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by jtolmar 6y ago
I really appreciate how this theory makes testable predictions that already-planned experiments will be able to confirm or deny. Right or wrong (and most ideas are wrong), this is the gold standard of science.
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You'll probably enjoy the rest of the author's blog then. He really does his best to focus on systems, modes of production, and modes of organization. This is has been the standard for modern historians for quite a long time, but
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You have to admit though, octopus entomology /would/ be surprising.
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This happened to me too. I was searching the domain on a variety of tools to make sure it wasn't like, secretly a swear word in another language or whatever, then a couple days later it was registered by GoDaddy. I wasn't sure whi
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That guideline ends up less great than it sounds, in practice, since the kind of error a client can recover from is very client-sensitive. A general-use library, like Java's, needs to throw checked exceptions for anything that /an
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"scope" was actually on my short list of possibilities :-)
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by jtolmar 6y ago
It'd be nice to be able to blur the lines. Maybe implement multireturn by declaring variables public inside your closure scope. function Person(firstName, lastName) { let fName = firstName; let lName = lastName; publi
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by jtolmar 6y ago
I think something to rush the player is necessary for it to work well as a roguelite. But I also think Noita has enough cool exploratory stuff in it doesn't necessarily have to be a roguelite. It'd also be a good game with some fa
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by jtolmar 6y ago
Yeah. Some games fix it by having small enough dungeons that scouring them all isn't such a big deal (Brogue comes to mind). Others use a hunger clock (I think Spelunky's ghost is actually the best hunger clock I've seen). I
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I half agree on this. I agree the environmental manipulation and tactical side of the game is underdeveloped. I think a lot of that is similar monster designs. Despite a huge bestiary of cool monsters, when it comes to how you deal with tho
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Everyone else having similar structures. This is starting to sound less like good-faith questions than it did when it started. Are you trying to poke holes, or are you trying to understand how this is something someone could actually believ
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One of the fundamental ideas behind anarchy is that legitimate authority only comes from the community that authority affects. So, say you live in an anarchist commune, but do not believe in anarchy yourself. You're still invited to th
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The KKK enforces law outside of its community. It's not like they're involving black people in the decision of who gets lynched. Anarchists are on the opposite end of the inclusion spectrum, even including the wrongdoer in the dec
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I think the worker co-op model has a lot of potential for tech startups. They're more stable than other ownership models, and the desires of the workers tend to be more aligned with consumers than the consumers are with investors (and
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The system a convention uses of having volunteers watching for bad behavior is actually already similar to anarchist concepts of community self defense. Under an anarchist society, the folks tasked with handling these sorts of things would
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by jtolmar 6y ago
I agree with this one. I don't think it necessarily makes sense to put in the standard library, since there are people using Rust for embedded systems and such. Instead I think it'd be best to have an "extended standard libra
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by jtolmar 6y ago
This is super fun! I wouldn't want to see it on a serious website, but for games and such it's a really nice toolkit. Some minor suggestions: - The table isn't animated. Bringing in the grid lines the same way that HRs appear
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It's not a very well-designed bill. A big one-off tax is always just a political stunt. But "stock isn't liquid money!" comes up every time anyone mentions wealth taxes, and I think it's worth digging into this a bi
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by jtolmar 6y ago
Here's a video where an energy professor goes through the finances of gas vs nuclear power (very slowly) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbeJIwF1pVY In short, it takes a very long time for a nuclear power plant to be
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What makes you think nuclear power has a power law risk distribution? For that to be true, it'd have to be possible for an unboundedly large nuclear accident.. Just because something has more concentrated risk doesn't make it fat
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Software engineers naturally focus on what's a new capability for software. GPT-3 looks nearly capable of shoveling out the sort of low-quality content that's primarily curated by other algorithms, like clickbait news or content m
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Whoever is downvoting this - you're being absolutely absurd, this is a basic statement of fact that you can look up on wikipedia.
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Unfortunately, a lot of people have been told that "socialism" means "state power over the economy" and refuse to engage with enough socialist/communist theory to see what it actually is. Which gets you strange proj
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Discrete Mathematics with Applications by Susanna S. Epp. is one of my favorite textbooks. Discrete math is considered a sophomore-level college subject, but it's really not that challenging, and the textbook is extremely thorough and
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Police are funded by the municipal or county government, not the fed
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I just launched a commercial strategy game with a fair chunk of (DOM-based) UI elements and wrote everything in raw JS.
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That's such a dumb way to paint. Great job! Here's one: https://i.imgur.com/9efzWaC.png
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Well the pitch is certainly good. I'll look into it, thanks!
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There's a lot of configuration, and not a lot of debug output. Simple things that should be defaults like HTTPS forwarding instead require a barely-documented ngnx patch. If something goes wrong before your app comes up, it doesn'
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Stripe for payments, AWS Elastic Beanstalk for hosting/deployments. Wish there was an even dumber alternative to Beanstalk. I've been tempted to build my own thing to get closer to my ideal of uploading a jar and forgetting about

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