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by gwright 4y ago
I struggle to understand this type of comment. You can't respond to the bad guys with a plea for them to stop what they are doing because you would rather spend the money on something else. That isn't to say that battles should no
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by gwright 4y ago
I once asked a friend who litigates patent infringement cases how a jury could possibly come to an informed decision on these cases. He said that it is definitely a challenge but that juries are pretty good at discerning when someone is lyi
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by gwright 4y ago
That doesn't sound like "arbitrary". In fact it sounds very "reasoned".
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by gwright 4y ago
> But we should strive for fairly statistically equivalent outcomes, and we aren’t close, even along gender lines. Why do you think this? Why do you think that genders have equal preferences, for example? What about different age groups
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by gwright 4y ago
I'm having a hard time understanding what you are trying to say here. I would assert though that in a world of unique individuals there won't ever be "equal outcomes" regardless of the distribution and nature of opportun
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by gwright 4y ago
> I'm having a hard time imagining a society with unequal outcomes but equal opportunity That is only confusing if you also assume that all people have equal skills, desires, preferences, physical characteristics and so on. They don
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by gwright 4y ago
I don't see the parent comment communicating those ideas. There is no statement in the comment that there is currently "some semblance of equality of opportunity" only that "most humans would agree striving for equal opp
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by gwright 4y ago
> It's a classic market failure If you mean classic "free" market failure, then I would disagree. The housing market is replete with constraints that are imposed by government. I think it is more accurate to say that it is
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by gwright 4y ago
There is no "flip side" to my point. My point was that mob behavior is ugly. Doesn't matter if it is a woke mob or a religious mob or a racist mob or any other kind of mob.
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by gwright 4y ago
People have lost their jobs, gotten death threats, had personal information shared, been swatted, and so on when the mob didn't like what you said on Twitter (or Facebook or ...).
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by gwright 4y ago
> it wouldn't be a free speech issue It really hinges on what you mean by the phrase "free speech" when there is no clear context. It is true that in the context of US lawmaking, the free speech rights specified in the 1st
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by gwright 4y ago
Makes me think of Plan 9 and its almost religious use of the 9P protocol to control what resources are available to a process. Or perhaps the Erlang VM with communication via messages. Composing systems in this way is very different than ad
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by gwright 5y ago
> in the US that for a significant amount of the population Any reason to think this is a distinctly US phenomena as opposed to a more widespread phenomena?
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by gwright 5y ago
If someone takes out a loan, goes to school, and then has to pay off the loan is that also "indentured servitude" in your mind? It just seems like two different ways to finance a purchase (training) that has a future value. The IS
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by gwright 5y ago
From the article: > Option 2: use strong types, An alternative to putting the unit in the name, is to use stronger types than integers or floats. For example, we might use a duration type
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by gwright 5y ago
> For better or worse, climate change will put an end to the age of mankind What are you talking about? Climate change, as predicted in the IPCC reports at least, don't even come close to describing the demise of mankind. That sort
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by gwright 5y ago
I think the point is that the power is also decentralized making it harder (not impossible) for those type of people to gain control over others.
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by gwright 5y ago
> For instance, it's very difficult to uproot your life and move to a different state. Even harder to uproot your life and move away from a powerful national government.
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by gwright 5y ago
> It’d help if the rest of the world tried to aggressively prevent brain drain What does that mean? Are you suggesting that countries should control where their citizens choose to work/live?
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by gwright 5y ago
In most of these types of salary surveys I've seen they report a single average salary for a position. I wish they would break that down by years of experience -- probably have to pay for the "full report" to get that level o
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by gwright 5y ago
It doesn't seem like this sort of comparison is particularly useful. Never was anyone presented with the decision to pick between those two items for where to spend the next $10 billion. So $10 billion on Web vs $10 billion split betw
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by gwright 5y ago
> It’s clearly monopolistic behavior to interlink your service with a basic infrastructure service Not very clear at all, IMHO. Would you prefer that iMessage conversations didn't "interlink" with SMS recipients? Is that
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by gwright 5y ago
The Android SDK is huge. If you view learning that framework as significantly easier than learning Rails, you're a better programmer than I.
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by gwright 5y ago
That seems like a silly reason -- there are lots more perfectly reasonable legal/security reasons to not have "early access" though.
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by gwright 5y ago
FWIW It seems to me your comment about Rails is a more general comment re: frameworks. Learning a language/runtime takes some effort but much less, IMHO, than learning a framework. Doesn't matter if that is Rails, Django, Ember,
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by gwright 5y ago
I don't think that dividends are typically coupled to inflation. The return on an investment (at least via stock ownership) includes dividends + asset appreciation, right? I would expect the combination to be related to inflation but
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by gwright 5y ago
I don't think the units are correct here. My observation has been that even reputable news sources seem to go all wonky with energy units. I believe the appropriate units for consideration would be GWh = gigawatt-hours. This article,
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by gwright 5y ago
I don't think that is reasonable as an interpretation because grid-scale energy storage doesn't yet exist. An assertion that "renewables and electrification" solves our energy problems is just circular reasoning. It req
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by gwright 5y ago
That article summary says: > Yet even in systems which meet >90% of demand, hundreds of hours of unmet demand may occur annually. and > satisfy countries’ electricity demand in 72–91% of hours (83–94% by adding 12 h of storage). S
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by gwright 5y ago
> We only need about 3 hours worth of storage This doesn't align with the analysis that I've seen. For example in this post ( https://www.manhattancontrarian.com/the-disastrous-economics... ) the analysis shows

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