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by breuleux 7y ago
Well, that's cool. Might as well plug the one I made a couple years ago. It's an interactive tutorial too, sort of: http://breuleux.net/blog/language-howto.html
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by breuleux 7y ago
Generally, I wouldn't. People may want to deplatform other individuals for a variety of reasons. A common one is to impede the spread of ideas that they consider dangerous, because they believe that these ideas will cause human sufferi
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by breuleux 7y ago
> That's true, it is a mirror, which should be disturbing to anyone on the left who doesn't want the left to be a mirror of the right. I mean, sure, but I was meaning to make you think about your own tendency to fall into the
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by breuleux 7y ago
While that's true, I think it's worth pointing out that it is a mirror of your own statement that "the average left-leaning person today doesn't see bigots even as people any more." Neither statement is true. They a
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by breuleux 7y ago
> The most hopeful case is that there is ONE place that isn't 'strictly append only', and that's, for lack of a better term, the 'main pointer'. Which hash is the actual state of the app as it should be comp
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by breuleux 7y ago
BetterTouchTool. It's not free, but it's cheap enough, and it lets you do a lot of cool things (including the multi finger swiping which you can assign to anything you want). You can write AppleScript routines and assign them to b
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by breuleux 7y ago
I have my touchbar display the time, battery percentage and current song, so when I look down it's mostly to look at these. I also have a script that displays the last line of a particular file, so if I pipe a script's output in t
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by breuleux 7y ago
> i put both in quotes because to this contingent both of those concepts have absolutely zero relation to their actual form. Indeed, and that deserves some emphasis, I think. Applying "logic" to complex issues in real life is f
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Think of it this way: if you take a single particle in the world changing course, when it eventually collides with another, it will be with a different particle that it would originally have collided with. Once that happens, two particles n
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by breuleux 7y ago
In Montreal, the figure ranges from 600,000 (May) to 900,000 trips (July) from a fleet of 7,500 (there are no bikes from mid-November to mid-April). They're everywhere. Edit: I was still on the 2017 figures for some reason. 800,000 tri
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by breuleux 7y ago
> Well then it doesn't matter what I do, so I am not sure why you'd be so angry about it. I'm curious how you think you can evaluate someone's "anger" in written comments on the Internet. I'm not angry.
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by breuleux 7y ago
> Sure it will. It will help cause more bad policies to happen, at the margin. Very unreliably. You will only be able to influence policies that are nearly 50/50, but if they are 50/50, that is because there is widespread disag
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by breuleux 7y ago
Perhaps. I think there are generally three ways lobbyists can exert influence: 1. By nurturing personal relationships with politicians. I may be mistaken, but I feel like this is probably the most effective method. You want to exploit the n
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by breuleux 7y ago
What? The "public" didn't force you to do anything. The public is just people. You're part of the public, for Christ's sake. A representative who would act as you propose wouldn't be screwing some mysterious n
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by breuleux 7y ago
Voting for policies that hurt people at large isn't "fighting back". What has the public done to you to deserve this? It's like working at a restaurant and spitting in customers' food because the restaurant owner is
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by breuleux 7y ago
I mean, if you want to be a sociopath about it, that's part of the risk in the system. As long as we can confidently establish that a supermajority of people would take the job seriously and would be happy with the compensation, we can
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by breuleux 7y ago
As I said elsewhere, I'm leaning towards being required to register for the lottery exactly once every ten years or so. I think that'd be a reasonable compromise to ensure a representative sample of the population without inconven
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By serious unforeseen circumstances I mean things like getting cancer or being crippled in a freak car accident. Nobody's going to do either of these things just to get out of government duty. Also, what's important is for the sam
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Consider that the system would be rethought accordingly, though. Representatives picked by lottery would not "manage" the country: they would hire qualified people to do so, and they would supervise their work according to their v
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by breuleux 7y ago
You are absolutely right about lawmaking being a profession, but in a lottery system, I reckon these professional lawmakers would simply be hired by the representatives, and they could stay on for as long as they are deemed useful. The repr
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by breuleux 7y ago
That's a very good point. I currently lean towards requiring every citizen to register for the lottery once every ten or so years (for one year of service). If they are picked, they have to go, except for serious unforeseen circumstanc
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by breuleux 7y ago
What would keep people in line is that this would be illegal. A lottery-based system is also problematic for lobbyists because they have to bribe many more people and they can't help elect the people they have already bribed. If they t
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by breuleux 7y ago
Oh, I'm aware. I'm arguing for universal lottery, and I think it would work.
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Actually, why not choose all representatives by lottery? I don't think representatives need to have any particular competencies beyond being representative of the interests of the population. Hired staff can take care of things that
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by breuleux 7y ago
Couldn't this sort of incentivize efforts to polarize the public? If I want to get my way on issue X, but I don't care about issue Y, a good strategy for me would be to rouse everyone else about Y so that they waste their tokens o
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by breuleux 8y ago
I installed BetterTouchTool on mine, and you can configure an action to run when sliding anywhere on the touchbar with 2, 3 or 4 fingers. I set 2 fingers to volume control and 4 fingers to brightness and that works pretty well, no need to l
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by breuleux 8y ago
I think that problem sort of fades in the aggregate: given 100 people who order the candidates A-C-B, A will get 100 votes, B will get zero, and C will get some value in between, because some people will go for it, and some won't. If y
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by breuleux 9y ago
I mean, we were talking about simple hill climbing. Still, even more complex systems still do not require particularly high bandwidth. You only need to broadcast the fitness of the individuals, and from there each node can independently rec
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by breuleux 9y ago
Not exactly. The required bandwidth for the evolutionary strategy is actually very small: if every node knows each other's random seed, they can reconstruct the best model themselves, using the seed of whichever node declares the best
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by breuleux 9y ago
On the other hand, even if evolutionary algorithms require a lot of samples, they are embarrassingly parallel: you can easily try all samples simultaneously. If you have enough resources to throw at the problem, it can be faster (although m

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