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by landryraccoon 4y ago
Wouldn’t the skill of analyzing scans improve if they were done more frequently? It seems like you’re promoting a self fulfilling prophecy. Doctors aren’t good at reading scans, so scans will cause false positives. But doctors are capable o
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by landryraccoon 4y ago
The prisoners at Guantanamo haven’t even been charged. How can they be guilty if you can’t even say what they’re allegedly guilty of?
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by landryraccoon 4y ago
What's the problem you're trying to solve? It's perfectly fine as an outsider to try to break into an unfamiliar industry, even a mature one. But what is it exactly you want to accomplish? Electrical power generation is a mat
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by landryraccoon 4y ago
Well, nobody had ever flown a plane before the Wright brothers. Civilization has had grid scale electrical power for over a hundred years. It’s sheer hubris to ignore the fact that this is a mature industry with experts that have studied th
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by landryraccoon 4y ago
I'm still not sure what you're trying to say. My first guess is that climate change deniers are the biggest culprits of trying to make science fit a contradictory world view, and my second guess would be anti-vaccine advocates.
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by landryraccoon 4y ago
I’m curious, I genuinely dont know what sides you’re talking about. Who do you think is stoking the culture war?
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by landryraccoon 4y ago
If the ship arrives early, can't it just sit a few miles from port and wait in the ocean? The ship must have been provisioned to remain at sea for that time anyway if it was expecting to arrive later.
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by landryraccoon 4y ago
> I think we are pretty much maxed out on automation That would be a very surprising result to me. I don't think we're maxed out on automation until the ships are loaded at the port, travel to their destination, then unloaded
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by landryraccoon 4y ago
They could also redesign container ships to carry fewer containers. If automation can reduce the crew requirements and wind power can reduce the fuel consumption, a larger number of more efficient ships might be more viable than a small num
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by landryraccoon 4y ago
That’s horrible. If what you claim is true true, public funding of universities should end. Universities should serve the public interest, and teaching is an essential part of that. The public spends untold billions funding universities and
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by landryraccoon 4y ago
Yeah, I agree. It's a problem with the world. But it's not generally a problem you can solve. The problem that you solve is information. You don't know who's trustworthy and who isn't. If I can give a small amount o
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by landryraccoon 4y ago
I don’t see what the problem is. If you have helped someone a lot, and then call in a favor and the ghost you, you didn’t lose a friend. You lost a parasite. It’s like when you lend money to someone and they avoid you to never pay you back.
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by landryraccoon 4y ago
I’m really surprised this is even possible. Isn’t renewing keys every year as simple as setting a cron job (or whatever the google equivalent is)? How does it even happen that a large organization can forget to renew keys multiple years in
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by landryraccoon 4y ago
Back around 2009 when Facebook was first becoming ascendant, people wondered if social networks were generational. I.e., would each younger generation be willing to use the same social network as their parents? I think the de facto surrende
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by landryraccoon 4y ago
I think the main issue as a consumer is, do I trust Tesla to try to provide me with the best experience? Or are they going to squeeze me and hit me with "aha, gotcha! you should have read the fine print!" every time there's a
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by landryraccoon 4y ago
Can you say more about the influence of renters? It seems to me to be the opposite. The mortgage interest tax deduction is a massive regressive government subsidy for homeowners, and penalizes younger people who rent or cannot afford to buy
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by landryraccoon 4y ago
That doesn't sound like fun to me. That sounds more like a nightmarish psychosis.
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by landryraccoon 4y ago
> Eh, war is simply fun. Well an idealized version of war that’s designed to glorify it could be fun. Is actual war fun? Is the Ukraine war fun? I doubt it’s fun for any of the participants. It’s not fun for Ukrainian soldiers, it’s not
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by landryraccoon 4y ago
What laws were broken here?
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by landryraccoon 4y ago
In the case of a missing user ID, if a more verbose response is desirable, why not put the error message in the body of the response? 404: Route not found vs 404: User ID not found seems like it resolves all ambiguity, no?
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by landryraccoon 4y ago
I don't believe what you think I do. Authoritarian states have been the default for most of human civilization. Freedom is a good, but it doesn't "auto-win". It can lose, and in fact it has lost, over and over and over a
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by landryraccoon 4y ago
Do you think it’s a risk that more authoritarian and belligerent states develop them first? War has been a constant force in human history up to and including the present day. I would greatly prefer that if such weapons exist that my societ
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by landryraccoon 4y ago
Would you restore to a decades old previous commit on a system that had been running just fine in production that entire time? SCOTUS isn't even really the engineering team imho, they're devops . If they're there just to enf
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by landryraccoon 4y ago
I applied it by way of analogy. If you want a political analogy, politically, there is no "right or wrong". SCOTUS is not motivated by adherence to precedent, they clearly have an ideological agenda. They are not, for example, leg
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by landryraccoon 4y ago
I find this argument very unconvincing. To use an engineering analogy, if the government were a software application, this is very much like a senior engineer going on a major refactor of a production system, causing huge breaking changes f
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by landryraccoon 4y ago
I'd prefer if I could use a single OS for most of my needs instead of having to context switch between platforms. In particular, I hate that I need to have a Windows machine for gaming in addition to a Unix machine for everything else.
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by landryraccoon 4y ago
I think we're assuming that if an application ever wants to be "mainstream", it has to be useable by people who don't know what a command line is, let alone what "sudo" means.
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by landryraccoon 4y ago
I didn’t know having multiple remote jobs simultaneously wasn’t kosher. Why resort to Hollywood? I do it all the time. It’s called being a contractor.
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by landryraccoon 4y ago
But you don't have to develop on Macbook. So you intentionally chose a platform known for being really expensive and now your main complaint is that it's too expensive? I don't really think that the toolchain is to blame fo
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by landryraccoon 4y ago
Interesting! I remember that the field was very crowded in those days. It wasn't just Nvidia but many other companies trying to compete with 3Dfx. All of those companies have fallen by the wayside now. What's surprising is that co

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