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by _yosefk 10y ago
You might see logical consistency in the above; I see a bunch of things tied not by any logic but solely by the fact that a set of people agree with all these things. For instance, why is making noises infringing on your freedom from noise,
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by _yosefk 10y ago
One problem is defining what "intruding on others' happiness too much" means - it's not obvious how to derive from this principle the hours when making loud noises within city limits is OK, or what about necrophilia in p
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by _yosefk 10y ago
I understand your opposition to Eich's donation, but I think that what you said strengthens my point rather than weakens it; my only point was that most tech employees would see an Eich-like quiet, private donation to Trump as a "
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by _yosefk 10y ago
I meant that it's equivalent in that it's common knowledge; I could and maybe should have used "evidence that ducks quack" as my analogy. If it's not common knowledge where you live, I apologize for assuming that yo
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by _yosefk 10y ago
Brendan Eich's donation of $1000 in support of Prop 8 ended his career at Mozilla, making a tech employee donating to Trump an obvious potential career-ending move. It's not very surprising that they didn't. An interesting qu
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by _yosefk 10y ago
Here you go (there's tons more but it's not my job to answer questions like "Evidence that Hitler was a Nazi?" in detail): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samir_Kuntar My favorite section is "Tre
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by _yosefk 10y ago
Would it be OK to publish criticism of Chomsky's work in linguistics 3 years later when Chomsky shook hands with the leader of Hezbollah, which targets civilians and children in its offensive operations? Or would Chomsky's standin
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by _yosefk 10y ago
But... but! If you sell N cars exceeding the limit, someone else will sell the other N cars of the 2N in your "2N conforming cars" in the other possibility, and they'd emit, too! Or does selling N cars exceeding the limit som
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by _yosefk 10y ago
Do you mean that Warren "tax me harder" Buffet's much-publicized income tax of slightly less than $2M per year is not much relatively to his net worth of tens of billions, about half of which is taxpayers' money from bai
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by _yosefk 10y ago
Dean Baker, a great economist and easily the best on the (relatively) radical left, said (in the context of discussing Piketty's work) that "capitalism is infinitely malleable" - markets are shaped by infinite rules and tweak
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by _yosefk 10y ago
Is using the toilet a human right then, and if so, whose duty is it to volunteer to clean it up? Why are paid toilets nastier than paid food? Why not give poor people money instead of spending time (and in this case, a certain effort you ca
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by _yosefk 10y ago
I find it rather daring to use raw POSIX threads or similar, hoping that automated debugging tools operating at this abstraction level, such as Helgrind or TSAN, will pinpoint your bugs. The problem is that the state space of a thread-based
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by _yosefk 10y ago
Are you implying that Bridgewater is a Madoff-style Ponzi scheme? If so, it will be quite the explosion when it tanks.
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Which itself is a result of the fact that people will not buy a product designed by people not competent enough to make it work, but they will happily read complete nonsense, and thus there's no incentive to pay what it takes to hire c
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by _yosefk 10y ago
I ported C compilers (badly) and manage people who do it (well.) Today you port LLVM, either yourself or using a commercial LLVM backend generator. This makes Rust nearly as accessible as C (in that the platform vendor will bundle clang wit
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by _yosefk 10y ago
I didn't mean inventions, necessarily, just a high-paying job where you can retire early, certainly programming is like that today for a brilliant and even a somewhat less than brilliant person. I'd expect that if you loathe spend
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by _yosefk 10y ago
Honest question: if you're so smart, why not make a few tens of millions, then fill your day with whatever suits you, instead of making enough to get by and contemplating suicide?
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by _yosefk 10y ago
Sarah Sharp worked for Intel and apparently didn't manage to contribute to the kernel in a way that would make communication with Torvalds particularly pleasant. I extend my sympathy to anyone paid to contribute code to Linux.
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by _yosefk 10y ago
If you want to bet, this guy proposes a variety of things to bet on: http://slatestarcodex.com/2016/11/16/you-are-still-crying-wo... "1. Total hate crimes incidents as measured here will be not more than
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by _yosefk 10y ago
I also find this quote remarkable, and not in a good way; but I recall that Kahneman's studies do replicate pretty well. (This is not to say that all their claimed implications are true - this is the part where "no choice but to a
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by _yosefk 10y ago
"400 pound man" says the exact opposite, actually. "Russian hacker" says focus on the hacker. "400 pound man" says focus on what was leaked.
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I thought he implied that blaming Russia for leaking data was in his opinion irrelevant when the leaked data implied that someone at home did something nasty. I did not feel that he disrespected the ability of the KGB alumni running Russia
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Was it their first language though, and more generally, what did they already know? Don't get me wrong, I remember the people who taught me C++ rather fondly. It's just done really terribly really often.
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Precisely, and I use it, so wouldn't want Tensilica to die as a part of Cadence dying.
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"If you picked Apple or Amazon, you hit a home run." Well, sure you did. If you picked Yahoo in the late 90s, a home run hit you. If you picked Intel or Microsoft in the recent past, nothing happened to you. A good article on usin
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by _yosefk 10y ago
For drawing/painting and animation, Krita is mostly better than PS, IMO. Brushes are tricky though. Every drawing program has some brushes which are better than anyone else's.
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"If computers can be programmed to understand speech as well as humans do, 66 percent of jobs in finance and insurance could be replaced, the most recent report says." If computers can be programmed to understand speech as well as
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by _yosefk 10y ago
TFA mentions ex-Googlers in the FCC, the FTC and the DOD, which are different branches of government from the USDS. TFA also says "there have been at least 15 moves between Google and its lobbying firms and those commissions." T
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by _yosefk 10y ago
I speak both languages, and AFAIK neither is nearly as artificial as Volapuk or Esperanto.
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Ballmer is white & male (well, like Semel, probably not white enough for white supremacists, but apparently white enough for the purposes of this discussion), MS market cap didn't shrink under his tenure, but he gets a lot of criti

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