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by crpatino 10y ago
> One was a Catholic seminarian That explains a lot. One of the true and tested recipes for libido suppression the Church takes to heart is to physically and mentally exahust their horny young men until they are not horny any more. This
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> I don't mind discussing things, but sometimes you just want a gallon of milk (or degree). It is a clever metaphore, but I don't think degrees are like gallons of milk at all. It is more like Louis Vuitton bags. There are USD$
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Personal effort by itself can only achieve marginal changes, but political action without personal example will achieve nothing. Politicians are not stupid. If the environmentalist grass roots do not believe in their cause badly enough to g
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In a society where some mild form of anorexia was the norm, that headline would be actually insightful.
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You'd find that the n-folded paper is both too tick and to narrow to achieve a n+1 fold. You could still put it in the hydraulic press and apply plenty of force with it, but the points where you apply the force will be too clumped toge
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> Even if you come up with a great way to improve the output, doesn't matter, you've still broken everything. You phrase this as if changing things for the sake of changing was a good thing. It is not. Well, perhaps it is good
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"belief" itself is a loaded word, and I think it muddles the discussion. You're probably able to use a technical definition of "belief" along the lines of "falsifiable assertation". Most people don't
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How do you explain the diversity of cultures across history, and across different continents?
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IMHO, most people who misbehave online are decent people that get carried away in the emotion of the moment. If the community calls them upon it and force them to own up they comments, they will probably appologize. This requires explict ru
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I could write a toughtful response to that... but given the quality of the original, this will suffice: Eight Be skeptical to any advice from a developer that is not old enough to have grown some white hair. If the advicer is male, gray bea
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Make the bonus pool a fixed percentage of company yearly profits (not sales). Assign at least half of the bonus pool in an egalitarian way (like based on the number of days worked on that year), assign the remainder on a roughtly "meri
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by crpatino 10y ago
In Google Maps, the ability to zoom relies heavily in a (unacknowledged) property of the problem domain: planar geometry. If every relevant detail is nicely clustered together and, more importantly, every irrelevant detail is nicely cluster
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by crpatino 10y ago
If you had a blueprint of the whole of NewYork city, you surely would need some tool to abstract away the maze of individual lines and be able to refer-to/work-with concepts like "Central Park", "the Harlem", or &qu
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by crpatino 10y ago
> I agree that I should have the choice, but if I do choose to use something insecure with full knowledge of it's insecurity, can't I be free to do that? But you are free to do that, aren't you? Last time I checked, cyber
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Time is always exceedingly short. If doctors were required to perform appendicectomies in ~30min, but they were not held accountable whether the pacient lived or died, you would see a market dominated by some pretty barbaric hospitals (th
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"Get feedback from actual customers" is, more often than not, dishonest rationalization. If you never use customer feedback in order to increase product quality (instead of just growing the feature list), "good enough" i
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Don't VCs require more "enterprisey" people at later stages, when product discovery is done and operations/scaling up takes precedence?
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Yes, the original sounds pompous, but your "simplification" ended up shaving off a lot of meaning. At the same time, you are clearly injecting some meaning. By example, you seem to claim that "Any large and alienating infrast
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by crpatino 10y ago
I agree that making functions shorter does not automatically make them safer, but I do see how having a well designed "main" function in the ballpark of ~80LOC which calls another 10 auxiliary (and inlined) minor functions of ~15-
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Maybe it was some resentful ex-employees then? Or a bunch of vandals that just watched the Fight Club movie and thought it was really cool? That's the problem when putting so many eggs in the same basket. At the end of the day, it does
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It is a perfectly good question to ask for the VC-type about to write a check to the one-guy you mentioned. The fact that you do not speak their dialect does not make their communication any less meaningful. If anything, it means you will a
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The irony being that they picked up the poster child of the untractable CS problems to give it a try.
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I read it as: major libraries are reluctanly tolerated to break their API/ABI now and then. They are different beasts, whether you like it or not. A colorary to the above is: libraries that break their API/AIB too early or too
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That's what the judge said.
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Since when is caring about Engineering standards became Luddite? How many lives do you think autopilot is going to save if being as good as a sleep deprived teenager is good enough? And who benefits from that state of affairs? Anyways, yo
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> It's unrealistic to assume that human drivers are attentive all the time... Yes, this is an unfortunate fact of life that human beings are no angels. However, most modern societies agree that reckless drivers are to be held accoun
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And bottles are used for holding liquids rather than smashing heads... until you find yourself in a bar fight. I might be wrong, but I think the parent had something like this in mind: Assuming you are encrypting with AES-CFB your each plai
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> No, they can't bid for everything. It's a critical distinction to understanding how the economy works. It is impossible to create a single entity that buys everything, or a single entity that has all the money, permanently. S
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You have packed a large number of biases in a single line: > You want a health care system where you use 15-20 year old medicine with no research, and most bills > $1000 lead to euthanasia? Sure that would be a cheap healthcare system
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The issue is not "malevolent AI", the probability of producing an AI with "malevolent goals" by random chance is so much more unlikely than getting any AI at all that it's not even worth it to worry about that. The

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