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by bena 1y ago
What it promotes and what happens are two different things. “The purpose of a system is what it does.”
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by bena 1y ago
I think it's essentially a grift. An excuse to do nothing while looking like you care and reaping rewards. If they wanted to help, they should be focused on the now. Global poverty, climate change, despotic world leaders. They should b
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by bena 1y ago
Technically "long-termism" should lead them straight to nihilism. Because, eventually, everything will end. One way or another. The odds are just 1. At some point, there are no more future humans. The number of humans are zero.
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by bena 1y ago
No offense, I don't know anyone who died of leukemia or even had it. I think you may be experiencing a bit of the "blue car" effect. Of course everyone who went to your school knew someone who died of leukemia. They all knew
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by bena 1y ago
Yeah, but the route is on your phone as well. The driver cannot deviate from that course without you knowing.
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by bena 1y ago
Ubers aren't cabs. They are paid for the ride itself, not for the time of the ride. There is no meter to run. Honestly, in a city of any significant size, I prefer taxis. Taxis have accountability. And they know that it's about mo
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by bena 1y ago
Exactly, when the cost is free, I can ask it for whatever stupid thing I can think of. The minute it starts costing me money, I have to make that decision: Is this worth the dollar?
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by bena 1y ago
This weirdly tracks. If it was trained on the output of licensed psychologists, then it would be inclined to say it was licensed. Because that's the most likely answer to "Are you licensed?"
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by bena 1y ago
It would have been funnier if he replied with "Great idea, thank you."
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by bena 1y ago
I never saw so much hand-wringing and pearl clutching when we started injecting botulism toxin into our faces to make them smoother. Why are we so dead set on making sure overweight people struggle to put off the weight? Why can't it
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by bena 1y ago
Ok, I'm at like 0 knowledge on the Rust side, so bear that in mind. Also, to note that I'm genuinely curious about this answer. Why can't I return an integer on error? What's preventing me from writing Rust like C++?
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by bena 1y ago
This sounds like something that would catch me too. Because I also wouldn’t do the leg work to vet a moving company before contracting them. Because I’ve only done the “get a U-Haul and get to it” method.
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by bena 1y ago
Probably that significance isn't an inherent quality of things.
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by bena 1y ago
Probably. We have the original base game and the Ticket to Ride Junior edition. Neither of those have stations.
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by bena 1y ago
> - Money/power does make you insensitive This is something I try to be acutely aware of in myself. Not that I have any level of wealth worth mentioning. I started working at a company where they just give me stuff. I can go to work
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by bena 1y ago
I'm not a big fan of Catan. Players can get locked out of the game with no way to meaningfully play. Ticket to Ride is decent though. Simple, straight-forward rules. Enough strategy and randomness to make playing interesting. No one ca
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by bena 1y ago
The casinos. That’s the only reason it kept coming up. If the people want them gone, they have to do the same as the casinos did.
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by bena 1y ago
I was not trying to say that. I was implying the repeated votes to allow casinos were being put forward by the casinos themselves. They had a vested interest in the vote. They have no vested interest in the opposite. Someone with that inter
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by bena 1y ago
To be fair, when you don't have casinos, you don't have casino taxes, casino employment, casino tourism, etc. Also, you don't just "have" casinos, building any building of that size is at the very least a multi-mont
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by bena 1y ago
Hey man, their money spends like anyone else's.
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by bena 2y ago
I think you may have misinterpreted his motive here. Just before that statement, he says that it is an article/hot take about syntax. He acknowledges your point. So I think when he says "semantics beat syntax every day of the we
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by bena 2y ago
Kind of fair. I don't incorporate a lot of regular expressions into my code. But where I do like them is for search and replace. So I do treat them as mostly disposable.
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by bena 2y ago
I think it’s the difference between going and not going. So if you make 100 without college, you’d have made 113 with it. And I don’t know if loan repayments are factored in. It could be that college educated individuals wind up with 13% mo
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by bena 2y ago
This may be wrong or apocryphal or a third thing: But I recall reading that this is a deliberate affect used by those who work with nuclear material. Partly as a shibboleth, partly as a means of making the word easier to say quickly. It cam
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by bena 2y ago
The Pentagon will never pass an audit. Some of that money goes into things the auditors do not have clearance for.
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by bena 2y ago
Six of one and half a dozen of the other? Other companies now have decent EV offerings. Of course, if you're conspiratorially minded, you could posit that he's taking such polarizing positions especially against the demographic
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by bena 2y ago
You can just be shitty and get the same experience. My wife and I went to a batting cage once and tried to hit some balls. There is a marked difference between hitting it in the sweet spot and not.
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by bena 2y ago
It's not limited to Black Friday items. A lot of companies have general WalMart versions of products.
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by bena 2y ago
This is WalMart all over again. Since WalMart has so much leverage in negotiations, they get to essentially name their price for goods. Which causes manufacturers to make special WalMart versions of their items.
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by bena 2y ago
I really feel like this guy is paying for placement and articles about himself. Just today, I've seen a twitter thread and this post. Searching for him also shows a Gizmodo article from today. And it really seems to be a case of trying

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