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by kd5bjo 6y ago
It took over a decade, but I finally realized that this is the original purpose of the dialectical journals I was required to write for my high-school English classes, before they were coopted as an assessment tool. As it’s a record of you
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by kd5bjo 6y ago
The “un-“ prefix in “unethical” means “violative of; contrary to”, and the word as a whole refers to something that is in violation of an ethical standard. It is generally used discursively, to refer to the speaker’s ethics rather than t
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by kd5bjo 6y ago
> If goog did provide guidance on permissions, goog would literally have to audit every app in the store You’re talking about vetting suppliers and products in order to ensure they’re selling safe products that consumers want. That soun
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by kd5bjo 6y ago
Sometimes completely eliminating rote work is a mistake. If there’s a lot of challenging work to be done, doing some rote work can be used to rest some while still staying basically on-task and minimizing context-switching costs.
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by kd5bjo 6y ago
Historically, the process has been to break the law you consider invalid, be charged with violating the law, and then make your defense in court. Courts generally rule on situations, not laws, and dislike being asked about hypothetical sit
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by kd5bjo 6y ago
> There's no such thing as "unethical." Everybody has values and reasons why they do stuff. I have values and reasons that guide my own actions. There’s a much larger space of values and reasoning that I personally don’t
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by kd5bjo 6y ago
We’re in a capitalist system, so I had assumed that allocation would happen via the free job market: people with money write job descriptions for scientists to work on particular things, and the scientists decide which of those offers to pu
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by kd5bjo 6y ago
> I strongly suspect the rational amount to spend on it is "everything we can". By saying “everything,” you’re dodging the question of what sacrifices we should make to speed up basic science research. How do you draw the line
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by kd5bjo 6y ago
You’re absolutely right, and those projects were absolutely worth the cost to society in retrospect. It’s why I’m generally in favor of exploratory research. I don’t have much of an opinion one way or the other about building another partic
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by kd5bjo 6y ago
> Is there a maximum price tag for potentially knowing more about the universe? Yes. On the extreme end, there’s a finite amount of useful work that can be done before the heat death of the universe. An energy budget the size of the c
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by kd5bjo 6y ago
Diffraction gratings are composed of a series of ridges spaced very closely and regularly, and this physical shape is transferred to the chocolate through the molding process. Light bouncing off of the different ridges creates an interfere
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by kd5bjo 6y ago
I think part of it is that paper is completely unopinionated: all it’s doing is holding whatever marks you make for later. That means your brain has to do the work of deciding what marks to make and their meaning; the more work your brain
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by kd5bjo 6y ago
To each his own, I guess. With the exception of search, I can do all of those things more easily in a physical book than electronically — I find that the physical motion and context helps me remember things. I replace searching with mainta
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by kd5bjo 6y ago
The explicit goal of every gambler is to walk out of the room with more money than they started with. The casinos make sure that actually happens sometimes, or else they would have no customers. Under those circumstances, it’s basic human
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by kd5bjo 6y ago
In the ‘90s (?), LucasArts and Sierra both developed VMs for graphical adventure games (SCUMM and AGI); you can look into languages targetting those. Inform is a more modern language for text adventures. Ink is an open-source embeddable lan
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by kd5bjo 6y ago
The book "How to Read a Book" comes up here occasionally, and this is (I think) the second level of their 4-level system, after examining the table of contents and end matter.
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by kd5bjo 6y ago
I’ve found that I need to alternate between two kinds of practice within a session: Pushing my limits with no real expectation of success is where I actually learn things, but is demotivating. I also need an easier task that I’m confident
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by kd5bjo 6y ago
For the GDPR to be effective, there will need to be several more rounds of “yes, we really need you to change”. It’s a big change in business practices, and businesses don’t like change when it come to their revenue. Lots of laws get pass
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by kd5bjo 6y ago
A query argument inside a URL that they can bookmark is one option.
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by kd5bjo 6y ago
> This DMCA complaint does not provide "information reasonably sufficient to permit" GitHub to find movie piracy on GitHub The whole clause reads "Identification of the material that is claimed to be infringing or to be th
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by kd5bjo 6y ago
I don't recall hearing it from anywhere, but it's the sort of idea I'd expect to crop up from time to time. I haven't done any research to find out if anyone else has seriously suggested or investigated it.
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by kd5bjo 6y ago
Defining what represents a change-of-control is probably the trickiest part of moving this from an interesting idea to a real proposal. Probably, the key factor should be whether or not the senior management and/or the board membershi
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by kd5bjo 6y ago
Contributory infringement is, I assume, one category of “infringing activity” that is covered by the safe-harbor provisions. As the purpose of these provisions is to allow service providers to operate legally without having to evaluate the
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by kd5bjo 6y ago
> A deficient notice ... doesn’t get to use c.1.A as a fallback. That is extremely good to know; I hadn’t spotted that provision while skimming through things. I still believe that this was a non-deficient notice, though. Shall we take
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by kd5bjo 6y ago
I’ve thought for a while that trademarks should be non-transferrable, and should be voided on change-of-control of a company. Their primary purpose is to let the consumer know the origin of goods, and to allow companies to build a reputati
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by kd5bjo 6y ago
Icelandic retains the full 3-gender system to this day, and it’s generally incorrect to refer to gendered inanimate objects as “it”, rather than “he” or “she”.
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by kd5bjo 6y ago
c.1.C describes the effect of a notice in essentially the same terms as c.1.A.iii, which describe how to maintain immunity generally when informed of the circumstances in the other two clauses of c.1.A . My (possibly incorrect) interpretati
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by kd5bjo 6y ago
> Are companies required to adhere to a DMCA notice, or is that just policy to avoid litigation? By law, if a service provider doesn’t know that material they’re hosting on behalf of someone else is infringing, then they’re not liable fo
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by kd5bjo 6y ago
> A DMCA take down notice describes a particular resource that the claimant claims to be their intellectual property. According to the text of the relevant statute (17 U.S.C. 512c), the purpose of the notification is to inform GitHub of
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by kd5bjo 6y ago
True, my objection was primarily to the idea that we should completely write-off any potential learner. A teacher’s job is not to do research, but to choose the best available known method for the situation. If that doesn’t produce result

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