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by foerbert 5y ago
This is just a blind guess, but the difference may come when talking about impossibilities and/or extreme improbabilities. Empirically there might not be a way to distinguish between actually impossible and merely unobserved/impro
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by foerbert 5y ago
Despite completely disagreeing with you on the first point, I've had some of the same experience too. Some years ago when I was going through languages frequently, I was pretty interested in it for a bit, but found it kind of hard to g
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by foerbert 5y ago
This, alone, is not the full picture. It's trivially easy to get into utter absurdity. What if an employer decides they can only identify people by surgically grafting special ID cards to their foreheads? There is - obviously - more a
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by foerbert 5y ago
I don't think it's quite fair to label it content-agnostic. I mean it sort of technically is, but practically it isn't. By pushing 'engagement' at all costs, it's essentially inevitable that all the terrible be
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by foerbert 5y ago
Again, customers do not need to pay for all cost increases. Businesses are not non-profits. They take costs, and then some. The amount of "and then some" is variable. Cost increases that do not exceed "and then some" do
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by foerbert 5y ago
This has been true of many recent movements. I wish I knew what was behind it. I'm sure it can be explained by humans being humans, but part of me can't help but wonder if it isn't intentional.
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by foerbert 5y ago
I don't think this reduces down that far. That's part of it, but it's not all of it. Even if this is true, why is it true? Why are these businesses getting so much less return per employee? Is the only solution to sacrifice w
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by foerbert 5y ago
Only if the company is barely hanging on as is. If they're profitable, they still have room to increase wages. There is no law out there saying a company has to make as much or more money this year than last year.
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by foerbert 5y ago
You say it like it's so easy. It's not. The reality is many (maybe even most?) articles - even ones from incredibly openly biased sources - do this. It's often difficult to make many meaningful attacks on a proposed law witho
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by foerbert 5y ago
Only if you believe those drafting that opinion actually lived through polio, smallpox, and the Spanish flu. Otherwise, yes, it was absolutely abstract to them. Just because you're dealing with a real event or real data doesn't me
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by foerbert 5y ago
What balance are you talking about? I've never been able to figure it out. Are we talking just providing an equal number of sentences from the perspective of each major party? How do we decide which parties get included, here? Do we in
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by foerbert 5y ago
I suspect they are just referring to the basic social fabric, so to speak. If everybody has a variety of mostly trustworthy sources that act as implicit or explicit verifiers of each other, then everybody has a fairly robust ability to gath
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by foerbert 5y ago
I don't get why this is downvoted. There is a huge difference between, say, a court order or other force-backed request and a requirement in a bidding process. It doesn't absolve the NSA of any guilt here either, but this is not a
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by foerbert 5y ago
Often? The Army Corps of Engineers had a budget of less than $8B in 2021. The Army Corps of Engineers has three main missions, one of which is the civil side of things. I'm not sure how it breaks down budget-wise though. But saying mon
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by foerbert 5y ago
It is good, thanks!
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by foerbert 5y ago
Well, throw me in the bucket of people who've been lost by that decision. Sounds potentially interesting, but I'm by no means invested enough already to go through the whole account creation thing just to try it.
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by foerbert 5y ago
Is there anybody except Wallmart who will say it's a good thing when the only store in an entire town is Wallmart itself? Why are we trying to hold Apple to standards that we know are bad, but just happen to exist in the real world any
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by foerbert 5y ago
What does the price of a cone in relation to the price of a burger have to do with a cone being a loss leader or not? The price of a burger has absolutely nothing to do with their costs on the cone. If the cone is profitable to sell, then i
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by foerbert 5y ago
I'm not sure Netflix would agree that a low monthly subscription is not enough to fund TV and movie development, but regardless... Fairly recently I saw a very interesting proposal for this. The basic idea was to base it off of how art
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by foerbert 5y ago
I don't buy this line of reasoning. It doesn't explain the vast majority of ads. Most ads you've seen are for products you - and everybody else - knows about already. They aren't informing anybody of anything. We also do
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by foerbert 5y ago
Yup. I find it amazing the quoted myth lives on. It doesn't even make sense. How many problems do most people have that can be solved with an existing product they are unaware of? The numbers can't be very high. How do you explain
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by foerbert 5y ago
The answer here is even in the article title. Microplastics. Nobody is talking about chunks of plastic you can see, or feel, directly.
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by foerbert 5y ago
I can understand your hesitancy, but I think in practice I strongly disagree. A big part of why I like Ada so much is the fact it lets me hold such a strong mental model of the program. I can specify quite a bit about how it should all work
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by foerbert 5y ago
"begin" and "end" are probably the most arguable, but in the context of everything else being a real-word keyword I think they make sense. Ada was not my first language, and I was a little dubious about the keywords at f
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by foerbert 5y ago
I suppose so, but this sort of problem has been pretty well documented as actually being a thing. I was also referring more to techie-type arenas, I don't know that I've seen much about this so specifically recently in major media
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by foerbert 5y ago
I'm not sure how you read that as them asking for a literal algorithm (never mind a perfect one). They're talking to the courts, and they literally used the phrase "analytical framework." They're clearly asking for
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by foerbert 5y ago
I'm not sure why you're finding this particularly doubt-wowrthy. Tesla autopilot doesn't have the most amazingly clean history - particularly when it comes to this exact sort of situation. It does not handle stationary obstac
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by foerbert 5y ago
If you're willing and able to make everything from scratch, nothing. But if you're not, or can't... well. Simple lack of availability will be a major hurdle.
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by foerbert 5y ago
Part of the problem is that the actual impact of vulnerabilities in the program is often divorced from it's actual purpose. A simple TODO list that allows RCE is one example. It also has a wide variety of impact based on the user - is
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by foerbert 5y ago
Maybe it be a little more accurate to say not that you hate gravity but having something under your feet in that case, but I think the point was clear enough. Gravity is the thing that causes the consequences of stepping off the overpass. I

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