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by User23 3y ago
I disagree. The GPL is fundamentally an ideological document with an ideological purpose in a way that the BSD and MIT licenses are not.
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by User23 3y ago
How could there be? The current secular moral paradigm’s foundation is “consenting adults.” There’s no basis for opposing adults willingly betting or doing recreational drugs in that paradigm. All of the major moral paradigms that do provid
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by User23 3y ago
There are far too many confounds to draw a conclusion like "these tactics don't actually work." Speeding up police response to gunfire isn't going to have a measurable impact if the police aren't actually allowed to
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by User23 3y ago
The problem with category theory as it applies to programming is it's using a hydraulic press to crack eggs. Telling people about the power of hydraulic presses when they just want to make omelets is pretty unhelpful.
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by User23 3y ago
You are still claiming that crime is conserved. It's not possible, even likely, that a reduced cost-benefit for committing crime shifts preferences toward some non-criminal activity with a more attractive risk-reward profile?
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by User23 3y ago
I didn't realize that there's a conservation law for crime. Is this some kind of ingenious application of Noether's theorem that I haven't heard of?
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by User23 3y ago
I’m not dropping Emacs for it, but I’m pleased to see another designed for extensibility editor.
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by User23 3y ago
The problem is Bayesian priors look an awful lot like racism to the unaided eye, enough so that it's really hard to justify them. Or maybe it's racism masquerading as a Bayesian prior. I don't see how to know for sure either
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by User23 3y ago
The sad thing is there’s no good reason not to have 100 year wood readily available. Suppose you have 100 acres. Every year you harvest one, replant it, and move on to the next. In a century you’ll have an annual harvest of excellent wood.
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by User23 3y ago
I also just sort of stopped drinking. I don't consider myself a non-drinker, it's just, well, whenever the opportunity arises I consider it and decide I prefer not to mess up my sleep and feel lousy the next day for an experience
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by User23 3y ago
It's rather striking that a dollar today is worth considerably less than a penny when this was written, at least with respect to grooming services.
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by User23 3y ago
Somewhat strangely, this makes me think of something Dijkstra wrote[1]: Technology is expert at inflicting radical novelties upon mankind. Nuclear weapons and the pill are examples from the last 50 years; so is in my opinion the automat
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by User23 3y ago
This is an interesting way of saying that contemporary web “best practices” are a giant waste of money.
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by User23 3y ago
The only asset the loan originator has as a result of this transaction is the loan itself and it has an equal and opposite offsetting liability for the deposit that was created along with the loan. Banks don't liquidate assets to get &
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by User23 3y ago
The real asset and the financial asset are accounted for separately. That’s why a bank can sell your mortgage without selling your house.
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by User23 3y ago
Because the banking sector in aggregate holds the payment system hostage. The issue isn’t that the bank will lose money, it’s that you won’t be able to buy things and pay for utilities if banks can’t clear payments.
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by User23 3y ago
This reminds me of spiders on drugs[1]. Caffeine absolutely wrecks them. [1] https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/nasa-spiders-drugs-experime...
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by User23 3y ago
Anger has caused me to start weeklong (including weekends) coding binges where I get a month’s work done. Leaves me a bit exhausted at the end, but still a huge net win.
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by User23 3y ago
Which leads to the wonderful question: why are there any contingent things? And: why are the contingent things that there are as complex as they are? I don't know of any plausible naturalist explanation besides Many-Worlds. And that su
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by User23 3y ago
Reminds me of the clever hack of playing back TCP dump logs from prod on a test network, but dialed up. Neat. Naturally I’d prefer professional programmers learn the cognitive tools for manageably reasoning about nondeterminism, but they’ve
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by User23 3y ago
Also the heavyweights of CAD, which have definitely affected your life even if you’re not consciously aware, are Lisp based.
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by User23 3y ago
Also (+) And (*) Are well defined.
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by User23 3y ago
I believe there are Common Lisp implementations that will happily stack allocate dynamic extent values.
534.
by User23 3y ago
The Earth’s angular momentum is the exact opposite of renewable. It’s even less renewable than so-called fossil fuels.
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by User23 3y ago
UX novelty for its own sake is annoying. Just use a checkbox.
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by User23 3y ago
Galileo was like an employee who publicly and loudly called the CEO of the most powerful NGO in his country and that his company got rules and procedures from, in the parlance of our times, a fucking idiot. Bigotry wasn’t the issue.
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by User23 3y ago
This shows what people mean when they say Emacs is easy to extend. I don’t think most popular editors will let you code an extension like this in 167 lines including all boilerplate, comments, and documentation.
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by User23 3y ago
The classic approach is precedent. That way once the call is made, for better or worse, everyone knows how the rule applies in that case.
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by User23 3y ago
Persons who claim asylum can file for a legal work permit 150 days after filing for asylum until their case is adjudicated. Given the backlogs that currently means for years. And of course any children they have in that time are citizens. T
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by User23 3y ago
That and you’ll just be replaced by more amenable immigrant labor. People that are willing to travel around the world potentially risking their lives are going to take that $15 an hour warehouse job in a heartbeat. And it will be a consider

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