TooBrokeToBeg

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by TooBrokeToBeg 8y ago
People don't even think consistently, so correctness is an ever-moving target (aka a negotiation).
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by TooBrokeToBeg 8y ago
> But history doesn’t show anything of the sort? Depends on the timescale, but it looks a lot more like the hierarchies re-establish in a similar fashion. Often from the same lineages, over time!
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by TooBrokeToBeg 8y ago
> unless you don't write tests either. You mean "oracles" (from the blog post). Just program correctly amirite? eyeroll If your example doesn't deal with user input, you're talking about a problem of modeling u
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by TooBrokeToBeg 8y ago
> it's morally just Morally? Definitely. Incentivizing trade promotes human survival. Is it "just" is a different question, because justice requires a set of idealogical social principles to start from. Natural rights, div
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by TooBrokeToBeg 8y ago
> This isn't fair, Of course it's fair, in a discussion. > the OP broke down his arguments for why the author was wrong, No he didn't. There are no "arguments" presented. There's a vague premise (It can a
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by TooBrokeToBeg 8y ago
By the time you get to 2 or 3 points deep in any rationalization, you've made such ambitious leaps of (subjective) assumption, that your view isn't more logical than any one else's. This is fundamentally different than the po
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by TooBrokeToBeg 8y ago
FWIW that's not a true statement. Large companies have roles and vacancies where there are expectation and existing code to maintain.
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by TooBrokeToBeg 8y ago
> Do you have any idea what you're talking about? I think I have a better conceptualization than many people "discussing" this issue. > That would be the largest migration in human history, by a wide margin Nope. How ma
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by TooBrokeToBeg 8y ago
> the executive branch followed certain norms around this, until this administration Which norms? Which administration didn't act differently than all others? Reagan firing the FAA unionizers was a new one. Obama said he couldn&#x27
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by TooBrokeToBeg 8y ago
> We know that a human is smart Not every person is smart, nor does that translate into correct behavior. Even herd mentality has limits.
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by TooBrokeToBeg 8y ago
> Capitalism is The items listed have nothing to do with capitalism. More like "things you often find" or "things you wish were true", or more aptly, "things you are told are true, but are misleading". &quot
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by TooBrokeToBeg 8y ago
Depending on the language and values, the latter does not mean the same thing. <?php $x = 1;$y = 2; function test1($x, $y) { if ($x) { return $y; } else { return false; }
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by TooBrokeToBeg 8y ago
> There are no null values, Unbound variables are the equivalent (detected if used, at compile time), but a much saner way to deal with value-less variables
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by TooBrokeToBeg 8y ago
I have no idea what this is about, so I had to look it up. Not something I care to get involved with, but the README here is useful context to this story. https://github.com/danger/peril
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by TooBrokeToBeg 8y ago
> But if a billion people have to move within 20 or 30 years because large poor cities can no longer be defended against the sea or because technology to deal with desertification That seems perfectly reasonable. Nowhere near doom and gl
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by TooBrokeToBeg 8y ago
> Mr Bezos changed its taxonomy by “breaking out” AWS, its cloud-hosting business So this is revisionist fluff. How meta.
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by TooBrokeToBeg 8y ago
> The only difference in whether data is creepy or not lies in the answer to a single question Not at all. > Did you willingly provide it AND REMEMBER? People have inherent expectations and soft historical memories. The idea that cons
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by TooBrokeToBeg 8y ago
> Not sure why you're getting downvotes I am. Not contributing to the discussion by dismissing the topic.
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by TooBrokeToBeg 8y ago
Magic methods are wonky. Things that get called, although they don't exist, have to traverse an arbitrary system to determine an implementation (may or may not exist). Now add that you can determine that system of traversal, at runtime
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by TooBrokeToBeg 8y ago
This has been my experience.
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by TooBrokeToBeg 8y ago
> It's easy to compromise and take public transit instead of a car when the public transit saves you time. And/or money. The public parking in the city is prohibitive, alone.
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by TooBrokeToBeg 8y ago
> Postmodernism is the final philosophical analysis. Hardly. There are plenty of psychoanalytical models (still being) explored that have more utility and the inevitable philosophies that extend from them will be just as final. The tools
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by TooBrokeToBeg 8y ago
> The standard doesn’t describe transformations; it describes behaviors. That doesn't seem to be an argument against, or even related to, what the proposal entails. All of these proposals are reductive attempts to curb the instabili
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by TooBrokeToBeg 8y ago
use it almost every day. it's an ugly little notation with super-limited utility, but when JS gets its act together, we can finally abandon it forever.
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by TooBrokeToBeg 8y ago
> it seems to be the case that the majority of libraries are unsafe by default (especially the dynamic languages), so de-facto it is a problem with YAML. It may seem that way, but it's not. Re: cryptographic functions
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by TooBrokeToBeg 8y ago
> It’s wrong ...and natural and efficient. ie Not wrong or right. I'm not sure where you get your ideas from.
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by TooBrokeToBeg 8y ago
That's a terribly curated headline for clickbait. It's a list of concentration and internment camps. I'm not sure how it's much different than any juvie jail throughout the US, but it's just a political move that ha
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by TooBrokeToBeg 8y ago
They did invest in bonds and have massive pensions. Lack of savings hasn't prevented them from growing wealth.
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by TooBrokeToBeg 8y ago
I'm not sure what you've tried to communicate. Your phrase hasn't added anything to the discussion.
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by TooBrokeToBeg 8y ago
> It never comes to fruition. In a number of gaming sectors, it's already done. Steam is majority Chinese players, mobile gaming revenue has been from China. Steel (until the tariffs) has been dominated by cheap Chinese offerings, k

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