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by habnds 7y ago
Comparing C to python, the lack of explicit memory management and pointers in python make it hard to understand what the machine is actually doing compared to writing in C. Are there equivalent examples between C and assembler? What sort of
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by habnds 7y ago
Wouldn't that be "optimized" for as much as any other? Seems like google wants non-SEO results as much as us, if only so that advertisers are forced to spend their money directly with Google.
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by habnds 7y ago
>It’s important to emphasize that the lead-crime hypothesis doesn’t claim that lead is solely responsible for crime. It primarily explains only one thing: the huge rise in crime of the 70s and 80s and the equally huge—and completely unex
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by habnds 7y ago
really? Stuff like hard hats or steel toes or hi-viz clothing isn't likely to pay off? What makes you say that?
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by habnds 7y ago
Right, because everyone knows that smoking is a totally objective, non-manipulated conversation about the simple facts of a straightforward situation. In both cases, powerful parties have a huge incentive to use semantics to excuse the blam
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by habnds 7y ago
just trolling
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by habnds 7y ago
yes sure, you could individually start a movement to redefine the meaning of a word, Frindle-style, but here, today, in our society, the words "respiratory failure" do not mean the same thing as "poisoned by air pollution&quo
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by habnds 7y ago
no reasonable person would agree that it's correct to call a gunshot wound "circulatory failure" because that's not what society has agreed that those words mean. You can decide personally that they mean something differ
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by habnds 7y ago
That's like saying someone who bleeds out after being shot died of "circulatory failure". Words have meanings and you don't get to redefine things to make yourself feel better. The court ruled that the girl wouldn't
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by habnds 7y ago
yeah actually it's a good point about possible legal issues, but that's separate from what I meant in my comment. It's been shown empirically that a stranger is more likely to help if asked for a favor than if offered a small
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by habnds 7y ago
agreed, additionally, there's an interesting behavioral phenomenon where people are perfectly willing to help strangers on the street when asked for free, but the willingness rate drops dramatically when someone offers them a small amo
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by habnds 8y ago
yeah actually, it isn't a conspiracy theory but more like cultural critical theory, the book Seeing Like a State, is a great read about how the state works to transform the natural world into a world that can be quantified and managed
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by habnds 8y ago
> Sovereigns, who sometimes call themselves “freemen” or “state citizens,” have no foundational document, but broadly they subscribe to an alternate version of American history. The tale can vary from sovereign to sovereign, but it goes
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by habnds 8y ago
It's a market failure that they're trying to correct. Externalities aren't fixed by markets because they're external to those markets.
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by habnds 8y ago
yeah pew research implies boomers are 72m/372m ~20% https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/03/01/millennials...
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by habnds 8y ago
right, the criticism of neolibralism is that it doesn't acknowledge the problematic simplicity of the models they apply. Things aren't as simply as supply and demand in labor markets for instance, The socially constructed notion o
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by habnds 8y ago
kind of a disappointing article from the economist. Click-baity title with the obvious answer in the first line of the article. They fail to directly compare the cost per flight for shuttle v soyuz. No follow up sentence on the possibility
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by habnds 8y ago
looks cool but dangerously close to https://xkcd.com/1138/