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by gizmo 3y ago
I'm not sure I believe incarcerated people can make free choices. And I would assume that legislators would push towards harsher and harsher sentences to incentivize prisoners to "choose" sterilization if they ever want to se
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by gizmo 3y ago
You mention downvotes which suggests you understand forced/incentivized sterilization has a sordid history of eugenics. Yet, you make no effort to explain why your proposal isn’t eugenicist.
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by gizmo 3y ago
You probably just excrete excess calories, where other people with your caloric intake would store the excess calories as fat. Also you might become restless when you eat too much and you’ll instinctively start shaking your legs even when s
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by gizmo 3y ago
He acknowledges externalities exist, i.e. you can't have a functioning market when the incentives are wrong, like with pollution. But in those cases where you do have market forces he argues that the market should set the prices with m
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by gizmo 3y ago
People get upset because companies boast about being a meritocracy and then take the (pragmatic?) road of hiring people they already know, and promoting those people they enjoy hanging out with. The game being somewhat rigged would be a lot
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by gizmo 3y ago
Read the micro 101 and macro 101 textbooks used by good universities. Principles of Economics by Taylor is one of the common textbooks. Macroeconomics by Mankiw is another one. Intro courses on any subject tend to be very accessible to layp
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by gizmo 3y ago
Thomas Sowell is very unserious. You can also find persuasively written texts that argue that the earth is flat, that cell phone towers give you cancer, that democracy is a mistake, or that pyramids were built by aliens. And people who read
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by gizmo 3y ago
Two hatches? One opens from the inside one opens from the outside? I'm sure there are other solutions. But as somebody else already pointed out: even if you get out in the middle of the ocean you're in real trouble, which makes th
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by gizmo 3y ago
Your accountant is 100% wrong. If you buy a computer and use it 20% for work and 80% for hobby stuff or gaming then you can deduct it for 20%. That's the law. This takes 30 seconds to google and your refusal to do so is mystifying beca
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by gizmo 3y ago
You’ll find you’re not the first person who has discovered that you can cheat on your taxes by expensing personal purchases and by deducting things you are explicitly not allowed to deduct. The government’s inability to cheaply audit people
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by gizmo 3y ago
He was a cowboy and a bit of a crook, but he’s in prison because he made enemies of powerful people not because he hurt society with his actions. His enemies have themselves committed many crimes but they will never see the inside of a cell
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by gizmo 3y ago
My prompts are pretty basic but also I have to spell everything out or the output will be wrong. I can poke and prod until I get something approximately correct, but I have to give step by step instructions for the simplest things like you
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by gizmo 3y ago
I think it’s more like truck drivers panicking in 1995 they will soon be obsolete after having seen the first self-driving demo. Truck drivers will get automated away eventually, but not today and not next year. Self-driving systems get bet
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by gizmo 3y ago
Today, chatGPT can do zero percent 0% of the actual programming I do. I use chatGPT to find a library function or to find command line options and other simple stuff. But actual programming? ChatGPT can only write completely trivial scaffol
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by gizmo 3y ago
Whenever you feel this kind of panic you should ask yourself how F’d you are relative to the general population. AI will shake things up for sure, but has it ever been the case that smart, educated, experienced people collectively got hurt
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by gizmo 3y ago
Stiffing your cleaning staff is a real nasty thing to do. Moral condemnation is entirely justified.
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by gizmo 3y ago
I mean he’s not even trying to hide it: > The progressive, theologically liberal types, backed by institutional support and intent on dispensing their vision of social justice, have come to resemble the nasty money-changers in the temple
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by gizmo 3y ago
No no no. The problem was that talking about a lab leak in any way was considered deplorable. So much so that the only people who still dared to speak about the lab leak in public were outcasts, lunatics, and people who didn't have a r
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by gizmo 3y ago
Frankly, I think efforts like these are misguided. We are collectively rewriting desktop apps to run in the browser, where not only it runs 50x slower than on the desktop, but all data has to be downloaded time and again from servers. The a
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by gizmo 3y ago
I think there is a certain kind of programmer who enjoys the aesthetics of higher-kinded types, and after having made the investment to truly grok them, wants these HKTs to also be useful in practice. I don’t think the benefit ever material
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by gizmo 3y ago
You can have a separate load check endpoint (doesn’t even need tls) for clients to check if the client can go ahead with a websocket (re-)connect. The load status check can be served directly by the web server from memory and the connection
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by gizmo 3y ago
No, the primary use is in dusty industrial environments where regular fans get clogged up. Noise currently is worse than regular fans because it's higher pitched.
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by gizmo 3y ago
In C++ projects you see the verbose version a lot, because it's much faster to set a breakpoint on a statement than on a conditional expression. It's really annoying to repeatedly stop debugging, add the redundant return statement
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by gizmo 3y ago
Cheating is extremely common, so much so that students cheat during an ethics exam . People overwhelmingly find justifications for their actions, and cheaters are no exception. From the comments in this thread you can draw the obvious conc
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by gizmo 3y ago
Those are some very aggressive price hikes. At their scale, 500m users, they could charge very little and still make a profit. Also, they don’t have to invest that much in engineering anymore for a 15 year old (?) product. My guess is tha
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by gizmo 3y ago
The median Peloton owner bought a $1500 clothes rack. Your experience -- while laudable -- isn't representative.
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by gizmo 3y ago
What are the long term prospects of a company like peloton? It's a bike + an iPad. Both components are commodities, and the price-insensitive segment of the market is too small to sustain a big business. It's easy to hate on manag
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by gizmo 3y ago
Anecdotally, comments like yours come from people with major anxiety disorders. So I'm not surprised to find that just last week you wrote: > So ever since lockdown I've pretty much spend like 18 hours a day on my bed: I sleep
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by gizmo 3y ago
Going on vacation to Europe is a totally reasonable thing to do. Don’t let people guilt you into believing it’s an outrageously selfish act that contributes to the destruction of our planet. Millions of people listen to Tim Ferriss’ podcast
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by gizmo 3y ago
Database startups really struggle because they compete with free and most database users need very little from their database. Enterprise customers do have advanced needs occasionally, but often it’s just about hoarding data or tracking use

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