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by pnathan 9y ago
> People move here because they like yards and redwood trees and vineyards and hiking trail no, they want jobs. you can get outdoors anywhere in the US, but only a few places in the US actually have a super vibrant economy. and NOTHING p
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by pnathan 9y ago
Another go-round, trying to solve the same problem as TOML.
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by pnathan 9y ago
The credit services seem like a good candidate for nationalization or high levels of regulation.
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by pnathan 9y ago
> . In my four years of high school debating, I spent many long nights holed up alone in my room poring over amicus briefs or economic analyses. I passed even longer weekends on buses and planes traveling to schools across the country an
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by pnathan 9y ago
people love using hammers for nails. they don't love the maker of the hammer.
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by pnathan 9y ago
Just for the sake of solidity, would you care to have a citation there?
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by pnathan 9y ago
The article describes inadequate accountability, crony relationships in the legal & medical systems, nepotism, lack of transparency. All of these are alleviated and addressed through proper governance measures. This is a problem that is
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by pnathan 9y ago
Undermining The Man used to be a highly common trope in hacker culture.
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by pnathan 9y ago
> At this point, we should stop considering psychology science. Instead of a real search for how the universe really works, it is about getting a pet hypothesis, acquiring some data, and then torturing the data with various statistical i
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by pnathan 9y ago
Interesting. Here's the statement the Professor put out: https://foodpsychology.cornell.edu/research-statement-april-... And Retraction Watch, a fairly reputable blog, remarks on the matter more here: http:/&#x2F
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by pnathan 9y ago
Lewis did put his finger on a nasty little quality of modern man with that quote. I don't know that the Hideous Strength is a good book - it's positively regressive in quite too many ways - but that quote there could stand to be p
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by pnathan 9y ago
Fascinating.
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by pnathan 9y ago
Interesting. I'm working on delivering a Postgres based job system right now; we cycle through states from an ENUM, landing eventually on a terminal state. Worker jobs (containers on a cluster) don't directly manipulate the state
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by pnathan 9y ago
Counterpoint: why do we insist that children and learning be so customized? Are we really that different from one another? Shouldn't we be demanding at least a certain amount of uniformity in our society to ensure we are a society?
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by pnathan 9y ago
I would suggest federal funding emigration to large cities, with federal funding & demands to improve infrastructure. :-)
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by pnathan 9y ago
> Would you agree, then, that Internet access is now a basic human right? I would neither disagree nor agree. Different theories of what a right is exist, and I don't believe it's a settled question enough to even claim that
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by pnathan 9y ago
Popehat tends to be a highly libertarian site. I would prefer not to be instructed by a highly libertarian site. It usually contains presuppositions that render it of limited use in thinking about the matter. If you, however, have a link to
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by pnathan 9y ago
Not in the usual statement, no. I believe there's a compromise suitable for both technical reality (video makes huge demands on bandwidth, and bandwidth is finite) and neutral communication. Appropriate regulation, suitably delivered i
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by pnathan 9y ago
The Great Myth of cyberspace was that individuals in it or the servers that ran the software were not subject to the laws of the nations they existed within. The cold reality is that this is not true . And, thus, in time, to exist within a
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by pnathan 9y ago
> > The problem is that when we outsource thinking to machines, we are really outsourcing thinking to the organisations that run the machines. Ah, there we go. The writer was taking me around the real garden path, and I bounced. It&#x
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by pnathan 9y ago
There's a distinction between the government repressing speech and private businesses refusing to give the speech-maker a platform. Further, certain kinds of speech have never been considered protected: "fighting words", cert
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by pnathan 9y ago
I was examining a Mesosphere deployment a few years ago and also found the pricing model to be difficult in a cloud environment, but the salesperson I spoke with seemed more clueful than your description. We chose to go otherwise for a vari
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by pnathan 9y ago
I change his diaper, hug him, and tell him I look forward to him crawling. But seriously, I'm probably not going to Teach Programming; it'll be be one of the Things Your Dad Does, and he's welcome to be interested; I'll
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by pnathan 9y ago
> involves taking money from people without their consent (taxes), whereas charity doesn't This argument seems to be novel from the late 1800s. Before then, it seems to have been understood that the political system ran on taxes. I
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by pnathan 9y ago
Consider lobbying your government officials to improve regulations concerning this. Maybe get together with other people in your city who care about this particular issue. This needs to be changed at a regulatory national level, but it&#x
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by pnathan 9y ago
Tangentially, journalists almost, as a rule, put a narrative on events, even those that really don't have a narrative (which is most things under Current Events) E.g, when a story focuses on someone's personal story through the
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by pnathan 9y ago
> The lack of awe is what surprises me. Just how quickly we take each breakthrough for granted. That's just your perspective and the people you deal with. Many people I know over 40 are amazed. Perspective.... A lot of the technolog
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by pnathan 9y ago
He's arguing from a position of someone who's familiar with the socio-political process. It's a different axis than technical arguments or ideological arguments. I have no substantial comment other than to note that when a dr
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by pnathan 9y ago
Politely, this is not a new problem. Nor is it untypical for the upper crust to have issues with their kids, if myths and tales from earlier times are to be believed. I can confidently say that screen addiction is kind of a thing for many
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by pnathan 9y ago
ok. ::signs up for business account:: CrashPlan has worked great. Not moving away from a working technical solution I already pay for. The delta between now and the new cost is pretty small; maybe $5-7 / mo. meh

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