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by mmirate 9y ago
Broken clocks are right twice a day. Religion sucks, but Soviet Communism's anti-religious nature doesn't excuse its foibles.
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by mmirate 9y ago
Because copying their gun control laws would, at best, not save any lives. If you outlaw guns, then only outlaws will have guns.
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A Universal Basic Income Would Engorge the Paternal State(fee.org)
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by mmirate 9y ago
The first service comes at the cost of losing one's entire account. The second one does not. Therefore the second one is far more valuable.
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by mmirate 9y ago
AFAIK, HN has no OAuth2 or similar, so a SAAS would not work for this task; the users would have to host such software themselves on someplace that they trust with their HN password.
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by mmirate 9y ago
https://archive.org/stream/HarrisonBergeron/Harrison%20Berge...
427.
by mmirate 9y ago
Then people on HN are just being lazy, by not writing software to auto-downvote all future comments by people they dislike.
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by mmirate 9y ago
In other words, nobody watches the watchers. What a surprise.
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by mmirate 9y ago
(a) Tough shit for them, then. (b) If they're that dependent, it is highly questionable that they even own anything in the first place.
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by mmirate 9y ago
I don't understand. I mean every word I've said in this thread.
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by mmirate 9y ago
I mean, whoever is dumb enough to gamble, deserves to lose everything. And if they want to then shoot people, I'm sure the police will be more than obligated to do their jobs.
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by mmirate 9y ago
> a regressive tax on people who don't understand probability This is precisely why I support lotteries etc.
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by mmirate 9y ago
Independently of the arguments of the other person who has graciously responded to you ... please read this story: https://archive.org/stream/HarrisonBergeron/Harrison%20Berge...
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by mmirate 9y ago
Quite obviously the billions of people outweigh the millions of soldiers.
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by mmirate 9y ago
Generally, both zero. Some exceptions: To someone suffering depression or similar mental troubles, both may be worth potentially the entirety of possible future lifetime earnings, potentially zero ... or potentially some trivial amount in b
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by mmirate 9y ago
> What about human feelings (e.g. mental/physical health)? Are those important in evaluating experiences? If, and only if, they have a monetary effect. For example a professional foot-racer becoming more healthy by X amount means
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by mmirate 9y ago
That is probably because the only way of evaluating a noneducational experience is via opportunity costs. (The adjective "monetary" is redundant when discussing evaluations and costs.) Obviously, educational experiences can be e
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by mmirate 9y ago
> best friend Far from it! After the kinds of procrastination that I've done previously in undergraduate, I think of myself as my worst enemy . (Or at best, sometimes, as a worst-enemy who has been defeated and is paying reparation
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by mmirate 9y ago
Putting aside for discussion's sake the question of the very existence of any merits at all of compassion... why particularly should I ever be self -compassionate? A person cannot control other people's actions the way they can c
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by mmirate 9y ago
I haven't even interviewed with Amazon, but I'm still curious: outside of "office politics" bullshit, why should an idea ever be judged by who made it or its _a priori_ "apparent craziness", let alone given t
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by mmirate 9y ago
I'd argue that we and our minds have enough weaknesses in comparison to machines, that it is not fortunate that we aren't more like machines. We'd be far less vulnerable to making the kinds of mistakes that only human minds
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by mmirate 9y ago
Fair enough. But the inherent complexity of a modern Intel hardware design surely puts at least a lower bound on the probability of bugs.
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by mmirate 9y ago
Isn't this what insurance is for?
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by mmirate 9y ago
That differs from city to city, sometimes even smaller than that. Personally, one of the reasons I don't bother to use my bike very much is that the bike racks near my undergraduate institution's lecture buildings - but not their
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by mmirate 9y ago
> a bicycle These only work if the destination isn't an event that requires attendees to be presentable and thus avoid smelling like cyclists. (And if it was close enough for a "casual-effort cycling" then it was close eno
446.
by mmirate 9y ago
Generally, casual biking has little average-speed benefit over walking, in which case why bother?
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by mmirate 9y ago
Hmm. If I were a physicist I would probably find his works utterly defeatist.
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by mmirate 9y ago
Use Arc::downgrade() to get a Weak<Mutex<T>> as needed. Weak<U> is like Arc<U> but does not affect the value's reference count.
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by mmirate 9y ago
That's easy, just change your program so that every value of type T is now a value of type Arc<Mutex<T>>.
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by mmirate 9y ago
You do not gain sufficient happiness from your startup's financial success?

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