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by cvoss 5mo ago
A great argument for why the bloated executive powers should be clawed back by Congress. But not a strong argument for why Congress should stay hands-off. Also, if something like that happens, that's a blatant 1st Amendment violation a
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by cvoss 5mo ago
> they're targeting your children Who is the "they" that you refer to? Did you know that many people are in favor of age verification? Like, many parents of children who are at a loss for how to protect them from early acc
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by cvoss 5mo ago
Because it is the moral responsibility of adults to care for not just their children but all our children. Occasional surrendering of rights is appropriate in that endeavor.
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by cvoss 5mo ago
Neither HN nor my newspaper run content that needs age-gating.
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by cvoss 5mo ago
It can't be disingenuous if I actually mean for you to take my argument at face value. There is no hidden motive that I haven't stated. I mean for you to focus on the author's communication style, in case you missed how bad i
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by cvoss 5mo ago
Invoking the concept of enslavement to describe even a grotesque digital surveillance state is the really off-color part.
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by cvoss 5mo ago
Yes, my argument, to restate it, is that rhetoric can be misused to counterproductive effect, as is the case here. Carefully note that I have neither affirmed nor contradicted anything of the substance of his argument. So defending his posi
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by cvoss 5mo ago
Dogs are on to something! Tone matters in persuasion. A whole lot. If the author were interested in persuading (as I assume he must be, given his strongly held convictions) then he should consider his tone more carefully.
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by cvoss 5mo ago
> If you love your family, you must stop online age verification. > If you want the best for your children, you must stop online age verification. > Your children are being targeted. The infrastructure being built under the cover o
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by cvoss 5mo ago
No, of course we don't believe they would have written it that way today. But neither you nor me nor anyone else gets to make up what we think they'd have said. They didn't say it. They're dead. They can't change wh
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by cvoss 6mo ago
The US has an enormous land area and the cost of living varies dramatically across it. Intense pockets develop where the high paying jobs are, and everyone wants to cram in there to compete for those jobs, and then they're competing fo
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by cvoss 6mo ago
A good sokoban should not be busy-work. Well designed puzzles should be pithy and not require a lot of running around. The distance between discovering the solution and executing it should be very short.
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by cvoss 6mo ago
Copy, certainly not. But Blow was an enthusiastic promoter of the game when it came out and held it out as a standard of excellence in puzzle game design.
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by cvoss 6mo ago
Writing an extemporaneous essay from start to finish in one draft on the spot is a skill that students were expected to develop in my educational experience in the US less than 15 years ago or so. If that's vanished, I'd be glad t
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by cvoss 6mo ago
"Wow."
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by cvoss 6mo ago
Exactly. People often forget that Congress can only exercise a limited domain of enumerated powers. The big one is regulating Interstate Commerce, which is already huge because of how interconnected the country is today, and is even bigger
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by cvoss 6mo ago
Warning: This website has audio which is activated when you press the letters, despite not giving any fair warning indication of this. Not a nice surprise if you're at work!
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by cvoss 6mo ago
> Not all titles are positive law — some titles are "evidence of law" rather than the legal text itself (see 1 USC § 204) The vocabulary of this sentence is inconsistent with section 204 [0]. It is the positively enacted titles
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by cvoss 7mo ago
> These courts just want to clear their dockets which is why they reversed. You have made no attempt to justify this claim, which, I suspect, you pulled out of thin air, though it amounts to a provocative accusation of significant ethica
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by cvoss 7mo ago
The document in question itself may be interesting as a historical artifact, which the article kind of gets into at the end. But the headline and opening paragraphs are just complicit in amplifying low-quality online discourse, about a deca
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by cvoss 7mo ago
I used to live in just such a place. Went to the city center to apply for a library card, thinking "of course I can get a card here, I live in Foo City and this is the Foo City Public Library." I was asked for my street address, a
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by cvoss 7mo ago
You did not pay the tariffs. You bore the cost of the tariffs. Those are not the same thing. The refund is due to the party that got the bill for the tariff and paid it-- the importer. What you paid for was for the business not to go bankru
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by cvoss 7mo ago
The government's job is not to maximize its ROI. For example, (and I make no argument about whether the current situation does this), protecting its citizens is of extreme moral importance, even if it's very very expensive and unl
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by cvoss 7mo ago
I accused the headline of underselling, not overselling. So unsure why you read me to have blamed the writer for making outrageous claims...
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by cvoss 7mo ago
I don't follow your argument. Why must we have the ability to "delete" sub-expressions? Consider a computational model that, rather than work by successively rewriting an expression over and over in a way that honors some equ
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by cvoss 7mo ago
The headline really undersells the point and reads like clickbait. "Things were fine, then she turned the tables. Watch what happens next." I avoided even opening this article several times out of distaste for the headline. It sho
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by cvoss 7mo ago
> This freed programmers from managing complex lifecycle management. It also deceived programmers into failing to manage complex lifecycles. Debugging wasted memory consumption is a huge pain.
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by cvoss 7mo ago
I appreciate you including a few minor mistakes in this very post: > I started making deliberate grammar and spelling mistakes in professional context[s]. Not like I have ~a~ perfect writing anyway, but at least I could prove that it was
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by cvoss 8mo ago
Someone decides how to define the ABI too, and that is a free choice. CPU register count doesn't constrain this particular system design question.
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by cvoss 8mo ago
With an increase in available registers, every value that a compiler might newly choose to keep in a register was a value that would previously have lived in the local stack frame anyway. It's up to the compiler to decide how many regi

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