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by asoneth 5y ago
> A right is something, theoretically, that everyone can have. Under this definition, what would you consider a right?
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by asoneth 5y ago
I'm curious what "negative rights" you have in mind that do not cost energy/money and do not create a conflict between people's free choice to live their lives?
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by asoneth 5y ago
You jest, but I find it easier to visually parse code organized using parentheses, quotes, commas, and brackets compared to code organized using parentheses, parentheses, parentheses, and parentheses. The latter approach is simple and elega
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by asoneth 5y ago
I'd love to see new reactors come on line, but I remain skeptical that nuclear power will be widely used in the US as long as it remains so scary to so many people. It's scary because disasters stay on the front page for months if
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by asoneth 5y ago
For a few persistent applications (terminal, calendar, chat client, email, ticket dashboard, wireframing tool, etc) I have them tiled on specific workspaces/monitors and I use a keyboard shortcut to jump to the relevant workspace. (I d
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by asoneth 5y ago
From what I've learned of toki pona so far it seems to be reasonably effective at conveying abstract concepts, poetry, haiku, and the like. It's the specifics and precision that seem hard to convey. For example, it's hard to
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by asoneth 5y ago
Agreed. SF can afford to drive away families as long as it can continue to attract far more net population growth than the housing stock can support. From a purely financial standpoint, skimming motivated young talent from around the world
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by asoneth 5y ago
> I'd give them all the babies in the world if they offered to take them off my hands after they were born Assuming you have not already done so, perhaps becoming a surrogate or donating sperm would be an option for you? While it&#x
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> we will see cites change or depopulate? Or neither. Cities since at least the Roman era have been considered "population sinks". That is, they often maintain or grow their population by attracting surplus population born outs
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by asoneth 5y ago
Many countries already invest substantial resources towards caring for children in the form of subsidized daycares, public schooling, subsidized food, etc. I expect demographics will force many countries to become even more generous in this
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by asoneth 5y ago
Members of a (quasi?) government organization harassed a company and joked about paying someone to murder a CEO because they did not like how the company marketed its products. I don't disagree with the content of your statements, but
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by asoneth 5y ago
> And that was a good thing!" Interesting, I came away with the impression that the author was implying that some of these changes (i.e. better understanding of toxicity, therapy, wage gaps, redlining, gerrymandering) to be positive
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I agree, and that's one reason I like curated content such as PBS. We had some inappropriate/disturbing "next video" suggestions on YouTube that initially seemed OK at a distance or for the first few minutes that we didn
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> the small minority of gamers who actually cheat The small minority of gamers who cheat impact the experience for a much larger number of customers who don't. So each cheater might cause dozens of lost subscriptions. (Contrast to s
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by asoneth 5y ago
Thank you, I'll look for some newspaper columns.
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It makes sense that fifteen minutes a day of Duolingo isn't as effective as spending two hours a day studying, going to meetups, traveling to a foreign country, etc. I recall similar criticism for the "seven-minute workout" f
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by asoneth 5y ago
As someone who has used Duolingo and spaced repetition apps for ~10m/day for the last four or five years, is there something specific you recommend transitioning to? I've started with some Netflix and podcasts, but they're a
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> the assumption that, somehow, the logic gets easier to understand if it's in diagrams instead of text One advantage of diagrammatic/block/flow-based programming is that it lets the programmer avoid fiddly syntax. Many ex
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There's definitely something alluring about "outdated" interfaces. When a product manager asks me to make something look more "modern" these days that usually ends up being code for flattening the UI by eliminating
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by asoneth 5y ago
$1k a month seems downright cheap compared to many medical treatments. Hospital visits in the US average $11.7k for a full stay[1]. Antiviral treatments for Hepatitis C like Harvoni and Sovaldi cost $16k-90k for 12 weeks, though you can go
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by asoneth 5y ago
That's an interesting proposal. A similar argument could be made for why it is important to have both engineers and non-engineers involved in the creation of products.
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In case anyone else is curious: According to the bill of materials linked from the project website[1] the project cost is $175.67 not including the 3D printer and laser cutter or the raw materials they require. (Though it does include dupli
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by asoneth 5y ago
I'm curious what your estimate would be. Mine would be somewhere between 0.5FTE assuming the bare minimum of keep-the-lights-on QA testing for each release and ongoing bug triage up to maybe 3FTE if it requires periodic security and de
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That may be true that dashboards are under-counting Firefox, but the ultimate impact is the same. Without some kind of evidence that more than a trivial number of hits come from Firefox why would any small business pour time into catering t
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I agree that recent graduates can be extraordinary, but a team with no seasoned developers is still a major red flag to me. I've worked on many projects, some successful, some not. The difference was often that the successful projects
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This theory is often called "the Big Sort". In abstract, allowing people to move to places where the government and work more closely matches their personal values and skillsets seems like a good way to increase everyone's sa
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I lived in multiple deep red communities in multiple red states while working as a military contractor. The warfighters I worked with were absolutely phenomenal but the broader cities and towns around were a poor culture fit for me. (To be
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If there existed a stand-alone test that could measure intelligence I would agree with you. But current standardized tests like the SAT and GRE measure a combination of intelligence, time spent studying, and money spent on educational resou
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> As a society we should make sure that the brightest people get appropriate knowledge and become as productive as possible Right, that's exactly why I believe we should factor in things like a student's school and zip code alo
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by asoneth 5y ago
If the holistic system was based on things like zip code and whether the school is elite or struggling then rich parents gaming the system by moving to poor neighborhoods or enrolling their kids in struggling schools seems like it might hav

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