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by klipt 4y ago
Is your code open source? Seems like Anki could do with some competition.
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by klipt 4y ago
Thing is, labeling all the minority owned businesses obviously makes it easy to also find white owned businesses by elimination.
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by klipt 4y ago
Dali -> DALL-E Gaudi -> GAUD-E?
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by klipt 4y ago
Co-ops do exist in the US, for example credit unions. But not very many perhaps because of the incentive issue you mentioned.
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by klipt 4y ago
China has certainly achieved an amazing increase in wealth through its combination of authoritarianism and free market capitalism. But given they were Communist before, that's clearly a case of authoritarians adopting capitalism, not c
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by klipt 4y ago
Coincidentally humans also learn from combined audio+visual feeds!
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by klipt 4y ago
Updating an element in a mutable array is O(1). With an immutable array you have to make a clone with one element changed which is O(n). Cloning a mutable array is also O(1) if you use copy-on-write.
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by klipt 4y ago
> I’d argue that programs without state are just easier to reason about and debug Right, isn't the fundamental trade-off between programmer efficieny and runtime efficiency? Immutable structures are easier to reason about, but almos
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by klipt 4y ago
Is it implausible that a corporation that wants to be viewed as progressive, would favor more diverse candidates?
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by klipt 4y ago
If they only started noticing quiet women, but not quiet men, it sounds like the "unconscious bias training" just trained into them a new unconscious bias!
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by klipt 4y ago
Sure, but by restricting ownership of companies to workers only, you've obviously made the market less free. If a worker wants to sell their share of the company to anyone else, that's forbidden, right? So workers can't div
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by klipt 4y ago
> a cup of peanuts every day turned out to be a great way to get a lot of protein for not much cost Probably similar to any other legume (lentils, beans, chickpeas)?
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by klipt 4y ago
Funny, I think the obsession with dismantling capitalism is a religion. "First, we must dismantle capitalism" is the Communist equivalent of "first, you must renounce other gods and accept Jesus into your life". You talk
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by klipt 4y ago
> Meanwhile we've seen plenty of capitalist dictatorships Because even dictators realized that free markets are very effective. Just like science is very effective. Trying to run a country without free markets is like trying to run
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by klipt 4y ago
> @paulg himself started this run No the fed started it by raising rates with the explicit goal of triggering a hiring freeze to chill the economy and reduce inflation: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/why-the-fed-want
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by klipt 4y ago
That's a common (and racist) perception of how arranged marriages work but it's not how the majority of them actually work.
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by klipt 4y ago
> and Elon Musk No, Musk lacks something the Amish and Muslims have: continuity. Amish children are likely to remain Amish. Musk may have 20 kids but those kids will probably have the American average of 1.5 kids each and his descendents
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by klipt 4y ago
That's not how most arranged marriages work, it just means instead of getting options from Tinder, people get options through their parents' social network. Which usually means they're more selected for things the parents lik
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by klipt 4y ago
There are comments elsewhere on this post saying around 85% of Amish raised children remain Amish.
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by klipt 4y ago
At least some people do want to "win" against death by becoming immortal. Physics suggests true immortality is impossible, but maybe people will live a lot longer in future...
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by klipt 4y ago
Sure, but it's literally the definition of evolutionary fitness that having more kids makes you more evolutionarily fit . Nobody said fitness implies morality. But the Amish by definition have higher evolutionary fitness than averag
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by klipt 4y ago
It's funny how atheists believe in evolution in theory , but fervently religious groups like this are the ones winning at evolution in practice . My theory is having kids is just really hard work, but a deeply ingrained religious bel
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by klipt 4y ago
A lot of people draw the line at plastic surgery, which I guess hair transplants count as?
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by klipt 4y ago
We also haven't recently had a short president, or a woman president, or an Asian/Indian president...
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by klipt 4y ago
It's a work of art like any other. It has Tau*million notes and was released on Tau day. There are other references to Tau scattered throughout the video.
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by klipt 4y ago
Assuming those 1000 embryos belonged to e.g. 100 cancer patients who were subsequently rendered infertile by chemo, the choice really comes down to, kill one child, or effectively sterilize 100 cancer patients by removing their option to ha
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by klipt 4y ago
"Ancestor sauce" works fine for that and is less pointlessly gendered.
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by klipt 4y ago
Isn't it just wonderful how many children's playgrounds are carpeted with recycled tire rubber?
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by klipt 4y ago
> employee dorms If you look at feudal England this is basically what happened - the rich landowner class provided servants' quarters for their employees. Of course that crushes job mobility, because you can't leave your job wi
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by klipt 4y ago
Vancouver has crazy low property tax which explains the rampant speculation and unaffordability. And capital gains - without limit - aren't taxed for primary residences.

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