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by defen 4y ago
At the same time, if you're the leader of a product that's going to succeed no matter what, maybe you shouldn't get paid $105 million.
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by defen 4y ago
They write literary fiction, though. The selected passage is listed under "Nonfiction/Self-development"
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by defen 4y ago
Not a lawyer, but my interpretation of the post is that a cartomantic reading is an opinion, e.g. "In my opinion, these cards indicate that Professor Scofield plotted and ordered the murders" could be a protected expression. If sh
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by defen 4y ago
A better way to think about it is: for a given line of code, how much context do you need in order to understand what function is actually going to be called ? Yes, some compiler-rt or soft-fp function might get called but you know that&#x
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by defen 4y ago
Assuming someone is paying attention: https://www.oregonlive.com/news/erry-2018/12/9b5b1eff724150/... Having someone pay attention is also all that you need to prevent the world's most wanted man fr
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by defen 4y ago
> The kickstarters started because a loophole in their contract, and Brandon has very successfully exploited it as much as his characters exploit magic systems Can you go into more detail on that? I know what you mean about exploiting ma
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by defen 4y ago
> they are on very shaky ground to ban someone unless they misrepresented who they were when buying the ticket. Then I suppose it will come down to whether the ticket terms included a clause that the purchaser/attendee was not emplo
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by defen 4y ago
Radio City Music Hall is a private venue, they can ban or exclude anyone they want, as long as it's not due to membership in a protected class. You don't have a right to attend a Rockettes show, and if she doesn't like this p
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by defen 4y ago
There's nothing necessarily inherently wrong with TikTok, we as a society just aren't ready for it https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beer_Street_and_Gin_Lane I'm sure some people can use TikTok responsibly b
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by defen 4y ago
"Ok Bob, you're hired. Normally we'd send you a computer and all the other equipment you need, but our vendor communications are all fucked up. So we're going to send you the check we would have sent them , you deposi
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by defen 4y ago
> Presume the existence of a compiler that can compile Zig. I just mean that the original WASM blob needed a working Zig compiler to produce it. But you can just assume it fell from the heavens. Now that it exists, you no longer need a Z
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by defen 4y ago
This is a method of ensuring that future builds do not depend on the existence of a Zig compiler; it's not a way to go from 0 to Zig without a Zig compiler ever having existed. Technically this already existed in the form of a Zig co
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by defen 4y ago
I don't think my comments are particularly whiny; that comes across as a "no, you" response. I'll accept callous but I don't wish you harm, in fact I hope you find success and fulfillment in your post-Facebook caree
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by defen 4y ago
Why did you work for him if you weren't happy with the arrangement? Surely you had other options. You're one of the most talented people in one of the most highly-paid/profitable fields, one with very few institutional barrie
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by defen 4y ago
No, because I've deliberately chosen to accept a lower salary (by working for myself) in exchange for greater personal autonomy, owning my work output, and the freedom to talk about whatever I want.
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by defen 4y ago
He can feel however he likes; nothing compelled him to post it publicly for all the world to read and comment. > How could someone be resentful at losing their job to a nonsensical decision making process? How could someone possibly be f
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by defen 4y ago
> Then said Jesus unto him, "Put up again thy sword into his place: for all they that take the sword shall perish with the sword". I'm a big fan of Eric Lippert's work, but this blog post comes across as whiny and evi
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by defen 4y ago
The Adrian Veidt theory of FTX. I like it!
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by defen 4y ago
The follow up quote is even better: “I think, if you wrote a book, you fucked up, and it should have been a six-paragraph blog post.” Strong Vizzini energy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUg2cp23rGE
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by defen 4y ago
Limited Partner, the people (funds) who give VCs money to invest. If you read the cached version of the content that was previously on the page (someone linked it in the comments) it's kind of maximally embarrassing for them, and reall
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by defen 4y ago
Your statement is structurally equivalent to saying "People have always said that new media formats are ruining the youth, and they haven't [ed. note: debatable], therefore it's impossible for a new media format to ruin the
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by defen 4y ago
I don't even see how this experiment could have possibly demonstrated a "gain" of function (in terms of danger) - the original Wuhan coronavirus had a 100% fatality rate in these mice models. So if they had done this experime
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by defen 4y ago
That suggests an easy strategy for anyone who wants to shut down lab-leak discussion: just post maximally-unhinged support for it. See also "cognitive infiltration".
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by defen 4y ago
> Formulate a vague hypothesis H1 so broad that it is not extremely unlikely (thus has non-negligible prior, P(H1) > 0), then in the updating step sneakily introduce a much more specific hypothesis H1’ that is far less likely a priori
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by defen 4y ago
What kind of things would you like to see? And do you think they should be built into the language? Standard library? Blessed third-party package?
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by defen 4y ago
Zig evaluates compile-time expressions using the semantics of the target, does D do that? (I genuinely don't know; not trying to "gotcha") const std = @import("std"); export fn square(x: c_long) c_longlong
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by defen 4y ago
It's also worth noting that for Blood Meridian, McCarthy learned Spanish and did five years of historical research with his MacArthur award money. The broad strokes of the story are true - there really was a group of scalp hunters who
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by defen 4y ago
It wouldn't surprise me if someone else already figured it out, but I put it together after becoming a father myself and reading Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre
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by defen 4y ago
Dad jokes are intentionally lame. They serve an important social function - they establish the dad as the "lowest" member of the social totem pole, which frees kids up to not sweat social status so much. They allow everyone to uni
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by defen 4y ago
It's not October yet though. I look forward to returning to that thread in a few days.

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