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by aeturnum 5y ago
> Usually what happens in that case is a schism Pretty sure the "we were wrong" half of the schism is admitting failure. This feels like a "no true scotsman" fallacy. There are certainly going to be people who never
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by aeturnum 5y ago
> reduced the power usage of software decoded video on macOS Oh nice - tho Firefox is lower-power than Chrome for me it was noticeably bad on some video sites.
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by aeturnum 5y ago
Aside from all the folks who can download the image one way or another, I'm pretty disappointed that the technique here is simply using a web-server that doesn't work like clients expect. People have broken links or incorrect redi
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by aeturnum 5y ago
> designing, building, and maintaining warplanes are among the most complex tasks humans have ever done Most people who do complex, difficult jobs estimate for the complexity and difficulty. This project is both years behind schedule a
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by aeturnum 5y ago
I can understand why this looks odd if you are not used to how professionals interact over process questions. This strikes me as very similar to how public companies 'fail' audits - which is to say that companies never really fail
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by aeturnum 5y ago
I mean, because I know them already and I would have to learn PHP? But I'll give examples of what I wanted to see for languages I've done amounts of work in: *Python* A disgusting level of flexibility (probably too much). You neve
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by aeturnum 5y ago
The closest this post gets to supporting its thesis is this section: > You might have heard people say that PHP was "doing serverless before serverless was a thing", and this is kind of true. I believe that PHP is...not bad I
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by aeturnum 5y ago
My car isn't dead yet, but it's around the time I would look at buying another used car. I bought a used motorcycle instead and am splitting miles.
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by aeturnum 5y ago
> Photography isn’t racist, it’s physical limitations that come into play. I wanna pull this apart a bit because I think it's a good opportunity to talk about how systemic bias gets started. Digital sensor evolution is path-depend
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by aeturnum 5y ago
Where did I say that unequal outcomes must, necessarily, be caused by racism? What is misleading about what I said? It seems like you're reading a specific thing I said about a specific scenario and universalizing it in a way you imagi
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by aeturnum 5y ago
Things are bad in particular ways - software that is more likely to falsely punish people of color does support the continued dominance of white people in a real, material way. Noting how things are bad seems useful and important to me. Tha
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by aeturnum 5y ago
I find this line of argument very unconvincing because it has nothing to do with Pinterest. > Pinterest, it should be noted, doesn’t cost anything to sign up for. But as the old internet maxim goes, “If you’re not paying for it, you are
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by aeturnum 5y ago
Again, I think you're mistaking what people are saying. > Pretending that, just owning property and having them gall to dare to not rent it at or below cost is what's immoral or unethical is harmful to persuading anyone curren
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by aeturnum 5y ago
I think you're confusing the common meaning of rent for "rent seeking"[1] which, in economics, means specifically getting more resources in return for nothing. It's a pejorative definition. Getting paid for a service is
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by aeturnum 5y ago
There's the old joke about a plumber to charges $100 to fix a hot water heater by hitting it once with a hammer. The home owner, incensed by such a bill for a simple action, demands the plumber justify it. The breakdown is: $1 hammer s
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by aeturnum 5y ago
I do think it's too easy to do it the Wrong Way, but I've easily migrated from phone to phone several times now with both techniques and think they alright. Signal presents both a "create account" or a "migrate acco
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by aeturnum 5y ago
> This person is 'at risk' and has been strongly influenced by the nauseating, constant misinformation about vaccines and other things. I agree that Facebook is a conduit for gross views, but it seems important to decide who
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by aeturnum 5y ago
> Facebook pissed off people by having power. > most believe that FB and it's ilk are the reason 10% believe[...] > Personally, I think they are largely right on that Do you think Facebook has the power or is it being us
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by aeturnum 5y ago
IMO, it seems like a poor plan to rely on the revenue from excise taxes on particular luxuries (harmful or not). It's not a stable source of revenue, because increasing the tax will decrease use somewhat, and also acts as an indirect s
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by aeturnum 5y ago
If you know a problem is hard and the consequences for doing it wrong are potentially serious, it would be irrational to not consider selecting a well-managed third party solution. Being a hacker doesn't mean being all-knowing and the
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by aeturnum 5y ago
I mean, obviously it could matter. The difference between lying and joking is always in context. If I dress as a police officer for Halloween it's fine, if I lead you to believe I actually am a police officer it is a crime. There'
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by aeturnum 5y ago
No, absolutely not. I think that one has to be careful with labeling - these works are highly researched guesses based on lots of sources but are not "the article itself." But I think this process, where they are trying to be a
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by aeturnum 5y ago
I think the idea is that, though I'm sure the AZ site is unsatisfying as far as water goes, they can always pipe water in and it was picked for other reasons.
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by aeturnum 5y ago
> I think it is overrepresented in universities What would over-represented mean in this case? Here's a graph[1] of bachelors' degrees granted in various fields - the social science are grouped with history and are not partic
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by aeturnum 5y ago
So there are a few issues if you think about it. First, airports are large and people will order rides from all different parts of the terminal. Putting drivers at various points inside the terminal(s) complicates assignment. Second, you ca
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by aeturnum 5y ago
> The description of the trucking by duxup in the base of this thread [1] Look, are you talking about trucking or are you talking about capitalism writ large? The larger capitalistic structure is both unjust and deeply unstable - but t
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by aeturnum 5y ago
> it created situation it was easy for a lot of people to just quit driving and hard to find more drivers to replace them That situation seems pretty exceptional to me. I think it's fair to call an equilibrium that requires a covi
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by aeturnum 5y ago
Saying the system as a whole is stable does not mean there are no unstable parts. Goods get delivered at an acceptable cost with an acceptable loss rate - even with chameleon carriers and any other bad actors that exist. Suddenly changing h
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by aeturnum 5y ago
I'm personally skeptical about the immediate practicality of autonomous driving, but either way, I was not just speaking about driving. I was talking about nearly every area of rule around 'public order.'
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by aeturnum 5y ago
I do not think the method you are describing would usefully increase safety so it seems like a bad idea to me.

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