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by ninkendo 3y ago
Hopefully experts in lawmaking. Of course you’re right that we as an electorate do terrible job of electing good lawmakers, but that’s on us, not the lawmakers. You’re absolutely right that this system sucks because of this. In fact, it’s t
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by ninkendo 3y ago
An oligarchy of elected experts is precisely what representative democracy is. Giving every decision directly to the voters is not something you see in any democracy today. We elect people to make these decisions on our behalf.
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And not peeing on your hands is good too, but I still wash my hands after going to the bathroom.
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> Saying the only way to 'owe' anything is through money sounds like a... weird Americanism to me (speaking as an American). In their defense, using taxes to pay others to do the work of maintaining/defending a nation allo
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I understand what you’re saying, but a country that only has people enlisted when they’re already at war, is not one that’s going to be very secure. Constant preparation is necessary for any nation that wants to have its own military, and b
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by ninkendo 3y ago
Fun fact, this is also where the word “jazz” originates: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazz_(word) > "Jasm" derives from or is a variant of the slang term "jism" or "gism", which the
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by ninkendo 3y ago
Perhaps on the server, deep in their ops orgs, or for some internal tooling, but I don’t think any of the software they ship to devices is rust (yet?) If someone found a rust binary somewhere on a macOS install I’d be super interested.
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by ninkendo 3y ago
I don’t know which of you is right, but I think you’re saying different things. They’re saying positions that are actually open right now are paying less, and you’re saying salaries for existing employees are flat. They could be right if th
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by ninkendo 3y ago
If CICO isn't practical, what is ? If you're someone whose base metabolic rate plummets so much when dieting that you have to basically starve just to lose weight, you're probably screwed no matter what. Why single out CIC
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I mean, it’s not that far off. Take this guy who ate only twinkies/nutty bars/donuts/doritos for a month (with some veggies added in for fiber/ruffage): https://www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/11/0
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by ninkendo 3y ago
Your understanding of CICO (or at least the point I am making about it) is wrong in your “B” paragraph. My argument boils down to the following: For every individual, at any given time, there is a metabolic rate M for which, if their calori
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by ninkendo 3y ago
No, I’m saying I’m making no claim on that because I very much don’t want to get into the ( very ) subjective and context-dependent argument about whether a diet is a good idea for someone or not. My claim is much narrower: CICO works if yo
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by ninkendo 3y ago
> Well if CICO is not a good idea, not really healthy not really applicable to most people, then why bring it up when we are talking about solution to obesity ? You may want to read my first post again. I spend nearly the entire post ag
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by ninkendo 3y ago
whoosh That was the sound of you zooming right past my argument and pretending I was saying something I wasn’t. I’m not saying CICO is a good idea. I’m not saying it’s healthy. I’m not saying it’s easy. I’m not saying it will have a hig
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by ninkendo 3y ago
> It doesn't take long for the basal rate to fall to whatever your intake is because the system evolved to naturally have a lot of room to spare All this is accounted for in this sentence of my post: > your base metabolic rate al
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by ninkendo 3y ago
It sounds like any other of these diets that tell you when and how to eat but not how much. I’m pretty sure I could gain weight when doing everything you describe, if I eat really terribly during the days I eat “plenty of carbs”. The key
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by ninkendo 3y ago
CICO doesn’t work across individuals for reason you outline (just because I lose weight with a certain level of calories, doesn’t mean you will, etc.) But for a single individual, working to establish your base metabolic rate by counting ev
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by ninkendo 3y ago
I don’t even think it’s the eccentricity that does it, all it matters is that the earth isn’t tidally locked with the moon, that’s what gives you the tides: Earth is rotating faster than the moon orbits and so different parts of the earth f
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by ninkendo 3y ago
> the point is that our current social structures seem incompatible with even replacement levels of child birth. This means our current social structures need to change. We can’t have exponential growth forever. It’s literally not possib
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by ninkendo 3y ago
> He said, and I'll never forget his expression, "Oh. I hadn't realized that" Are you sure he wasn’t just saying what you wanted to hear in order to end the discussion? Most people don’t want to talk politics at work
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by ninkendo 3y ago
For SAML in particular I can definitely relate here. I will say though, that for SaaS products that you want large companies to use, you owe it to yourself to have an auth layer that is immensely flexible and pluggable. Auth is a huge mess
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by ninkendo 3y ago
As they should, because there’s no such thing as “your own well.” A well lets you pump water from a shared aquifer. If 100 parcels of land were on one aquifer and one resident pumped all of it, leaving none for anyone else, it would be a mi
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by ninkendo 3y ago
> including all the messy history is a more honest representation of what actually happened I don’t think anyone needs to see the hundred incantations of `git commit -a -m fuckfuckfuck` I do before I make a PR. To those who say “you shou
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Precisely what I don’t care to read. Especially when they start the article giving background, tease that there’s an important thing coming, and then instead of getting to the point, it starts an interview which resets the conversation back
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by ninkendo 3y ago
The way I’ve always imagined crown shyness (from a total less-than-layman perspective where I’ve only casually read about the topic) is from a game theory/selfish gene perspective. Trees of the same species will share a lot of the same
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My point is that I support legislation that would ban single use plastic, but I don’t necessarily avoid single use plastic in my daily life. This “pattern” shouldn’t be assumed to extend to every facet of my life: I don’t make all my decisi
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by ninkendo 3y ago
> Grains of Sand: If you were to count grains of sand, assuming roughly 10,000 grains per cup, you would need about 1.6 trillion cups of sand to reach 16 trillion grains. Math is not ChatGPT’s strong suit.
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by ninkendo 3y ago
> By this logic, the primary basis on which we make decisions is whatever provides a personal advantage. I think you’re approaching my comment in a very uncharitable way. I said I can support legislation that contradicts my personal be
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by ninkendo 3y ago
I think Apple solves this pretty well in iOS… there’s pretty simple iCloud API’s apps can use to store basic data (also structured data with CKDatabase/etc) which automatically just use the user’s iCloud account storage and implicitly
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by ninkendo 3y ago
> 2. Legislation won’t happen until enough people care enough to demand it I can demand legislation to encourage/require behavior that I myself won’t practice in absence of said legislation. It sounds counterintuitive but it makes s

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