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by ouid 6y ago
Labelling yourself a Nazi is confessing to conspiracy to commit genocide. This is a crime, whereas being disloyal to the president is explicitly not a crime. I'm not a fan of vigilante justice in general, but at least the targets in th
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by ouid 6y ago
He has already identified the selection process by which civilizations evolve: war. War is, historically, where your surplus goes. Surplus elites, surplus laborers, surplus resources, surplus manufacturing capabilities, all of these things
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by ouid 6y ago
It was not a metaphor, it was hyperbole. “I’d actually like to go back to the old times of Tudor England. I’d put their heads on pikes, right, I’d put them at the two corners of the White House as a warning to federal bureaucrats, you eithe
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by ouid 6y ago
My guess is that no one had a solution , so the problem fell through to the first person with an idea .
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by ouid 6y ago
I'm paraphrasing here, but "we think it will work, but the only problem is we don't know how much dynamite to use" strikes me as the statement of a man who was offered a job that he would, under no circumstances, say no
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by ouid 6y ago
Did the SR-71 evade detection? I was under the (perhaps wrongful) impression that it just outran the consequences of detection.
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by ouid 6y ago
I literally could not disagree with you more. The article is both well written, which I can't give any evidence for except that I also read it, and states testable hypotheses, which are not opinions.
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by ouid 6y ago
The main problem, of course, is that receiving a credential and receiving an education are very different things that we do at the same time out of tradition and convenience. When testing was easy, it made sense to lump it in with teaching,
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by ouid 6y ago
I only skimmed this, but it seems like they're not measuring latency at all. They're measuring the time for each item in the queue to be worked on, and then summing all of those times, which is quadratic if latency increases linea
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by ouid 6y ago
This is like that time a couple years ago when Apple added a way for you to use headphones with your phone.
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by ouid 6y ago
Well I consider myself very fortunate then, to not have made that claim.
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by ouid 6y ago
A monopoly corporation is just a branch of your government that you don't have representation in.
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by ouid 6y ago
I disabled javascript. I just think its tacky.
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by ouid 6y ago
The question is not when I will install my updates, but if . Generally the answer is that I won't apply any patches at all. If you refuse to acknowledge that updates a) also introduce bugs, and b) consistently have negative impacts
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by ouid 6y ago
As an end user of Firefox, I find it very frustrating that every update I allow to the browser wrests more control from me, and now I am being constantly annoyed to keep my browser up to date as well.
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by ouid 6y ago
That ad block hostility though.
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by ouid 6y ago
I think perhaps describing the mass surveillance of the american public as a single case is a touch disingenuous.
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by ouid 6y ago
The rules of chess do not change often, but the way the game is played changes all the time. Hanlon's razor is a boundary condition.
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by ouid 6y ago
The preregistration of studies seems to essentially be a panacea for publication bias. This would require no changes except for simple audits to ensure timelines are as described.
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by ouid 6y ago
>Why on earth didn't they test this thesis before blowing through a billion dollars? I think we're looking at the test... Something something desperate venture capital.
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by ouid 6y ago
I think "person A does X because not X represents a threat to their worldview" is a pretty unlikely explanation for behavior, a priori. I don't watch fox news because it represents a threat to my worldview. I don't watch
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by ouid 6y ago
I have a different explanation. Think of a material as a sponge for heat. When I squeeze the material, I raise the temperature, and that causes heat to leak out. The temperature of the material doesn't really tell me how much heat is i
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by ouid 6y ago
There is nothing sustainable about the current situation, so it seems that this is not a "more important question" but rather a question that needs to be solved in parallel.
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by ouid 6y ago
>There is perhaps nothing more quintessentially American than the fish stick. uh....
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by ouid 6y ago
I wish they had plugged adblockers at all in the movie.
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by ouid 6y ago
tl;dr: The testing of code is done by intelligent adversaries.
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by ouid 6y ago
You cannot measure "actual" harm, because the system is dynamical. You wanted a definition of externality, I gave it to you. There's a function that gives you the upper bound on the cost of an externality, which for lack of a
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by ouid 6y ago
Imagining this story from their perspective paints a pretty bad picture of you.
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by ouid 6y ago
The irony of suggesting cleanup cost here, I just don't know. Cleaning up maintains the invariant. You have successfully put the intrinsic price tag on the externality. Well done.
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by ouid 6y ago
You don't understand. The invariant to be maintained is the (amount of plastic in the oceans). Failing to maintain that invariant is a bad idea SIMPLY because you are failing to maintain it. Increasing the quantity of carbon dioxide in

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