memefrog

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by memefrog 3y ago
Insurance is about spreading unknown risk. If it is known that you have a higher risk of being paid out then you pay a higher premium. You are hedging against future bad luck (future in the sense of the point in time of the discovery
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by memefrog 3y ago
No it isn't. Insurance is about spreading random risk - hedging against unknowns . It is not about redistributing risk from people that are at higher risk to people that are at lower risk.
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by memefrog 3y ago
I am not remotely interested in what the ISO standard says about C, and I am even less interested in what the ANSI standard says about C++, a completely different language. C is not defined by or constrained to the standard. It predates it
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by memefrog 3y ago
>On the contrary. People complain about stuff like this all the time. Yes. Ignorant people do. They lose the argument because they can't justify their position. >What do you suppose would happen if insurance companies tried to ch
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by memefrog 3y ago
I certainly hope race is factored into insurance! Sex is. Why wouldn't race be? Geographical location is, and that is largely a proxy for race. It is not "unjust" to make more accurate predictions using the data you have a
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by memefrog 3y ago
A book about C isn't a comprehensive guide to every C implementation.
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by memefrog 3y ago
It's not about making more money for them. It's about making sure I am not subsidising you and you are not subsidising me.
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by memefrog 3y ago
If you can't reply to an email with 'YES' then you certainly aren't smart enough to have a good enough job to pay any reasonable amount of money.
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by memefrog 3y ago
>I feel like people with the other definition of OS, do it because they have a vendetta against companies that open-source code with a non-free license. No. It is because that's what the term means and has *ALWAYS* meant. You don&
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by memefrog 3y ago
Downloading and uploading are not the same. 'Scraping' a website is just what all of us do every day.
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by memefrog 3y ago
This seems naive. We live in a society, and clearly lots of people depend on those companies for all sorts of things. If Google disappeared, millions of businesses would lose access to their Google Docs. Many would go out of business. If
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by memefrog 3y ago
It's easy to point this out in hindsight. Doesn't really surprise me.
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by memefrog 3y ago
>Of course you do, especially in applications where there is no benefit to be gained versus using a GC. I am afraid you misunderstood my comment. Of course C isn't good for writing code that calls 'malloc' millions of tim
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by memefrog 3y ago
I don't know what 'your definition is legacy' means. Could you try to speak English? 'Open source' has meant the same thing for decades. Its meaning has not changed.
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by memefrog 3y ago
No, it doesn't. Everyone knows what 'open source' means: what the open source definition says. Literally the *only* place on the Internet where people pretend this isn't true is HN. I have never seen anyone suggest th
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by memefrog 3y ago
C predates the C standard, which describes a common subset of C implementations. It is useful for writing code which works across a variety of implementations. For example, you can write code that works on the Byzantine optimising compile
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by memefrog 3y ago
"Spin up this worker" is trivial: one memory allocation, probably from a free list, to allocate a thread stack, setting a couple of pointers, and a function call. Doing any kind of I/O is much heavier-weight. Thread stacks
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by memefrog 3y ago
Any software that has build instructions that don't work is probably written by morons. I wouldn't want to run it. I certainly have no interest in running software that takes days to compile. Overengineered crap.
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by memefrog 3y ago
>Stolen content uses my labour but routes its fruits to someone else who adds no value. This has nothing to do with "web scraping". Scraping means downloading. What you are complaining about is copyright infringement: they ar
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by memefrog 3y ago
> This is a legitimate concern. This isn't even true. If you publish information on the web, then people are going to download it to their computers. That's the whole point of providing it. When someone accesses your website
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by memefrog 3y ago
If the user can't follow basic instructions then they'll have to try again. Those users absolutely can write 'YES'. They're perfectly capable of doing so. They don't do so because they're lazy. We all
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by memefrog 3y ago
> This directly leads to discrimination against disabled people among other groups. Yes, of course if someone has a disability that puts them at a higher risk of some event, and they want to insure themselves against that event, they&#x2
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by memefrog 3y ago
No, we should not 'strive to eliminate' them. The entire point of insurance is that it is based on risk assessments that are as accurate as possible, using all the information that is available. It is not a wealth redistribution
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by memefrog 3y ago
So the problem is basing policy on junk science. Is basing policy on junk science okay in some fields, but suddenly bad when it applied to genetics? Of course not. What if it's not based on junk science, but on good science?
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by memefrog 3y ago
I am not an infant. I do not read picture books.
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by memefrog 3y ago
> Now you need to deal with « yes », « Yes », « YES. », HTML wrapping, user signatures, dangling spaces, etc. Oh no, you need to find a line of text in a string that contains the word 'YES'. How incredibly difficult. Are you
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by memefrog 3y ago
This link aggregator (it isn't a forum) would be shit if it allowed emoji.
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by memefrog 3y ago
>Or go back a few more generations, even here in the USA you might legally have been declared to be 3/5 of a person. Oh my god can we stop this absurd meme. Nobody was ever 'declared to be 3/5 of a person'. The poin
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by memefrog 3y ago
87% is a huge number. If person X has that genetic predisposition then what's wrong with that rule? If as a society you allow the government to impose 'weekly counselling' on people for some reasons, then you open it up to
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by memefrog 3y ago
>I think about this question a lot. So much of our philosophy of government is about some nebulous "contract", as if we agreed to be governed. I don't think this is actually true? Social contract theory is one of many, an

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