btilly

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3001.
by btilly 6y ago
You don't believe in software licensing, do you?
3002.
by btilly 6y ago
Excellent point. The wealth created is not strongly correlated with the effort put out. And we've all gotten wealthier as we've moved from high effort low return activities (eg sowing fields by hand) to low effort high return ac
3003.
by btilly 6y ago
This article is a good example of "the pie fallacy". Read http://paulgraham.com/wealth.html for an explanation of what that is, and why it is a fallacy.
3004.
by btilly 6y ago
I strongly disagree. In the real world, wealth is very much not zero sum. Look around where you live, at the things that you value. How many of them were created with human effort, versus just existed in nature? Look at everything from c
3005.
by btilly 6y ago
Your EULA doesn't help when the credit card reverses the charges. And when you can't prove that it was the real person who paid for it, you're going to lose that one.
3006.
by btilly 6y ago
From the article, the rule is, Nobody can pick an active lock, or help anyone attempting to. The community is united on that front, with mods receiving reports of any violations almost immediately. They then clarify, We are extremely str
3007.
by btilly 6y ago
There would also be no outbreak if farmers immunized their animals against salmonella. See https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn23165-us-should-vacci... for more.
3008.
by btilly 6y ago
It could be. But any member of the lockpicking organization would not be allowed by their rules to attend.
3009.
by btilly 6y ago
That would be against the rules of the organization as described in the article.
3010.
by btilly 6y ago
Not the vast majority of states. The list isWisconsin, Oregon, Washington, Nevada, Nebraska, Montana, Missouri, Minnesota, Michigan, Kentucky, Kansas, Iowa, Indiana, Hawaii, Florida, Colorado and California. In other states there are no fa
3011.
by btilly 6y ago
Actually the US has 50 legal systems for divorce - one for each state. That said the last state to support no fault divorces was New York in 2010, so you're right. (Though a no fault divorce option wasn't there for me when I was
3012.
by btilly 6y ago
Not as weak as you think. When we go looking for sources of dark matter, we have lots of options of things that aren't lit up. For example looking at the distribution of the sizes of the stars, we expect there to be a lot of giant gas
3013.
by btilly 6y ago
Normally I read these and expect to learn nothing applicable. But the UNLOGGED table tip was exactly what I needed for the ETL project that I'm working on. Thanks!
3014.
by btilly 6y ago
It would not be the first Olympic sport redesigned for safety concerns. The first one that I am aware of is Javelin. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Javelin_throw#Javelin_redesign... for more.
3015.
by btilly 6y ago
Contact tracing has not conventionally been seen as even remotely viable for a respiratory disease like this one. Source needed. It is, for example, what we used successfully to stop SARS from doing what COVID-19 has done. But you have t
3016.
by btilly 6y ago
Well, let's try to explain general relativity, shall we? First of all, the universe is expanding. A good visual is to paint stuff on the surface of a balloon. Everything on the balloon started off close together. But as the balloon
3017.
by btilly 6y ago
Cancel culture are witch hunts organized over social media. There is a good comparison to be made with McCarthyism. Other than the political identities of those wielding the tools and those targeted, what is happening today is the same. In
3018.
by btilly 6y ago
Do you have statistics demonstrating that, per capita, the USA outperforms Nordic countries on entrepreneurship? I don't either way. But I have run across the counterintuitive fact that Nordic countries outperform the USA on how many
3019.
by btilly 6y ago
I re-read your original post. You said: Some people are able to honestly assess their past positions and statements, understand why things could be construed as problematic, and make efforts to better themselves. That, and a sense of what
3020.
by btilly 6y ago
Did you notice that you moved the goalposts? You went from, "People who try to improve themselves are safe" to, "We can't have sympathy for rich people." But it doesn't just happen to rich people. And when yo
3021.
by btilly 6y ago
I am positive that you still don't have the historical context. One place to get that historical context is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_G2u1RrLOk&list=PLR8X5I0C1L... which is part 2 of Gwynne Dyer's 8 pa
3022.
by btilly 6y ago
I believe both halves of your argument are wrong. X% of surveyed economists probably don't disagree that rent controls will have the effect that rent control proponents claim. They likely believe it will have other effects in addition
3023.
by btilly 6y ago
The example of Niel Golightly demonstrates that opinions we held decades ago and have not held for many years can still get us fired. Thus, being willing to better yourself is no protection. See https://www.reuters.com/arti
3024.
by btilly 6y ago
My favorite example of an impossibility theorem being violated in practice is rsync. The theorem being that there is no perfectly reliable algorithm to compare two files across a network and see if they are different that in the worst case
3025.
by btilly 6y ago
So you're saying that we need to solve organizational stupidity by complicating all chips for everyone so that bad organizations can get a performance boost on specialized tasks? What percentage of consumers with these chips installed
3026.
by btilly 6y ago
If you want more complaints, and well informed ones at that, read https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/containers-future-ian-eyberg/ . I particularly love the quote, The kernel developers view of the docker community is
3027.
by btilly 6y ago
Almost. Not becomes, can become.
3028.
by btilly 6y ago
For the record I have a brother living on a native reservation. I am well aware of exactly how horrible our past and continuing treatment of the natives have been. And strongly support fixing our ongoing treatment of them. However I also
3029.
by btilly 6y ago
I am not saying that this is a legal argument for how this case should have been resolved. I'm saying that this is a legal argument against the specific reasoning within the decision. That reasoning being, Unlawful acts, performed lo
3030.
by btilly 6y ago
I said subtle, not non-existent. For example you tout the advantages of enforced access rules. And indeed enforcement is good for avoiding bugs from accidental concurrent access. But said enforcement also means that bugs in releasing acce

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