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by electrograv 7y ago
Yes most likely; that’s my point. It can become a serious organizational problem when useful codified heuristics like this are able to be abused in this way (by treating them as immutable rules, or used as a weapon to win arguments).
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by electrograv 7y ago
In this case either of the solutions would satisfactorily solve the problem, so implementing both would be redundant and wasteful. The problem appears in this case when there’s disagreement on which of the two satisfactory solution paths sh
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by electrograv 7y ago
As a general rule, absolutely! Unfortunately, if applied too strictly though, it can be weaponized or stifling in ways you may not anticipate (which tends to be true of almost any rule used too universally). For example: I’ve seen cases whe
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by electrograv 7y ago
Related scenario: Imagine I sold a digital image (artwork). Imagine I sell two versions, each licensed separately (if you want both, you have to buy both): One is a full color image, and the other is a grayscale image. If you display the co
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by electrograv 7y ago
How is “compelling inaction” anything but a synonym for “prison”? I’m no expert here and have not thought about this extensively, so I have no strong opinion here. That said, at first glance: * It seems reasonable that courts need some po
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by electrograv 7y ago
<pflenker>’s top level post makes a good point here, suggesting that because untargeted bots are your biggest concern, even the simplest custom challenges tend to work quite well (e.g. “enter the number 123 in the last box”) — wit
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by electrograv 7y ago
Personally, I find that most modern UIs that explicitly do not conform to an OS’s opinionated UI design style (for example: the majority of web stack UIs[1]), are often better in almost every way vs apps that do conform to OS style! W
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by electrograv 7y ago
I’m still optimistic about science in general, but sometimes I question the wisdom of our resource allocation: Tech companies making selfie sharing apps make enough money to fund an entire space program several times over, but instead reinv
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by electrograv 7y ago
First a disclaimer: I’m probably misinterpreting you, so I apologize in advance. I sincerely assume you have only the best intentions. By my interpretation, your last paragraph seems to accuse police of very specific misbehavior, but withou
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by electrograv 7y ago
Yeah I don’t think we disagree. I just wanted to list out just how difficult/impossible I’ve found it to be to break free of the tracking ecosystem.
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by electrograv 7y ago
You may be right that Google and others technically offer some tracking opt-out capability (mostly because they were required to by GDPR), but it doesn’t seem to work, because I still regularly receive targeted ads (relating to recent we
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by electrograv 7y ago
Yeah, I thought this was a popular idea around here: ”We should have to explicitly opt-in to data collection, and when we do we should be compensated for our data!” Then Amazon actually does it and people are angry? If anything, this is a
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by electrograv 7y ago
If each employee was paid the same to pick half the items, then they’re effectively being paid twice as much to do the same amount of work. Amazon would have to hire twice the workers (if not more) to fulfill their order volume, which means
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by electrograv 7y ago
Thank you, good catch. I’ve edited my paraphrase to make it more accurate in this way. That said, it still sounds like Google is trying to convince us that the data they capture (not just the metadata) is never linkable to personally identi
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by electrograv 7y ago
So Google’s response is (paraphrased as fairly as I can while removing the sugar-coating): ’Yes, we hire people to listen in to and transcribe some conversations from the private homes of our customers (so as improve our speech recognition
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by electrograv 7y ago
Thank you! Another question on a tangentially related topic: Could you perhaps shed more light on why there so much pessimistic skepticism towards any claims of working reaction-less propulsion drives (violating conservation of momentum), f
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by electrograv 7y ago
Side note / question to real physicists: I am curious, for example, why general relativity does not break conservation of momentum in 3D, given that it seems like warped space time (to my lay perspective) violates 3D translational symm
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by electrograv 7y ago
It doesn’t necessarily need to be intentional. Perhaps they had some other business to fly to that airport, and simply don’t care if there are people there or not due to the “unbelievability effect” which they’d be well aware of. (Obviously
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by electrograv 7y ago
This Reddit post (from a few months ago, actually) lists several things in the patent that just sounds like gibberish to someone educated in physics: https://www.reddit.com/r/EmDrive/comments/bgr3ex/comme
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by electrograv 7y ago
I think the need for most people to assign the label “crackpot” vs “credible” almost immediately to any claim (especially to the more far-out claims) is an aspect of human nature: a desire to break down and simplify our view of the world in
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by electrograv 7y ago
Yeah, but why though? It doesn’t make much sense. If they wanted to mislead rivals into thinking we have technology we don’t (so as to waste their resources trying to develop tech down a dead-end), why not write it in a more credible way? I
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by electrograv 7y ago
It seems like tech so incredible as this would make eyewitness testimony quite literally “unbelievable” and “incredible”. If you had tech like that, you could pretty much show yourself to any group of people less than the population of an e
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by electrograv 7y ago
TLDR: The claims and descriptions in these Navy patents exactly match the “leaked technical descriptions” from many conspiracy theories over the past 30-40 years claiming that the US government has secret craft capable of defying the curr
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by electrograv 7y ago
If you’re looking for more “PL ADD” fuel, don’t forget to look into Zig! https://ziglang.org/ Of all the modern systems level programming languages I’ve seen, I like Zig the most. It combines a powerful, modern type system
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by electrograv 7y ago
> Criminals are in fact normal people. Could you elaborate more on this claim? In an ideal world, criminal behavior is supposed to be defined as abnormal and unwanted behavior. * Is my definition of “criminal” for an ideal world wa
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by electrograv 7y ago
I see Google API/ecosystem fans often defending or dismissing Google’s pattern of behavior here, using arguments like this: “Well, sure, they shut down that API I don’t use — big deal; all things come to an end eventually! But, they’d
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by electrograv 7y ago
One would hope that they have made fundamental improvements / innovations to the tech in those past 50 years[1], and they’ll just be keeping that advantage secret for a while. [1] Am I getting old or is it weird realizing that 1970 was
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by electrograv 7y ago
> So yeah, pulsed lasers can do it, and I'm certain the Air Force would rather be using them. Do you really think they are so incompetent so as not to have thought of this? I’m sure the labs developing these are aware of what you’
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by electrograv 8y ago
The M27 / HK 417 is an AR15 with a gas piston retrofit. There is an advantage to piston operating systems for really short barrels, where DI systems do not excel. In fact, many such piston AR retrofits exist in the US civilian AR marke
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by electrograv 8y ago
It’s really hard to improve DI systems without compromise, and harder still (probably impossible) to do so without also breaking compatibility with other parts like chamber lugs pattern. The KAC SR15 solves the bolt longevity issues, but no

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