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by geofft 5y ago
But that point doesn't support the message you're trying to say. Suppose I were to say "Elbonia is a dangerous lawless country, where corruption abounds and you're not safe on the streets," and you were to respond b
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by geofft 5y ago
I'm now very curious about the stories behind all of these. Did someone attempt to enter the EU with a Byzantine Empire passport?? What did it even look like?
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by geofft 5y ago
But the entire value proposition of cryptocurrency is how difficult it is to regulate via traditional law enforcement mechanisms. Which can be used for good, of course - the standard example being things like "transferring money acro
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by geofft 5y ago
The problem is that that completely hiding it in the runtime has to be baked into the language's design, or at the least you have to have designed your language in a way that makes it easy (Haskell is a good example here - because func
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by geofft 5y ago
In your longer response https://postgresql.fund/blog/postgres-core-team-attacks-post... you say that the advantage of the Fundación over the core team is that it is protects against PostgreSQL being acquired: > In
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by geofft 5y ago
It is because children are too easily influenced that they need access to the unrestricted internet. To pick what is perhaps a trite example at this point - yet very real - a child experiencing same-sex attraction can be easily influenced
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by geofft 5y ago
Where are you basing this on? In public schools in the US (at least in my hometown in Louisiana), schoolteachers don't get assistants of any sort. You get the occasional "student teacher," who is training to become a schoolte
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by geofft 5y ago
This is like saying that HTTPS is just security by obscurity because you have to keep the private key secret. The distinction between anecdotes and data is whether you gather the information in a structured and reliable way. I would, in all
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by geofft 5y ago
Absolutely! I started a scheduled call for a weekly "monorepo morning tea" for people interested in the mechanics of our monorepo and how we build/version/distribute software in-house. No agenda, no commitment, the meet
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by geofft 5y ago
No, I addressed that. Ideally you stop the trolley or you untie people from the tracks. But if you can't, you have to choose where the trolley goes. Ideally we reopen the floors and have sufficient capacity to treat everyone. But if yo
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by geofft 5y ago
There's no degeneracy here. It's a perfectly defensible line of moral reasoning. The constraint is, there simply is not enough capacity to treat everyone. If there was, there would be no problem. So should you prioritize care for
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by geofft 5y ago
From the link you provide: > In the midst of a pandemic, the advice from medical professionals to “stay home, save lives” may be preventing patients from seeking medical care when symptoms of stroke arise due to fear of contracting COVI
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by geofft 5y ago
Is there data about how much of the staffing shortage is due to staff refusing to take a (non-ezperimental) vaccine, vs. staff deciding they'd rather have a job that doesn't expose them to covid every day, vs. staff that have died
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by geofft 5y ago
I mean, the party has to stand for something, otherwise it's not a party anymore. Imagine a Republican candidate who wanted to increase funding to Planned Parenthood and also repeal the Second Amendment. Both are defensible ideas, but
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by geofft 5y ago
The whole context here is that Apple strongly discourages its employees from having a separate work and personal phone.
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by geofft 5y ago
There's no legal issue with using it yourself. Debian's problem is that, as a distro, they are creating a single product - the Debian operating system. Debian could even ship you something that compiles perf against libbfd on your
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by geofft 5y ago
How do you generate the sequence H_0, H_1, ...? Specifically, is there a Turing machine G that can generate H_0, H_1, ..., onwards, perhaps taking in some input along the way? If so, then you can construct a self-contained Turing machine Z
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by geofft 5y ago
Is Microsoft not already doing that? My much-smaller-than-MS employer has been requiring either (self-attested) vaccination or weekly tests for people voluntarily returning to the office.
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by geofft 5y ago
Suppose the algorithm could update itself with new information. Then you can formulate it in one of two ways: 1. The process of updating the algorithm can, itself, be described by a Turing machine. Think of it like an emulator / debugg
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by geofft 5y ago
That's not self-hosting. That's getting services from a third-party organization that happens to be a non-profit. The only difference between that and GitHub is that GitHub is a for-profit company, which setup and maintain service
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by geofft 5y ago
> Because things are getting more complicated under the hood but seem "easier" to understand (because we're adding piles of abstractions on top of piles of abstractions), fewer people tend to take the time to create thing
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by geofft 5y ago
You can do this with the following crappy cronjob (monitoring the machine where your cronjobs run is left as an exercise to the reader / is why you'd want to pay someone to deal with it): 0 0 * * * openssl s_client -showcert
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by geofft 5y ago
The plugin is potentially a derivative work of both Yosys and GHDL, but that's fine - it's possible to comply with the requirements of both the MIT license and the GPLv2 at the same time. The resulting work is GPLv2-licensed. (To
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by geofft 5y ago
That's my point exactly. Do you think Galileo thought there was room for dissent about whether the earth moved? Did he famously say " Eppur si muove, forse "? There's no room for dissent. There's room for argument,
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by geofft 5y ago
By whom? It's a pandemic, it affects everyone. It's right there in the name. I'm fully vaccinated, and I spent half an hour at a bank yesterday (wearing an N95) and I'm voluntarily quarantining for two weeks. It's a
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by geofft 5y ago
Are there actually concrete risks to children, or is this a political pressure thing ( if the vaccine hurts children, then it will blow up badly in the FDA's faces if they approve it, so they're being hesitant)? That is, are the
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by geofft 5y ago
That is generally how arguments about claims of fact work, yes. If you genuinely believe that, say, the earth is round, then your position isn't going to be that the earth is probably round but there are valid reasons to believe otherw
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by geofft 5y ago
I am saying they changed their minds in response to new information. It's a sign of maturity, I have no idea why we wouldn't want to say that.
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by geofft 5y ago
The executive summary says: > The lessons from history should be kept in mind whenever we are told by government officials that “tough,” liberty-limiting actions are needed to protect us from dangerous diseases. Specifically: > •
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by geofft 5y ago
Unfortunately, my iPhone SE 1st gen is still doing really well, and will be supported by iOS 15, and it's hard to justify ~$800 on a new phone when my current one was $300. I'm considering buying a 12 Mini if the price drops after

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