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by chmod600 5y ago
Part of the motivation behind DRY was to avoid the mess of repeating yourself within a task by updating 17 levels of classes and factories to add a field somewhere. This is mainly solved by using a sane language and not having useless int
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by chmod600 5y ago
The green new deal will just be a blank check, managed by politicians. It'll be a catch all where every political wishlist item and special interest will jump on the bandwagon with zero scrutiny or oversight. I am not very hopeful that
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by chmod600 5y ago
Hopeful that https://www.vesta.earth/ can make a difference.
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by chmod600 5y ago
Yes, there are different standards for western powers vs totalitarians. Because the former are mostly good (at least about as good as you can generally expect from flawed humans) and the latter are bad. Yes, the West does all kinds of bad
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by chmod600 5y ago
Wondering out loud: Maybe a lot of these international brands exiting is more useful than some of the other sanctions. It hits the more wealthy, who lose a sense of status and feel left out of the world. That can't be good for Putin wh
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by chmod600 5y ago
The basic idea is that there are lots of positive feedback loops, so initial conditions matter, and people can end up in a spiral up or down. The theory goes that adjusting things along the way can correct for those positive feedback loops.
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by chmod600 5y ago
Why should there be an expectation of uniformity? Subgroups of people come from different families and cultures, and at an aggregate level (not necessarily individuals) will have different values. Those values will lead to different talents
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by chmod600 5y ago
Yeah, I mean even Putin doesn't know the real odds. It probably depends a lot on the exact circumstances/timing. And in the war, circumstances change all the time. Putin wants us to believe it's a Dr. Strangelove situation, w
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by chmod600 5y ago
If I write a free operating system, nobody will use it except me. When I lose interest literally zero people will care that it exists. Hard for me to see how that would be a success no matter how many copies of the useless bits reside aroun
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by chmod600 5y ago
People say stuff. I agree it would be risky to call his bluff, but I'd say it's more like a 10% risk than a 50% risk. Of course, a 10% chance of destroying the world is beyond my tolerance.
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by chmod600 5y ago
To be clear, are you saying the 65km convoy is going to fail to take Kyiv? I just don't understand how that could happen unless they literally run out of fuel on the way, or if some serious airforce intervenes.
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by chmod600 5y ago
Can you expand on Taleb's message, and what you mean when you say "can't fail"? Free stuff does fail for all kinds of reasons.
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by chmod600 5y ago
My main point was that the differences between the USSR and the US were far greater than butter side up/down, so the comparison is ridiculous. But you are right that the reason for conflict was more complicated than just those differen
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by chmod600 5y ago
"That's a funny example." It's what the article and book are clearly about, it's not just a random example I invented. "Important things are almost never far away, so if the fight is there, it's almost nev
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by chmod600 5y ago
What year was that published? I read the message as "support the US war effort so that we don't get conquored by our enemies". That doesn't seem like a bad message to me. The main problem I can see is the depiction of th
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by chmod600 5y ago
The butter side up/down does make war seem absurd. And a lot of war has happened over things that seem that absurd to me. But war also happens over important things. The USSR really did have a different political and economic system. W
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by chmod600 5y ago
"the world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything" This is a strange message, given the rest of the article. It could be interpreted to mean we need to make weapons to stop e
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by chmod600 5y ago
I wonder how the likes of Neville Chamberlain fit into this article?
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by chmod600 5y ago
Most people would call this having "vision". It can be pretty powerful, but it's often overrated. A lot of people know what they want, or at least they think they do, if they gloss over all the messy details. What's real
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by chmod600 5y ago
Aren't the unexposed at a risk of zero? Or was that your point?
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by chmod600 5y ago
"imagine the opposite political party in power using this against you" But that's just it, isn't it? We've stopped caring about improving the fairness and consistency of the process. We only care about the outcome o
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by chmod600 5y ago
Mostly agree, but I think using the word "priority" here is unhelpful. Priorities allow you to decide what to do right now , and even for that case, they are often misused. I think what you really mean is that you shouldn't
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by chmod600 5y ago
Caffeine is OK if your sleep is fine with and without caffeiene. Caffeine can often mask sleep problems. Better to fix those first, and then if you have one bad sleep in ten, or you just need a boost in the morning, sure, why not.
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by chmod600 5y ago
Also, the compiler might be treating the input file as UTF-8, while the semantics of the language may treat string literals as the sequence of bytes when encoded as UTF-8.
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by chmod600 5y ago
A multi-generational outlook must be part of any solution to poverty. Maybe other things are important, too, but a multi-generational approach is required. It's really hard to get out of poverty without good parents. By "really ha
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by chmod600 5y ago
I'm not an expert, but your statement seems confusing and possibly misses the point of the parent.
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by chmod600 5y ago
I sometimes wonder if we would be better off using a lot more formal methods and specifications. It would be a lot more effort, but is it really less than all the "maintenance" we do to fix bugs and wrangle huge amounts of technic
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by chmod600 5y ago
When a child asks for X, they are not really asking for X. They are asking for X, and for you to deal with any consequences of that action, regardless of how poorly-executed. When you do X you are also dealing with the consequences, so it&#
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by chmod600 5y ago
Is it considered cheating to look at a map? Seems to easy if so.
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by chmod600 5y ago
Morality is too blunt of a tool for this kind of question. Right now we are way over-moralizing many issues and it's not helpful to a discussion. Morality is useful to avoid rationalizing things that we know are wrong. For example, kil

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