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by koube 8y ago
That seems to be a semantic difference then. The definition of request is usually just the act of asking[0][1], and I think most people would assume that intent is baked into an ask. This is not an ambiguous "who will rid me of this tu
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by koube 8y ago
You seem to be arguing that the request was made, received, and fulfilled as a joke . I find this to be not a compelling difference.
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by koube 8y ago
It's true that they were already engaged in hacking attempts, but there was a definite new response "on or about" the date of the tweet: > For example, on or about July 27, 2016, the Conspirators attempted after hou
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by koube 8y ago
Russia also apparently interpreted the tweet as encouragement to illegally hack into messages by a former Secretary of State, because they were encouraged to attempt to illegally hack into messages by a former Secretary of State: https:&#x
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by koube 8y ago
Apologies for the brain fart, it's not the rebound effect, it's the backfire effect[0]. I can't edit my post anymore. [0] https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Backfire_effect
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by koube 8y ago
This called the Rebound effect[0]. There is a Debunking Handbook[1] for dealing with this phenomenon. There is also the idea that a lie travels around the globe while the truth is putting on its shoes, which spurred /r/AskHistoria
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by koube 8y ago
I find it more difficult to use Canadian dollars than US dollars in the United states, to the point that I have never used Canadian dollars in my daily life, and I would speculate that 99% of people would have the same experience.
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by koube 8y ago
I disagree with this. The process for 99% of people to use a credit card is "reach in your wallet, hand a card over or type in the number". The process for 99% of people to use crypto is "read on wikipedia on what cryptocurre
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by koube 8y ago
The EU is reducing its carbon footprint if you zoom out from that one year[0]. China also has half of the carbon footprint per person[0]. The US appears the have the highest carbon footprint per capita of the major nations, beaten only by s
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by koube 8y ago
Reddit had a security team, they just haven't had the position "Head of Security" until now[0]. They did have a policy of using TOTP but couldn't enforce it on certain providers (applications?) [1]. [0]: https:/&#x
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by koube 8y ago
I use the QC35 every day and it can do ANC without anything playing as well, in fact it is impossible to have the power on without ANC active, just like the QC35 II. IIRC the only difference between the I and the II is the Google assistant
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by koube 8y ago
Whether something is a "real science" is based on whether or not science is done, not the difficulty of the subject matter. Spending so much time trying to narrowly semanticize science in a way that specifically excludes economics
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by koube 8y ago
Reply button has reappeared so copying my response here for proper flow, but now I can't remove it from my other comment because the edit button disappeared. >And look at how much it costs, how unreliable the results are, and how ev
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by koube 8y ago
I don't think that's true at all. Pharmacology is a very difficult science that we get wrong all the time, yet we still have medicine because we are able to test our medicines by trying them on animals and people. Likewise in econ
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by koube 8y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experimental_economics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Econometrics Which is a moot point because science is done without controlled experiments all of the time, e.g. a
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by koube 8y ago
You seem adamant to discredit specific examples of consensus when there are plenty of examples. Go down the list on IGM and find another one if you wish. I'm not here to criticize Chang's works, I'm here to criticize the arti
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by koube 8y ago
No, it doesn't seem like a problem, because I was only pointing out that consensus exists, which is an obvious statement. You can google any of these and confirm that economists agree on effectiveness of tariffs, but none of the other
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by koube 8y ago
Chang seems to be conflating two visions of economics: one vision of economics that says how things are, and one vision that says how things should be. There's a lot of overlap, of course, but one is economic theory and one is politica
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by koube 8y ago
The point of my example is that my main priority is coding speed, and other things are an issue only if processing takes a long time. A systems language typically has a much slower coding speed than say, python, which is what I mainly use n
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by koube 8y ago
True, that's a problem I don't have anymore but it's a quick and understandable example of a mistake that I think lots of people had made before. Instead of a comma I would actually recommend f-strings, which are python'
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by koube 8y ago
I took a look at Go but it seems to be more of a systems language than a scripting language and I assume that means it's less amendable to "This guy across the country needs this information in 2 hours max".
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by koube 8y ago
Maybe off topic, but I do a lot of ad-hoc python scripts where I drop scripts everywhere in my filesystem, but I need dependencies installed in a virtualenv so my ad-hoc scripts can access them. The problem I'm having is that sometimes
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by koube 8y ago
What exactly do you have a problem with? You want discussions of inequality to center around police obesity more ? Or did you perhaps not know that the order of comments can change? I am literally pointing out that the top few comments wer
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by koube 8y ago
I didn't advocate any position besides that violent revolution is improbable. Is the improbability of violent revolution a neoliberal concept? Do I ignore workers when I state that discussions around police obesity are not grounded eco
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by koube 8y ago
This thread is one of the prime examples of Hacker News being terrible when going off topic. You only have to read three comments to get to the most upvoted person saying the rich are at risk of violent revolution. A few more comments and p
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by koube 8y ago
I believe some of them can't be mixed, like if you throw something oily and paper in the same bin, the paper can't be used anymore. Also plastic bags make things very difficult to sort, and are difficult to separate from other thi
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by koube 8y ago
I would think (hope) that it's a vocal minority. If you have mixed or no feelings about a company there's no reason to say anything, you only say something if you have very positive feelings or very negative feelings, and in the c
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by koube 8y ago
Over time people build up useful heuristics. There is a difference between questioning authority vs questioning why tuesdays exist and if maybe it's sunday for dogs.
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by koube 8y ago
I was always a bit skeptical that just posting a phone number helps people, although it must have helped some people at least. But besides that, what is there to do? Is depression even something that can be helped with?
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by koube 8y ago
Holy crap, you just fixed bitbucket for me. I don't think I've ever shrunk that panel since I didn't even know how to do that, so I would think that the shrunk version is the default.

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