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by alex_lav 3y ago
There are a finite amount of firetrucks, ambulances and ER beds per municipality.
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by alex_lav 3y ago
> As a generality, "unsafe voyage" is a reasonable thing to outlaw. Morons will need search & rescue on the CG's taxpayer-supplied dime, then maybe need medical care at public expense, too. Of all the stupid things reg
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by alex_lav 3y ago
Yes, exactly.
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by alex_lav 3y ago
> it’s about living in a society where open discourse of ideas you personally disagree with is allowed. When has this ever been true? > What’s to say in 20 years the winds of discourse shift, and the things you once thought were right
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by alex_lav 3y ago
Yeah I was curious what law is actually being broken by doing this? > [US Coast Guard] officers determined Baluchi was conducting a manifestly unsafe voyage," the criminal complaint says. Since when is it illegal to do things that a
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by alex_lav 3y ago
How much of either do I need to know to find value out of this book?
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by alex_lav 3y ago
paywall
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by alex_lav 3y ago
...why would we do that
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by alex_lav 3y ago
Paywall edit Awesome downvotes
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by alex_lav 3y ago
> What you have just described is being a generalist vs a specialist. Sorry, no. Those concepts are unrelated to what we're describing. > Also, all concepts are “made up”. By definition. I was trying to be polite. Made up by you
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by alex_lav 3y ago
Doing new things is experience. Repetition in one area is also experience. This concept you're describing is just made up.
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by alex_lav 3y ago
This seems like nothing more than a desire to gatekeep experience? Being employed as a programmer means you're gaining experience...Even if you work at a single company for 20 years, you're not going to get some mythical competenc
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by alex_lav 3y ago
> But that is part of the point of scrum. To break down stories into consistently stress-free achievable stories, rather than big risky ones filled with unknowns. Maybe as-written but not really ever as-practiced.
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by alex_lav 3y ago
Yeah I just kinda reject this whole line of thinking.
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by alex_lav 3y ago
Online gaming and f2p aren’t the same thing…
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by alex_lav 3y ago
(Probably untrue but) Neat. Doesn't really change the content or validity of my post though. It reads like a person that's never looked at or played a video game.
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by alex_lav 3y ago
This reads like a person that's never really looked at or played a game.
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by alex_lav 3y ago
> I never would have made it in this industry if it wasn't for spending endless hours with my computer for years before I had less and less time when I got older. The amount of people that had the same upbringing but just became add
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by alex_lav 3y ago
> The benefits that it provides far outway any potential initial time costs. Unquantifiable statements about tech account for 98% of all tech content.
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by alex_lav 3y ago
Only in the abstract, I guess. If you drop 5 dollars and I pick it up and tell you that you dropped it, I also made a decision for you, no? That you'd want to be informed of such things? I believe that consent is good, and I believe th
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by alex_lav 3y ago
A cloud development environment company saying their market share is larger than you'd think? Color me shocked. In seriousness, I think the state of CDEs (a term I'd never seen before this post) is pretty abysmal. 5-10 minute debu
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by alex_lav 3y ago
> In poker vernacular, when tasked to play GTO poker, ChatGPT plays like a Nit, which means that it has a propensity to only engage with premium hands and folds a majority of hands. When subjected to the same directive, GPT-4 plays like
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by alex_lav 3y ago
> In this case I genuinely believe the post was borderline criminal and grossly irresponsible given the situation the world was in on March 20, 2020. You could rewrite this as "Not criminal". So you agree, the arrest was illega
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by alex_lav 3y ago
"This person said something I didn't like so they should be arrested", isn't really a valid or worthwhile opinion though. I don't like your post. Should you be arrested for it?
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by alex_lav 3y ago
Just casually supporting open fascism now.
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by alex_lav 3y ago
Either side of this debate asserting the other side is categorically wrong/going away is just foolish.
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by alex_lav 3y ago
Are all of your rants reasonable?
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by alex_lav 3y ago
Why wouldn't they?
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by alex_lav 3y ago
HN exists in spite of itself.
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by alex_lav 3y ago
I...don't see how your analogy is any more or less flawed...but I also don't particularly want to debate about an analogy that aptly demonstrates a point: specializations exist.

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