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by hvs 3y ago
Cancer treatment isn't a complete positive. If you subject large numbers of people to it some of them will die from the treatment. If you save 1 person from cancer but kill 5 more that didn't have it, is that a net positive?
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by hvs 3y ago
This is reminiscent of the Alan Watts parable of the Chinese Farmer (probably adapted from a Chinese parable): Once upon a time there was a Chinese farmer whose horse ran away. That evening, all of his neighbors came around to commiserate.
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by hvs 3y ago
It's from the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle: A.D. 793. This year came dreadful fore-warnings over the land of the Northumbrians, terrifying the people most woefully: these were immense sheets of light rushing through the air, a
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by hvs 3y ago
IANAL, but they weren't convicted of crimes against US companies but NZ ones. If the US got them they could theoretically be charged with "different offenses" than the ones they were charged with in NZ. That said, it is much
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by hvs 3y ago
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9276585/ I conclude that attempts to classify medical decisions as justified or unjustified by scientific evidence have no foundation in logic and that the term 'evidence-
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by hvs 3y ago
This "trend" started over 25 years ago.
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by hvs 3y ago
LWN.net is one site that has such consistently good writing that I even subscribed to it even though I wasn't really in the linux development community because it is just that good. I don't have time to read it now which is the on
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by hvs 3y ago
Yeah, I'm all for investigating this line of thinking further, but all sorts of weird coincidences come up in numerology that no serious person would consider "science".
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by hvs 3y ago
I was too hard on it. There is some scientific research behind the theory: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blindsight
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by hvs 3y ago
This is also called a "scam".
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by hvs 3y ago
I'm not sure you read the article. Vaccine-derived cases of polio far outnumber cases of wild polio in the world now. Polio can be created in a lab with publicly available information. This virus WILL be with us forever. The discussion
102.
by hvs 4y ago
I'm not asking for lists of sexual allegations, I'm asking about technical concepts. Very different.
103.
by hvs 4y ago
It has helped me learn things more interactively because I can ask questions and get answers without having to read 10 blog posts or a book before understanding things. For my personality, it would be hard to recreate without having a livin
104.
by hvs 4y ago
Starbucks is allowed to give benefits to union members without negotiation (why would unions want to fight free benefits?). But most companies don't just give benefits to unions when they can use them in contract negotiations. Now, I&#
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by hvs 4y ago
It's amazed me that the first 50 years of computers were "this is how to structure memory for operating systems" and the next 30 have been "hackers take advantage of all of that so we need to do a bunch of convoluted stu
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by hvs 4y ago
Your code has been super helpful while I've been trying to build a cycle-accurate 6502 emulator as well. I'm also planning on using your header files in another emulator project I'm working on. Thanks for a building an awesom
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by hvs 4y ago
Until recently Microsoft didn't even pretend to support C, they basically just built a C++ compiler. But they have really stepped up their support in the past couple years: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp&#x2
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by hvs 4y ago
For a period much earlier in my career (think early 00's) I seriously desired to work in Common Lisp professionally. Through a series of life decisions and other opportunities, that never really happened. But I continued to work on Lis
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by hvs 4y ago
The entirety of my knowledge about CTSS is from Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution which, being a book about a bunch of misfits that hated the cloistered culture of IBM computing, wasn't complementary. ITS (the Incompatible Tim
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by hvs 4y ago
To be fair, as a pretty smart, white man in technology, my parents paid for half of my college to a prestigious engineering university and I've had friends and acquaintances (that I've built from my network) that have gotten me to
111.
by hvs 4y ago
I agree. But "whatabout" isn't argument to keep doing it.
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by hvs 4y ago
Economists from the St. Louis Federal Reserve estimated that the stimulus contributed about 2.3 percentage points to inflation. The idea that pumping ~$800 billion into the economy wouldn't affect inflation and the economy in general s
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by hvs 4y ago
The original article was written about 20 years ago and he says that by 1999 lisp was already falling out of favor (if it had ever been in favor). So, 15 years ago (2008?) would've been almost a decade after that.
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by hvs 4y ago
This is nice-sounding, but ultimately there is almost no incentive for hardware manufacturers to open source their drivers. Linux isn't a large market and macOS and Windows users generally aren't concerned with it. On top of that,
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by hvs 4y ago
The idea that the Roman Empire was on the verge of an Industrial Revolution on par with the 19th and 20th centuries is a bit overblow: https://acoup.blog/2022/08/26/collections-why-no-roman-indus...
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by hvs 4y ago
Sure I would. I've been through a couple of recessions now.
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by hvs 4y ago
The world of advertising and marketing is always grim on the inside.
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by hvs 4y ago
It seems like more than an issue of DNA to create a 50 ton dinosaur that could survive in a modern climate. Dinosaurs were able to reach their sizes precisely because of the oxygen-rich environment, not just their DNA.
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by hvs 4y ago
You are correct, but I would also point out that I have to think long and hard about this whenever it comes up.
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by hvs 4y ago
The U.S. has a long, proud history of protectionism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China%E2%80%93United_States_tr...

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