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by Terr_ 5mo ago
Occam's razor: They wanted an short debt-scenario that reads as somehow unexpected and unusual so that visitors keep reading, versus a true but depressingly-common one. I mean, I just have to say something like "single-parent sl
902.
by Terr_ 5mo ago
There is certainly room to add developers to a "simple" project if one is ensuring everything works with screen readers for the blind, that it had worldwide I18N support, meets every law around privacy and data jurisdiction, has s
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by Terr_ 5mo ago
> Turn three: the company that fired its workers to save money discovers that its customers were, in aggregate, other companies’ workers. From Making Money (2007) by Terry Pratchett > “Well, the problem is that, considered as a labor
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by Terr_ 5mo ago
I'd like to make a little point by re-stating the title in an (admittedly awkward) way: "When you have a story-document with a human-character telling an AI-character that something is false, an LLM run on that document may genera
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by Terr_ 5mo ago
> Are gifts morally wrong? If we're going to talk about morality, I think we need to talk about the government as one of the moral actors. Imagine this scenario, exaggerated to make a point: 1. Alice receives $X. It's from he
906.
by Terr_ 5mo ago
What if the intended takeaway was something else like this? "Jumping so late onto the bandwagon by buying shares like that is for losers! Winners are people bold enough to be entrepreneurs who make the stuff and sell the shares. (Like
907.
by Terr_ 5mo ago
> It's not enough even to have private cars. The solution must be legislation Regarding the importance of legislation versus "just don't buy those", I think this piece [0] seems relevant. To summarize the argument: 1.
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by Terr_ 5mo ago
Right: There's a spectrum of choice here, it's not as binary as "you must throw away the whole device if the cable breaks" versus "conveniently detachable with two fingertips or a light breeze." You mentioned w
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by Terr_ 5mo ago
No, I'm saying the tax basically never takes 40% of the estate assets that are being gifted to recipients. That 40% is just one number in a larger equation, and it's wrong to use it out of context in a way that makes the policy
910.
by Terr_ 5mo ago
> Does the federal government not already have access to those things? The president is not the government, the properties of the whole are not the properties of a part. We do not want a system where they have direct un-audited and law-
911.
by Terr_ 5mo ago
Is this perhaps some sort of badly-signaled satire, or a comment mis-submitted to the wrong thread? I cannot understand what though-process led you to suggest repealing "it", whether that means the entire tax or whether it means r
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by Terr_ 5mo ago
> The federal estate tax is 40% It's misleading to cite that since it basically never happens. The tax doesn't even come into the picture for fortunes below $30 million dollars (for two parents), and the rest of the time it ave
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by Terr_ 5mo ago
> while a natural desire Or look at monarchies and titles of nobility. In the past direct inheritance of political assets was common, and acting on that natural desire, the people involve claimed that parents deserved to direct what
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by Terr_ 5mo ago
> wealth tax is on inheritance As a point on terminology: That's not a really a wealth tax on the accumulated assets at-rest own by the (now eternally-resting) owner, but an income tax on the wealth as it moves to the recipients
915.
by Terr_ 5mo ago
I assume it's loose convention intended to identify the string as "Secret Key", as a hint to the humans who might be moving the data around, and maybe to make it easier to write precautionary code like "hey it looks like
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by Terr_ 5mo ago
Note: This subthread has become about exceptions in general, rather than checked-vs-unchecked. I don't mind, but I wanted to make it explicit. > Who ever handles CustomerAccessException specifically, except by calling getCause() and
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by Terr_ 5mo ago
A picture being worth at least several data points: https://hnrankings.info/48298665/
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by Terr_ 5mo ago
It looks like this is a generic paste-whatever-you-want site where someone duplicated the article from ReclaimTheNet [0]. AFAICT there is no paywall or subscribe wall. [0] https://reclaimthenet.org/germany-social-media-appro
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by Terr_ 5mo ago
I was worried about why it got [flagged], but if it's not the primary source and the primary source has no paywall, then I'm OK with that outcome.
920.
by Terr_ 5mo ago
I think creating a government whitelist of default-promoted sources is almost scarier than action taken against specific ones. There's less friction to prevent abuse of power. At least from an American law perspective, you could point
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by Terr_ 5mo ago
Computer + Legal sleuthing together, I approve. The piece documents a variety of related illegalities, but to cobble together an excerpt around the one in the title: > After Florida 2000, Congress passed a law [...] that voter registrati
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by Terr_ 5mo ago
> Why though? I'm not sure if this means: 1. "Why bother throwing a new exception of a different class, and not bubble up the original as-is?" 2. "Why would you use the standard feature of all Java exceptions which al
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by Terr_ 5mo ago
Exactly, the burden for better behavior lies with the people with the power, agency, and information . The consumer is did not decide on the formulation of Chemical X, they weren't there to see the day it accidentally melted through t
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by Terr_ 5mo ago
> too many kinds of exceptions to choose from I don't understand, why would you need to pick a checked exception? It's the dual or mirror of feeling paralyzed over a return-type because there are "too many kinds of Objec
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by Terr_ 5mo ago
It's interesting to imagine how different the security landscape would be if human brains could easily transcribe a smallish quantity of high-value bits [0] and then compare two versions for exact equality. I think the exact and tr
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by Terr_ 5mo ago
> Ok, sorry it's been about 20 years since I last javad and you didn't have to declare exceptions in your function signatures. You're probably remembering RuntimeExceptions, which are a subgroup [0] that are exempt from &q
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by Terr_ 5mo ago
> Like async, the biggest problem with exceptions were the ergonomics. I know it's not a popular take, but I prefer the idea of Checked Exceptions over unchecked ones [0], and suspect current opinions would be vastly different if Ja
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by Terr_ 5mo ago
All this talk about different groupings (and overlapping kinds of time) makes me think of Simpson's Paradox [0], where how we slice things can be very important to what trend we see. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x
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by Terr_ 5mo ago
> so I can hedge There are several things about the "these are good because people can hedge" argument which bother me and I struggle to disentangle them, but one facet is this: These betting-markets may be an inferior form o
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by Terr_ 5mo ago
It's a hard problem but the key is that it needs to be on the client rather than on the server, because that's what can have any information on jurisdictions, local regulations, religions, or general parental preference. For exa

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