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by adrusi 11y ago
Ok, but being effective at getting it to do that is an actual thing that every programmer has to do all the time.
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Tobacco, sugar, and alcohol are legal in part because of their long history of use within the US and the practical difficulties of prohibiting them. Illegal drugs also have a long history of use, in all walks of society. Many of them, lik
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If you completely eliminate all avenues to acquiring something, then you're taking away the right to have or use it. Imagine if the government had banned the manufacture, distribution and sale of printing presses. Also possession of dr
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Well public intoxication is illegal, and the legalization of the possession of drugs wouldn't change that. I'm firmly in the drug-use-is-a-human-right camp, but I don't think that you have a right to use drugs in public. I th
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OK, but then what cigarettes, which are more highly addictive than even cocaine, or alcohol, addiction to which is quite damaging to the economy and public safety, and leads to domestic violence? And what about foods containing refined suga
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I agree with what you've said, though I tend more toward the liberal side. I'd point out though that "not exceeding OTC drug toxicity" is a very low threshold: just a few more acetominophen tablets or asprins than recomm
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But very few drugs cause damage to other people, excluding distribution-related violence. Really there's just the trio of opiates, meth and cocaine that lead to real social problems of people commiting crimes while on/obtaining dr
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Cultural evolution definitely does occur, but just like can happen with genetic evolution, and on a greater level because of the faster pace, its progress can have negative effects. A civilization can evolve culturally, and that might allow
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By far the most useful program I wrote as a kid was one that factored polynomials. It ran on the calculator I was allowed on tests.
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What about the fact that drugs are incompatible with the lifestyle we want our society to have? Society doesn't havena lifestyle. Individual members of society have lifestyles, so I'll rephrase that question to be more correct:
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Heroin isn't significantly more addictive than cigarettes. You can also easily overdose from nicotine, its just that this is mitigated by the relatively slow delivery mechanism, which makes it so that you get terribly sick before you c
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The people who aren't dependent and don't qualify for government provided dope. And there could be a lot of such people: imagine how much less risky a heroin habit sounds when you know that as as an addict you can get free clean d
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Except in the paleolithic these people would be your extended family, the friends you grew up with, etc. And because of the cultural homogeneity of such societies, you would get along better with them than people get along with their famili
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I'm not sure that'll be so easy: the holy grail of ads is to be indistinguishable from content to people. I don't think it's at all certain that AI could ever beat humans at this, controlling for the possibility of stron
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I've also heard "bennies" used to refer to diphenhydramine (Benadryl — hence the term). This is used off-label as a sleeping pill in low dosage (causes dependence), as a sex enhancer in medium doses, and as a recreational del
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So you accept that regular exercise is useful for understanding the physiological implications of the diet, but you question whether regular exercise is healthy?
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I think a big barrier to understanding math for a lot of people, and definitely for me, is names. Things get named for people instead of what they are: "the Kronecker delta function". You came up with some genius model and proved
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It's not necessarily deleting anything. Reddit states in its transparency reports that it has not received any NSLs. The idea is that if they ever received one they would simply omit that clause from the next report (not remove it fr
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Its a major limitation, but you can still authenticate yourself using a cryptographic signature. This is enough to make services that deal with public data like wikipedia and twitter.
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Filtering out lasers is probably not possible, but how about just detecting the source on the ground and automatically dispatching law enforcement. Or even use drone strike technology to quickly eliminate the threat.
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If you choose to put preroll ads on your video. Thats not always the best idea when you're making videos for reasons of marketing, as he would be.
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No one is saying that internet communication is bad. The application to describe is not "social media", it's using tools designed as social media services as organizational software.
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So what would you suggest in lieu of autotools? The only real mature alternative is cmake, and cmake's main advantage is that it is a cross platform build system. Basically that means it works on windows without cygwin or its equivalen
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There's a long history of distributing source code already partially processed, and for decades, this has been what people expected when they download a source tarball. Newer generations were introduced to open source through github an
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A point not raised in the article: some areas have gifted programs that are simply too large. I was enrolled in one in Fairfax County in northern Virginia, and nearly a fifth of the student population was part of it. I moved away before hig
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Actually the history of the eye has been farily well understood, and the various stages of its evolution can be seen in animals that exist today. Dawkins explains it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nwew5gHoh3E
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...but if you're going to say that selecting for bilingualism is actually selecting for affluence, you can't ignore a huge population that is bilingual and not affluent.
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This article considers "closure" to mean a type of internal representation of a function which references free bindings which would otherwise be stack-allocated. This goes against the usage of "closure" that I've se
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Actually, even though in the language spec that usage is refered to as a "closure", when configured for a release build, that will compile to exactly the same code as if you had written a static funtion and passed a pointer to it.
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Rust optimizes for correct memory management. Its borrow checker and safe/unsafe distinction makes the easiest option to make most often the one that is safe. Jai optimizes for performant memory management. Several of its features, suc

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