gameman144

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by gameman144 2y ago
Reducing waste is a great option! I'm not of the opinion that raising taxes is some objectively correct solution or anything, my personal viewpoint is just that taxing more across the board to invest in infrastructure and long-term eco
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by gameman144 2y ago
What I don't get is how this could possibly pass constitutional muster. If this ban is permissible, what's to stop any speech platform from being banned on security grounds?
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by gameman144 2y ago
> Yet I don't need to wonder whether a normal tax rate on billionaires would do even more for the libraries. I agree that tax rates should be higher, but I have absolutely no faith that politicians will do a better job stewarding mo
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by gameman144 2y ago
It's always fair to criticize, but it's also very plausible that Carnegie paid for buildings instead of books so that his charity would improve things for the longer term. Also, as long as the outcomes are good, I personally don&#
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by gameman144 2y ago
> The whole point of a democracy is that the people are the priority This is not the point of democracy. The point of democracy is that the priorities of the people are the priority. For instance, it is entirely possible to have a demo
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by gameman144 2y ago
Wait, do we want to live in that kind of democracy? Literally the whole reason that I love democracy is it lets the people set the rules, then gets out of the way and lets people do their thing. I could not disagree more strongly with the
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by gameman144 2y ago
Is every computation worth memoizing? I can think of very few computations I do that others would care about, and in those cases there's already a much more efficient caching layer fronting the data anyway.
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by gameman144 3y ago
> I don't care that some people round here squirm when the C word is criticised I am probably one of the staunchest defenders of capitalism, but I totally agree with your stance here. Capitalism is a really really good mechanism f
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by gameman144 3y ago
Are boom/bust cycles unique to capitalism? China is going through a pretty big bust and is hardly a capitalist role model.
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by gameman144 3y ago
As a general rule, "if you don't like this rule we're adding, don't take advantage of it" is a pretty terrible argument. It's absolutely fair to say that a rule shouldn't be implemented while also acknow
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by gameman144 3y ago
The total amount of money being the same doesn't imply that there would be no inflation. The total demand being the same (for a given supply) would be what you'd need there. If you give the rich more money, they're not like
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by gameman144 3y ago
Agreed, I'm not arguing that video game addiction is good -- it's not. I'm saying that if a parent doesn't have the ability to enforce rules (whether by lack of ability, or because they're too busy supporting the fa
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by gameman144 3y ago
Yeah, I get that completely. In those cases, video games are a comparatively harmless thing for children with no supervision to opt into.
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by gameman144 3y ago
Interesting, I'm super opposed to that! Parents who are able to exercise some control over their children's activities already enforce these limits, and parents who can't could do far worse than kids playing video games.
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by gameman144 3y ago
What would you imagine an appropriate reward for such efforts would be, other than intrinsic ones?
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by gameman144 3y ago
I think one distinction is that subscriptions often denote "I like your work, keep doing that", whereas one-off payments denote "I liked this one thing, I'll pay you for it" The former can be assumed to be a lot mor
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by gameman144 3y ago
This is an interesting definition to me. Any library is going up make implementation-specific assumptions, so unless you're using a library that's purely an interface that multiple implementations conform to (e.g. SQL, and even th
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by gameman144 3y ago
One really cool mechanism I didn't see listed there (at least directly) was riboswitches. Essentially, a segment of mRNA with a binding site for a molecule. Ribosomes that are transcribing the RNA will then branch into two separate f
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by gameman144 3y ago
Wasn't the whole victory there because cigarettes/vapes can't be sold to minors? It seems really hard to define a firm line between making an addictive product and making a product that people really use a lot because it&#x27
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by gameman144 3y ago
As far as I can tell, the CDC is also stating an is-a relationship: > an initialism is an acronym that is pronounced as individual letters
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by gameman144 3y ago
Wait, am I crazy or are these two articles saying the exact opposite thing about which class is the parent one? The CDC one seems to say that initialisms are a class of acronym, but the Writers Digest one says acronyms are a class of initia
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by gameman144 3y ago
Did anything actually force the issue though? The comment said that they closed the other six doors, but I don't see any implication that people pushed back in any way that improved the new two-door situation.
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by gameman144 3y ago
> This is just being cheap and rather foolish. If preferring not to give an additional $60k as a tip is considered cheap, then call me Mr. Scrooge.
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by gameman144 3y ago
In this calendar system, though, the third Saturday in September would always be the same day of the week, so it would keep you from celebrating in that format.
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by gameman144 3y ago
This is a pretty strong take. I'd be curious whether you believe that education is inherently indoctrination, or whether all current education approaches are just also indoctrinating? I disagree on both counts, but it seems like the
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by gameman144 3y ago
I agree that that's the hope. One also has to consider, though, that instead of transitioning from homeless to housed, the infusion of money might transition some folks from homeless to homeless with a budget to fuel addictions.
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by gameman144 3y ago
If the goal is to reduce the rate of negative outcomes for youth aging out of foster care, though, aren't the ones with mental health or addiction problems exactly the ones who would need help the most?
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by gameman144 3y ago
Your linked article doesn't propose that the earning potential of college graduates isn't higher, it just states that people think the tuition price might not be worth it. College educated adults absolutely have a substantially
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by gameman144 3y ago
Isn't that expected since 'y' is still non-const though? In your example, I'd expect 'x' to not escape, since a const-cast of it is undefined.
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by gameman144 3y ago
The analogy here isn't quite the same though: you can pledge allegiance, but you aren't required to. A bill saying that you are now required would be a change in obligations, and patriotic citizens might still oppose that. This

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