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by foerbert 5y ago
I don't see how that's an argument against anti-price gouging laws though. It's not like price gouging solves that problem. Fundamentally a shortage is just never going to give perfect results. Even simplistic rationing is at
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by foerbert 5y ago
This broadly oversells their similarities. Not only is the analogy questionable with board members, but it also carries the implication that they are essentially the same sorts of organizations. They are not. If you really want to carry thi
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by foerbert 5y ago
And rationing can address that problem. These complex issues are never so simple.
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by foerbert 5y ago
I think the difference they are getting at is something akin to this. In one situation you run a stall and buy products from people to sell at that stall. At some point you use what you've learned doing this to sell your own product. I
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by foerbert 5y ago
I don't think I'd inherently read all the conflicting reports from people as obviously mis-attributed noise. I don't think there's strong enough reason to expect everybody to response similarly to the same diets. Not onl
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by foerbert 5y ago
This does not sound like my experience at all. I'm also vegetarian and lean towards being vegan when it's easy enough. And I can't remember the last time I actually bought dairy cheese at the market that wasn't on a prep
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by foerbert 5y ago
Is this ragging on inheritance? I don't see much in the way of value judgements mentioned. The closest is an assertion that doing things for performance is not bad, which seems more like a way of heading off comments like yours than an
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by foerbert 5y ago
Can't downvote even if I wanted to, but... > Lambda's model that they're understandably excited about here You seemingly imply their bizarre positivity to being forced to stop their deceptive practices is a merely a result
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by foerbert 5y ago
This response just appears disconnected from reality. It's like watching somebody talk about how getting punched in the face was a wonderful and purely positive experience. It's just baffling. There are options other than being we
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by foerbert 5y ago
I don't think it's particularly vengeful. I think it's a pretty natural result of the broken trust. Yeah, the authors are claiming those past 190 patches are fine... but they also essentially did the same thing when they subm
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by foerbert 5y ago
These would all be details of the agreement. Maybe they set up some kind of fund for these circumstances. Maybe they set some kind of rule allowing the seizing of the vessel, or who knows what. Maybe they go the other route and use their fr
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by foerbert 5y ago
Well, there's these things called "international agreements" where countries come together and agree to do certain things.
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by foerbert 5y ago
The post qualified that position with an exceptionally mild "most likely." A single counterexample is hardly a reason to criticize it as reductive. Unless you do this with the majority of the ads you see, and you believe this is a
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by foerbert 5y ago
I'm not sure about that. It certainly could, but it also certainly couldn't. I imagine being confidently incorrect is likely to produce a worse result than being unconfidently(?) incorrect, for example. Similarly, a less confident
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by foerbert 5y ago
That's fine. I wasn't taking a position. I was explaining why people were using Open Source as a comparison. There were also no claims about whatever definition of restrictive you were using. It was just a short statement that the
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by foerbert 5y ago
The whole issue arose from the claim that the Timescale license was designed to be less restrictive then the AGPL. That's why Open Source came up in the first place - pointing out that one of the basic reasons for the Timescale license
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by foerbert 5y ago
I probably lean more towards your side of things (or even just outright agree with you), though I can see how RMS's position isn't inherently inconsistent. There's a difference between the legal construct of copyright and the
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by foerbert 5y ago
I never said it was bad either. I was specifically taking umbrage with the reasoning provided - X does a lot of Y in their complex thing and gets good results, so lots of Y can't be bad - and tried to be clear about that.
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by foerbert 5y ago
This always gets said, and I don't exactly think it's untrue, but it carries this strong implication that the problem is that people are too cheap to pay. And I'm not sure that's entirely true. My own pet theory is that
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by foerbert 5y ago
Sure it could. You can't just isolate some portion of a highly complex system and claim that the isolated portion will be beneficial in any similar system. Just for an extreme example to make the point - say some diet included a poison
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by foerbert 5y ago
In defense of the original commenter, they mentioned they had a personal connection to the person paid to do that work. It seems plausible enough that that was the reason it was picked as an example, over other things they might have no per
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by foerbert 6y ago
I wonder if you could try to address this by limiting who can flag a given post. Even just doing it very naively and choosing, say, a fifth of your users for each post and only giving them the option to flag it might help significantly. It
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by foerbert 6y ago
I realize this is, at least most directly, a 'me' problem, but I can't remember the last time I had so much trouble trying to get a website to work with uMatrix. I've given up twice now, to be honest.
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by foerbert 6y ago
Naively that doesn't seem like a major problem. I'd see it as largely setting up a bunch of constraints and methods to generate candidate solutions - after the initial image processing, obviously.
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by foerbert 6y ago
Non-twitter link, in case that would have been useful for anybody else. https://pluralistic.net/2020/11/05/gotta-be-a-pony-under-the...
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by foerbert 6y ago
I think that likely shows the problem, rather than anything else. (I'm going to assume you mean that number nationwide) 75%, or roughly so, nationwide would be one thing if it was evenly distributed. But as you noted, the issue is tied
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by foerbert 6y ago
Well, particularly in the current situation where masks somehow became a political hill to die on, I think you are underselling the matter some. It's a bit difficult to feel all that neighborly or friendly with people adamant that they
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by foerbert 6y ago
Considering the GPU implementation is TensorFlow, I think it's very safe to assume the GPU implementation is the far more optimized one.
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by foerbert 6y ago
I think the reason you're getting so many questions about the 'toy' statement is that often toy programs are simple in large part because they omit handling complex or difficult cases. I don't think I've ever heard
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by foerbert 6y ago
Accesses - pointers - are automatically nulled when declared. So you won't silently screw up who-knows-what with an uninitialized access, though yeah, it's not perfectly safe.

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