mmirate3

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by mmirate3 8y ago
> nothing can matter beyond the spatial extent of your body Insofar as the spatial extent of a body is extended by its brain's perception and knowledge ... ... the quoted words form a true statement.
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by mmirate3 8y ago
> only without fully-automated checking The fully-automated checking is precisely what allows one to write unmanaged code without tearing one's hair out.
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by mmirate3 8y ago
Wow! A psychoactive substance that's actually helpful ! (Even though it's clearly not net -helpful due to the serious physiological side-effects.) That's amazing! ... why isn't there more research on isolating this par
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by mmirate3 8y ago
Spoiler alert: nothing can matter to you once you die. (And everyone dies.)
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by mmirate3 8y ago
Actually, you've just outlined one of the good arguments against social contract theory.
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by mmirate3 8y ago
Thank you for being one of the few sane people in this thread.
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by mmirate3 8y ago
Because, for most of these problems ... from the point-of-view of anyone with enough resources to solve them, they are non-problems and/or not severe enough for the solution to be worth the cost. While that remains true, there will nev
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by mmirate3 8y ago
IIRC, it is intended to replace both Android and Chrome OS. And as shown by the Android Open Source Project, they don't need to close-source it to engage in worrisome behavior.
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by mmirate3 8y ago
> we don't do enough OS research like we used to. Don't worry; once they finish it in a few years, Google's new "Fuchsia" OS will let them take over the world (to an even greater extent than today).
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by mmirate3 8y ago
Well that is socialism. (As is our conflation of insurance and charity.) Being a form of price control, it also happens to not work very well. EDIT: and if anyone can explain why forcing doctors and hospitals to provide their services at
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by mmirate3 8y ago
Medical Records and Practice Management are often two separate pieces of software, with only the latter one dealing with billing and insurance.
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by mmirate3 8y ago
Information-security can be oversimplified as one big "holy grail" problem unto itself - and when someone presents some software and proclaims it is "the" solution to that problem, but in fact has presented only a partia
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by mmirate3 8y ago
Oh, I read that comment as sarcasm. Wishful thinking, I suppose.
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by mmirate3 8y ago
Increment your count. I'd say more about it, but I don't think I can write any more eloquently and exhaustively than these folks: https://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/RentControl.html
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by mmirate3 8y ago
> You think Russia or China would launch a ground invasion of a nuclear capable country in a different continent, for no other reason that it looked a bit weak? A nuclear arsenal is nothing without trained and loyal personnel to secure i