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by meowface 5y ago
I'm not necessarily doubting this, but I feel like this is always a convenient goto excuse to criticize any terrible, unethical military strategy the US is responsible for. Is there good evidence that certain powerful corporations&#x2F
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by meowface 5y ago
It could make for a hilarious new comedic art form.
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by meowface 5y ago
I do think some of the more "advanced" features are definitely a mistake. StrictYAML ( https://github.com/crdoconnor/strictyaml ) is a limited, much saner subset of YAML that I wish people would use more: http
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by meowface 5y ago
Yeah, I completely get the widespread hatred of YAML due to things like that. It regularly gets abused to extreme lengths. But it also regularly gets used for relatively flat, straightforward, easily maintainable config/data files.
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by meowface 5y ago
YAML seems to be one of the most polarizing things in the software industry. I'm personally a big fan of it, though I agree with the author that it becomes a pain once you start trying to use it like a DSL or templating language. I use
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by meowface 5y ago
I could be wrong, but I think the moment of reward (among other things) actually also does cause certain kinds of neurons to release dopamine and then adjust their configuration depending on the relationship between the prediction and the r
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by meowface 5y ago
My understanding is that it's pretty complicated and is associated/released with craving/seeking, anticipation, as well as reward.
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by meowface 5y ago
Don't get me wrong; I think the article is very unfair and awful in many ways. I just thought that particular counter-argument wasn't valid. I think their point about ETC can't really be compared to the Bitcoin community spli
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by meowface 5y ago
It doesn't disprove any fact-checking articles, but, as a hypothetical example, imagine if you learned a fact-checker was convicted of writing lots of bad checks. They might be perfectly honest in other areas of their life, but it cr
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by meowface 5y ago
Right. I'm just referring to things they license.
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by meowface 5y ago
Yeah, it's definitely not entirely out of their hands. My reason for saying "essentially out of their hands": if their analysis shows that, say, they would almost certainly just be bleeding huge amounts of money by purchasing
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by meowface 5y ago
>The potential for messing up on the way is simply enormous. Remember Silk Road? Guy got v& because of a stackoverflow post. Ulbricht messed up in a lot of different ways. That was just one of the many. It wasn't just one little
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by meowface 5y ago
True, that's a good point. Has it been confirmed that they're just blanket-blocking VPN IPs rather than specifically blocking cases of a customer's region shifting/not matching their registration details? If the VPN node
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by meowface 5y ago
I fully agree, but - and someone please correct me if I'm wrong - I was under the impression that this is essentially out of Netflix's hands. It just depends on the terms of the license that's granted, right? And/or is i
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by meowface 5y ago
I'm generally optimistic about cryptocurrencies, but these kind of catastrophe scenarios where cryptocurrencies play the role of savior have always seemed pretty silly to me. If the US dollar collapses or experiences hyperinflation, an
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by meowface 5y ago
>Bitcoin Cash, Bitcoin Gold, Bitcoin Satoshi Vision. Take off the rose-coloured glasses, "your community" isn't sunshine and roses either. I think this is unfair. These are splinter communities. It's like critiquing E
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by meowface 5y ago
Sorry for the confusion; the parent comment was different when I replied to it. It initially started with a quote like: >as a big fan of Harry Potter So I was under the impression they may've believed the post was talking about the
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by meowface 5y ago
The full title is actually "Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality": http://www.hpmor.com
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by meowface 5y ago
I and many others definitely agree with you. I think we're just so used to the opposing view being expressed in full earnestness that the satire was missed by some.
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by meowface 5y ago
I'm not sure why we keep going in circles, either. The first few words of my post made it clear that I understand the utter banality and lack of sense in the point: >I'm aware what I'm about to say is a dumb non sequitur t
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by meowface 5y ago
>caps years of complaints from Black workers that Tesla turned a blind eye to the commonplace use of racial slurs on the assembly line and was slow to clean up graffiti with swastikas and other hate symbols scrawled in common areas Is th
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by meowface 5y ago
Note that although OF claims to do (or may even actually do) identity verification, some of these may be bots using other people's photos and may be components of larger automated spam campaigns/platforms. $100/month multipli
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by meowface 5y ago
Is this satire?
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by meowface 5y ago
This is why Python 3 changed division to return floats rather than ints. ("//" retains the old floor division behavior.)
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by meowface 5y ago
The page offers CDNs as a potential answer. Cloudflare's reverse proxying, for example, prevents this kind of analysis. (An adversary could compromise Cloudflare's or any other CDN's network and snoop that way, but that takes
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by meowface 5y ago
Maybe I'm just sheltered, but I've never worked at a company where I've been screamed at or have heard anyone screaming at anyone. (I have heard stories, but the stories circulated because everyone recognized how atypical, ab
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by meowface 5y ago
To be clear, I definitely didn't want examples in terms of links to the actual content. Just a general description. Like, was a beach ball misclassified as a heinous crime, or was it perfectly legal consensual porn with adults that was
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by meowface 5y ago
Don't make me context switch between being an engineer/designer and being a bureaucrat. That's all I ask. (Okay, not all. It'd also be nice to have ticketing/project management software that isn't super ugly, c
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by meowface 5y ago
It's probably necessary for Earth life, but we don't know for sure that there can't be non-carbon-based life elsewhere in the universe.
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by meowface 5y ago
I agree it's not fascinating. But I actually was going to initially include an addendum about how I think it's not quite the same as pointing out the harms of something as fundamental as atoms or fermions or something. Carbon isn&

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