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by kbenson 3y ago
I think attackers would just try to make the system offer to disable security whenever possible then. Anything as easy as clicking an already offered option by the OS itself will be used often enough to negate most of the security benefits
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by kbenson 3y ago
Yes, but my worry is that what looks like a trend is but a small part of a larger cycle. We've seen what happens when complex political alliances fail with WWI (even if they were more a web than an overarching umbrella), and Ukraine pr
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by kbenson 3y ago
Thanks for taking the time to write such a large and thorough reply. Unfortunately, there's so much in there and multiple of the things I want to express touch on multiple of the points you made, any reply I make is going to be rambli
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by kbenson 3y ago
I don't deny that it's likely an exceedingly had thing to do, to transition, and that it's likely harder the longer you wait, just that when you're dealing with exponential growth that opting out too early is likely disa
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by kbenson 3y ago
It's entirely relevant when your country can't control is own future, as that will extend to its citizens. Just because we're in a relatively stable period of history with regards to one nation seeking to conquer another (som
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by kbenson 3y ago
The optimal strategy now for unlimited growth and some future limit on growth bei g hit when there are competitors are likely the same. Take advantage of it as much as possibly for as long as possibly. Given two countries where one lints
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by kbenson 3y ago
> Long-term ongoing economic growth, expressed as a constant percentage, is baked in to most current orthodox economics and economic policy. Whether it is or isn't, the optimal strategy for a nation is likely exponential growth unti
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by kbenson 3y ago
You seem to have fundamentally misunderstood my purpose for engaging you. I tried repeatedly to move the conversation from a poorly supported absolutist statement from you to a productive discussion about what makes a DSL good or bad, but y
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by kbenson 3y ago
Regular expressions, as used in practice in programming are mathematically general for interacting with strings, but they are in no way fundamental. They are a DSL for generating NFAs and DFAs (depending on the underlying engine). There
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by kbenson 3y ago
Yes, and I said as much. All DSLs are abstractions to some sort of code that does some action. What I'm saying is that we have examples of bad DSLs, and good DSLs, and perhaps by focusing between them we can come up with some useful
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by kbenson 3y ago
I did read your reply, and I think your reasons for excluding it are insufficient. You can't just exclude any DSL that succeeds (has become "universal") and say "see? no DSLs are good!" The point of me noting ho
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by kbenson 3y ago
I think the problem here is more that people still need to work on their positions to figure out what they really mean, because while you have some points, regular expressions are the canonical example of a DSL. Their domain is strings,
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by kbenson 3y ago
If you want to promote good practices and critical thinking, maybe sprinkle some Haskell learning in there. That's advanced though, so maybe wait until he reaches kindergarten. If he gets disheartened, just emphasize we all learn at
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by kbenson 3y ago
> Maybe in the original intentions of the law Yes, that is exactly what I said. I'm not sure how to read it otherwise. If you're going to assess how it works under communism by looking at why the government allows and and what
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by kbenson 3y ago
The reasons communism allows seizure of property are with good intentions, just as the reasons the law allows the seizure of property in this case are because of good intentions. How it's used and abused in practice in both systems i
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by kbenson 3y ago
Eh, I'm not really pro communism, but it makes sense to me. If one of the central differences people focus on between the systems is private property, if someone sees that as somewhat of an illusion it makes sense to note it.
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by kbenson 3y ago
That slide is confusing. The Burglary side says it takes place when people are absent, but then says it's a violent crime (and shows one person punching another). I get it's probably a legal definition of "violent" or
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by kbenson 3y ago
> But Python is -dramatically- better focused, as a community, on finding a Pythonic way to proceed, and then advocating it, than previous cultures. I would revise that to be that the pythonic culture of one acceptable way to to is bette
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by kbenson 3y ago
The problem is that since reddit has places for both where it's entirely appropriate to act in specific ways, them both being on the same site often leads to it leaking from one area to another to poor effect. Useful and/or somewh
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by kbenson 3y ago
The rule is not to force you to be a better person by making you consider all comments you see, it's to keep discussion useful and help the site continue to provide a high level of usefulness for all users, including yourself. In that
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by kbenson 3y ago
I agree, it's the same principal as spam. You don't reply calling them out as a spammer, as that only signals that they have access to your attention. You blackhole the spam or sender or submit to authorities of services that can
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by kbenson 3y ago
As noted by someone in a sibling thread, it's possible it might yield better memory total allocation size, which if true could be interesting and worthwhile by itself as a tradeoff to consider on an app by app basis.
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by kbenson 3y ago
> What exactly is your complaint? My complaint? I'm just calling into question your counterpoint exampkes supplied when someone stated that Apple only likes standards they control. Whether it's warranted or they have good reaso
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by kbenson 3y ago
> Apple was part of the patent pool for FireWire Apple is listed first as the designer, then second the IEEE1394 working group. Indeed, there's some indication that Apple's development started in the 80's and it wasn'
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by kbenson 3y ago
Just because they used them doesn't mean they like using them, just that they don't have the sway to move people to something of their own. FireWire was developed by Apple and some other companies, as a competitor to USB, and lost
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by kbenson 3y ago
> How many times do systemic abuses need to be brought to light before you warrant cynicism as the default? The number of occurrences is not important unless paired with total opportunity for occurrences. Ten out of a hundred is pretty d
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by kbenson 3y ago
What? Isn't it Randall Munroe (XKCD)?
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by kbenson 3y ago
Not when it's for a court case or a legal requirement, in which case they put one or more people on it full time until it's done and make sure whoever else needs to get them the data is in the loop and knows it's a priority.
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by kbenson 3y ago
It isn't. Services have limitations, it's nothing new. This isn't about the portion of the app running on Mac, or Linux for that matter, this is because the app is backed by a service that has a name limitation and that bubbl
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by kbenson 3y ago
That only works because of investment and speculation. You would specifically not want that for UBI IMO, because speculation could crash your currency leaving people that rely on it unable to purchase anything with it. I'm pretty sur

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