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by dilap 6y ago
oh man, just for the number of amazing musical performances alone this isn't true
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by dilap 6y ago
> with the subject itself that's the thing though, you can never grapple with the subject itself, only representations thereof. this is a mix of feelings/images/movements inside your head & mechanical manipulations of
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by dilap 6y ago
Thanks! The monomorphization-vs-dynamic dispatch thing feels natural from a C++ perspective, as it completely mirrors the choice of achieving 'polymorphism' via templates or virtual methods (though of course the Rust syntax is way
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by dilap 6y ago
Do you have examples of this? I'd be curious to know if so. (I've played w/ Rust a little bit -- I implemented a Boggle board scorer + high-scoring board generator; Rust outperformed my C++ code! I was impressed.)
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by dilap 6y ago
i learned from this back in college: https://www.amazon.com/Calculus-4th-Michael-Spivak/dp/091409... one of my favorite text books ever. (tho it was paired w/ one of my favorite teachers ever, which i'm
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by dilap 6y ago
how exactly would one do that (pay taxes on illicit $)? are there public examples of it?
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by dilap 6y ago
> America enacted a trade embargo for ~20 years and tried to hamstring their economy through agencies like the IMF Maybe you're right, I'm definitely not an expert on the history. How impactful was that? The impression I got fr
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by dilap 6y ago
Also Waco. I was being a little bit tongue in cheek, and you're right that you can fly under the radar, but it's also possible to draw the interest of the feds, and then they will fuck you up. I spent a fair amount of my summers
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by dilap 6y ago
> If you want to move to Oregon to live on a commune, no capitalist commissar is there to stop you. I don't know, didn't work out so well for the Rajneeshees. Or Clive Bundy.
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by dilap 6y ago
Yes, the degree of hypocrisy of getting outraged by some Russian FB memes when the US and CIA routinely topple governments is completely absurd. For my part, I'd love to see the CIA disbanded. They're a lawless, evil organization.
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by dilap 6y ago
I think China and post American-war Vietnam both provide examples; each of them internally decided to make significant reforms in the direction of a market economy. Ultimately what matters is incentives, and I do wonder what kind of utopian
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by dilap 6y ago
Ha, good response!
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by dilap 6y ago
Is there any alternative though (other than not switching to ARM?)? I guess Apple could go out and try to preemptively fix all software, but that seems excessive to expect. :-)
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by dilap 6y ago
Thanks, interesting points. I haven't seen the Szizek/Peterson debate; I'll check it out.
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by dilap 6y ago
It's an important question, though. The belief underlying lots of policymaking right now is that any inequality of outcome must be due to bias. If that's actually untrue, then we're going to end up trying to eradicate somethi
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by dilap 6y ago
No more so than vote by mail which we already have though (and is all Oregon does), right?
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by dilap 6y ago
is there some reason you can't get a random id associated w/ your ballot? then just list all results (by that id) on a website somewhere. you hang onto your id stub, and can tell if your vote was mistallied or left out. this can w
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by dilap 6y ago
Even if you grant "only the government has access," I think you still shouldn't be complacent, because what the government considers acceptable can change, and may not agree with what you think is acceptable. E.g., maybe a go
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by dilap 6y ago
No, they're fine -- if your only login is first-party, you don't need to support Sign in with Apple. (They're taking out FB login to comply.)
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by dilap 6y ago
Well, that, and also if they don't remove FB login, then the would be required to also implement Sign in with Apple. They didn't want to implement Sign in with Apple, so they had to remove FB login.
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by dilap 6y ago
Yeah, mine jumps all over depending on what I've recently listened too. Sometimes it's great and I'm like, "wow, this is magic!" Recently it's been garbage.
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by dilap 6y ago
In what ways do you consider the new design to be better?
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by dilap 6y ago
Yeah, it's bullshit. I think once a company gets "big" and corporate enough, focus somehow dissipates away from actual usability into...something else. See also: all recent changes to Slack. Maybe this is just because the bes
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by dilap 6y ago
No doubt the efficiency of the care that is being provided could be dramatically improved, but that's not the root problem, IMO.
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by dilap 6y ago
For me, if someone wants to start a facebook group to talk about flat earth or antivax or any other crazy thing they believe, their freedom as humans to have that conversation trumps other concerns, but you can certainly argue credibly ther
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by dilap 6y ago
Perhaps I misunderstood your position. Reading your original comment, it is not as I remembered it -- either I misunderstood, or the comment has evolved. Regarding this: > And all I am arguing is that social media should be held to the s
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by dilap 6y ago
If you're "free" to do something, but only with consequences, you're not actually free. If you have the belief that the best possible outcomes can be achieved by open discussion of ideas, then any sort of consequences
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by dilap 6y ago
You basically just don't believe in free speech. Which is, historically, the more popular position. The idea that ideas should be able to amplified & spread w/o institutional control is rather radical.
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by dilap 6y ago
The amazing thing about all that $ for medical care is we're barely any better off than people in the victorian era: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2672390/ And actually, if weight by quali
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by dilap 6y ago
I don't think that's the issue. SF has tons of tax revenue, but it can barely build anything, and it can't keep the streets clean or safe.

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