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by davidgay 4y ago
> Not just sanitizing, but sanitizing to US social mores. Showing a naked boob is considered porn and banned on most of these platform while public toplessness is perfectly legal in many jurisdictions worldwide. Ironically, that set of j
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by davidgay 4y ago
You are completely missing the point of this thread. Even if we morally agree with all your points, the claim is that less books will get written and that that's bad for all of us. To rebut this, you need to either argue that this won&
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by davidgay 4y ago
The common alternative was single-byte-length strings. Null-terminated strings was much nicer.
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by davidgay 4y ago
> There's no functional difference between swimming in undergarments or swimming nude, I can tell you haven't been backpacking.
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by davidgay 4y ago
Electric cars don't have automatic transmissions.
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by davidgay 4y ago
> Most OOP languages today can trace their OOP heritage to CLOS. I'm extremely dubious about this claim and cannot think of any mainstream OO language this applies to (clearly not C++, Java or C#, nor of course Smalltalk, hence neit
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by davidgay 4y ago
> There was a study I read over the last year, maybe it was posted on here, that said we mostly seek revenge out of spite not deterrence. It's easy to imagine that it's personally for spite, but evolutionarily for deterrence (i
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by davidgay 4y ago
> in whole of Europe was presumably the answer to that. Now of course one does need a proper analysis of weather patterns (wind+sun) over the whole of Europe over the long term to know how well it would actually work. But it is a fairly
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by davidgay 4y ago
> I think you can find examples of slaves holding every position in society other than government leader. Even that one seems available: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokollu_Mehmed_Pasha
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by davidgay 4y ago
> The reason you're supposedly supposed to get into public service is because you want to serve the public. So we should artificially restrict the supply of talent for one of our society’s most important jobs? That means you’re like
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by davidgay 4y ago
The thing you are missing here is that citations are often intentionally ambiguous as to whether they are neutral or negative. Or, phrased differently, there is essentially no possible benefit for a researcher to say "this piece of rel
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by davidgay 4y ago
Some of us actually work or worked on wipeout systems. And said systems are run by the team running the service that deals with the data. Also all the source code (for all systems) is visible to all googlers. This kind of conspiracy theory
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by davidgay 4y ago
> 2. drugs are available online and there are drugs that can provide medical abortions - perhaps those can be put together. And you are willing to risk going to prison for murder (that's what they will call it) if caught?
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by davidgay 4y ago
At least for my undergrad (CS, at www.epfl.ch), the answer was basically "more math" (2 years of). The usual generic answer was "it's approximately like a US master's". And at least for the EPFL today, they&#x2
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by davidgay 4y ago
> Articulate for me exactly why biology, chemistry, philosophy,etc... are neccesary for a Compsci or IT degree? In Europe (AFAIK this is very broadly true) you're expected to have covered these in high school, and university is for
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by davidgay 4y ago
If P(fren|alt-right)=1 and P(fren and not alt-right) is low versus P(alt-right) then P(alt-right|fren) is actually high...
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by davidgay 4y ago
> Personally I think it's useful to use scales & dimensions people already know & grasp. To the best of my knowledge, most of the world reports transport efficiency in l/100km. And the poster even nicely included the US
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by davidgay 4y ago
> You get welfare whenever you expand the franchise too far. So, pray tell, what was the step too far (in no particular order): - women - slaves - non-property owners - non-poll-tax payers - 18 year olds ... and in which of those categor
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by davidgay 4y ago
I think the difference is the US is very likely to remove them preemptively.
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by davidgay 4y ago
Yes, but interest is front-loaded on mortgages, so the impact is much lower for those 20-25 years in.
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by davidgay 4y ago
But that probability rapidly drops below the probability that you will drop dead from some random cause while waiting for the roll's result :)
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by davidgay 4y ago
> I believe that software engineering can be made so simple and clear that it can be wielded by an extremely small team of engineers. Not that I want to discourage you, but my view is that anything that makes software engineering simpler
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by davidgay 4y ago
> SF only has one thing going for it really - weather. This is far from an universal view - I live there (well, East Bay) and I think the weather isn't that great: too cold in summer, no nice evenings, never nice to hang out by the
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by davidgay 4y ago
> Condos at least build some equity That equity is only monthly payment - debt, taxes. So the real difference is that you can invest X in your property or X-owner's profit in the investment of your choice.
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by davidgay 4y ago
> If you want to do engineering in French, it's either score a spot at EPFL, or go to Polytechnique in Paris (very small) or all the way to Polytechnique in Montreal (8 hours flight time?). There's plenty of other engineering s
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by davidgay 4y ago
> The produce selection is 1/3rd You clearly haven't been to Berkeley Bowl (not very far from SF...). Or Monterey Market (also in Berkeley). > There's 1/6th the selection of cheese. Strangely, also in Berkeley, ht
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by davidgay 4y ago
> This was pointed out at the time, but was unfortunately ignored. I have a hard time believing that was accidental :-( It seems essentially impossible to believe that British politicians would be unaware of Indian caste issues, so I wou
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by davidgay 4y ago
> The nerdy tech worker was replaced by the modern day chiseled , slick , stock options loaded tech worker who would have gone to banking in 2006. This reads to me as someone who has been in tech since the 80s as a new way to put down t
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by davidgay 4y ago
... and in fact: www.epfl.ch (my undergraduate) "The QS World University Rankings ranks EPFL 14th in the world across all fields in their 2020/2021 ranking" (from wikipedia) It is indeed ~free ($1600/year) for Swiss resi
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by davidgay 4y ago
> ... even though the UK no longer really has a vast military https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/military-... At #5 world-wide by expenditure this may be a bit over-stated. Or else "vast militar

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