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by hayst4ck 4y ago
I don't understand why it is obvious that for any games A and B, composition C has any relation to A or B.
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by hayst4ck 4y ago
The question I asked was not what he did or didn't do. It was: what should happen if he actually is guilty of what he is accused of?
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by hayst4ck 4y ago
Let's assume he actually broke the law and actually lied about the election and tried to get the Georgian official to "find" votes. If we assume that is true, what should happen?
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by hayst4ck 4y ago
> Jobs are better than no jobs, across the board. What about slavery? What if there is a spectrum between chattel slavery and owning the means of production? How would you determine where "job" exists on that spectrum? Slaves s
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by hayst4ck 4y ago
Term limits seem like the type of thing that would not necessarily create positive or negative results, but modulate the system. I think it is a thing that feels right to a lot of people, but if you ask "What will term limits achieve,
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by hayst4ck 4y ago
Bash is the language used to express the unix philosophy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_philosophy It is very much worth a read. Besides the idea that command line programs are written primarily for the purpose of
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by hayst4ck 4y ago
Apologies for how long this is, but it's a fun piece of internet history. Back in the days of Slashdot almost every post about potential solutions to e-mail spam was responded to with the copypaste quoted in this post. I think it'
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by hayst4ck 4y ago
I think if you stepped outside of your shoes and said "would someone who disagrees with me find the way I have conducted myself convincing?" you wouldn't like the answer. No, you are asking for social reinforcement of your id
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by hayst4ck 4y ago
The first paradigm to understand is that everything that makes code bad is also what makes it hard to test. If code is hard to test, that means the code is bad. This was in my opinion the best and quickest source on good testing practice, w
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by hayst4ck 4y ago
Feedback is often extremely neglected, and expectations can often be set poorly. Telling an engineer you expect literally 20% of their time to go to their mentee, not 20% of their free time, but 20% of their total time seems like an importa
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by hayst4ck 4y ago
Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid sounds like the type of thing you are looking for: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del,_Escher,_Bach
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by hayst4ck 4y ago
> What you want is not freedom of speech, it's controlled speech. Freedom of speech exists to protect good faith speech. Bad faith speech is protected as a consequence because it is hard/impossible to tell the difference betwe
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by hayst4ck 4y ago
Directly from the Wikipedia article you linked: Although IQ differences between individuals have been shown to have a large hereditary component, it does not follow that disparities in IQ between groups have a genetic basis.[11][1
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by hayst4ck 4y ago
This was more or less correct. It's hard to express the trauma without the vitriol. My grandma disowned me and my parents were basically in a state of disappointment for an extended period of time in my developing years. The lesson was
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by hayst4ck 4y ago
Your initial post rubbed me the wrong way, but the change is intellectually satisfying. I think the major component missing on the "do more" side is generational suffering, I think the major component on the other side is "wh
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by hayst4ck 4y ago
> the qualifications for being a professor should be related to your capability as a scientist your ability to teach and your quality as a mentor. > should not be related to your parents income or education level but unfortunately thi
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by hayst4ck 4y ago
> From my experience I have a strong feeling that I am going to regret asking this, but what exactly is your experience?
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by hayst4ck 4y ago
I think what is missing from a lot of these conversations, particularly in academia, is the topic of meritocracy. Does being black make you a measurably worse candidate (in aggregate)? Does being black mean you will have a harder time succe
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by hayst4ck 4y ago
I suppose what you're looking for is a study based on children adopted by PhDs. My intuition says genetics is vastly less important than memetics. Success is almost certainly proportional to ability to manage dopamine and I think nurtu
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by hayst4ck 4y ago
I would not say Russia is the west and Belarus is clearly more Russian than European. Nobody could say "Russian free speech" with a straight face. At best Belarus is a Russian vassal. Turkey is more complicated. Given it's re
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by hayst4ck 4y ago
I have to admit, my initial response to your question was incredibly hostile. Almost everyone I respect says that free speech is being abused and we have to be more responsible about how we use it by using it to speak truth to power while e
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by hayst4ck 4y ago
> the process that was using the port is now not responding. Yes, but why? Between strace, ps, atop, lsof, logging, and understanding the OS and TCP, it shouldn't be horrific to figure out what is happening. The very same skills to
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by hayst4ck 4y ago
You could set up your own VPN and if it works great, if it doesn't that's life. I think the question that's more important is how big of a target are you? If you/your company/your co-worker are all ultimately nobodi
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by hayst4ck 4y ago
Yeah, that is fair. For that problem, from an admin perspective, killport becomes a bandaid for not fixing the bug of poor behavior when the laptop lid closes. Instead of finding an automatic technical solution that does the right thing, ev
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by hayst4ck 4y ago
As a somewhat experienced admin, I can't imagine killing a process on a port without first understanding what process is using that port and why it is using that port. If a process is supervised, then I can't imagine killing a pro
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by hayst4ck 4y ago
I am extremely militantly atheist, but I remember growing up with the church and experiencing community. There were weekly potlucks and all the church kids would hang out frequently while the parents drank. There were various clubs like cho
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by hayst4ck 4y ago
> but in shaping our interests. The more educated you are, the more you realize people don't know that much. If everyone could see the consequences of their beliefs and actions, governments wouldn't need to exist. Public educa
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by hayst4ck 4y ago
In the game of prisoners dilemma, I want to be around people who practice the winning strategy. A game to demonstrate why that is important: https://ncase.me/trust/ If you cooperate when others defect, you promote defe
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by hayst4ck 4y ago
> What everyone on Hacker News seems to long for is an Internet limited to 'that class' of people. Yep, that is exactly what I want. I want to be around and interact with other educated people who act in good faith and I don&#x
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by hayst4ck 4y ago
I agree completely. I've used Reddit since at least 2008. I quit Facebook over what they did to WhatsApp and will never use another Meta product. Reddit is getting dangerously close. It's very clear there is not an adult at reddit

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