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by meowface 5y ago
For the record, my original comment before I deleted it was exclusively referring to cases of deliberate violent crimes, with a caveat that it should probably be restricted to just homicide.
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by meowface 5y ago
[deleted because I didn't articulate this well]
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by meowface 5y ago
Just as evidence I'm not defending them, I find their project totally unethical, and the owners and their associates are also highly involved with internet fascism and credential phishing (I know the source isn't the best, but I r
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by meowface 5y ago
>So, TL;DR: the particular sweetener doesn't define the taste of the whole drink, it really depends if I will like it or not. To me, artificial sweeteners instantly overpower the taste of anything I drink. I'm not a big fan of
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by meowface 5y ago
>Karp has described himself as a socialist and a progressive, and said he voted for Hillary Clinton. In 2017, he was recorded during a Palantir company meeting claiming he turned down an invitation from President Trump, saying “I respect
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by meowface 5y ago
And looks like downvoting is granted at 501 karma. Also: >Additionally, founders of YC companies see each other's usernames show up in orange, which — although not an explicit benefit — does allow fellow YC founders to immediately i
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by meowface 5y ago
>So I'm surprised by how it is almost unanimously assumed to be bad-tasting. I'm one of the people who finds Diet Coke and Coke Zero terrible-tasting. Do you enjoy the taste of any other artificially sweetened drinks, out of cu
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by meowface 5y ago
They taste completely different to me. (Both Diet Coke and Coke Zero.) Admittedly, I haven't tried the apparent new formula you mentioned, though. I've never had any drink with an artificial sweetener that I've enjoyed the ta
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by meowface 5y ago
Right. They were saying they much prefer the current way over the proposed way. It makes sense if you realize that the function is defined once, and for the function need to be defined, its signature needs to be defined with it. Default arg
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by meowface 5y ago
>Karma has no value at the moment. It's best that it remains this way. Exactly. One can't forget Goodhart's law. HN is very smart about it. I like that you can downvote other posts only after reaching a certain karma thres
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by meowface 5y ago
Sorry, maybe I worded my comment poorly. I'm not trying to say "why are you talking about Ethereum and not Bitcoin instead?", or something like that. Here, it's a tiny bit like trying to link NFTs to racism because there
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by meowface 5y ago
> https://papyrusnft.io It's good they're trying to find less environmentally-costly alternatives, but the mere existence of this domain makes the whole enterprise feel much more sketchy and greasy to me, honestly.
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by meowface 5y ago
It's odd to me that people focus so much on Ethereum NFTs' environmental impact. It's certainly not good, but it's currently nowhere close to Bitcoin's consumption, and within 1 - 3 years will likely be reduced to t
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by meowface 5y ago
Yeah, it's probably not bikeshedding when it concerns a very popular programming language's syntax. I just find myself prone to bikeshedding and pedantic naming indecisiveness in general.
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by meowface 5y ago
Even though the PEP doesn't explicitly mention mutable default arguments, I'm pretty sure it's intended for this use case, as well. It should address this issue. >Function parameters can have default values which are calcu
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by meowface 5y ago
Yeah, the more I look at it, the more I'm a fan of "?=". Kind of seems like the obvious choice at this point. The only potential downside is that standard, function definition-time default arguments also imply "present?
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by meowface 5y ago
Sounds like a good idea. Not really a fan of the suggested syntax, though: def fn(s, n=>len(s)): "=>" just kind of bugs me, for some reason. (I love me some bikeshedding.) Of the alternatives they offer, ":=&quot
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by meowface 5y ago
Yes, that's a real risk. Check out this thread, which /r/Nootropics has wisely kept stickied for a while: https://www.reddit.com/r/Nootropics/comments/pbz9mx/warnings... . It's an anec
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by meowface 5y ago
Reminds me a bit of cerebrolysin self-experiments I've read. It can either permanently make you smarter or permanently give you brain damage. Or both, perhaps. (For anyone unaware, it's a bunch of neuropeptides harvested from pig
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by meowface 5y ago
Wow, that sounds pretty incredible. Part of what makes it sound promising to me is the extent of the "no free lunch" aspect: anecdotal reports of not just cardiac issues in humans and dogs but increased brain fog (mitigated with f
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by meowface 5y ago
I think that's the joke.
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by meowface 5y ago
You can also use a stricter subset of YAML that removes things like the "no" footgun. Plenty of such strict parsers exist across languages. Maybe it's no longer technically YAML at that point, but you get all the nice parts o
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by meowface 5y ago
It's worse than even that. It's people essentially groveling or even degrading themselves so that maybe you'll voluntarily choose to pay them, desperately clinging onto the hope that you're not one of the people who simp
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by meowface 5y ago
I don't know what the laws are, but the amount of smoking centimeters away from the entrances of buildings in Europe was staggering to me as an American. Both from patrons and employees. I was breathing in smoke plumes pretty much ever
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by meowface 5y ago
For what it's worth, I thought it was funny.
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by meowface 5y ago
This is the primary argument I see hunters use to justify hunting as an ethical form of killing, in contrast to factory farming. Obviously it's better to kill someone or something quickly and painlessly than slowly and painfully, but I
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by meowface 5y ago
>I see nothing immoral in a bear eating a human. It’s just being a bear. But just like any other social animal, as humans we’re of course going to kill that bear so it stops eating us. It has nothing to do with us being superior than a b
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by meowface 5y ago
Case in point. I think comments like this are going to dominate online discussions much more than they already do over the next few years.
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by meowface 5y ago
>Where it gets interesting is... what if crypto becomes anathema? What if accepting crypto or holding crypto starts become so closely associated with directly causing climate change, that no company is going to want to be openly associat
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by meowface 5y ago
>Predictive tweaks aren't good in a keyboard, you want everything to be intentional, or you'll lose time and patience correcting things. Spellcheck should be post hoc imho. Just depends on what kind of keyboard you're usin

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