co
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by SquishyPanda23 5y ago
The book title is "Nineteen Eighty-Four", but nobody spells it that way. The app may need to special case it.
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by SquishyPanda23 5y ago
This is great thank you. On the topic of Brave New World, the site categorizes it as a Reference.
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by SquishyPanda23 5y ago
> our new moral arbiters Can you be specific about who you are referring to and what your concern is?
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by SquishyPanda23 5y ago
> Mechanical computers approximate Turing Machines Yup, so do humans with paper and pencil.
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by SquishyPanda23 5y ago
I sense that you're trying to make a joke. In any university, Chemistry is not the study of beakers nor is astronomy the study of telescopes.
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by SquishyPanda23 5y ago
Nobody is trying to relegate CS to a theoretical discipline. But theoretical CS exists, so it doesn't make sense to claim CS is the study of mechanical computers. Since it started as a theoretical discipline, it makes even less sense t

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