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by kmacdough 4y ago
Whether or not well-being is as easy to measur, your assumptions about free-market as a stand-in for well-being does not have a solid foundation. > in a free market people presumably make rational choices and spend their money in a way t
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by kmacdough 4y ago
Have you ever messed around w/ Julia? It doesn't really have much "internal machinery" since it relies on a data-oriented/functional language structure. I find myself reading the Julia source code on a regular basis
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by kmacdough 4y ago
I totally expect this will be fairly effective, because there aren't any major forces pushing against. - It's a simple technical problem to identify potential spammers. There are clear patterns & habits of robocallers to id th
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by kmacdough 4y ago
EU may be stricter about enforcing, but I've also experienced it's very person-dependent. People who need to answer unknown callers for business reasons (small business owners, sales, etc.) get put on lists of "known active n
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by kmacdough 4y ago
I've found this tends to come from life experience suggesting this is the only way to survive. It can be incredibly difficult to come at this from a place of compassion, but I've found that when I do - when I create real value in
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by kmacdough 4y ago
Reading this article, it seems entirely about taking initiative changing your own approach, without an explicit expectation. Asking someone else to star-man is expecting them to change for you, without showing any compassion or respect for
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by kmacdough 4y ago
Didn't feel like sarcasm to me. I've seen a heck of a lot of people go through this transition, to the point that this tweet is indistinguishable from common opinions. Sarcasm that's mostly indistinguishable from real opinion
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by kmacdough 4y ago
Both sentiments seem true. Absolutely, there is plenty of high-value stuff out there that people are unaware of. And marketing is how you'd bring awareness. But real value is irrelevant to a capitalist market; perceived value is all th
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by kmacdough 4y ago
Minimal regulations, but more importantly, practically zero enforcement. I remember a local electrician saying stuff like "ah just don't tell anyone and it'll be fine". I was utterly unsurprised, if devastated, when the
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by kmacdough 4y ago
WYM, it's for tech savvy geeks, and also tech curious teens and also parents who refuse to upgrade a machine that's not capable of running newer Windows versions and also for... I was 12 when I first installed linux and barely kne
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by kmacdough 4y ago
I agree that this article does seem to lump some behaviors together of wildly different severity. But when the job is managing and monitoring the safety of children in a massive online space, it seems reasonable, nay necessary, to judge the
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It's also amplified by the humiliation many kids experience when struggling in school systems. Causes a general distaste for reason and science because, in a very real way, it hurt them as a child. Not actually science and reason itsel
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by kmacdough 7y ago
For the record, to sustain a modern small drone at 50% conversion, you still need at least a 50cm x 50cm panel with optimistic estimates. This is completely ignoring the fact that such panels would need to be mounted without destroying the
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