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by ethbro 7y ago
Aka preventing debt slavery.
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by ethbro 7y ago
College loans rates (costs) would certainly spike if they were made dischargeable. The bargain probably should have been "Cannot be discharged in bankruptcy, until 15 years have passed after loan origination." Like Prop 13, the ov
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by ethbro 7y ago
> Or, and this is my addition, someone is flying the drones who doesn't need a permit, somehow. "When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." -- Sherlock (Arthur Cona
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by ethbro 7y ago
I love Kraftwerk! Maybe I should try Scheme?
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by ethbro 7y ago
You'd be surprised how much money flows through the medical system. And how much of that flows through automated systems. And how little of the total is actually audited on a detailed level.
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by ethbro 7y ago
What happens if they forget their password?
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by ethbro 7y ago
I feel like the way to do this would be to have (1) digital repro format & (2) auto-exec of submitted issues to verify. Then have the workflow look more like (1) anon q public submits repro file & issue description, (2) auto-test sy
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by ethbro 7y ago
Also, it's a never-ending task, given web evolution.
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by ethbro 7y ago
FYI, for those like me whose last memory of RedHat packaging was pre-yum: https://developers.redhat.com/blog/2018/11/15/rhel8-introduc...
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by ethbro 7y ago
You're arguing the same point in another thread, and we're talking about two different things there too. You're making a moral argument for why it shouldn't be so. I'm making an ammoral, logical argument for why it
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by ethbro 7y ago
"Sane" is imprecise in the way you're using it. People who share your morals probably wouldn't destroy the world. But there are absolutely scenarios where logical people would do so. "Insane" has the same
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by ethbro 7y ago
See point on attribution. How do we know the weapons originated from North Korea, and not Japan, or the UK, or some other unlikely source? Because we saw the missile radar tracks? What if it was a shipping container or UUV bomb? This is why
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by ethbro 7y ago
> If you destroy the world after being nuked, that is strictly worse than not destroying the world after being nuked, so nobody would do it. Possibly. But it is also strictly dominating (in the time before nuclear exchange) to make eve
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by ethbro 7y ago
I think the B83 (1.2 megatons) is the highest yield weapon currently in the US arsenal. Which, while terrible (9 megatons ~= pressure wave that levels most structures in a largish city), pales in comparison to something like the B41 (25 meg
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by ethbro 7y ago
If a strike aircraft were that close to a sensitive military installation (by accounts: missile R&D facility) then it could launch weapons at any second. There likely wasn't "human-scale" time to confirm identity. And spe
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by ethbro 7y ago
> why would all the missiles be launched towards everywhere? Because that's the way nuclear deterrent theory works. If you collapse the game theory calculus down, it turns into "Any technology or action that makes it less l
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by ethbro 7y ago
What product am I missing?
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by ethbro 7y ago
That was the moral of The Man in the High Castle when it was written -- that every totalitarian state's wet dream is that a new generation can be enculturated to not believe alternatives are possible.
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by ethbro 7y ago
Google doesn't actually have many customer-facing product wins on the strength of their GUIs / UX to its credit, period. Google search was minimalist. Android followed everyone else in the market, and hasn't iterated core UX
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by ethbro 7y ago
Traditionally brick and mortar retailers, for whatever reason, don't seem to use pilots and rollouts. At least not to the extent expected. The closest explanation I can think of is that so much of store operations' focus is on sta
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by ethbro 7y ago
How many countries are "developed"? And how quickly will the remainder join them?
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by ethbro 7y ago
Warrants shouldn't be intended to discover evidence, they should be intended to secure evidence that is expected to exist in a particular location . This distinction wasn't a major concern when the former was impractical. Because
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by ethbro 7y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menu_cost
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by ethbro 7y ago
If a deal falls in the forest and no one see it, does the retailer make a sale?
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by ethbro 7y ago
Hats off to the NOC team.
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by ethbro 7y ago
Resolved - This incident has been resolved. Jan 8, 22:59 UTC Monitoring - New tunnel connections should now succeed. Cloudflare is monitoring the issue. Jan 8, 22:13 UTC Update - Cloudflare is investigating issues with Argo Tunnel connectio
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by ethbro 7y ago
The belief that world population will self-level at some point does not mean that it will self-level prior to resource exhaustion. The fact that we're cooking the planet with ~8B does not bode well for what even 10B looks like.
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by ethbro 7y ago
We're possibly within a few orders of magnitude of the saturation point, wielding the resources of a single planet. Which leaves the obvious path forward...
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by ethbro 7y ago
Where does population control enter into this hypothetical? Because that's the only way you get to post-scarcity.
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by ethbro 7y ago
How many of those have you seen in the real world? Maybe they're more popular elsewhere, but outside of warehouse store price labels I haven't seen the technology. Certainly not in large format.

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