damnyou

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by damnyou 6y ago
Wrong on every count, bucko. Not young, not white, no making it up.
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by damnyou 6y ago
My pronouns are they/them, thank you. I edited my comment within a couple minutes of posting it. Sorry about the confusion.
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by damnyou 6y ago
Yeah, I'm persuaded by the Julia Marcus school of thought that simply ordering people to stay home is important but not nearly enough. You have to provide ways for people to reduce their risk in case they decide not to listen to your o
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by damnyou 6y ago
I did not downvote you, for the record. I thought your questions were useful and I hope I answered them to the best of my ability. This pandemic has been hard on all of us. Take care.
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by damnyou 6y ago
Firefox was in fact in a stronger position before Google turned Chrome into shovelware, yes.
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by damnyou 6y ago
I'm pretty sure that "easier" is a subjective determination. But no, I don't have a hard time swallowing pills. It's just that doing something once a week is easier than having to remember to do something everyday.
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by damnyou 6y ago
I'm pretty sure the primary driver of that was Google turning Chrome into shovelware bundled with Adobe Flash and marketing it aggressively.
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by damnyou 6y ago
It is in fact much easier and less of a hassle (for me) than taking a pill everyday, which is what I used to do before I switched to injectables. Injectables seemed scary right until the moment when I started taking them, after which they b
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by damnyou 6y ago
And I'm sure transmission rates would be even higher if condoms were harder to get.
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by damnyou 6y ago
I don't know enough to comment on European countries, but I wouldn't be surprised if access was a big problem there as well. The American healthcare system is pretty bad, but it's not the only bad system in existence. There m
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by damnyou 6y ago
Right. Abstinence doesn't really work in the real world, only in the spherical-cow world where humans are perfectly obedient.
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by damnyou 6y ago
I'm not sure about this one but subcutaneous and intramuscular injectables are pretty easy to self-administer. I self-inject once a week myself. https://www.poz.com/drug/cabenuva seems to suggest it is intramuscul
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by damnyou 6y ago
No, that's not the reason, given that PrEP exists. The actual reason is that Truvada, like other healthcare, can be hard to get in the American system.
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by damnyou 6y ago
Well, the assumption is that unfamiliarity risk goes down as people get more familiar with the technology. There's certainly some added complexity but a blockchain is not that complex, it's just a git repo with some added function
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by damnyou 6y ago
You have, say, 50 entities that are part of the cabal, not all of whose interests are aligned (this is the important bit, you want a diversity of interests), and you need a 2/3 vote to add a new one.
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by damnyou 6y ago
> they're not remotely close to being a solution to the sort of problems parties use escrow for But you can encode fulfilment into a smart contract for physical goods, assuming that those physical goods have some digital represent
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by damnyou 6y ago
While it is true that blockchains themselves cannot guarantee that they're synchronized with the physical world, they provide an irrevocable digital trail that can be used to punish bad actors, one that is relatively immune to tamperin
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by damnyou 6y ago
Smart contracts can help with things like escrows. You can automate the happy path and include humans in the loop if (when) something goes wrong.
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by damnyou 6y ago
"we both keep records and compare when there's a problem" is literally exactly what blockchain consensus is an algorithmic version of.
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by damnyou 6y ago
Personally I think private individuals should have a fundamental right to encryption regardless of the medium.
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by damnyou 6y ago
That is very definitely not how common law systems work. Common law systems rely very heavily on past precedent and case law, not merely the words in a statute. Take the levels of scrutiny applied to laws and regulations in equal protection
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by damnyou 6y ago
There were times when being in an intimate relationship with someone of the same gender was a crime, and a lot of sex work is still criminalized, so I'm actually quite bothered by (particularly) the prohibition against using encryption
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by damnyou 6y ago
Thanks for the thoughtful response. I spent a bit of time thinking about it, and thank you for that as well. So, I think you're right about a result type being isomorphic to checked exceptions, for the reasons you laid out. If you comp
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by damnyou 6y ago
Why would any developer who doesn't use a Mac even consider bringing their extensions to Safari? The vast majority of developers use Windows or Linux: https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2020#technology-de...
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by damnyou 6y ago
Are unions used for error handling and null checking? No? Then they're not very useful.
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by damnyou 6y ago
Unlike first-class monads, sum types are not some sort of esoteric FP construct that arises from challenging technical problems around dealing with external state. They are the very obvious dual of product types, which every language has so
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by damnyou 6y ago
Having a type available in an optional library is not the same thing as having them baked in from the beginning. The absence of sum types warps a language in grotesquely terrible ways, such as Go's err != nil patterns or Java's ex
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by damnyou 6y ago
Not trolling. Entirely serious.
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by damnyou 6y ago
I don't care nearly as much about first-class monads, though monadic patterns pop up everywhere in programming. Anyone who's written a foldMap or a flatMap has at least a sense of what a monad feels like. Sum types are a zillion t
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by damnyou 6y ago
Yes that's why I write Rust. Our field has a terrible reputation for quality. In my estimation roughly 70-80% of that is directly or indirectly because of the lack of sum types. Directly: people don't have the right tools to make

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