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by marricks 6y ago
Passage below is where he really mentions Dawkins: > The epitome of this line of thought came with militant atheist Richard Dawkins’s book The Selfish Gene—a work that insisted all biological entities were best conceived of as “lumbering
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by marricks 6y ago
This article of his I found particularly profound: https://thebaffler.com/salvos/whats-the-point-if-we-cant-hav... > Why do animals play? Well, why shouldn’t they? The real question is: Why does the existence of act
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by marricks 6y ago
Ahh that makes a lot of sense, if you're going to have a compiler insert the result of a function having conditional branching seems a bit gnarly I guess?
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by marricks 6y ago
I wonder why && and || are not allowed in const functions? > All boolean operators except for && and || which are banned since they are short-circuiting. I guess I'm missing something obvious but why does the short c
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by marricks 6y ago
Yep, one night protestors were just as brutal as police, mistaken identity and tensions high from the other night when a car almost ran protesters over. You have one example versus dozens of examples of police violence. And it's Andy N
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by marricks 6y ago
Do you even live in Portland? I do and I live a mile away from the Justice Center where protests centered. There was looting the first night but not much at all since. Also, it's been normal COVID times business as usual in the surroun
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by marricks 6y ago
Andy's reporting in Portland this year was just 100% stealing videos from other reporters and adding his own narrative to them. Most memorably to me he took a video of a couch burning at the justice center and claimed antifa were burni
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by marricks 6y ago
That's patently ridiculous. There's dozens and dozens of incidents like the videos I have listed below of police just brutalizing people, and they've done this to journalists too. Police are angry and want to violently stop p
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by marricks 6y ago
I'm directly talking about Portland, where plenty of protestors have been knocked unconscious by police. People get pepper sprayed in the eyes for no reason besides cops are angry. If you want to conflate places to strengthen a case th
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by marricks 6y ago
Pretty sure police officers nightly beating of protestors, pulling off masks and pepper spraying their eyes and assaulting reporters is a very direct attempt at quelling protestors. If you followed the nightly protests in Portland OR with a
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by marricks 6y ago
I really hate how effective this framing is. Now we can bicker over the evils of government surveillance vs public surveillance. They are both bad and Palantir's wrongs are, if anything, far more apparent https://theintercep
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by marricks 6y ago
Apparently there are ~20% more IPO's than last year. https://stockanalysis.com/ipos/2020-list/ So if there are more IPOs and more tech IPOs that's kinda weird on weird.
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by marricks 6y ago
That's what someone suggested on one of yesterday's IPO listings. A massive stock crash seems, uh, reasonable to expect. If owners are cashing out before things go south seems reasonable. Also depressing. I've been really rem
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by marricks 6y ago
I don't remember ever seeing this many S-1 listings on HN. Are they just a new thing? Did I miss them before? Is there something large happening in the market? EDIT: - If this first ddg result is to be believed there are 20% more IPO
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by marricks 6y ago
Wow, Google did lunch with ad scanning huh! I misremembered the controversy, I followed it closely at launch but that was loong ago. That does hurt my premise but I think it overall still holds: - Google did stop reading email for ads in 20
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by marricks 6y ago
If you told someone 2008 that the fun scrappy startup offering Gmail would be reading your emails for ads* (see reply to this!) until 2017 and only stopped when another tech company had a massive leak of personal information which helped s
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by marricks 6y ago
Oatley is replacing half and half and the like for a lot of coffee drinks. It’s not like that dairy is good for you anyways... There’s such an expectation that plant based substitutes should be amazingly healthy when often the things they’r
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by marricks 6y ago
Google did this with “we don’t scan your emails for ads”. Initially, 2009 ish, that was a big line a lot of people cared about but years later here we are, Google scanning emails for targeted ads and that fight is over. EDIT: Thanks for the
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by marricks 6y ago
I'm really not at all interested in people explaining to me how finding mentions of back doors in technology used in millions of computers is probably OK because it may mean something else. Given US security apparatus clearly values an
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by marricks 6y ago
Yeah that’s a good point, it also shows up in weird ways. Like when Facebook auth went down a slew of unrelated apps did too because they relied on it. When I was younger I really wanted one thing to do everything, when chat was integrated
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by marricks 6y ago
I think an interesting counterpoint to my observation is Firefox claimed they lost a lot of users because Google services just broke in odd ways only on Firefox so users moved to Chrome.[1] My counter to that would be, even though Firefox w
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by marricks 6y ago
I wonder if large companies get more of a pass with outages then small ones? Bias towards authority in a way. If a service has a big enough base an outage could almost seem like a pass for everyone. “Oo couldn’t do that this morning GITHUB
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by marricks 6y ago
It will be extremely interesting to see what the dev's say with the test boxes. Curious if there's any magical fixes like switching over to ARM Linux, since the software of an image would likely be compiled for x86 I really doubt
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by marricks 6y ago
Oh don't worry folks, it only applies to "terrorists and other bad actors". God how terrifying, luckily its just 3 arch republicans proposing it, Graham, Cotton, Blackburn. God knows though during the next national security c
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by marricks 6y ago
They said they'd be using Intel chips for a while, it could specifically in regards to Mac Pro. Even if apple could make a great server/high performance chip that seems like possibly a lot of additional work for little gain in t
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by marricks 6y ago
I wonder if they're holding them for the actual hardware release in Fall? They could still be deciding the tradeoff between battery life and raw power.
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by marricks 6y ago
I don't follow them enough to personally have an opinion on if they warranted that treatment or not, but did follow enough to know it really couldn't have been most posts. So really can't argue with you on the validity of the
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by marricks 6y ago
An obvious concern of this would be just silencing content which isn't violent or morally wrong but just not wanted in a large commercially viable website. This is obviously polarizing but something I'll be watching is what happen
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by marricks 6y ago
When I read their comment I first thought it was ever present defense of police "if you're doing nothing wrong you have nothing to fear!" Pretty sure their glibness is just poking fun at that.
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by marricks 6y ago
My point of about hard hitting stories was that NPR either doesn't have them or or when they do they remove the teeth by virtue of the perspective they choose. Take this Wirecard NPR story, Matt owns the Shadowfall company which itself

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