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by cbsmith 4y ago
The only reason you read it that way is that is exactly what happened. ;-)
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by cbsmith 4y ago
Sometimes it's not about winning or losing.
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by cbsmith 4y ago
Wait, are you asserting that calling them "conspiracy theory" implies they fit people's predispositions?
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by cbsmith 4y ago
"A lot of people" is kind of like the US government, except, you know, without the budget, authority of law, or diplomatic status.
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by cbsmith 4y ago
The Florida's Office of the Inspector General would appear to disagree with you: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/coronavirus/article25176232...
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by cbsmith 4y ago
"rather than structures"
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by cbsmith 4y ago
m4 is fine in production if what you're doing really is just string manipulation. It just tends to be used in cases like the one in this article, where you are manipulating structured text. In that context, you run the risk of errors&#
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by cbsmith 4y ago
Hey, maybe you can help me with something about PRQL that I've never bothered to investigate (and I'll confess this is laziness on my part). If newlines just extend a pipeline, what separates pipelines? Do semicolons separate pipe
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by cbsmith 4y ago
"Note that M4 doesn’t support non-ASCII characters in definitions so my ideal macros had to lose their $ prefixes." $ is ASCII character 36. I believe the intended restriction is that M4 restricts macro names to be made up of lett
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by cbsmith 4y ago
Umm... I guess? What do you imagine happens to conspiracy theories that don't fit people's predispositions?
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by cbsmith 4y ago
No, consensus building is the reverse. It's people playing the game vs. the game playing people: https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/qanon-game-plays-beli... Consensus building is looking for ways to persuade p
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by cbsmith 4y ago
A nice link to the video, but skip ahead to 17:20.
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by cbsmith 4y ago
This is misinformation. Saudi Arabia is not well regarded when it comes to religious freedom, and it has a law against apostasy (when a Muslim renounces their beliefs), which is a capital offense, but they don't classify atheists as te
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by cbsmith 4y ago
> How can anybody be surprised that so many people belive in so called "conspiracy theories" when many of them looks like true. The Darwinian nature of conspiracy theories mean that if they didn't look like the truth, they
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by cbsmith 4y ago
I think you're missing the aspect of Spanish flu that presents the threat. CFR doesn't define the threat.
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by cbsmith 4y ago
This would seem to presume an opaque system whose workings are entirely unknowable with divine providence... rather than something constructed, operated, and controlled by humans.
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by cbsmith 4y ago
> "a lot of covid guidance was confusing in the beginning and I think that admitting that has somehow become taboo." I think any reasonable person can acknowledge there's a huge leap between "I was confused by what yo
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by cbsmith 4y ago
> Thing is, there wasn't that much of it before the CDC spent over a month spewing bullshit telling people not to wear masks because masks don't stop the spread of COVID. That's not what they said, which kind of highlights
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by cbsmith 4y ago
We're over-indexing on institutional failures and failing to consider non-institutional failure rates. Institutions fail, and when they do, it's a huge disaster. Absent institutions, the general public also fails, and when they do
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by cbsmith 4y ago
I was going to mention something about changes of State in purely functional languages...
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by cbsmith 4y ago
This is the gist of it, but you have to ask yourself why it's just the accepted wisdom that it's okay to have the massive level of failure we have now.
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by cbsmith 4y ago
Almost sounds like a supply chain/manufacturing problem than a software problem.
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by cbsmith 4y ago
...but you need to come up with an unambiguous way to represent what was meant in bytes, if you're going to use a secure hash function.
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by cbsmith 4y ago
> I don't think they've made a credible argument here. That seems irrelevant to whether that's a fair way to frame the article. > People are well justified in looking at them askance for their choice of framing device.
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by cbsmith 4y ago
> Sure, but that's not the argument. Agreed. I just thought the metaphor was not helpful. > The hypothesis is that requiring helmets may make individual bikers safer in isolation ...though there's a (somewhat) credible argum
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by cbsmith 4y ago
Yes. I point is that even if your motives have nothing to do with safety, assuming you can make a credible argument, it makes perfect sense that you'd attack the laws on "safety" grounds, since the presumed positive safety ef
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by cbsmith 4y ago
> That's where the money is and that's who made up that nonsense. Lots of people die because of those terrible motorized bikes and scooters. They're trying to get cyclists to fight their regulatory requirements by making u
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by cbsmith 4y ago
> Younger people are easily influenced and without such a law wouldn't use a helmet, seatbelt, etc. I did feel this aspect of the effect of regulation was not well addressed in the article at least. I think there's an implicati
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by cbsmith 4y ago
> Mandatory helmet laws do not prevent people from riding bikes. Just like mandatory seat belt laws did not prevent anyone from driving cars! That's a straw man. Nowhere in the article does it use the word "prevent". What
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by cbsmith 4y ago
You'll note the criticism in this article goes beyond safety grounds. The reason for the headline is patently obvious though: if the sole intended positive effect of the laws doesn't actually play out, then it's no longer a

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