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by ambrozk 4y ago
It's organic political opinion. For one thing, Germans feel very real guilt for their invasion of Russia in WW2, and they don't like the idea of aiding in a war against it. For another, the experience of the Cold War was much more
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by ambrozk 4y ago
I'm not dealing with war because it's irrelevant to the comment I wrote. You're bringing up war because you want to prove "white people are more violent in a general sense than black people." "Which race is, in
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by ambrozk 4y ago
I'm guessing you're making some argument about war? If so, I'm not interested in sophistry. I'm not playing the "which race is better?" game. In the US, it's a fact that violent crime is not disproportiona
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by ambrozk 4y ago
That's exactly the point I'm making. African Americans support gun control because guns are such a problem in their community. The people who want the guns banned are not the same people using them, so there's no contradict
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by ambrozk 4y ago
This is not the dunk you think it is. Consider: African Americans hate guns, and also murder more people with them, per capita, than almost anyone else. Does this strike you as contradictory in any way? If confronted with a black voter who
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by ambrozk 4y ago
> hes lucky corporate brands and advertisers havent figured out they could start their own Mastodon instance for almost nothing, plug it until it becomes more popular than Twitter, and maintain all their existing brand safety controls in
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by ambrozk 4y ago
> when the test fails it will be harder to know what actually happened. Yeah, and if you write one assertion at a time, it will be harder to write the tests. Decreasing #assertions/test decreases the speed of test debugging while in
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by ambrozk 4y ago
"Yeah, but computers can't be creative!" is the last line of denial for humans who don't want to face their impending obsolescence in a field. People said the same thing about chess engines, right before chess engines de
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by ambrozk 4y ago
No, it's saying that the model performs worse. If you read the linked papers on footnote 11 you'll see the research in question.
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by ambrozk 4y ago
With Haiti, you don't have to go all the way back to the settling of the island for brutality. The closest analogue I've read to the behavior of the French who ruled Haiti was the treatment of camp inmates by the Nazis. Haiti was
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by ambrozk 4y ago
Note that the "property" that the Haitians had confiscated from the French included, in the opinion of the French government, the Haitians themselves. So the French, in effect, forced the Haitians to pay for the right not to be s
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by ambrozk 4y ago
I don't know what makes you so so confident about your prediction, and what you've written about fusion's relationship to waste is, I'm pretty sure, inaccurate.
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by ambrozk 4y ago
Down and Out in London and Paris is a great, great memoir. It's 50% Kitchen Confidential, 50% tramping in England during the Depression. I really can't communicate how readable and fun it is.
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by ambrozk 4y ago
The most basic physics (e.g. the actual reactions involved) is solved but how plasmas actually behave in practice is not well modeled. A lot of improvements in fusion efficiency come from tinkering with settings and seeing what works. A cav
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by ambrozk 4y ago
Okay. Not having taken London cabs, I cannot disagree with you. What I can tell you is that Ubers in NYC are much safer than cabs in NYC, and Ubers across Africa are much safer than their cab equivalents. To the degree that Uber's tech
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by ambrozk 4y ago
In what markets did Uber decrease passenger safety relative to existing cab companies? I have literally never been in a locality where the cabs were safer than Uber.
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by ambrozk 4y ago
That's fine. They don't have to be better everywhere for me to be happy they exist. People attack Uber without dealing with the very obvious problem that in many, many markets, for both drivers and riders, they're an enormous
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by ambrozk 4y ago
In this metaphor, "murder" stands for "operating a taxi service without the approval of the existing taxi services."
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by ambrozk 4y ago
It's insane. Thank God for tech companies for disrupting one of the worst industries on the planet. Uber and Lyft are, IMO, some of the best examples of the virtuous nature of "move fast & break things" as a business ph
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by ambrozk 4y ago
Taxi companies operate with the advantage of state monopolies. They have lobbyists too, and they were so well-connected that they allowed exactly zero innovation for decades before they got blown out of the water by Uber.
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by ambrozk 4y ago
What? Where are you getting this? I have no problem with rich people. My problem is with cartels of homeowners passing laws making it illegal for individuals to build higher-density housing on the land that they own. The city of Atherton
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by ambrozk 4y ago
I didn't add the qualifier "passively." You did. I think it's great if people are contributing to the region's wealth via their work, but it doesn't affect my argument. The fact is that the locality of Atherton
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by ambrozk 4y ago
It's amazing to me that you go from "Marc Andreesen lives there" to "it's not like Atherton's residents are financially benefitting from their proximity to the tech industry." Very, very dumb.
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by ambrozk 4y ago
In what sense does it not match? The emotional content of my reaction is anger at the obscene hording of space by a privileged minority who benefit from the productive behavior of their neighbors and contribute nothing in return. The averag
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by ambrozk 4y ago
Demand for housing in Atherton isn't high because Atherton's rules made Atherton nice. If Atherton allowed high-density condos to be built, demand for housing in Atherton would not decline at all, because Atherton's "cha
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by ambrozk 4y ago
The solution is to decrease the power of hyper-local interests whose incentives do not align with those of the broader polity. Small cities and even neighborhoods benefit from regional economic growth but would rather their distant neighbor
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by ambrozk 4y ago
I look forward to hearing the argument that society should indefinitely bankroll large symphony orchestras at good salaries, but I am skeptical that it would actually convince people. It seems to me that outside of the very rich and the ver
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by ambrozk 4y ago
I'm working on this right now for sed :). It currently works with both GNU and BSD-style sed, either for BREs or EREs. I'm going to make it easier to install sometime soon and then hopefully expand the project to other languages.
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by ambrozk 4y ago
Blowhards like you love to complain about books they haven't read and movies they haven't seen.
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There is art that blurs this line. Lolita, for instance, blurs this line. Cuties is not anything like that. The emotions you're intended to register are very, very clear. The camera keeps panning away from the kids to reveal the shocke

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