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by defen 6y ago
> Minsky (71) had sex with a 17 year old who had been trafficked and coerced, in 2001. You're doing the exact thing that journalists did when they condemned RMS. Virginia Giuffre testified that Epstein directed her to have sex with
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by defen 6y ago
> ok then, how are we going to prevent that? By not doing bioweapons or gain-of-function research? Wasn't the whole point of that research to prevent these sorts of pandemics? Even if COVID-19 wasn't from a lab leak...were th
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by defen 6y ago
> By his own account he wrote them down (in French) based on narration from a Syrian Maronite storyteller who visited him in Paris That sounds a lot like the origin story of Don Quixote... (within the text, it was allegedly told to Cerv
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by defen 6y ago
> Finally, where do you get the idea that companies simply couldn't exist if they didn't remove user content that doesn't violate a few regulations the law would allow (like spam, threats, obscenity, and copyright, which w
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by defen 6y ago
If you have any interest whatsoever in Westerns as a genre you should read Lonesome Dove . It's about 850 pages but I'd be surprised if it took you more than a week to read. For the longest time I had no interest in reading it be
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by defen 6y ago
> You mean, her own father? To be clear, the connection is not just that he is her father. He raped and tortured a 10 year old girl in his own house while living there with Aimee. Then after he had been charged but not yet convicted, she
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by defen 6y ago
Regular people do not get 1:10 leverage in a margin account. Furthermore if you lever yourself up to 10x with options or exotic ETFs or whatever, and the market goes down by 10%, you don't have any money left. If you put 10% down on a
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by defen 6y ago
> You said that already[1], this is unsubstantiated and you declined to answer to my rebuttal. How would you propose to measure the concept of "programming language complexity"? One metric could be "how difficult is it to
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by defen 6y ago
> I think most people here would agree that working on a side project in your free time using your own resources (Ie, not using your employer’s) is perfectly reasonable and hardly comparable to fraud. It's still probably against yo
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by defen 6y ago
> If real property moves to the block chain in this manner all you need is one final title search, then signed by the court, from then on out title can be ensured by the blockchain. Just because your "final" title search doesn&
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by defen 6y ago
I think there's a kernel of usefulness here, as long as you keep in mind that the labels don't inhere in the person, but rather refer to behavior and are relative to their current role. Developers love to systematize so it'
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by defen 6y ago
It could be all that, or it could be a reference to Lil B's cooking music (as far as I know he invented the word) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZghGHHBO_nU
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by defen 6y ago
"Based" is a slang word that means the opposite of "cringe", which is the feeling you experience when you go to a recipe site and get treated to 500 words about how much the author loves winter.
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by defen 6y ago
> The process took time and dedication: hours to prepare the ale, sweep the floors clean and lift heavy bundles of rye and grain I wonder if they really were brewing up "magic potions" (inadvertently) with ergot contaminated ry
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by defen 6y ago
> arrange your life to prioritize that. Live in NYC or Boston. Or Amsterdam or Paris. In all of those places, car ownership is a net negative and so you'll find a lot of life arranged to assume you don't own a car and as a resu
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by defen 6y ago
Counterpoint: let's say I hate the effect that car-ownership has had on society - you can't just tell me "well then you should just choose not to own a car". The problem is that society itself has been reshaped around th
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by defen 6y ago
The unbridgeable gap here is that the speaker of a phrase cannot with 100% certainty know whether a phrase will cause offense - "being offended" lives in the listener's mind. So we have to fall back to a "reasonable pers
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by defen 6y ago
2.8 million. Still absurdly high for someone who did such a terrible job: https://twitter.com/DOMOCAPITAL/status/1364340405626671104
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by defen 6y ago
The same site did a great post about BaK https://www.filfre.net/2019/10/betrayal-at-krondor/
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by defen 6y ago
If you haven't overridden the default panic handler, and you're in a Debug or ReleaseSafe build you'll still automatically get an error return trace (which is nicer than a stack trace) even if you do `catch unreachable`.
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by defen 6y ago
Right, I mean physically what is happening that causes that.
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by defen 6y ago
I know nothing about utility-scale electricity distribution ... can someone explain how "demand > supply" leads to things (apparently literally) blowing up?
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by defen 6y ago
In this case it's more like "would you allow a group of 18-20 year olds to voluntarily deliberately expose themselves to the same risk of death presented by driving 7,500 miles in order to save the lives of a million people?"
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by defen 6y ago
The "alleged fraud" described at the end of that post is not fraud at all. That poster either doesn't actually understand options or is misremembering the post in question.
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by defen 6y ago
C macros are lazy, but they also operate at the level of lexical tokens instead of the AST, which means you can use macros to generate C code, but you can't really do it in a way that is guaranteed to be safe. With Zig you can have a f
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by defen 6y ago
That's not a bad theory for the popularity of golf...what other sport lets you walk around Eden for 3-4 hours?
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by defen 6y ago
That's a really powerful story, but also > kummerspeck (German for grief bacon) Raises more questions than it answers
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by defen 6y ago
Usually equity is considered a good thing, but you are literally saying the equitable thing is for more people to die. Hence the airquotes.
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by defen 6y ago
This is like the trolley problem, but even dumber. You have a trolley headed for a bunch of people. You can throw a switch to take some people out of the path of the trolley, or do nothing. You are suggesting that doing nothing is better, b
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by defen 6y ago
Currency is a special case of this because most other things have some sort of inherent-use value independent of what someone will pay you for it. In other words, for most things, even if the most someone will pay you for it is $0, it may s

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