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by philh 9y ago
If you personally don't care, then it provides no value to you. That's fine. In that case you can hope that the blog allows anonymous commenting, which the blog author may or may not want to provide for various reasons. And I woul
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by philh 9y ago
> It serves no benefit to the user. Persistent identity -> password-protected account -> email for recovery. I certainly wish more places would make email addresses optional, but there is value in collecting them.
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by philh 9y ago
It's not a C# thing, it's a floating-point thing. Two numbers which mathematically "should" be equal, might not be due to rounding errors. (In python, 0.15 + 0.15 != 0.1 + 0.2.) So it's risky to compare them with ==
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by philh 9y ago
I don't think it makes sense to call something a bonus unless it's also a goal. I never said all goals were equal, so asking which is the main goal is irrelevant; my point is just that both goals exist as goals.
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by philh 9y ago
There is no "the goal". There are goals, plural. One goal is to have a clean house, and another goal is not to think about cleaning the house. You can achieve the second goal by deciding not to clean the house. But that doesn&#x27
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by philh 9y ago
> The real gift I wanted was to be relieved of the emotional labor of a single task that had been nagging at the back of my mind. The clean house would simply be a bonus. The clean house is presumably a goal, here. Otherwise, the obvio
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by philh 9y ago
> any Bitcoin is insured privately in case of a breach of their systems. This isn't entirely true, most of their coin is stored cold and uninsured. They only have insurance on their hot coins. https://support.coinbase.com
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by philh 9y ago
> You simply asserted that it is "obviously so" that spending money on infrastructure isn't worthwhile. This is just false. The only use of "obvious" was in the line > We would never consider building ramps ev
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by philh 9y ago
> Completely wrong. I said like four different things (not incompatible/persuasive/Bulverism/should not have been said), and I'm quite sure you don't disagree with all of them, but I'm not sure what you do d
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by philh 9y ago
"It's a persuasive statement" isn't incompatible with anything I said. It's a persuasive statement and it's Bulverism and it should not have been said. Also: yes hello, I am a person and not a cold, unfeeling a
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by philh 9y ago
> One day you will be old and less physically capable than you are now, Likely factually true. > and maybe then you will change your tune. It's unfortunate that you can't yet put yourself in the shoes of those people. Not a
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by philh 9y ago
I wasn't taking a stance on the question of sidewalks, and I wasn't attempting to engage with most of your comment. I was pointing out that you were committing Bulverism. Bulverism is bad independent of anything else in your comme
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by philh 9y ago
> It's unfortunate that you can't yet put yourself in the shoes of those people. This is Bulverism. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulverism
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by philh 9y ago
> What people miss is that during the summer the sun is up all the time. (In the winter, not so much.) It sounds like these two effects should cancel each other out. Are you saying that people take winter into account but not summer?
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by philh 9y ago
Then the proper comparison is between Sweden and a state, not Sweden and the US as a whole. But I think the federal government exerts more control over US states than anyone exerts over Sweden. (Maybe the EU? I'm certainly no expert.)
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by philh 9y ago
I'm not saying there's definitely no astroturfing there, but that doesn't sound like strong evidence of it.
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by philh 9y ago
Do you understand why large companies can't do the same things that small companies do? I expect that the two problems will share many of the same structures.
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by philh 9y ago
> I've found there are so many people trying to get into IT that your portfolio counts for more than your qualifications I'd expect qualifications to matter less if there are few people trying to get into IT, since employers ca
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by philh 9y ago
The introduction of the new iPhone X — which features wireless charging, facial recognition and a price tag of $999 — appears to be a minor event in the advance of technology. But it’s an excellent illustration of something that has long be
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by philh 9y ago
Do you claim that the current price of coffee beans is the price that happens to maximise Starbucks' profits? (This seems implausible to me, unless Starbucks has fairly strong control over the price of coffee beans.) Or is your claim m
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by philh 9y ago
That prints #!/bin/cat at the beginning, though. If I can return to overthinking it, you could use a silly tool[1] I wrote ages ago and do something like (untested) #! /usr/bin/cmd tail -n +2 1 2 f
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by philh 9y ago
If Terry had expected us to ignore his wishes, how would we have acted differently in life? Would he have destroyed them himself just in case? Would he have done that before completing The Shepherd's Crown, or even an earlier book? I h
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by philh 9y ago
When I don't feel like socializing, I wouldn't want to have a dinner where I can't use my phone.
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by philh 9y ago
I asked you to clarify your option four. Instead, you seem to have described a whole new option.
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by philh 9y ago
You can't choose not to be gay, but you can choose not to hold hands with your boyfriend in public. Is it okay to discriminate based on that?
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by philh 9y ago
If gay people could choose not to be gay, would you have a different opinion about the cake shop?
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by philh 9y ago
> I actually don't know any great coders that learned to code through these kinds of games. How many people do you know who were exposed to these kinds of games as a child, and are now old enough to plausibly be great programmers?
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by philh 9y ago
One of the things TFA is pointing at is that the alternative might be: First they came for the Socialists, and I spoke out, and they decided I was a Socialist and took me away too.
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In my case, because I know youtube and youtube-dl, and I haven't noticed the sound quality being bad, and I don't even know what a music tracker is.
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by philh 9y ago
I recall an article saying that a) We use rebar in concrete for tensile and shear strength, which massively decreases the amount of concrete you need but shortens lifespan. b) Our concrete sets a lot faster. c) The specific mineral that the

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