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by WindyLakeReturn 4y ago
I have to agree. When the risk is greater than the reward, you have to ask if the project is worth sacrificing for. I find the answer is generally no. Even noble projects are set into situations where it isn't worth the sacrifice.
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by WindyLakeReturn 4y ago
What is meant by "can't complete"? Are we saying "can't do it in an interview without access to some resources", "can't do it in the amount of time I'm willing to learn the language", or tru
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by WindyLakeReturn 4y ago
How much anti-government rhetoric is a second order effect of the existence of compromises? When people push for something, they rarely get what they want. Even when there is a lot of support, the end result is a compromise with the previo
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by WindyLakeReturn 4y ago
They have some value relative to the system they are found in. Consider some fungible tokens which still have value. Say gold coins in online video games. These have some value, even when trading them is against ToS and will get you bann
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by WindyLakeReturn 5y ago
>Fourth, driving everywhere is like living in an insulated bubble. You don't have to deal with your fellow man. Things like Skid Row (LA) or the Tenderloin (SF) don't touch you because you can just drive around them in an airco
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by WindyLakeReturn 5y ago
I think this example might be more telling that what you intended. A lock is meant to keep out everyone without the key, while the intent of the bureaucratic process is to keep out bad actors while letting the well intended ones through, w
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by WindyLakeReturn 5y ago
Could this be a side effect of efficiency? Much more efficient for the investors to push for the ideas that lead to local homeowners showing up to protest than to protest themselves.
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by WindyLakeReturn 5y ago
I think there is a major distinction between "we have a standard of expectations that roughly only 10% have managed to meet in the past" and "only the top 10% will pass". One pits student against standard, the other pit
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by WindyLakeReturn 5y ago
Some problems should be given without solutions, because it will help a student identify when their use of solutions is becoming a crutch to help them solve problems. But as you point out, some problems need to come with solutions so a stu
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by WindyLakeReturn 5y ago
As part of this thought experiment, what policing are being disbanded and what is being done by other policing and government groups to enforce other regulations? For example, if a town's police system disbanded, but the state police s
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by WindyLakeReturn 5y ago
>If you read the forums or subreddit you'll see people claim to enjoy Portal mode, but also say things like "what's the point in playing Portal if you can't earn XP". It's an attitude I don't understand
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by WindyLakeReturn 5y ago
Race is better replaced by populations. Populations are groups of people who grew up in a region back when travel between regions was restricted enough that genetic differences appears. As our world become more connected, populations were
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by WindyLakeReturn 5y ago
Most people have smart phones and getting free resources online are easy enough. The larger overall point is that acquiring SAT prep resources is easier to do than acquiring resources for volunteering or extra curricular activities. While
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by WindyLakeReturn 5y ago
>My complaint about these reforms is that the root cause of the issue is not being addressed. It becomes a question of how do we ensure every child has access to a dedicated adult willing to tutor them and push them in education matters.
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by WindyLakeReturn 5y ago
Themselves? No. Other people and communities that they dislike? You bet. Just look at political memes. What is the chance that both sides will have a few people try to create memes for their opponents which are adversarial. They'l
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by WindyLakeReturn 5y ago
I would suggest starting with YouTube. Start consuming a variety of videos from different sources and you'll begin picking things up and gaining enough knowledge to start identifying bad info. You can start with lectures of complex t
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by WindyLakeReturn 5y ago
Do we know the true origin of the quote? The source you link links to another source and makes it sound like that was the origin, but the source it links to doesn't use the full quote and already is using it as a quote, so it makes me
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by WindyLakeReturn 5y ago
>on the lower end of the privacy-violating spectrum I think that's the thing, privacy minded people want solutions that aren't on the spectrum at all. I can come up with some solutions for greatly reducing CSA that are really l
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by WindyLakeReturn 5y ago
>or someone working on their behalf I wonder what the limits to this are. Clearly if government asks for help then that counts, but what happens if government slowly builds up partnerships where certain 'good partner' behavior
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by WindyLakeReturn 5y ago
If we consider the average consumer of these products and not the average HN reader, doesn't that qualify as an absolute wall?
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by WindyLakeReturn 5y ago
>but let's be fair, it's a galaxy better than writing it on a post-it or password booklet Is it? If someone is physically in your home you are in greater trouble anyways and even then they likely aren't going to be grabbi
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by WindyLakeReturn 5y ago
It depends upon where you are validating email input at. For the initial email input, your logic works fine. Once it is applied downstream in a process, it begins to get messy. Someone might do an incorrect email validation that happens t
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by WindyLakeReturn 5y ago
In some cases changing the law is itself illegal, which brings us back to the original question. There is also the matter of protecting a persons right to commit a crime when it involves behaviors that should not be criminalized. A same se
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by WindyLakeReturn 5y ago
Perhaps it has to do with different interpretations of what is meant by best? If I told you the best Thai place around where I live, I would tell you a place that is best not just because of its food, but also its price, parking, distance t
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by WindyLakeReturn 5y ago
>I think "attacking" Crazy New Ideas is how we develop them, iron out the kinks and test our understanding. Criticism is an essential part of the journey from crazy new idea to accepted wisdom. It depends upon the level of atta
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by WindyLakeReturn 5y ago
It should be for all science done for the sake of science, not just medical work. When I did experiments that just involved people playing an existing video game I still had to get approval from IRB and warn people of all the risks that pl
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by WindyLakeReturn 5y ago
There are a lot of bridges in the world, so the list is relatively short. If your argument that bridges are as hard (or harder) to build safely compared to software at a similar scale, I don't think a list of bridge failures backs tha
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by WindyLakeReturn 5y ago
I thought the ADA didn't allow a cure to stop a lawsuit. once in violation there is an injured person who now has to be made whole regardless of other actions you take. Wasn't this one of the main reasons the ADA led to some law
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by WindyLakeReturn 5y ago
It does seem to dance around the issue of how easy bridges are to build without major flaws compared to how hard similarly sized software applications are to build without major flaws. I would suggest that it is entirely possible the same
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by WindyLakeReturn 5y ago
One interesting question of this is if science changes once the other galaxy groups disappear. By that I mean if a human was to redo all previous experiments have we lost any data that would result in us building a different model of the u

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