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by atq2119 6y ago
It occurs to me (but I can no longer edit) that I wrote the above comment while only thinking about children after puberty . The Epstein connection of the larger story primed me into that frame, and the comment would have looked differentl
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by atq2119 6y ago
I happen to suspect that RMS is wrong on the pedophilia point, but if all you can say about it is that you find it disgusting , alarm bells should be going off in your head that there may be something here which You Can't Say (in the
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by atq2119 6y ago
'-' is a minus sign. It will appear in code blocks much more often in contexts where you do want it to act as a word delimiter.
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by atq2119 6y ago
I'm pretty sure even something like that doesn't give you carte blanche for, say, murdering people. So there's a line to be drawn, and reasonable people can disagree on where exactly to draw it.
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by atq2119 6y ago
Ironically, it seems random logic may have been scaling better than SRAM recently...
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by atq2119 6y ago
I'm sure that's part of it. Another hypothesis I like is that the US was populated to a significant extent by people who, when faced with problems at home, didn't stay and fight to fix them but instead preferred to leave. In
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by atq2119 6y ago
These may all be fine arguments as to why a high-level(!) software developer might not want to join a union. None of what you wrote applies to assembly line workers. And arguably, it doesn't apply to junior software devs either.
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by atq2119 6y ago
There's a fictitious journal article with this premise by Ted Chiang.
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by atq2119 6y ago
Perhaps you're only hearing back from the ones who love it? Related, survey respondents are known to be weird.
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by atq2119 6y ago
The thing is, the trolley problem presents a very theoretical dichotomy. In real life, such dichotomies are usually false. At the very least, the underlying facts are usually less clear. Therefore, "do nothing" is a very good he
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by atq2119 6y ago
> Or, we could acknowledge that most of the general public doesn't have the education necessary, and have the government regulate on our behalf. It's also worth acknowledging that having this kind of regulation makes our societ
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by atq2119 6y ago
This is very much a cultural thing. Over here, you can easily get bottled water in glass bottles. The delivery services will pick up your tray with empty bottles to be reused. That's reuse after cleaning, not recycling!
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by atq2119 6y ago
Not really. It's a mechanism by which UBI could turn out to be futile, but it's only a qualitative mechanism. Whether UBI actually becomes self-defeating via inflation is a quantitative question which nobody can honestly answe
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by atq2119 6y ago
MV=PQ is popular in some circles, but it doesn't describe casual links. You can't reason about how those quantities behave from the equation, which is a mere accounting tautology. Both recently and in QE post-global financial cris
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by atq2119 6y ago
Those questions are probably not intentionally designed to eliminate neurodiversity, but I agree that that's a side effect. The set of categories that diversity advocates typically care about is itself not diverse.
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by atq2119 6y ago
Yeah, the first point is more of a lemma that supports the second point.
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by atq2119 6y ago
> There is nothing inherently good or bad ethnic diversity. Depends on the context. For example, if your user base is diverse, it can be larger than if it wasn't - the total potential market is larger. So, diversity is profitable in
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by atq2119 6y ago
What would you suggest?
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by atq2119 6y ago
How does it save key strokes? To use the location/awesome bar you press Ctrl+L and start typing, to search you press Ctrl+K and start typing...
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by atq2119 6y ago
> Pervasive as Amazon, Google, et al. may be, they are still much easier to escape than the United States government. Like it or not, there's always going to be some powerful entity who you cannot escape because it rules the land.
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by atq2119 6y ago
This is unfortunate, but it's also an invariant of human behaviour. The alternative is to get leaders through inheritance, which isn't any better. So the best thing to do is to try to nudge the system in a direction where the wors
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by atq2119 6y ago
> In my country it is illegal not to subscribe to the state TV channel. This is, frankly, a very silly thing to get hung up on. First of all, I assume you mean you have to make some payment that goes to that channel, not that you're
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by atq2119 6y ago
This kind of thing usually tends to be some sort of configuration error. Rare these days, but not entirely unheard of, and more likely if you build drivers from source.
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by atq2119 6y ago
And yet in-order blending is so much more power- and area-efficient with fixed function hardware support that, if your goal is to support graphics, especially for a mobile part, you'd be silly not to add it. The same applies to rasteri
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by atq2119 6y ago
By and large, GPUs don't have this anymore, actually (they used to, but this changed many years ago). On modern GPUs your example is "scalarized" and results in separate instructions for each vector component. Of course exec
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by atq2119 6y ago
It's unclear that this particular project has learned from Larrabee hindsight. The graphics part of the GPU doesn't seem to be thought through at all. That said, if the goal is to compete with existing GPUs for general compute wor
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by atq2119 6y ago
It's possible to implement very simple condition variables. The tricky part is preventing correct but inefficient behaviours like stampeding herds.
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by atq2119 6y ago
> It's important to hire good PMs without huge egos or career aspirations. This is so important. PMs are there to serve management and engineering, not the other way around. As soon as you have PMs who are trying to boost their own
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by atq2119 6y ago
> Sure, how else would they do it? Write the very first version of the compiler for language X in X. Then hand-translate that compiler source to some other language or assembly. Then you don't ever have to rewrite the compiler.
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by atq2119 6y ago
The best thing about NaN jokes is that they're all different.

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