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by mLuby 5y ago
Honor-based cultures come with their own set of problems. > The concept of honour appears to have declined in importance in the modern West; conscience has replaced it in the individual context, and the rule of law (with the rights and d
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by mLuby 5y ago
You're right, but there's a point at which "minimum" is no longer appropriate. I'd expect an "MVP" for an electric car company like Tesla Motors to be a microcar, but instead it was a luxury sports car.
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by mLuby 5y ago
Is labeling someone the opposite of lazy ("tenacious, hard-working, full of grit") similarly intellectually lazy? The same types of factors go into their non-average behavior, just inverted. And it can be a negative trait, altho
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by mLuby 5y ago
Good distinction to make.
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by mLuby 5y ago
This is the American approach right here: "You have to closing all the time. Be aggressive, learn how to push. And there is no such thing as a no-sale call. Either you sell the client some stock, or he sells you on a reason he can&#x27
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by mLuby 5y ago
"It is a gift!" -Boromir Sounds like a great (after-school) opportunity to teach kids how to combat a surveillance state. An education they'll use when they're adults, imagine that!
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by mLuby 5y ago
> who did not consent You almost certainly "consented" by checking "I agree" to the ToS.
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It also pollutes the call stack, making stepping through functions that much more laborious.
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by mLuby 5y ago
Agreed. I've come to view partial application as the original coder saying "I guarantee you'll never need to inspect or modify this parameter from now on." Obviously, that's rarely true in practice. What about parti
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by mLuby 5y ago
This is exactly the plot of The Circle (the book—I haven't seen the movie). > Rape, Muggings, theft, seem like they'd all go down in a world where AR cameras are as ubiquitous as smartphones. A simple mask stops the second two.
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by mLuby 5y ago
A detailed video about how Adm. Rickover maneuvered through bureaucracy to bring into existence America's smallest nuclear submarine: https://youtu.be/2XoPPXQYGXU?t=73
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by mLuby 5y ago
> Have you ever read about the terrible things people do to each other? Or the barbarism of human history? Nearly all perpetrated by the armed against the unarmed. The lesson of "might makes right" is to be suspicious of might
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by mLuby 5y ago
s/Ever/Yet/ Saves one character and leaves room for the near-certainty that there will be larger spending bills in the coming decades.
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by mLuby 5y ago
It's a speech impediment; he has trouble saying R's (and has improved as he's narrated more and more videos). Isaac's earlier videos would show Elmer Fudd with the message "Having problems understanding me? Turn on
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by mLuby 5y ago
> I mean the stakes were incredibly high, billions in revenue for the foreseeable future. That's exactly why the first sequel movie (EpVII: TFA) was so timid; I'm sure it was the most de-risked thing the writers and execs cou
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by mLuby 5y ago
I'm in your camp too on the Skywalker saga, though I really like Rogue One; definitely worth a rewatch. It's a bit scattered (perhaps a result of the massive pre-release re-edit to which it was apparently subjected) but it has its
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by mLuby 5y ago
> Put another way, you could write out on paper the calculations that a chatbot is performing to select what it says. Sounds like Searle's Chinese room. Or more recently, this scene in Marvel's Loki (1-minute clip: https:&#x2F
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by mLuby 5y ago
So would the "accidentally reply-alls in plaintext" for git be "manually edits git-sourced files in production?"
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by mLuby 5y ago
Aren't both of those "powerful adversary" attacks equally valid against Signal, and really any digital communications platform? It depends on how accessible this email metadata is compared to Signal traffic, and how big you&#
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And when you send it over Signal you ALWAYS do so as a disappearing message, because as the article says, "every archived message will eventually leak." (Also you hope nobody quote-replies to your message.)
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by mLuby 5y ago
Banning individual product classes is a sure-fire way to keep regulators forever playing catch-up with industry. Most ideal: make personal data a massive business liability, such that personal data is rarely even collected, let alone stor
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by mLuby 5y ago
> Within the populations studied here, an example of the death of a white-faced capuchin mother from the Lomas Barbudal population is consistent with our expectations of what grief might look like in a wild primate. This female (Chaos) h
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by mLuby 5y ago
> One might reasonably expect Japan… to join the nuclear club soon That would be surprising, but there's more history in favor of it than I'd expected: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_nuclear_weapon_
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by mLuby 5y ago
aicoder< What is a User? nocoder> a User registers with a unique email and a password of more than 16 characters, but not the weird ones just the normal ones. Oh, and on registration give the user a unique id. aicoder< S
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by mLuby 5y ago
That's an improvement on the article's classification. I'd say it's "make the change now; clean up later" engineers vs "clean up now so the change is easy later" engineers. Too much of the former and
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by mLuby 5y ago
Second time you've mentioned this mysterious "2-man team weapon" that can make hostile amphibious landings "nary [sic] impossible" or "painful." Care to share a link? All I can think of is https:/&#x
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by mLuby 5y ago
> “Product-first” engineers are obsessed with using code to solve a user problem and they see code as just a means to an end. > “Code-first” engineers are obsessed with the abstractions, architecture, tools and libraries in the code.
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by mLuby 5y ago
> Most efficient allocation of resources happens in a free market, not in an overly regulated market. No, in a free market, it's winner take all in the race to become too big to fail, regulate, or compete against, so the mega-corp
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2) A giant smokescreen? Creeping (missile) barrage of the beach? There are plenty of ways to make it hard to target anything on a beach. Air cover and missile defense will be a big deal. 3) You mean the civilian population will fight to the
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I'll add that regulation can be an entrenching mechanism, as the overhead of compliance has less relative cost to large existing businesses than to small, new ones. For example: if social media companies were required to ID their use

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