mLuby

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   by mLuby 6y ago

   Good points. Nevertheless, until we have a convincing answer to this, I have to treat mind uploaders and destructive teleporters as murderboxes.
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   by mLuby 6y ago

   Format reminds me of this cold war story: https://www.tor.com/2012/07/20/a-tall-tail "It made a horrible kind of sense, for Cold War values of sense: not a real rocket motor, but a vile way of getting yo
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   by mLuby 6y ago

   Do they ever not say that? News would be "Pentagon official admits that <thing> doesn't actually threaten national security of largest military on the planet."
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   by mLuby 6y ago

   "Homo Economicus": that we all act out of rational self-interest, subject to mental and physical constraints (though few are conscious of the reasons they act as they do).
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   by mLuby 6y ago

   It's amazing to me how little progress is being made in such an important area.
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   by mLuby 6y ago

   Thanks for introducing me to the Blurb Paradox! Though on first glance, doesn't it suggest that all programming features are good, and only their absence is bad? St. Exupéry's idea of perfection would disagree.
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   by mLuby 7y ago

   I like that definition, but is the response "unresolved," or just "unhelpful?" Maybe "unresolved" has a different meaning in your specialty though. I thought when someone experiences trauma, it makes their brai
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   by mLuby 7y ago

   In the US at least, "values" has come to mean ethical positions, like those brands and politicians claim. For example, "treating all life as sacred" or "helping the neediest" or "maintaining our traditions
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   by mLuby 7y ago

   Well put. Furthermore the damage from terrorist attacks is primarily self-inflicted; the cost of political, economic, and military overreactions far exceeds loss of property and life. Truly, "the only thing we have to fear is fear itse
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    by mLuby 7y ago

    I thought a clear signal of something lacking E2E encryption is if a web browser can display messages without a client-only password. That is, if the company can render your messages in plaintext server-side, they can read them server-sid
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    by mLuby 7y ago

    Look at no-code platforms if you must, but probably you can launch your business with just a website (not app) and an email address.
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    by mLuby 7y ago

    Agreed. I prefer testing how well a candidate can dive into other peoples' code, understand it, and make changes to meet a spec. To respect their at-home and in-person time, that means sending them a small and straightforward codebase,
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    by mLuby 7y ago

    And yet the stock market is already recovering. I guess "worst crisis since Great Depression" has been priced in?
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    by mLuby 7y ago

    I wonder if a keyboard app could do it, since they sit between the user input and the chat app. It would be nice if message transportation were decoupled from composition and consumption. Default bundling is fine for ease of use, but allow
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    by mLuby 7y ago

    I bet they could get their interests to align behind zero taxes. So something else is at play.
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    by mLuby 7y ago

    Legality doesn't imply morality, as in this case where avoiding taxes is legal but immoral.
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    by mLuby 7y ago

    I'd say the extremes are "I am above the law, you are not" and "every law applies equally to us all, no exceptions."
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    by mLuby 7y ago

    The irony is that, as with anti-smoking, massive ad campaigns would be necessary to convince the citizenry to favor a ban on ads. Time for "the ad to end all ads?"
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    by mLuby 7y ago

    > consumers could get better services and products Those services and products are not necessarily better, they're just better advertised. (In fact, they're likely worse.)
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    by mLuby 7y ago

    Right, but then like "accepting cookies" or ToS/EULAs they'll just make explicitly giving them this permission a requirement for using their application, and we're back to where we were before.
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    by mLuby 7y ago

    If a university's objective is to select the applicants most likely to reflect prestige and wealth back onto it, the university is best served by picking those who can most effectively cause themselves to be selected (rather than the
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    by mLuby 7y ago

    Clearly we (taxpayers) can afford it when we bail them out, so businesses must be able to as well.
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    by mLuby 7y ago

    For low frequency, high impact events there's a thing called insurance. The problem is exemptions—like "Acts of God"—which I think should generally be illegal. Higher premiums suck but they'll accurately account for ris
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    by mLuby 7y ago

    Relationships are inherently transactions. Literally the defining act is transferring things between people, be those ideas, items, emotions, actions, etc. Perhaps you mean that some people view relationships as zero-sum, that in any intera
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    by mLuby 7y ago

    Are there people who are both have Global Entry/Precheck and are against govt facial recognition? I'm curious how those two get reconciled.
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    by mLuby 7y ago

    Please try not to escalate unnecessarily, be it in this post or this health crisis. I don't detect any disrespect or lack of empathy. It's acknowledgement of the seriousness of the situation combined with concern for secondary adv
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    by mLuby 7y ago

    Wasn't this Snapchat back in the day? And Twitter before that?
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    by mLuby 7y ago

    Not everything needs to look good on every screen size. I don't expect to be able to read academic papers on my smartwatch, and a simple alarm clock app looks kind of silly when it's fullscreen across a desktop monitor. Likewise,
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    by mLuby 7y ago

    I blame CSS.
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    by mLuby 7y ago

    So does Michael O Chruch's "3-ladder system of social class in the U.S." need revising? https://web.archive.org/web/20151006183427/https://michaeloc...