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by gameman144 1y ago
Some people like living in communities that look nice. It seems fair that you can opt-in to those rules by buying in an HOA, and if you do want to park on your lawn, buy elsewhere. (And I am not a fan of HOAs personally, so I do in fact l
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by gameman144 1y ago
I think this is one of those "works, but not at scale" situations. The law around protected classes is proof of this: if there's a racist business that won't serve you, startups could gain an advantage by serving you. Bu
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by gameman144 1y ago
> Still, at that point there is nothing worse than doing what you’re told for the last ninety seconds of your life and making things easy for the death squad This line was the point that invalidated the thesis for me. There are tons
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by gameman144 1y ago
Maybe that is what the parent meant, but that definition really dilutes the idea of responsible vs irresponsible choices to the point of meaninglessness, IMO. Donating to a food bank lowers the taxpayer burden of paying for food, and Americ
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by gameman144 1y ago
US avocado farmers don't, though (unless I've got the wrong farmers in mind).
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by gameman144 1y ago
But US-farmed avocados are the alternative to cartel-financing avocados. Am I missing something?
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by gameman144 1y ago
I don't think US American avocado farmers are committing war crimes.
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by gameman144 1y ago
> Does a jury of peers also scare the heck out of you? Honestly, yes. In the case of criminal culpability, it just happens to be the least scary of the available options of who gets to send someone to jail. For lawmaking, this isn't
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by gameman144 1y ago
This may show that I'm biased, but the idea of a randomized group of citizens making the law of the land scares the heck out of me. There is a non-trivial amount of nuance and compromise that goes in lawmaking. Now, the idea of electin
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by gameman144 1y ago
Wasteful R&D is still R&D, the company just presumably doesn't get a return on it. If the company does get a return, then the R&D wasn't wasteful. And regardless, the tax code doesn't and shouldn't (IMO) di
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by gameman144 1y ago
> Literally some people only communicate via one vendor with no interoperability. Doesn't iMessage fit this bill to a tee? (Where the vendor in question also locks you into the hardware, not just the software?)
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by gameman144 1y ago
Yeah, I agree, but I think that's true all the way up the chain -- just like everything's magic until you know how it works, we may say things "know" information until we understand the deterministic machinery they'
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by gameman144 1y ago
Does it though? I feel like there's a whole epistemological debate to be had, but if someone says "My toaster knows when the bread is burning", I don't think it's implying that there's cognition there. Or as a
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by gameman144 1y ago
I think the parent's argument is that wherever in your framework you're calling `doth_match` and then `doeth_thou`, you have a single function that's both deciding and acting. There has to be a function in your program that
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by gameman144 1y ago
I am not sure that the before case maps to the article's premise, and and I think your optimized SIMD version does line up with the recommendations of the article. For your example loop, the `if` statements are contingent on the data
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by gameman144 1y ago
Whoops, yep you are completely right and I was totally wrong! Bad day for my reading comprehension!
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by gameman144 1y ago
I don't love heavy-handed approaches like this, but it does seem very in line with small government politics. Essentially, this is saying that the executive can't create regulations that add regulations that limit what businesse
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by gameman144 1y ago
Totally, they have the ability to rein in the executive branch for sure! I think the parent's frustration is very justified (and might even be more valid -- there exists a clear path to not have tariffs imposed by edict, and our re
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by gameman144 1y ago
The parent isn't objecting to tariffs, as far as I can tell. They're objecting that tariffs, which are a power vested in Congress, are being driven by one man (the President) in the executive branch.
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by gameman144 1y ago
> Children are sponges of information and often their parents and various information outlets don't provide them with enough to satisfy their curiosity I don't think this is necessarily a bad thing, though -- a big part of pare
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by gameman144 1y ago
> the "art" is to be able to mate that animal. I'm assuming (hoping?) that this was supposed to be "tame"? If not, I've got some questions about Bruce Lee.
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by gameman144 1y ago
> If you’re asking if it would incentivize us to be more careful when introducing additional interactive functionality on a page, and how that functionality impacted performance and page speed, I expect it would. Not quite, I wasn't
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by gameman144 1y ago
> Hard to take him seriously when he doesn't himself pay more tax Why? Advocating for a change doesn't imply that you need to act like that change has been made already. For instance, I am a huge advocate for building out more
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by gameman144 1y ago
Wouldn't this make users pay for every possible feature they could ever use on a given site? For instance, in Google Maps I might use Street View 1% of the time, and the script for it is pretty bulky. In your ideal world, would I have
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by gameman144 1y ago
For me, I think it's the act of control and creation -- I can put the things I like together and try new thing and experiment with techniques or ingredients, whereas ordering from a restaurant I'll only be seeing the end results f
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by gameman144 1y ago
> Sure, at first you will want an AI agent to draft emails that you review and approve before sending. But later you will get bored of approving AI drafts and want another agent to review them automatically. This doesn't seem to me
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by gameman144 1y ago
> When the topic at hand is one group wanting to exercise power over another group, there can never be a resolution. I actually agree here, but only insofar as a resolution needs to be the ideal for both parties: a resolution could total
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by gameman144 1y ago
> There is no “both sides” here If there's ever a disagreement or debate about anything , then there are literally always two sides. You might disagree that the thing that the other side is prioritizing is as important (e.g. the
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by gameman144 2y ago
Oh totally, don't get me wrong, I hate the majority of ads (playing the "guess what this ad is even for" game reveals just how terrible most ads are.) The nuance for me is that sometimes (mostly online) I see ads for a tool
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by gameman144 2y ago
I'd be happy to give an example I gave below: rake hands. I hate the step after raking where you have to use the rake and one hand to carry the leaves to the bin. There was an ad for "rake hands" where you just hold a small h

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