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by gridlockd 6y ago
Considering how casually the word "Nazi" is thrown around these days, perhaps that should indeed be a matter of concern.
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by gridlockd 6y ago
If Facebook becomes a publisher and not merely a conduit of speech, it must simultaneously be legally liable for what it publishes.
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by gridlockd 6y ago
> This heavy-handedness isn't an encroachment on free speech but a necessary impediment to keep the spirit of free speech and free society intact, one where the tolerant voices aren't drained out by the relentlessness and irrat
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by gridlockd 6y ago
It's curious that of the many actual genocides that have been well-documented since WWII, you happen to pick these two examples that aren't genocides. It seems like most genocides just don't get enough publicity.
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by gridlockd 6y ago
> It was generated by the hardware division. These are the registers that are authorized for disclosure in the open-source driver by the AMD employed open-source driver developers. ...which is arguably not compatible with the GPL: &quot
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by gridlockd 6y ago
Not sure what you mean, the C# compiler source code I looked at seems to be using a lot of mutable data structures. Of course immutable data structures, like training wheels, make some things easier. You don't have to worry about certa
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by gridlockd 6y ago
I don't think anybody has ever shipped anything like what you propose to simulate a real-time game, but if they did, it would be more of a curiosity. For one, the client must not be able to tell the server "what happened" (e.
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by gridlockd 6y ago
There are no points in the real world, the are things, like chairs. In the real world, if you were to move a chair to the right, the natural way to do it would not be to build the same kind of chair at the desired coordinate and then, upo
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by gridlockd 6y ago
"Objects containing the same values should be equal by default." No. This breaks down as soon as you have references to other objects in your objects. If you compare by reference, you probably don't get what you want. If yo
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by gridlockd 6y ago
You disregard the option of simply not doing business. If products and services become more expensive, demand tends to go down, so you end up at square one in terms of income. There is some wiggle room here and not all prices are elastic
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by gridlockd 6y ago
> The "minimum wage" specifically is a policy designed to put a floor under the standard of living of people whose market wages in the economy would provide a standard of living below what the society considers humane. Some soc
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by gridlockd 6y ago
These "laws and regulations" still apply to the agency that hires those workers. You're simply paying for them to carry the risk. You can argue that such agencies are more likely to disregard laws and regulations, but how wou
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by gridlockd 6y ago
> I think it has to do with wages. It doesn't, you're literally paying a middleman to take away the risk and hassle of hiring an employee. That's the added value here. Otherwise, you could just hire the worker directly f
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by gridlockd 6y ago
> The minimum wage does not naturally rise The minimum amount of money you have to pay for someone to show up for any job rises (and falls) alongside demand for labor in the broader economy. > Under our current system that heavily fav
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by gridlockd 6y ago
So we both agree that geographic proximity alone is not a good factor to compare by? Good. It then makes sense to compare Sweden against all other European countries instead of just those few neighboring countries.
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by gridlockd 6y ago
You are correct, my bad.
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by gridlockd 6y ago
The preprocessor doesn't remove comments and at least in clang, comments are parsed into the AST.
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by gridlockd 6y ago
Running on third-party hardware is leveraging comparative advantage. Like Itanium, POWER is more expensive and there are very few reasons you would want to run on it. Definitely not a good fit for Cloud. Full vertical integration isn&#x27
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by gridlockd 6y ago
> If let unchecked, many millions of people would be dead - this has been avoided only by control measures, and we're not past it yet. This is an unfalsifiable claim, considering that virtually every country has done something to
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by gridlockd 6y ago
> Correct, and that correlates neatly with the number of recorded cases of covid19. Not quite. The number of recorded cases in the UK from one month ago is equal to the number of recorded cases at the height of the first wave, yet the fa
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by gridlockd 6y ago
You are cherry-picking countries based on geographic proximity, but that's not really a meaningful factor. Germany is right next to France, France had the stricter lockdown, yet Germany has no excess mortality . Meanwhile, Norway has
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by gridlockd 6y ago
The confusion lies in "just the flu". Actual Influenza is in fact quite dangerous. However, we need to compare COVID-19 to Influenza to get some perspective. I would argue that Influenza is worse than COVID, for the simple reaso
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by gridlockd 6y ago
Doesn't seem right to me. Euromomo does show a bump for Sweden, though it is still smaller than some other countries that did lockdowns: https://www.euromomo.eu/graphs-and-maps Also, several countries show no excess mo
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by gridlockd 6y ago
Some things to consider from looking at the raw data: The 5-year average minimum of deaths from "Influenza and pneumonia" is about 50 cases per day. The average for 2020 is about half that. Adding up COVID fatalities and "Inf
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by gridlockd 6y ago
> Your comment about awkwardness/inability to hold a conversation doesn't strike true either. Rather, I felt like no one else could hold a conversation. If you believe the problem is with "everyone else", the problem
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by gridlockd 6y ago
There are a lot more books sold on speculative fiction than real astronomical insights. Clearly, such speculation serves a purpose and must therefore be considered useful.
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by gridlockd 6y ago
Alright, if you want to be nitpicky, they had decades to devise a reform, years to agree on it within the party, and months to actually get it passed. It eventually did pass and it wasn't repealed. > As to your "We effectively
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by gridlockd 6y ago
> Datacenters are rediculously efficient (bigger ones even more so) compared to alternatives. Only if you ignore the alternative of not doing something. Parkinson's law tells me there's a lot of strictly unnecessary things ru
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by gridlockd 6y ago
If you let the government "negotiate" prices, that is not a free-market solution. Furthermore, Medicaid/Medicare is itself not a free-market solution and most Americans do not qualify for it. In fact, hospitals are running hu
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by gridlockd 6y ago
Fair enough, but with that proposal you have the FDA and pharmaceutical companies positioned against you. Price controls - at least with a Democratic administration - are more realistic, because the FDA doesn't care about that and th

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