pjscott

9 ms·

61.
by pjscott 3y ago
According to Munger that was, indeed, the whole point. His dorm design focused on making the common areas nice places where people would enjoy spending time, while optimizing the dorm rooms for bed-related activities. It seems like a reason
62.
by pjscott 3y ago
It's the normal use of goto in C: you run into some exceptional circumstance, you don't know how to deal with it, so you goto some code that cleans up any unfinished business you might have, like memory allocations – and then you
63.
by pjscott 3y ago
Epigenetics is real, of course, but approximately nothing is passed between generations in humans. Here’s a good rundown from a geneticist: https://www.razibkhan.com/p/you-cant-take-it-with-you-straig... The actual bio
64.
by pjscott 3y ago
> I’m judging the companies providing the “distasteful” options. To restate my actual argument, since you haven't really responded to it: what work would you have very poor people do instead? There are other options, but are those o
65.
by pjscott 3y ago
Putting aside your devaluation of the phrase "slave labor" by applying it to things that aren't slave labor, I'll just ask: what would you have these people do? Should they take a 60% pay cut to do back-breaking labor
66.
by pjscott 3y ago
India spent decades under a very restrictive economic regime. That changed a lot after the big liberalization of 1991, but the official economic policies are still moderately stifling. The comment you're responding to was not made in
67.
by pjscott 3y ago
They trade away time and effort in exchange for money. Presumably they value the money more than the time and effort, because if they didn't, they wouldn't make that trade.
68.
by pjscott 3y ago
Employers are, indeed, making use of and benefiting from their employees. And vice versa. But so what? If they didn't benefit, they wouldn't bother.
69.
by pjscott 3y ago
I'll agree with all of 1–5, and elaborate on #2: > Second, the companies paying these children are extracting value from their labor greater than what they are paying the child laborers. This is always the case with employment, as
70.
by pjscott 3y ago
This is a weird article. It starts with an anecdote about someone extremely poor who really needs some money, and how that person found a job with flexible hours and comfortable working conditions which paid relatively well. And then the
71.
by pjscott 3y ago
If they want to, then yes. Why wouldn't I?
72.
by pjscott 3y ago
That's an odd thing to say. There are plenty of people who I dislike, but that doesn't mean I want them to die.
73.
by pjscott 3y ago
Interestingly, there's huge variance by country. Billionaires are much more likely to seek office in countries where this is either a source of valuable behind-the-scenes connections (e.g. China) or a way of preventing the regime fro
74.
by pjscott 3y ago
That would fix the consonant germination problem, but it would also shift the vowel. There really are no good answers here.
75.
by pjscott 3y ago
In the scene above, it’s just one character who talks like that: the one who was born a very long time ago, and still speaks with archaic diction. It may break your personal immersion, but real people actually did talk like that in Early Mo
76.
by pjscott 3y ago
> pronounced: tah-cue-bean I always wince slightly when I see one of these pronunciation guides for words that I actually know how to pronounce, because for some reason they're never quite right. (I don't know how I'd do b
77.
by pjscott 3y ago
LLVM's libc++ doesn't use a generic growable vector thing for std::string; they rolled their own, specifically for strings. (I checked the source. Alas, no explanatory comments and nothing in the "initial libc++ import"
78.
by pjscott 3y ago
Huh. That’s exactly the opposite of the impression I got. The books seemed properly solemn when it counted, more so than the movies, and I found that the poems really added to the atmosphere. (I’m particularly fond of the ones sung by Gimli
79.
by pjscott 3y ago
This probably varies from place to place. A high-quality double cheeseburger in my area can be had for $6.19, and adding tomato is only a little extra. (I checked prices a minute ago, so these numbers are fresh.)
80.
by pjscott 3y ago
A lot of the thinking in there is intellectually downstream of ideas invented by Cold War nuclear geostrategists, so that’s not too surprising. The desire to not get blown up drove some people to think deeply about how to deal with foreign
81.
by pjscott 3y ago
Yes. As God intended when He created the heavens and the earth on January 1, 1970.
82.
by pjscott 3y ago
You're not alone. I have a cheapo mp3 player from a Chinese no-name brand -- I'm pretty sure I've seen the exact same thing sold under multiple brands, for some reason -- and it's tiny, light, and good at playing music.
83.
by pjscott 3y ago
To clarify: under the laws linked above, jaywalking is categorized not as a crime or misdemeanor but as a traffic infraction , just like breaking the speed limit or failing to signal a turn.
84.
by pjscott 3y ago
Pretty much all libertarians favor some mechanism for the enforcement of property rights. They may differ as to how, but they agree that you shouldn’t be allowed to steal other people’s stuff. (Please, I beg you, argue with the opinions tha
85.
by pjscott 3y ago
Impulsive? He seems much more the calculating sort, which makes me skeptical about your judgement that he’s unethical.
86.
by pjscott 3y ago
Yes. For perspective, that's about one message every ten seconds.
87.
by pjscott 3y ago
It's a little under 0.2%, using the revenue and GDP numbers from last year. (You might have misplaced the decimal point?)
88.
by pjscott 3y ago
Indeed, Zoroaster has really been dropping the ball in matters regarding sorghum. :-(
89.
by pjscott 3y ago
Mushrooms are about 90% water, but the non-water part is indeed roughly half protein.
90.
by pjscott 3y ago
That response is more reasonable. I would put it more politely, but I agree on the substance.

More ›