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by cletus 5y ago
I'm in the camp that is long-term bullish on Rust. Memory safety is simply too important. I also consider C++ an unsalvageable mess at this point. Just a couple of thoughts reading this. > Compile Times This is (IMHO) the biggest pr
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The judge ruled the bankruptcy court exceeded its authority by attempting to shield the Sacklers from litigation when they themselves had not filed for bankruptcy protection. According to the article this can happen in “unique” situations.
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Ortiz is just another example of two observations I have: 1. It's astounding the mental gymnastics of the ends justify the means politicians and would-be politicians go through for personal gain and when the details eventually come out
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by cletus 5y ago
> Vaccines required at school while children don't get any kind of side effects of COVID19 Other than dying [1] you mean? Dying aside, children can still spread the virus. I’m sure someone will make the straw man argument of “the va
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by cletus 5y ago
> Totally unprecedented Au contraire [1]. For example: > During the Revolutionary War, by contrast, George Washington immunized his troops against smallpox even against their will. [1]: https://www.wsj.com/articles&#x2
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What I find sad about this is how many who seem to be against it were just recently so in favour of private business autonomy [1]. No one's rights are being violated here. If you don't want to get vaccinated, you can. But those ch
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This is my experience as well as someone who lived in NYC for >10 years. For example, I was living downtown during Sandy and my area lost power for 4 days. The police were there to deter looting and property crime. Every hour or so, a po
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by cletus 5y ago
You can't look at tolerance for open drug use in isolation. It's part of a complete system that includes a social safety net, access to medical care, treatment for mental health issues and the initial conditions that cause people
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by cletus 5y ago
The most interesting thing about San Francisco, to me at least, is just ignorant some residents seem to be of just how bad the situation is. You simply can't walk down the Mission or anywhere near the Tenderloin and not see open drug u
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by cletus 5y ago
From my experience, the US is unique among developed countries in how effectively religion has been weaponized and has permeated its way into politics. Combine that with the electoral college system and we have minority rule by declining bu
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by cletus 5y ago
I'm a climate fatalist: it really doesn't matter if climate change predictions are true or the degree to which they're true because there is absolutely no way humanity, as a species, will do anything about it that inconvenien
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by cletus 5y ago
Look at video games, particularly on mobile. I mean they aren't even games anymore. They're just metrics-optimized psychological-trick machines to extract the most money from you $1 at a time ie in-app purchases and pay-to-win. Th
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by cletus 5y ago
Best way? I can think of four: 1. Have a large enough Twitter following such that complaining will get somebody's attention; 2. Know someone at Google who can contact the right people to resolve this; 3. Be a large enough advertiser su
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by cletus 5y ago
Well the first is that it's possible to not be registered to vote. If that's the case, there's nothing you need to do. My sense was that most people are registered to vote and this seems to be backed up by AEC (Australian Ele
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by cletus 5y ago
> How can you have election integrity if you don't have integrity of facts? This one is easy. There is no integrity of facts. No matter what standard you use you will have cases where reasonable people disagree. Historians argue abo
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by cletus 5y ago
Video games. I'm surprised no one has mentioned this yet. There's simply too much money nowadays in micro-transactions, in-app purchases, loot boxes, pay-to-win and in-game advertising that almost everything is "free" to
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by cletus 5y ago
> Most products today are less durable and are generally worse than "yesterday", in my opinion. People forget how (relatively) expensive products used to be. Example: my family had a very early VHS video recorder. I believe it
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Here's my favourite example of this. NYC recently opened the first stage of the Second Avenue Subway. This is a project that was initially started ~90 years ago and has been started and stopped multiple times in the intervening years.
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This is what institutional racism looks like. It’s rarely as cut and dried as “I hate [race X]”. Many acts of racism aren’t thought of as racist by the perpetrators. Consider a traffic stop. Black drivers are pulled over disproportionately.
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> All of the current histrionics that we hear from DeFi advocates regarding escaping the evil centralized Banks and Regulators and what not There are several different people that seem inclined to be attracted to crypto. This is just one
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I'm somewhat surprised at this given the intensity of California housing NIMBYism but I'm pleased to see it happen. Allowing fourplexes in some cases is a nice plus. This won't end the housing crisis. It'll take a long t
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by cletus 5y ago
> It’s like if first I asked you, what will happen if I hit this window with a hammer? It will break. Now what if I ask you where every piece will go? I don't like this analogy. A better example might be that if we set fire to all t
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by cletus 5y ago
The only reason Giphy isn't reproduced is because there's no need. If FB shut off Giphy tomorrow, do you honestly think it'd take more than a few days for some other GIF extension to take over? Really? If nothing else, Tenor
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by cletus 5y ago
A better title might be: How to Kill Twitter With This One Trick (Paid Access) Twitter is IMHO only a communication platform for celebrities and brands. This is <0.1% of the user base. For most people, your Tweets are even less noteworth
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by cletus 5y ago
I can't help but think of Aesop's fable about the goose that laid the golden eggs. That goose is the tech industry and what may kill it is pointless, kneejerk political or regulatory action. In the social media space, if Facebook
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Another case of blaming a symptom rather than the cause. The media began showing Tweets because Twitter had reached a sufficient audience size. The real problem is the audience size. Stroustrup famously said [1]: > There are only two kin
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The real problem here is people, not the platforms or the products. How do I know this? Because the problems have existed far longer than any of the platforms. Maybe people here are too young to remember how toxic, argumentative, irrational
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This is what Vancouver has tried [1]. It doesn't seem to have worked. The problem here is that it's too easy to game. You can put in a token resident. The same can apply to having income limits on houses. You have a low income res
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The principle I've long held is that cities and towns should primarily be for those who reside in those towns. In this case, only residents should be voting on things like ballot measures. This article talks about a few towns, some whe
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The optimist in me hopes that today's anti-vaxxers are just the current incarnation of Luddites. We've had resistance to new ideas for probably the entirety of human history. I mean Galileo was persecuted for heresy. Irrational do

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