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by ctdonath 5y ago
“Privilege” is getting a job over a better candidate just because of inclusion in an artificial social construct.
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by ctdonath 5y ago
It is shocking that one could be punished for hiring based on “wrong” color/gender. We spent decades getting past that, only to have it codified in law. “You’re great, but we’ll be punished if we hire you, because your skin is pale and
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by ctdonath 5y ago
Punishing someone based on “wrong” color/gender is evil.
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by ctdonath 5y ago
I thought racism & sexism were bad.
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by ctdonath 5y ago
I’ve concluded that anyone using the term “best practices” in earnest doesn’t understand them.
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by ctdonath 5y ago
Is putting scripts in a phone number field (or any input field) a well known way to hijack requests? It’s on the front page of Hacker News with clickbait headline, so yeah.
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by ctdonath 5y ago
If it cures most instances of cancer, nobody will complain that the moniker isn’t totally correct in all cases. If FSD can handle >90% of my driving, I’ll not quibble.
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by ctdonath 5y ago
Too many are caught up in word-thinking, flustered about “full” when nobody buying it thinks it a 100% safe tech. People want to bitch about it, and do so with “but but but it says ‘full’ when it isn’t!”
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by ctdonath 5y ago
Tesla is resolving this by releasing a great many vehicles with the FSD systems installed and running and feeding data back for review, while not actually operating the controls - result is to observe how the FSD would have behaved under bi
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by ctdonath 5y ago
Then the fallback must be so good that you don’t need primary system in the first place.
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by ctdonath 5y ago
Those familiar with guns know their place, and are (on the whole) actually much less likely to harm others without cause - precisely because they are familiar with the likely harm. One cherry-picked anecdote is insufficient. A million or so
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by ctdonath 5y ago
Because the neighbors know that violence will only be directed against those causing harm in the neighborhood, restoring peace should criminal activity cross a line, and deterring criminal activity by assuring perpetrators will not benefit
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by ctdonath 5y ago
Have there been attempts to introduce censorship in the US that have been defeated by armed activists? No, because there _are_ armed activists. Were there violent uprisings against censorship in the UK, Canada, or Australia that failed d
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by ctdonath 5y ago
The biggest threats are slow and mundane because the population is heavily armed. Anything fast and oppressive (ex.: Australia's Covid lockdown) would be seriously opposed. The "Waco" incident was a fast and oppressive move
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by ctdonath 5y ago
I sincerely doubt the average first world government has what it takes to sacrifice its comfortable bureaucracy and inspire even a tiny fraction of 330,000,000 citizens to fight back against tyranny. That’s why federal legislators freaked o
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by ctdonath 5y ago
Seconded. From half a century’s experience I can confirm: kids are stupid and gullible, and will go to great lengths to achieve remarkable levels thereof - regardless of technology. Nothing has changed, it’s just different.
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by ctdonath 5y ago
It’s the first “I’d like to buy 3 days in orbit for 4” flight.
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by ctdonath 5y ago
I appreciate the interest, but see it as pure fantasy. Essence of supply is energy, and we can ALWAYS use however much energy we can get our hands on. Think of the casual interplanetary/interstellar travel depicted in sci-fi: huge ener
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by ctdonath 5y ago
Energy is not free. Humans can always find something desirable/influential that requires more energy than is cheaply available. Ex.: the Star Trek replicator requires staggering amount of energy. Owning one, and affording the fuel, wou
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by ctdonath 5y ago
“Post-scarcity” is a myth. There will always be some limited-supply thing humans will value. Consider how utterly dissatisfied people are with abundant cheap food, clothing, water, fuel, housing, etc. today vs not all that long ago, having
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by ctdonath 5y ago
The space stuff moves a lot of terrestrial stuff off-planet. Telecommunications has physical impact, much of it still wired and strung/buried across very long distances, or otherwise occupying space for lots of grounded towers. Sending
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by ctdonath 5y ago
Because Woz. Even naysayers took time to read &/| post.
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by ctdonath 5y ago
I’ll have to take on DQ again with this perspective. Now, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - that is a manual for living. Many quotes are words to abide by. “Where it is objectively inaccurate, the Guide strives to be definitively i
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by ctdonath 5y ago
Yes, in high school, over a few weeks.
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by ctdonath 5y ago
Nonetheless it was a monumental screw up of justice no bureaucrat wants to repeat in any form.
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by ctdonath 5y ago
Keep in mind that several who were released from Gitmo are now leaders of the new terrorist government of Afghanistan. Bureaucrats are not adept at fairly handling judicial issues in war situations where justice by definition doesn’t exist.
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by ctdonath 5y ago
Nothing wrong with aggregating records of a historical event and presenting them in real time without commentary. Put together the records and let them speak for the event. Your verbiage indicates the mere portrayal of what happened is deep
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by ctdonath 5y ago
Because explicitly adding implied terms help the reader's brain grip the concepts. Culling all extraneous content makes the result much harder to read, despite being exactly correct. Make everything as simple as possible, but not simp
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by ctdonath 5y ago
Proof of The Simulation, and that it suffers "bit rot" too.
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by ctdonath 5y ago
Self driving cars have been in development for ~30 years. We’re remarkably close to taxis driving themselves.

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