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by fallous 8y ago
One of the great "watch ads for money" stories from the dotcom era was AllAdvantage. They were set to have a blockbuster IPO when Fortune magazine ran a story on them entitled "Meet the Dumbest Dotcom in the World," and
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by fallous 8y ago
I've already stated that a query shouldn't necessarily result in a change of state, but a command to return data is still a command and there's every reason to call them that because they result in work performed.
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by fallous 8y ago
I'm not sure that metaphors allude to Platonic ideals but rather (to stick with Plato) are closer to the shadows on the cave wall.
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by fallous 8y ago
As was I.
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And tools are not limited to physical implements.
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by fallous 8y ago
Indeed. By choosing to conceptualize the effort as "war" it necessarily implies means and goals.
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by fallous 8y ago
A reasonable person, regardless of political affiliation, understands the consequences of the policies they support. If you believe that raising property taxes has no use of force you should attend a sheriff's sale of property seized
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by fallous 8y ago
Unfortunately we do hear the phrase "war on crime (usually meaning violence or drugs)," but policing is the enforcement of all laws and thus lacks the targeting required to be a "war" in a meaningful sense. The same wit
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by fallous 8y ago
"at least to rhyme" is very specifically a metaphor in that it does not require systemic logical matching... I don't literally require rhyming or a logical system that is comparable. It's also utterly useless for _syste
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by fallous 8y ago
You're mistaking my pointing out the means as a critique of the ends. If you do not pay your taxes not only can the police take your property but they can and will imprison your person. That is the reality of the situation and I supp
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by fallous 8y ago
Hobbes recognized that the social contract is enforced by the sovereign, otherwise we have anarchy. That good is derived from such a contract does not mean that it is absent force... it's necessary. It is absurdity is to try and hide
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by fallous 8y ago
Let's be clear, we're not disagreeing on policies we're disagreeing on what the behavior of government is in enacting policies. Government does not have resources it did not acquire through laws... which are by necessity enf
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by fallous 8y ago
Crappy tools are still tools.
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by fallous 8y ago
It isn't metaphysical, it is purely a practical observation. How do you propose to "raising living standards" and all the other offerings using government but not using force?
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by fallous 8y ago
And that money comes from where?
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by fallous 8y ago
And what actions would those be that do not, eventually, rely upon force?
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by fallous 8y ago
Except that the "desktop metaphor" stops being a "desktop" with the introduction of a cursor and mouse. Actual desktops are manipulated directly by users... and desktops don't allow you to move your hand all the wa
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by fallous 8y ago
The "desktop metaphor" is a conceit, in the literary sense, that provides a general structure to a presentation but it isn't truly useful as a means of conveying the logic or expectations of a system in the way that an analog
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by fallous 8y ago
Actually the term "war" in the contexts of drugs and poverty is appropriate since they both depend upon force as the means to achieve their goals as they depend upon government action.
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by fallous 8y ago
It may seem glib, but the best resource to spur one to think systemically is a three year-old child. Their favorite word seems to be "why?" and they will keep asking it until you either reach an abstraction they accept, you get t
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by fallous 8y ago
I jarred a bit at her use of the word "metaphor" to describe understanding, and upon reflect I think I understand why I reacted that way. Metaphors lack the requisite understanding of an analogy in that they apply at best partial
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by fallous 8y ago
While I like the fact that the author is attempting to explicitly delineate commands vs events, IMO the attempt misses the mark in a few ways. A command is not required to change state (especially as demonstrated by use of HTTP POST/PU
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by fallous 9y ago
No, Simpson's Paradox involves incorrect conclusions of statistical data/trend due to a mistake in viewpoint or assumption. I'm saying that even if you have the correct conclusion that it's not a valid replacement for t
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by fallous 9y ago
I am indeed making a blanket statement about the theoretical possibilities of prediction and suggestion as a preferred or comparable replacement for allowing the user to choose for themselves, and that statement is that it's neither co
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by fallous 9y ago
Jeeves may or may not be human, but having hired many people and unfortunately having to fire a few people over the last 30 years I do have some experience with humans and work.
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by fallous 9y ago
I'm not sure the case for revealed preferences is overstated as much as it is so often misapplied.
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by fallous 9y ago
And no it's not a strawman to introduce my intentions into the example... it's the entire point. Measure everything you like with the exception of my brain and you cannot know my intentions which means that you lack the necessary
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by fallous 9y ago
Yeah, it's a phrasing error... although there are species of inferred behaviors (he went into a room for an hour and then came out and walked to a store. I don't know what he did in that room but I can infer that he breathed while
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by fallous 9y ago
I suspect, but certainly can't prove, that there are two things going on... first that in order to get reasonably true answers to questions you have to provide a fair in-kind trade with the user. If you want their home location you co
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by fallous 9y ago
You're conflating a recommendation/suggestion system, which uses data from an inference engine, with systems that replace explicit user intent with the results of an inference engine. A recommendation/suggestion system should

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