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by emn13 4y ago
I think you've hit the nail on the head; npm was the real killer app - it makes it very easy to try out node and result in a real, usable app with very little code nor (visible) complexity.
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by emn13 4y ago
I think there's a chance that there's some amount of intrinsic tension here; i.e. that if you want to hold people to account for spreading lies; then you'll be similarly enabling dunking on minorities. But dis+misinformation
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by emn13 5y ago
Yep; I'm sure all these issues are solvable, and not just that - there are obviously workarounds in place even today (after all, you can make such trips). But the need to work around such incompatibilities (whether technically by us
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by emn13 5y ago
Exactly - the issue isn't that any of this is unsolvable; these problems are solved, even today. The issue is that those solutions aren't free, and that they do impose limitations on the quality of service.
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by emn13 5y ago
Of course technical hurdles can be worked around - the issue is that those workaround often have limitations and consequences. Trains won't be as interchangeable as they might be. Not all trains and all routes will be chosen becaus
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by emn13 5y ago
Right, but that's only if you stick to hi-speed rail. Which isn't a reasonable limitation if you want to travel to Spain more broadly (or, for that matter, from the Netherlands more broadly!) The point isn't only that there
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by emn13 5y ago
Note that if you travel from The Netherlands to Spain you might be traversing 6 different railway electrification systems that vary in critical stuff like voltages (and by more than a factor 10!) and possibly Hz, and some are AC and some ar
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by emn13 5y ago
But even beyond that - fuel and other power sources have been taxed well before climate change was a political issue, and jet fuel is exempt from all of that. It smacks of regulatory capture.
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by emn13 5y ago
One bit that might surprise people is how fragmented it was (probably still is?). I'll see if I can find more sources, but e.g. https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.67... illustrates some of
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by emn13 5y ago
Sure, but so are airports and so are roads. And all forms of infrastructure are sometimes prestige projects, and all are sometimes subject to political choices that while legitimate, in retrospect turn out to have been questionable. It&#x2
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by emn13 5y ago
I've not used macs for a few years, but has homebrew become a lot better then? Because my recollection of it is that it worked fine for small sets of well-maintained packages, but it's much, much slower than the linux package man
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by emn13 5y ago
Ah yes, all those mischaracterizations you haven't been able to point out. Got it.
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by emn13 5y ago
I listed specific weaknesses in the paper you haven't addressed, so if there's anybody here arguing in bad faith: look in the mirror. Additionally, note that it's trivial to google something like "lockdown effectiveness&
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by emn13 5y ago
The report you link is not a meta-analysis (at least not one I recognize). Also, meta-analysis is a freaking minefield: garbage in, garbage out rules the day - i.e. the quality of any conclusions is limited by how honestly and competently
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by emn13 5y ago
Mass business closures would show up in GDP stats fairly quickly, i.e. be visible by now. Regardless, we need to compare to the appropriate counterfactual; you're still listing a bunch of bad things that happened, but implicitly compa
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by emn13 5y ago
Right, but it's only barely lower than France, about half-way between Germany and France. And then there's the question whether France is a great comparison; if you compare Sweden to its closer neighbors Finland and Norway - it&#
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by emn13 5y ago
I seem to remember that he did publicly admit certain policies were poor in retrospect - a bit of googling e.g. finds this, just months after the start of the pandemic: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-52903717
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by emn13 5y ago
Whether the article is accurate or at least reasonable I don't know, however this criticism smells fishy - the kind of damages you're ascribing to the lockdown Sweden did suffer from, and not dramatically less so than nearby cou
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by emn13 5y ago
Thanks for the link; that's helpful. It also confirms that the worry that indeed it's quite tricky to interpret this data; even with the best of intentions errors are quite plausible. It's still interesting, it just means we
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by emn13 5y ago
I'd be careful drawing too many conclusions from that dataset. Many if not most forests are managed and logged; not all of that logging is necessarily on the public books nor does it imply complete deforestation; Legal logging typicall
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by emn13 5y ago
git could simply prevent you from committing to that branch in that case, and perhaps print a warning when adding a worktree. The current behavior is weird. Another alternative is to allow the commit, but leave it in a detached-head state
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by emn13 5y ago
I mean, we don't need competition, sure. But we also have a social structure that utterly depends on competition for economic efficiency. I'm not seeing the popular up-swell for communism quite yet, so until that happens, having p
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by emn13 5y ago
Browsers are complex. Just because Netscape managed to commit corporate harakiri in just the right way to leave a spoiler for Microsoft behind doesn't mean that'll happen again. The web is quite different now from then, and much
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by emn13 5y ago
According to the uBlock author: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/uBlock-Origin-works-b... I'm not sure how critical this is in practice; but the way this evolved may be a symptom of the fact that B
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by emn13 5y ago
The problem with Malone is that his theories are in disagreement with the vast majority of subject matter experts. His CV, while real, isn't without issues, and his involvement in mRNA research is often misrepresented in the sense tha
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by emn13 5y ago
Hence my question 2. If you can answer that honestly, and in good faith, at least my personal answer to this follows, and hopefully, eventually, why Rogan's approach is fundamentally invalid; why just asking questions is deceptive. B
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by emn13 5y ago
1. I'm curious: why do you believe every individual human should be forced to/be free to (same thing here!) judge each piece of content for themselves? Why is it morally right to let millions of people be deceived, when you kno
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by emn13 5y ago
Right, so for all media you need to consider their message holistically, not parse statements in some legalistic fashion that no real listener would interpret them in. And some messages survive that test, and others don't. Given the a
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by emn13 5y ago
If you want professional fact-checking, he's high profile enough you can google it. E.g. this is recent: https://www.bbc.com/news/60199614 and includes some amusing quackery. However, the real problem here isn&#x
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by emn13 5y ago
I have no idea if JR is intentionally deceptive, or merely deluded. I think that kind of stuff is often something of a grey area anyhow; I mean part of being able to convince people of things is to be able to come up with a narrative that s

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