mmirate

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by mmirate 9y ago
Ah, pardon my imprecision; gambling, unlike reproduction, does not have any expected benefits for its sufferers.
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by mmirate 9y ago
Oh? And how else would society figure out that providing things to every warm body that claims to need them, is wasteful? (Oh, wait, we're still socialistic in exactly that manner. So I'd say we need many more people like me.
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by mmirate 9y ago
Oh, it's no doubt a mind-destroyer; that alone makes it quite scary to me, no need to contemplate its other effects. And I'll gladly forsake it quietly, and let those with excess affinity for it, use it to destroy themselves if th
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by mmirate 9y ago
> your brother You mean their brother? Presuming so, then my next paragraph applies to this item also. > other humans in general. But who ? I draw much different conclusions from a physician or a programmer or a chemist or etc, than
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by mmirate 9y ago
Just because K-12 education has become complete shit, does not mean we ought to decrease our standard expectations of the capabilities of an adult mind. It merely means that more will fail those expectations. And not merely more, but very m
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by mmirate 9y ago
> (Most) humans aren't emotionless machines Indeed, and much to our detriment. Which is why... > even highly intelligent people engage in self-destructive behaviour despite recognizing it as such ... this justifies permitting tho
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by mmirate 9y ago
> "If you are that dumb then you deserve to lose everything." Exactly. Full stop. > burden to society They are only burdens because our society takes people upon itself as burdens. This socialism ought be solved directly r
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by mmirate 9y ago
> your brother I lack siblings. > or my brother is innumerate You led with "maybe"; to keep my next sentence's structure from becoming a complete mess, I'll assume that your hypothetical is true. If some random per
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by mmirate 9y ago
> I would say there is more social good in banning junk food. Imagine the healthcare cost savings. The same cost savings could be realized by simply not providing healthcare for the complications of chronic overeating. (The only downside
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by mmirate 9y ago
Then what better way is there, other than legalizing gambling, to select-out-of-the-population those people who are weak-minded enough to become gambling addicts?
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by mmirate 9y ago
And that analogy is wrong because unprotected sex means not only STDs, but also pregnancies, and the latter are why such ignorant peoples' families continue to exist over generations. Gambling, on the other hand, does not impart any be
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by mmirate 9y ago
Gambling/lotteries basically only harm people with innumeracy; ergo why should it ever be prohibited?
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by mmirate 9y ago
Earth is a bigger target, in terms of both mass and size, compared to the Moon and especially compared to a small bubble of air thereon. So almost any weapons would need to be far more precise against a lunar colony than against Earth. * *
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by mmirate 9y ago
Public keys still (ought to) get rotated-out when they've been in-use long enough that they could have been factored in that time.
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by mmirate 9y ago
Yes, it does. Provide input, expect output, send to maintenance dept. when errors occur.
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by mmirate 9y ago
Well, is the total lifetime earning potential of an 18th-century Irishman greater than the value of the meat on an infant? If not, then his proposal would have had merit outside of satire...
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by mmirate 9y ago
If the purchase-price being offered exceeds the sum I think I'll be able to give my heirs as inheritance, then I should actually accept that transaction.
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by mmirate 9y ago
> treat people as machines We are machines. Squishy, carbon-based machines with certain unique computational capabilities, I'll grant - but still, machines.
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by mmirate 9y ago
(2000)
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by mmirate 9y ago
And as to it being "worthwhile for learning" ... failure in that context just means you didn't learn/know enough before you tried.
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by mmirate 9y ago
Be it measured in raw materials, labor, time or "merely" money, most failures cost. In fact I've yet to hear of a fallible endeavor that can fail without first expending at least some portion of the investment required for su
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by mmirate 9y ago
In addition to typeclasses, Rust has discriminated unions (ergo algebraic datatypes), structural pattern matching, first-class functions, local type inference, and an exclusive/nonexclusive dichotomy of references which serves as a use
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by mmirate 9y ago
Rust also has discriminated unions, structural pattern matching and local type inference.
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by mmirate 9y ago
Your statements are all true, in isolation from the question they answer. But I do not see why this risk means that self-worth should not be connected to accomplishments. As I see it, an analogy to your argument would be that making a car&#
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by mmirate 9y ago
Their feelings are accurate. Failure, generally, is indeed quite costly, ergo it would be maladaptive to be even vaguely affine to it.
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by mmirate 9y ago
One problem: CLR interop means that F#, an ML descendant, is usually reduced to "C# but the syntax is less noisy/annoying".
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by mmirate 9y ago
That's a very good thing for a language to have, indeed. But Go isn't the best thing to look into for productivity-via-the-type-system. What is (barring the purely functional languages' learning curve) is most any ML descen
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by mmirate 9y ago
At best, their behavior is idiotic. But short of consuming our entire vocabulary with ever-further steps of euphemism, there are few if any accurate alternative descriptions of the set of people who trust Facebook. "Naïve", perh
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by mmirate 9y ago
Yes, and strongly if not fully. Shouldn't it? If not, why not?
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by mmirate 9y ago
GMail is itself a major privacy issue.

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