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by lukev 8y ago
This is the primary reason I'm sticking with Apple over Android, even as Android hardware gets nicer and Apple software gets worse. I don't take everything they say on faith, of course, but it seems plausible for them to take that
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by lukev 8y ago
The ancient techniques have been lost, but it's spitting against the wind to try and refer to "modern" Damascus by a different name.
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by lukev 8y ago
By that logic, we should be putting all the money we're putting into driverless cars into getting more people to travel by bus, rail and air, all of which are a much much better than marginal improvement in terms of deaths per person-m
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by lukev 8y ago
As a DM, the #1 tool on my wishlist is a world generator like donjon's, but zoomable (ala google maps) with reasonable procedural generation at levels down to a few meters. I recognize that this is a significantly challenging task, but
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by lukev 8y ago
For the record, I do think WW2 was worth fighting. It's about as clear-cut case of national self defense as you'll find in the history books. Even people who are normally quite pacifist don't really dispute this in the genera
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Everything bad about Facebook is bad for the same reason(qz.com)
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by lukev 8y ago
This is an excellent point and I’m sorry it’s being flagged. If you think that as humans we all have moral value that transcends our citizenship, and you ALSO believe that violence is a legitimate way to settle grievances, than ensuring th
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by lukev 8y ago
This is a defense of violence as old as war itself. “Sure, violence is bad, but if we do it MY way there will be less in the long run!” Meanwhile people keep dying and somehow it’s never only the bad guys who suffer.
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by lukev 8y ago
This is fascinating. What other things fall into this intriguing category, where doing a Very Bad Thing is ok, but observing that someone seems to be in favor of a Very Bad Thing is downright terrible? And how is a society to defend itself
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by lukev 8y ago
So let me get this straight: Implying that someone holds a racist ideology: unacceptable ad-homenim. Actually holding a racist ideology: just fine, or at least we can't stop it without censoring free thought. Also I don't know why
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by lukev 8y ago
Yes, I do in fact think that blatant racism is "wrongthink" and has no place in civilized discourse. I definitely think it is a more serious issue than using curse words or expressing negative sentiments. Also, if you think that t
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by lukev 8y ago
This kind of automated or rule-based analysis is not sufficiently smart to use as any kind of moderation tool. And it won't be until it can interpret semantic content as well as recognize patterns. Consider the following exchange: Per
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by lukev 8y ago
And abolishing ICE (or what ICE has become) actually isn't that radical. It was created as part of the Homeland Security Act in 2002 as part of the (over)reaction to 9/11 . Before that, customs and immigration concerns were handle
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by lukev 8y ago
The interesting thing about serverless for me is that although it's compelling to run services without needing to "manage servers", other tooling has largely closed that gap. When I'm scripting a system deploy to AWS (fo
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by lukev 9y ago
> Feelings have no “technically correct.” They’re just what the feeler is telling you. When someone tells you how they feel, you can pack up your magnifying glass and clue kit, cuz that’s the answer. You’re done. This is such an importa
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by lukev 9y ago
This cuts both ways though. Sure, if you learn Java you'll be likely to find employment. If you learn Java and also Scala and Clojure, and some Haskell and R just to round out your experience, then you will find a much higher paying
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by lukev 9y ago
I don't understand why to you, population rise implies migration. Africa (currently) has a lower population density than Europe or Asia. We know people can sustainably live at much higher densities than Africans currently do. The drive
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by lukev 9y ago
Absolutely true, but keep in mind as well that each of these companies is running a completely different tech stack, for different use cases. They can't be lumped together for comparison.
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by lukev 9y ago
This is the important statistic. Evidence so far points to autonomous drivers being worse than human drivers. In which they definitely have no place on the streets without a lot more R&D.
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by lukev 9y ago
The problem is not that there exist people who are creating fake content and hosting it on youtube. If that were all, it would be (mostly) fine. The problem is that gamification and engagement mechanisms pull people deeper into that rabbit
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by lukev 9y ago
That's not 20 years down the road, that's now. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/10/opinion/sunday/youtube-po... This is an opinion piece, but the author is a respected professor who has don
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by lukev 9y ago
The woman in the article had a severe allergy. Many substances far more commonly used than quinine can also cause life-threatening allergic reactions. It doesn't seem quite fair to criticize people for consuming a classic ingredient wh
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by lukev 9y ago
And yet that is what is mandated in the constitution.
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by lukev 9y ago
That's specifically what the AGPL does (as opposed to the GPL.) The copyleft "infection" is deliberately transmitted via network clients, not just static linking. So you actually can't release a permissively licensed c
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by lukev 9y ago
Civility is nice, but I don't think it's what's fundamentally wrong with Twitter. One can (and people do) express hateful ideas quite politely. Preserving some concept of free speech while also preventing it from growing into
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by lukev 9y ago
It's not crazy creativity, it's thinking of things in terms of math. When you start thinking about situations in mathematical terms, you can start playing with variables. When you translate that back into layman's terms, it s
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by lukev 9y ago
That's just swapping one kind of abuse for another. It is already almost impossible to survive on minimum wage in many parts of the country. Stated bluntly: there is nothing stopping the free market from abusing or killing people if th
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by lukev 9y ago
What technology does the communications channel use? If IP based, what happens when the connection drops or lags? Will the car pull over, keep driving, or just stop in the middle of the road?
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by lukev 9y ago
Learner drivers have an instructor in the passenger seat. Who has a set of auxiliary brakes.
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by lukev 9y ago
This is exactly the kind of thing for which (in my experience), libertarians of the type common in tech don't have a good answer. Preventing this kind of abuse involves regulation, either directly or via unions (which themselves must h

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