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by elcritch 3y ago
> It's entirely a matter of incentives. Companies are like machines whose sole purpose is to make a profit. Pretty much everything they do apart from that (make products, employ people, pollute, etc) is, strictly speaking, a side ef
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by elcritch 3y ago
That's because I was replying specifically to your part about "1500 years of participation". Those two Roman Christians were both very influential thinkers on both Christian and European thought. Eventually direct slavery in
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by elcritch 3y ago
> You think the nice Christians wanted to get rid of it earlier, it just took them fifteen hundred years of active participation in it because it was difficult? Ridiculous. It’s not about being “nice”. Neither is it not ridiculous if you
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by elcritch 3y ago
I was traveling in Greece and heard a story about the modern Greek independence fighters in the ~1850's. At the time the soldiers were traveling around the various Greek islands to gain support. According to the story on one small isla
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by elcritch 3y ago
> > the history of the many schisms over nonsense is rather tedious From the outside it can seem tedious. Certainly some of them are tedious. However, some of these controversies were important philosophically. For example, the fights
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You also get Youtube Music with premium. That's pretty nice. It's not as good at playlists as Spotify, etc, but it's got most music you wanna listen to.
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Eh, I like some of the shorts. I just scroll by them when I'm not. I'm thinking about much deeper enshitification like nickel-and-diming content creators until they all leave. Getting rid of premium or adding ads to it, etc. Addin
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by elcritch 3y ago
For now that is. I sort of hope someone more motivated than myself makes a timer for how long before the crappification* of YouTube begins now that it appears MBAs will be taking over. The new CEO probably has some gumption, but it seems in
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by elcritch 3y ago
It’s also ripe for “flame wars”. Not that this is that. More that HN’s algorithm lowers stories where there’s nearly as many comments as there are points to avoid flame wars, or so I’ve read. Make sense.
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by elcritch 3y ago
That kind of content would be far-right. However Wired and others seem to include sites that questions anything about the current transgender movement as harassing transgender people. The article does give details that the site is full of s
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Other commenters posted good responses IMHO. My statement wasn’t due to any particular incident or axe to grind. It’s my observation of groupthink among experts in both sciences and public policy. Specifically recently I was affected by sho
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by elcritch 3y ago
> Why shouldn't experts in the relevant areas make their best determination? Because experts are often myopic and terrible policy makers. Also experts hired by federal agencies will likely tend to favor interpretations that the agen
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by elcritch 3y ago
The form factor of the RPi 5 is the same as previous generations. You can run them fine without active cooling unless you want it to run at sustained max performance, in which case the original Pi’s wouldn’t work anyways. The biggest benefi
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by elcritch 3y ago
Yes parents should restrict their kids devices and keep an eye smart device usage generally IMHO. However, doing so well is not easy. There’s so many work arounds unless you severely limit device functionality. For example, at least a few y
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Yah it’d be great to combine the two and run it locally.
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I did a bunch of PRs last year on c2nim, which can parse and translate most C code now. The hardest was handling C function pointers that take function pointers. The C for those is hard to parse and easy to second guess, but Nim makes it a
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by elcritch 3y ago
In my experiments 64+ kB of RAM works pretty with Nina allocator. It’s also a O(1) allocator. Still limiting allocations is important on embedded.
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Nice write up! Note Nim can also run FreeRTOS and Zephyr with networking support. It can also run on Arduino or the Pi Pico.
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It’s a very effective way to tax foreign countries too. Just print a few trillion and let the small countries pay the costs in inflation.
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How much were the solar and wind propped up by baseline fossil fuels that are cheap because they don’t include externalities in their cost?
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by elcritch 3y ago
According to https://www.justice.gov/pardon/frequently-asked-questions#:~... . > Does the President have authority to grant clemency for a state conviction? No. The President’s clemency power is conferred by Article
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by elcritch 3y ago
Especially ironic since Biden was one of the original architects of those draconian laws.
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ADHD has a half dozen or more effective treatments. Several are rather recent. There’s long term evidence that ADHD medications help those with on a wide variety of measures. Likewise cognitive behavioral therapy and similar work well for m
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by elcritch 3y ago
Driving across I-80 we'd always count at least a couple of semi's blown over. Not to mention sudden blizzards, snow blowing sideways, or super dense fog. Once while I living in eastern Wyoming we had an "80 car" pileup,
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by elcritch 3y ago
Perhaps his work is unbiased as you say. However having read many books with similar claims, presentation, and general background like this book I'd say it's rather more likely that he's interpreting the Bible according to a
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> A theologian and historian committed to discovering the original practices of Christianity, Richard Rives wrote the book “Time Is the Ally of Deceit.” Unfortunately not a particularly unbiased author. I’d recommend reading the writings
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by elcritch 3y ago
Hmmm that’s an important factor. It’s one reason I still “trust in scientific process”. While it’s corruptible, imperfect, etc enough scientists still believe in the ideals of science. Otherwise why do it at all? Still at a top institution
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Of course major institutions will always face these sorta problems. However your comment seems to assume the FDA self-corrected. They faced a lot of external criticism and eventually partially capitulated. Even then they just restricted its
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I’d say corporate and good-old-boy senior researcher clubs: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna63662

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