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by feoren 1y ago
We rack up quite a lot of awfulness with eugenics, phrenology, the "science" that influenced Stalin's disastrous agriculture policies in the early USSR, overpopulation scares leading to China's one-child policy, etc. Alt
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by feoren 1y ago
> Sahm Recession Indicator signals the start of a recession when the three-month moving average of the national unemployment rate (U3) rises by 0.50 percentage points or more relative to the minimum of the three-month averages from the p
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by feoren 1y ago
> basically what you are suggesting is that some group of volunteers spend their time and effort to build out a substantial part of the business's infrastructure for free. I don't buy this. How many businesses are we talking ab
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by feoren 1y ago
I totally agree: em-dashes simply do not belong glued to the words on either side, style guides be damned! They look awful and wrap badly. There are no other punctuation marks that conceptually separate words without spaces! Every other pun
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by feoren 1y ago
Literally every sentence you said is based on lies and misinformation. > Nobody thinks that "being trans == child abuse." Yes, they pushed laws that say that "cross dressing" in the presence of a minor should be consi
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by feoren 1y ago
This is a great list. I would add: - Megacorporations cozying up to government in exchange for access to this information, for a competitive advantage, targeted advertising, etc. Lawmakers will bend over backward for corporations if they ar
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by feoren 1y ago
Okay, so reply with your credit card numbers, links to all your cell phone photos, your DNA test results, your passwords, and your medical history. What do you have to hide? You: "But you are randos on the internet, not the government!
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by feoren 1y ago
> If someone has made bitcoin transactions to say, donate to EFF, Planned Parenthood or ACLU, I would take a bet of 5 Bitcoin that he isn't going to be imprisoned for that fact in this country. Yes, even though Trump is President. Y
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by feoren 1y ago
I'm always amused when sci-fi writers think they're being deep by having ancient humans be aliens from another planet. They just completely forget about the 10 million other species we're so clearly related to? Ancient bacter
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by feoren 1y ago
This is too pessimistic. We can absolutely "begin to guess" at what an alien civilization might look like or how they might have evolved. Reasonable possibilities are very heavily constrained by information theory, the laws of the
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by feoren 1y ago
Covariance and contravarience is very useful, but it's quite annoying that it can only be used with interfaces and not classes/structs. I write lots of little monoid-like data wrappers like Named<T>, and I have to either go
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by feoren 1y ago
They don't want you to watch a video you like. They want you to watch a video that makes them money. They want you to get angry, horny, and/or addicted. They have virtually no interest in showing you a video you'd actually en
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by feoren 1y ago
These seemingly inescapable tradeoffs are almost always actually quite escapable if you look at it from a different perspective. You have to stop thinking about pages and button-clicks, and you have to stop using frameworks that try to do e
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by feoren 1y ago
> electronics engineers routinely design systems with millions of components, intricate timing relationships, and complex interactions between subsystems. Yet they don’t rely on anything analogous to our type checkers. Bullshit, they abs
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by feoren 1y ago
Turn up the speed!
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by feoren 1y ago
Ask the people who worked at Bell Labs in its heyday, or at NASA during the Apollo program, or who make a modest living earning a salary for a charity or organization they care about -- ask them whether it's a mistake to try to derive
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by feoren 1y ago
Yes, I work for a sense of value and worth to society, and I would accept being paid less if it meant a greater sense of worth. Think about it this way: I have about 40 productive hours per week (young kids, otherwise it'd be more). I
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by feoren 1y ago
This is ignoring the fact that there are very few opportunities for the best engineers to thrive. I guarantee you there are thousands of John Carmacks laboring away at mid-tier companies with mid-tier managers, inventing paradigm-shifting t
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by feoren 1y ago
> the poor person in question should So you are telling poor people how they should live their lives after all. The core point I made that set this whole thing off. It turns out this whole thing actually is an excuse to decide how po
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by feoren 1y ago
You will have a 3rd party agent, in your home, that you get your news and information from, controlled by a for-profit entity, literally conspiring against you, the product, to squeeze you for every cent in your bank account, to put you in
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by feoren 1y ago
> Agent, I need some vitamin D, can you find me the best deal for some rated in the top 5? Ok we found a bottle with a 30 day supply of <producer that paid us money to shill to you>, a Well-Known Highly Rated and Respected Awesome
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by feoren 1y ago
Correct: as soon as you start using an AI to buy things for you, influence over the choices that AI makes becomes an incredibly tantalizing fruit to be auctioned off. And you don't control that AI, a for-profit entity does. It doesn&#x
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by feoren 1y ago
Safety regulations are not why cars cost 3x more than 10 years ago. Emission standards have some impact, but the biggest cause is bog standard inflation and corporate greed.
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by feoren 1y ago
> That's not a luxury car So an "old classic" (I was thinking a Mercedes) stops being a luxury car as soon as a poor person inherits it? Do you see how nebulous these categories are? How easy it is to just move the line wh
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by feoren 1y ago
You're right that I have a general issue with how people use words versus how they think they use words. Yes, there are plenty of words that have this problem. People reach for definitions as some sort of argument-ender, without re
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by feoren 1y ago
Fair: it was rude. Moderation is hard and I respect what you do. But it's also a sentiment several other comments expressed. It's the conversation we're having. Can we have any discussions of code quality without making ass
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by feoren 1y ago
> Which of these is more essential for human life? ... So you do acknowledge the actual definition ... And you don't acknowledge the actual definition, or you would have been asking about price elasticity, not what is or is not es
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by feoren 1y ago
The category of "food" in economics is vast and absolutely includes things that humans don't need to live. Nobody dies if they can't buy clothing, except in very extreme cases, yet clothing is generally considered "
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by feoren 1y ago
> Or you could recognize that "essential" has a meaning in economic/financial terms I do not recognize that. That is the point of my argument. A large portion of economics is rich people trying to justify their own greed
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by feoren 1y ago
> What makes you think I'm not "a developer who strongly values brevity and clarity" Some pieces of evidence that make me think that: 1. The base rate of developers who write massively overly verbose code is about 99%, and

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