patrick451

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by patrick451 6y ago
This is not categorically true. E.g., South Dakota is doing fine and never locked down. Same with Wyoming. Personally, I think the federal administration has done a fine job--most, if not all, of dealing with this situation should be up to
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by patrick451 6y ago
This isn't really true. Try surviving 40,000 years as a 600 lb diabetic. Yet modern medicine asserts "that fitness function is dumb". In fact, modern medicine asserts __all__ fitness functions are dumb. I can't name a si
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by patrick451 6y ago
> That is, specifically AFAIK, not what it means in Rust. It's well defined there, so there's no need to resort to "the usual understanding". This causes a lot of confusion, but it doesn't need to. If someone is
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by patrick451 6y ago
Moral outrage in the age of covid. "Egad, they were socializingi! With testing! The Horror!" Yawn.
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by patrick451 6y ago
Education is a service that somebody must pay for. It is only a fundamental right in as much as nobody should forbid you from acquiring an education. On the other hand, forcing me to pay for your education is not fundamental. It is rob
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by patrick451 6y ago
> The syntax for make files and target deps are also very complex "Do I want to use % or $ or @?" How is this any more complex than any programming language? Take javascript. Do I want to use =, ==, or ===? > I cannot test
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by patrick451 6y ago
The way I see it, every law we pass is, roughly, choosing a tradeoff between liberty, safety, and economic productivity. We don't allow people to drive as fast as they like. On the interstate, we limit that to say 75 mph. That leads to
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by patrick451 6y ago
These have been some of my main concerns in the beginning. What is the exit strategy? Nobody can tell you. Back in March, I get a phone alert ordering me to start inside. For how long? What criteria must be met for this order to no longer b
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by patrick451 6y ago
They author may not be able to control the social media embeds of this particular site, but they certainly have control over where the choose to publish. I see nothing wrong with taking them to task for this sort of hypocrisy.
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by patrick451 6y ago
> The false choice here is actually that you can sacrifice lives and still expect to have freedom. To the contrary, lives sacrificed is necessary for liberty. Personally, I would rather die of covid (or terrorists) than be locked in my h