lliamander

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by lliamander 3y ago
If you've ever heard of something being "borked", the phrase comes precisely from what happened Bork. I don't think Kavanaugh is especially impressive as a legal mind, but in the debates I had at the time with staunch op
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by lliamander 3y ago
A more critical difference to me seems to be the abhorrent character assassination tactics employed against Bork, Thomas, and Kavanaugh during their confirmation hearings. Merely refusing to consider Garland seems much milder than to attemp
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by lliamander 3y ago
- The accuser's story had a number of missing (and, IIRC, contradictory) details - There were no corroborating witnesses - Kavanaugh's own personal calendar from the year in question has no entries for the party at which the assau
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by lliamander 3y ago
> A regular govt worker receiving a $25 gift card has to report it or could be fired, but once you get to Supreme Court, you can do whatever you want. For the regular government worker, does it matter who gives you that card? In the priv
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by lliamander 4y ago
My experience is the same. In an industry allegedly full of (so-called) assholes, you would think it would be a more obvious strategy. I'm also wary of complaints that someone isn't being sufficiently tactful in their communicatio
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by lliamander 4y ago
> Here is a relatively quick video of him pretty directly critiquing what you just stated... None of that big wall of text seems to directly address anything I actually said. > It is not positive government policy that is the problem
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by lliamander 4y ago
I agree we live in a relatively oligarchic society - that is an inescapable outcome for democracies. We would probably disagree as to the causes and alternatives to this oligarchic structure, but I don't want to go down that rabbit hol
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by lliamander 4y ago
> Institutional corruption will not be solved by losing trust in the institutions. When the institution dies because nobody trusts it you don't all of a sudden get good health care. That's a fair point. "Burn it down"
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by lliamander 4y ago
> That's also a trainable skill, learning how to learn new concepts quickly Maybe to a limited extent, but most of the difference is likely natural ability.
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by lliamander 4y ago
Your anecdote doesn't really prove anything. "Intelligent" doesn't mean "free of character flaws" or "happy" or "wealthy". Meanwhile, intelligence research continues to be one of the more fr
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by lliamander 4y ago
Except that smart people need less y to learn almost any x, which is part of what it means to be smart.
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by lliamander 4y ago
Indeed. The only levers government has is to subsidize demand and restrict supply, both of which have the effect of increasing prices and making life less affordable.
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by lliamander 4y ago
There has long been a relationship between the tech industry (Silicon Valley definitely included) and the military. While I can't know what you say is true for sure, given the military's history with things like the internet, GPS,
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by lliamander 4y ago
How does the compiler know which parts of the code can be run in parallel? My understanding is that while parallelism (actually executing instructions simultaneously) is a property of the runtime, it depends upon concurrency (the separation
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by lliamander 4y ago
> what does this have to do with "role playing"? Except there are orcs. "Role-playing" has multiple connotations. The author was playing off of those. > as opposed to some other, non-literal moon? "Literal&quo
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by lliamander 4y ago
Shareholders are the people who own the company. The company is collectively their property. The officers of a company (CEO, etc) are caretakers of that property on behalf of the shareholders. If you own a Pizza Hut, and you hire someone to
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by lliamander 4y ago
These clothes make me think of the markings used by butterflies and other animals to ward off predators.
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by lliamander 4y ago
It's definitely a skill that takes time to develop, but don't be discouraged! Even reading code in the way you are now is helping you develop this skill. Your ability to navigate a codebase, to able to see how its components relat
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by lliamander 4y ago
Ah, that makes more sense. My thanks to you and Kim_Bruning for the clarification!
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by lliamander 4y ago
It's half of the reason I post on the internet.
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by lliamander 4y ago
It's really not worth the read. The whole point of the rationalist movement what to develop better intellectual hygiene, which meant taking people at their word and arguing against their ideas in good faith (Scott Alexander being the b
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by lliamander 4y ago
I think we mostly agree, except that I'm not sure how it could be improved: it's clear, to the point, and has numerous concrete examples. Criticisms of tone are more subjective, but I don't think they hold up here either. It
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by lliamander 4y ago
> Please don't follow the advice of this column. Be patient. Encourage anyone and everyone to ask questions, even if they're "duplicates" or "easy to answer". Use the Socratic Method (ask questions that lead
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by lliamander 4y ago
You raise some interesting points. Let me see if I can address them. > An exploding mortgage wrapped in mortgage insurance has exactly the same shape as a conventional mortgage from a fractional reserve bank. The insurer would be doing
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by lliamander 4y ago
So, I'm a layman here, but I feel like he makes narrow banking (i.e. full-reserve or maturity-matched banking) sound more dangerous than it probably is, for instance: > Take an exploding mortgage, the only way to finance homes in a
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by lliamander 4y ago
What's important to understand is that certifications can be used in different ways by different industries. Some use them as a minimum requirement for performing certain jobs. In such a case, listing certifications is valuable not b
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by lliamander 4y ago
Most everything I've seen about advancing beyond "career-level" (usually into a "staff+" engineer track) has said that ability alone will not get you a promotion. In general, there needs to be a "business need&
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by lliamander 4y ago
I bought a Brother printer based on the review from rtings.com and I haven't looked back.
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by lliamander 4y ago
> "Libertarian thought" is an oxymoron What a juvenile response. Are we in middle-school now? > Please go hawk your NFTs somewhere else. It's clear from comments like this that you aren't actually arguing with me,
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by lliamander 4y ago
Rand (along with Rose Lane Wilder, and others) was a seminal figure in the development of contemporary libertarian thought. She's no more of a cult figure than Marx, and yet he is taught uncritically. The contradiction is not lost on t

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