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by kd5bjo 6y ago
> However, let's also say they only take action on "the worst offenders" (of some definition), would it be better for them to not do anything at all until they have the means to capture the majority of videos / users
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> They had high standards. Like three year olds testing their parents, students will test teachers to see if they can get away with low-quality work or bad behavior. They won't respect the teachers who don't call them on it. A
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by kd5bjo 6y ago
> Some subjects are literally unlearnable for certain individuals and is not the teacher's fault. This feels like a controversial starement to me. There are certainly some subjects that are currently beyond some individuals’ abilit
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by kd5bjo 6y ago
The crux of his argument isn’t really that these tools can’t be written. The self-bootstrapping requirement of OpenBSD means that incorporating one Rust-based core utility would require Rust and LLVM to be built when building OpenBSD, whic
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by kd5bjo 6y ago
> detonating nukes to 'learn how to contain' nuclear detonations. That’s exactly how the development of nuclear power stations happened historically, and I expect most other viable power sources. We start with something that r
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Paper maps and landline telephones
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The article is interesting, but the title is clickbait in that he never really tries to make the argument claimed in the title. Instead, he looks at both GPUs and printing presses as generic image formation devices and compares them on tho
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by kd5bjo 6y ago
> Don't let your desire to find the perfect platform inhibit your writing. The hard part about writing is the writing, not the platform. This is why the vast majority of my writing is on paper, never to be published. The act of wri
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by kd5bjo 6y ago
It can be fixed with better training, infrastructure changes, or both. The cost of fixing the training regime would be extremely high, however: New drivers presumably already know what to do and have been tested on it during their practic
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by kd5bjo 6y ago
> If you have half the typing speed, revising takes twice as long In my experience, this isn't true. When revising, most of my time is spent considering what changes I can make and not putting them into practice. If the bottlenec
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by kd5bjo 6y ago
Right; it’s a continuity of government measure, which is generally important. The concern is that it only enables voting in such a scenario, and ignores all the other essential parts of a functioning legislature. As such, it’s either half
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by kd5bjo 6y ago
The Senate is a deliberative body, and its primary work requires debate . Already too much gets done behind closed doors and outside the public eye. Dispensing with even the pretense of open debate is somewhat concerning.
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My primary concern is all of the works that die because they're no longer commercially viable but are still locked away; I'm actually willing to make an exception for the rare blockbuster hits if it actually means everything else
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by kd5bjo 6y ago
For patents, part of the deal was also that the inventor should clearly describe how the invention works. Modern patents, however, are drafted to be so obtuse that they’re basically impossible to learn from.
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The initial cost is quite low and there are techniques to reduce the growth factor, but I’ve seen no evidence of anything that reduces this below an exponential scenario. Over large scales, exponentials can be reasonably modeled by a piecew
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by kd5bjo 6y ago
Ok, so you’ve successfully reduced the problem space from 2^n to 2^(kn) + 2^(n-kn) , where k is the ratio of options in the two categories. That’s better, but still clearly exponential growth.
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by kd5bjo 6y ago
> instead of just listening to what people tell you is happening Can you elaborate on what you’re referring to with this phrase? As far as I can tell, everyone here is reasoning from their personal experiences rather than adopting the o
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by kd5bjo 6y ago
> But also if we share everything we can then most of life will become much cheaper. This is an extraordinary claim that demands actual evidence. Eliminating IP costs might make things cheaper, but physical goods (like food) will still
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by kd5bjo 6y ago
> You can bet your bottom dollar that the engineers building the system will have brought up the fact that something can/should be a user preference/have a power-user shortcut/etc etc during early stages of design & de
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by kd5bjo 6y ago
When I’m writing HTML or TeX, my practice is to use a carriage return after sentences. That makes it easier to reorder them when I do a revision pass.
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by kd5bjo 6y ago
> I don't understand why they didn't prioritize fun over protecting against duping I suspect they may be aiming for long-term fun over instant gratification. Hard to get items will inevitably have a story attached of how they
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by kd5bjo 6y ago
It’s about separation of concerns. The courts use precedent to ensure fairness through uniform interpretation of the law. It’s the legislature’s job to update the law to reflect what’s best for a changing society: when the text of a law c
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by kd5bjo 6y ago
And without any intellectual property rights, what prevents someone from simply ignoring the license?
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by kd5bjo 6y ago
> I think we could (probably) sharply increase the rate of innovation... As long as we're looking at deeply held assumptions, it's probably also a good idea to figure out what the ideal pace of innovation is. None is certainly
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> I teach creativity... the literature is in near agreement on this topic. Can you point me towards some good papers to start with? I don't really know my way around any of the academic literature outside of engineering.
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> I'm still unclear about what it was supposed to be able to do that an electrified scooter or bike couldn't. Segways have much better low-speed handling characteristics than bicycles, which makes them safer to intermix with p
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
> which should (but isn't, because this is America) be bailed out by the government responsible for the quarantine This makes me wonder if there might be some kind of eminent domain case to be made: If the government orders a busine
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
This is getting outside my knowledge as a curious amateur, but I believe that the legal system considers the formal charge to be the manifestation of being “put in danger of life or limb,” and the justice system has a duty to resolve that f
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
The amendment doesn’t, but this particular opinion does. The court simply wasn’t asked about lesser crimes, and so didn’t consider them or rule about them. If it ever comes up, I’m sure this case will still be strong precedent. As far as
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At which point you'd have learned a new skill, and you're otherwise no worse off than when youu started.

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