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by koboll 8y ago
We can, without lapsing into full panpsychism, state some ethical paradoxes about the way we can observe animal emotion, versus the way we actually treat animals. For example, it's widely accepted that pigs are extremely intelligent an
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by koboll 8y ago
Occam's Razor says the reason why your dog looks and acts guilty is that it feels guilty, rather than carrying out some sort of autonomous response that looks exactly like guilt but for whatever reason doesn't cross a certain thre
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by koboll 8y ago
>The bear does not lament its catch, the whale does not wonder at the inner life of a fish it accidentally swallows. Neither do humans, of course. Do you stop and grieve for the chicken you just grilled and ate? Obviously animals are cap
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by koboll 8y ago
They'll probably be less negligent if they're forced to see Equifax's head mounted on a pike. Metaphorically speaking.
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by koboll 8y ago
I've gotten $300-400 rooms for ~$120 several times. Nice boutique hotels in resort destinations, but at off-peak times of year.
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by koboll 8y ago
I don't really think people ultimately care that much about turning over information about their domestic economics, if convenience trumps cost. (Have they stopped using Facebook and Google?) It simply did not in this instance. Buyin
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by koboll 8y ago
Holy crap, is >gives cryptic names for variables, or at best not self-explanatory sure a big one. It's part of a category of small decisions that dramatically increase cognitive load when accumulated. Along with it: >Passing many
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by koboll 8y ago
Another compelling argument for the same position: https://toddmotto.com/deprecating-the-switch-statement-for-o...
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by koboll 8y ago
>local reports indicate the lanes would run from Stockton to Bakersfield, a distance of approximately 240 miles via I-5 or 230 miles via CA-99. I've driven these probably 30 times each. The standard minimum speed there in the daytim
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by koboll 8y ago
Why is revenue the normal way -- lease property -- insufficient such that they need a share of tax revenue also? And how would that work in practice? The city cuts a deal to lower taxes for just that development? Or the treasury cuts a chec
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by koboll 8y ago
Human moral development seems to be a cycle of an outburst of violence, followed by a dramatic retrenchment of violence in response. Each iteration brings greater violence and then an even greater retrenchment. Eons ago we discovered throug
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by koboll 8y ago
Prerender the initial page and they won't notice any difference.
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by koboll 8y ago
This is very cool. One suggestion: The long horizontal sliding animation seriously detracts from the user experience. It makes it difficult to track what changed because areas of the code go briefly blank while the next bit of code is slidi
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by koboll 8y ago
It's a little harder to wrap your head around for sure. But the benefit is tighter encapsulation of functionalities. No longer do we have to spread a feature's logic across multiple lifecycle methods that may share that space with
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by koboll 8y ago
That isn't true at all in this circumstance. He isn't disrupting traffic, on private property, or breaking any law. It's not illegal to disobey police except under special circumstances.
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by koboll 8y ago
In the extremely long term, yes, we will probably have to abandon the solar system. But others exist and are reachable.
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by koboll 8y ago
>The question for me is: how can we have infinite growth on a planet with limited resources? 1. Some resources are truly unlimited. We can ultimately meet all our food and energy needs via unlimited energy from the sun, for example. If n
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by koboll 8y ago
I think the implication is that it's a seat for a Lambo. A plane seat is a lot smaller than a whole car.
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by koboll 8y ago
>By giving bread away for free, he's making it impossible for other bakeries to compete unless they do the same thing. He's not going to make enough from simply selling data to invest in talented bakers and quality ingredients,
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by koboll 8y ago
>All the problem described in this thread could be solved with laws from 25 years ago. Facebook stealing call and contact data? No, they can't do it. No, GDPR was not needed. No, putting a phrase in a ToS that nobody reads is not en
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by koboll 8y ago
If you actually think China is worried about its nationals' theft of foreign IP, I have a Great Wall I'd be interested in selling you.
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by koboll 8y ago
In 1995 there were far fewer platforms than there are now, and most people only had one: their own computer. Nowadays, we expect the same services to work on our laptop, our work computer, our personal iPhone, our work Android, our smart TV
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by koboll 8y ago
>Author made a lot of assumptions I, too, am guilty of assuming when I buy a product it is actually the product and not a different product. The fault lies with Amazon for knowingly and intentionally adhering minimally to the law because
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by koboll 8y ago
Here's what I don't understand -- why would I use work email for organizing purposes? Even if there were very clear laws in place prohibiting employers from stopping me, wouldn't organizers be paranoid that their employer wou
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by koboll 8y ago
If those two arguments would have been equally effective, then perhaps you would be right. I would bet that that wasn't the case, and that's why Google's attorneys advanced the argument they did. Perhaps you are right but the
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by koboll 8y ago
Sure, I wrote a contrived example. But the onus, I think, is on the critics in this thread to provide the theory of legal ethics under which attorneys should refrain from advancing the most effective defense of their clients if doing so mig
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by koboll 8y ago
It's silly to equate a legal defense with a belief though. I may not have the belief, personally, that spontaneous crimes of passion deserve a light sentence, but it would be malpractice for my lawyer to therefore not advance that argu
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by koboll 8y ago
>Basically zero-cost queue synchronization and heavily variable server time means a global queue is better! And this is why I always pick the global queue for self-checkout kiosks.
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>As soon as GOT is done, I'll likely cancel HBO - it doesn't add much value. This is basically my philosophy with streaming services. I keep Prime because it's useful all-around, and Netflix (for now) still has enough vari
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by koboll 8y ago
>The fact that the alternative isn't figured out I think isn't justification for keeping a broken system. Stop for a second and consider how much pain and suffering has occurred throughout history because of this very idea

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