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by fatbird 7y ago
I was able to play martingale in a casino in a video game, so a limited wallet wasn't my problem, and I made money in the long run, but it exposed a subtler problem with Martingale: You only ever win your initial bet back; the rest is
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by fatbird 7y ago
The argument I made was originally formulated by Andrea Dworkin, testifying to Congress about pornography, and formulating it that way--what metric are you measuring freedom by--has done a lot to expand my thinking. Another is the saying &q
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by fatbird 7y ago
Most here at HN think of the left as wanting more censorship in order to avoid hurtful speech, but that's not generally how the left thinks of it. On the left, the view is that the practice of maximizing freedom of speech by toleratin
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by fatbird 7y ago
I was the main programmer on a web application with 250k lines of code; it handled a single very complex product selection/configuration process. The time came to expand it to handle multiple products in the same family of products. W
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by fatbird 7y ago
Upvoting because legit question offers an opportunity to inform. Most whales have a natural range of thousands of miles over the course of a year. Keeping them in tanks, no matter how generous to our eyes, is the equivalent of keeping a hu
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by fatbird 7y ago
Perhaps, but the Vancouver Aquarium had the belugas currently at Marineworld, and were prevented by municipal bylaw from allowing the them to breed (which was aimed at avoiding a different loophole where aquariums could maintain a captivity
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by fatbird 7y ago
The Vancouver Aquarium went through this at a municipal level several years ago, ultimately moving its belugas to Marineland (they’ll now be moved to Spain). This wasn’t an issue of targeting a single park so much as finalizing in law what
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by fatbird 7y ago
Before I go completely grey here, I'll clarify as a decades long user of vim/neovim: no software should be so near and dear to your heart that you get complacent about the risks it poses, most especially security risks. Heartbreak
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by fatbird 7y ago
If you're heartbroken about this, it's only because you were too smug before.
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by fatbird 8y ago
We already have the bureaucracy and social norms and the tyranny of the majority. We don't now, and never have, existed in a pure state of nature with respect to freedom of expression. What this banning does is move the border between
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by fatbird 8y ago
Others have gotten into this with you about the specific damage, and my point was less "yay, censor them!" than the argument that not deplatforming them somehow protects me. It doesn't, even hypothetically.
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by fatbird 8y ago
I think many people do realise it, and feel like it's a worthwhile risk. The cost of avoiding a hypothetical future in which I'm censored is accepting the real damage they're doing in the here and now. And also, I may end u
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by fatbird 8y ago
The study followed users internally as well and monitored their continued behaviour on Reddit. A significant number didn't simply leave, they remained in other subreddits and exercised much less of the objectionable behaviour, even if
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by fatbird 8y ago
But now he doesn't fly planes, which saves them a lot of money, and I doubt he'd have voluntarily transitioned within service from jets to drones, no?
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by fatbird 8y ago
You have forgotten the face of your father.
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by fatbird 8y ago
Much like how I've configured my syntax colouring (very limited), the fact that vim isn't an IDE becomes a virtue. For the few code-helper tasks I want, it's there, but mostly it gets out of my way. I use VS Code sometimes,
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by fatbird 8y ago
It's not an interpretation of stoicism, it's an observation about the convenience of stoicism to a certain kind of self-interest--much like Reddit's supposed commitment to freedom of speech also happens to be a much cheaper o
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by fatbird 8y ago
They could, and in fact the medicare block grants in Obamacare are for that purpose. States accepting the block grants expanded access to medicare, massively reducing the number of uninsured. It doesn't have to be an every-state solu
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by fatbird 8y ago
Can't. The U.S. has well documented problems with the working poor being unable to afford insurance or qualify for medicare; even if they qualify, medicare is not universally accepted (because it doesn't pay market rates) and the
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by fatbird 8y ago
Maybe the problem there is multiple actors rather than regulations.
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by fatbird 8y ago
In Canada, 16% of the money spent on health care is spent on administration; in the U.S., 28%. Tell me again how the free market is more efficient?
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by fatbird 8y ago
Access to leading-edge potential treatments is a minor concern in health care: few need it, fewer qualify, and fewer are helped. Even then, your statement is false: leading edge medical research is carried out in all countries with univers
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by fatbird 8y ago
All the countries that have tried it are less in the red than the U.S. by any financial measure, and have longer life expectancies/lower infant mortality rates/better aggregate outcomes than the U.S., which is typically at the bot
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by fatbird 8y ago
Locations are chosen subject to a wide number of factors and influences. But even if local laws prevented such a lawsuit, a cautious manager might still issue the same directive: laws get overturned, etc. They might also be aiming to avoi
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by fatbird 8y ago
If they end up suing Facebook for the mental harm they suffer from the job (and things like content moderators getting PTSD is a recognized thing), then lack of communicating their distress to their friends and family undercuts their case.
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by fatbird 8y ago
Is that 5-10x the upfront cost? What's the cost comparison in operating costs over the lifespan of the plane? It's not that I don't believe 5-10x, it's that I'm pretty sure the net savings are on the backend, which
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by fatbird 8y ago
It takes days to turn around an NDA. If months have passed, the vendor is obviously stalling.
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by fatbird 8y ago
The only arguments I hear against the linear history model are: 1. A branching history allows use of git bisect to identify where breaking bugs were introduced. 2. An aesthetic argument to the effect of: it's awesome to have that branc
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by fatbird 8y ago
In a way, that seems like the best counterstrike by Apple. Minimally disruptive to the public at large, massively disruptive to the bad actor.
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by fatbird 8y ago
Most big media sites now have "you read X free articles this month, you need a subscription to continue" popups. Medium doesn't require you to sign up to continue, but it acts and reads just like those in its cutesy way, hop

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