marklgr

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by marklgr 11y ago
For some reason, I can't remember for my life how to use cpio, which I find worse than tar even though it has less options. I always mix up input/output mode, and I never remember how passthru mode works exactly.
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> I end up doing a second search on Start Page or Google because DDG still does not have search by date !gday, !gmonth and !gyear are my main 'exit path' from DDG. I also have a good deal of "site:foo.com !g". Otherwi
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The goal is to prevent "echo chambers" where prone to be influenced people build violent or extreme views that will have a real and very detrimental impact on society. It denies the premisse that "speech is just speech and do
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Free speech, American stylen is all or nothing: either you can say absolutely everything, without any reserve, or it is not free speech. Free speech, European style, is: let's cut the bottom 1% in public places--knowing full well it wi
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Encoded things are not meant to be human readable, like some sort of "secret code". The underlying bytes of some Unicode string probably won't be human-readable if you read it byte per byte--it will be like the platform'
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Why not just keep calling it (the popular definition) "loss aversion", and name the other concept with the more precise "reference dependence"?
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Growth mindset does not imply you can achieve anything, just "you definitely can get better". Perhaps overconfidence can become a risk, but it seems a much lesser evil versus the cost of believing the opposite: "Here is your
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I'd rather suggest "Four Views on Free Will"[1], much more in touch with the state of the art and not difficult to read. [1]: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1405134860
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That sounds like a fairly postmodern-ish stance, which I don't really subscribe to. To me, some opinions are better than others, and being able to articulate them well, showing where they come from and what they immply, is part of what
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This is not about trying to convince people, it is about bringing convincing arguments to make an interesting discussion. Otherwise, that's just your opinion thrown in there, and why should anyone care?
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> I have no interest in arguing or convincing those who do not. In my experience, people who say that have a lot of interest in convincing others. It's like, "I don't care what people think or say". It's mostly
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Even if it's true, Hume was a great thinker and keeps historical value. Besides, I'm sure he would agree with your being skeptical of any book, whatever its theses :)
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It's precisely a slippery slope argument[1], which is generally much debatable. Perl somewhat indulged the nix culture tendency to write extremely concise and cryptic one-liners, but* this does not mean that verbosity is good and exp
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In your .ssh/config file: Host * # Do not send pubkey to each and any host PubkeyAuthentication no # Use Agent IdentitiesOnly yes Then override 'PubkeyAuthentication' to yes for each known serve
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It depends on how you define "you". If it's the conscious self, then it does exist, even though it's anywhere near in control of as much as it believes. It's more like it's sometimes notified of what happens in
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Zeno's paradoxes are about convergence of infinite series, something quite puzzling back then. But the infinite regress problem here (or in related free will questions) is not about convergence.
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To me, it's a so-so language, with some bad parts, some ok. On the plus side, it's easy to pick up, and it gets the job done for many projects. Perhaps it's a bit like the Ikea of programming languages, if you will--no the be
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PHP is the language many people love to hate; I guess some of them like the idea of being able to point the black sheep of web development, so that they can tell "maybe we have some flaws, but at least we're not one of these PHP s
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> The problem is as always telling the truly good ideas from the just good. Not only telling the difference, but defining it. The difficulty is avoiding post hoc evaluation, ie. the idea that looks very good in hindsight because it succe
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He's more of a symbol, especially in atheist circles, than a great scientist. His "bout" with Wilson is pretty depressing.
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Sam Harris's book on free will was quite naive--he missed a lot of the key points of today's debate, while being fairly emphatic as though he had just discovered something crucial. I certainly don't hate him, but he remains a
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by marklgr 11y ago
There are people who blame gun control, so I guess many people are apt to come up with their pet peeve.
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For its supporters, it's a strong point of basic income: people, especially unqualified, won't have to accept pretty much any job just to get a roof over their head and some food in their plate. So this gives back some power to sa
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by marklgr 11y ago
This could be like specializing in a technology used professionally by a couple of shops only, with many prominent individuals already working there. If a somewhat abusive culture develops over time, how much would you be willing to put up
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Another point of view is that the wage of the labor (eg. $5/hr) is a subjective amount coming from the negociation between the employer and the employee, and consequently their respective bargaining power. So, for some jobs, the real w
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> Or because I'm right but present an unpopular opinion? Some opinions are neither right nor wrong, they are just point of views, and the unpopular ones tend to get downvoted--admittedly, to a lesser extent on HN than other communit
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This might happen in some (arguably extremely rare) cases, but you know that's the narrative that will be used every time it will be somewhat convenient to torture someone.
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Indeed, once you resort to torture or other "questionable" means, you can't accuse or deny enemies from using them too; this sets new standards. The argument is generally "but they already do it", and in my opinion
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Quite often, the person doesn't realize he wants it to be true, so this raises the question: don't you have similar motives unbeknownst to you, and are you skeptical about them too?
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"If this swamps the courts, all the better, because that will force legislators to act, which will then cause a debate, which will be useful to society." Considering the amount of problems that currently exist and that forced nobo

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