mckn1ght

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by mckn1ght 2y ago
https://xkcd.com/1357/
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by mckn1ght 2y ago
I love doing these exercises and would also love to see the math behind CO2e if anyone could provide a helpful link. I’m also thinking about the carbon emissions that go into getting that piece of paper in your hand. The lost carbon capturi
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by mckn1ght 2y ago
I would love to see a metathread (unintentional h/t to reddit's megathread) that pulls the comments from each link in these replies from you. In any case, thanks!
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by mckn1ght 2y ago
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by mckn1ght 2y ago
> walled-gardens (Facebook most of all, but also Google, Slack, Discord..) took over from open, standards-based protocols and clients. Their speed of integration and iteration gave them an evolutionary edge that the open-client world cou
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by mckn1ght 2y ago
> Please don't fulminate. Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community. > Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading. > Please don't post
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by mckn1ght 2y ago
You asked for an example, and then when presented with one, said, no, that’s not really an example. Your argument to antiquity: “that's what all of the world thought for thousands of years” Your argument to popularity: “probably 99% or
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by mckn1ght 2y ago
> 100% wealth confiscation above any threshold This is a clever play on words, akin to “made with 100% real juice” while 98% is sugar, water, preservative and food dye. Very different framing from “you can inherit e.g. $20 million tax fr
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by mckn1ght 2y ago
If money is the representation of the cooperative effort that has come before you, then hoarding wealth is holding human cooperation hostage. In order for an economy to function, currency needs to, you know, be current. If you lock up curre
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by mckn1ght 2y ago
The lady doth protest too much, methinks. If that’s what you want to believe, so be it, but I disagree.
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by mckn1ght 2y ago
Bad analogy. Money is representative of externalities, of things exchanged by others, like the time they spent working to earn the income, or selling something, and it extends through many levels of transactions in society. That’s nothing l
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by mckn1ght 2y ago
Do you actually expect serious responses to your hyperbolically emotional and sarcastic posts? Well, here goes… The only implementation detail I would change is the flat rate of $20 million. I would peg it to something like GDP per capita o
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by mckn1ght 2y ago
So in this thread you’ve got reflexive denial, appeal to antiquity, appeal to popularity, and now no true scotsman. You’re really on a roll!
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The Christian nationalist movement are the people saying things like “Many people have told me that God spared my life for a reason, and that reason was to save our country and to restore America to greatness” - Trump
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by mckn1ght 2y ago
At some point the people at the top turnover. Zuck might just hang in there long enough to step into that role. The resources at his disposal certainly don’t hurt his chances.
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Don’t forget that the second amendment exists to ensure the sanctity of the first!
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They aren’t mutually exclusive. What general point are you trying to make? That there is no democratic process in the USA? Because we have federal and state level democratic processes.
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by mckn1ght 2y ago
Sure, a democratic one. So?
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by mckn1ght 2y ago
Icebug makes nice integrated-stud shoes and boots. I have a pair of Salomon winter cross spikes that are fantastic.
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AI still lacks "common" sense, 70 years later(garymarcus.substack.com)
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by mckn1ght 2y ago
Yes, these are different things, which is why I discounted curly braces before. Those are not required for an if statement’s scope. Semicolon’s are “required” everywhere. The compiler can easily spot where one should be by parsing an invali
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by mckn1ght 2y ago
I haven’t used type hints in Python, but can what you’re describing lead to situations where the code cannot run and the interpreter gives you a suggestion on how to fix it?
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by mckn1ght 2y ago
Can you provide an example where syntax that’s required to be typed and can be accurately diagnosed by the compiler can lead to unintended logic? This is not the same thing as like not typing curly braces under an if directive and then addi
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by mckn1ght 2y ago
Moving them to a higher scope makes it harder to change anything in foo. Now anytime you want to read or write a-e you have to build the context to understand their complete lifecycles. If all the logic were smooshed together, or if it were
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by mckn1ght 2y ago
Equating “the social contract” with the type of legal construction involved with actual indentured servitude is some real “a taco is a hotdog” thinking.
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This is obvious to me. A different value system is required to approach justice differently. Sadly this indicates that it is not just our justice system that needs fixing, but instead our entire societal culture. It’s no wonder we have such
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by mckn1ght 2y ago
Indentured servitude was a contract one would enter into voluntarily with a perceived benefit on the other side. I think you’d have to squint pretty hard to argue that every criminal doing labor today voluntarily signed up for it to brighte
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by mckn1ght 2y ago
I’m still making my way through it, but reading a history of shakespearean/elizabethan england, the first written publications of shakespeare’s plays that were accessible to the general public weren’t written by the man himself (if ind
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by mckn1ght 2y ago
Of course I agree that code should be organized logically, but I wonder if you could expand on what you mean. Do you drill down into finer and finer directories of detail, code units, classes and functions? I work with someone that navigate
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by mckn1ght 2y ago
But don’t dare try to sneak any 100-page-or-less books in there about yet more 100-page-or-so books

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