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by polio 4y ago
In the first-boot-on-HDD scenario, why would latency make the program fail to start at all? I'd expect it to just start slowly.
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by polio 4y ago
But also your fellow employees would not be wrong to leave their job (and hence you) if a better opportunity presented itself, and I don't think they should be disparaged for making that choice. Such is the peril of friendship via work
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by polio 4y ago
There are plenty of people who still lead complex lives after they are effectively out of said market.
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by polio 4y ago
To uphold in-person work for these weak social bonds would be myopic. We should have more robust forms of community outside of work. That isn't something that a workplace can ever reliably provide at scale, given the incentives of work
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by polio 4y ago
I would suggest that awareness-related depression is itself irrational. Seeing the world for what it is may expose a lot of net suffering, but to be weighed down by that reality, for which you have little personal culpability, doesn't
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by polio 4y ago
It should be possible to bail out the people without bailing out the companies, and it should be doable without generic QE. What if the government builds its own farms and grocery stores and housing complexes? Would that be bad because of h
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by polio 4y ago
Yeah, you're right. I was blanking on the name of the predecessor.
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by polio 4y ago
Couldn't you still use move semantics without std::move? You'd just have to write your own cast to an rvalue-reference.
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by polio 4y ago
Sounds like WaterlooWorks.
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by polio 4y ago
So unstable isn't actually a better name for renewable, because they are different dimensions. Battery research is underway to increase the availability of energy derived from renewable sources.
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by polio 4y ago
The existence of marketing disproves the autonomy of people. Ideas spread through exposure and rhetoric.
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by polio 4y ago
Deplatforming is analogous to quarantining a person with an infectious disease. It works. The FBI can still monitor whatever's left of KF on Tor or Discord.
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by polio 4y ago
Doxxing to facilitate swatting is attempted murder. They aren't unearthing this information because they're devoted archivists; they operate within a broader culture of harassment, and when one considers the modern arsenal of digi
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by polio 4y ago
Facebook uses it for user data
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by polio 4y ago
I don't think these points have been proven as decisively as you feel. Whether it was verified or not, the provenance of a work of art has a significant effect on how a viewer receives it. So much of why the Mona Lisa matters is becaus
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by polio 4y ago
Epistemology is a subfield of philosophy. Seems like a healthy understanding of that would be good for society right now. > Most philosophers were/are themselves committed to one school or theory, with gaps galore. Most scientists s
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by polio 4y ago
Isn't he still there part-time?
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by polio 4y ago
It feels similar to the title bloat of Goldman Sachs, where a lot of people are Vice Presidents.
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by polio 4y ago
This characterization of rights seems somewhat melodramatic. A government is capable of providing its citizens with rights without forcing individuals at gunpoint to provide them. The way this happens is that the government creates an organ
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by polio 4y ago
There are many reasons why not every building in Manhattan is 50 storeys. The most obvious one is that each neighborhood's infrastructure imposes limits on the density of the block. Other considerations are public transit, water main,
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by polio 4y ago
It's fungible for you, since apparently few dimensions of housing are salient to you. In my experience, this is not the case for most people. Units on the same floor can differ vastly; buildings on the same block can differ vastly; the
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by polio 4y ago
What if water were public for individual consumers but private for corporations?
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by polio 4y ago
This is exactly it. It's likely a better business decision to just crash in this scenario.
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by polio 4y ago
Prestige matters to young people, because it helps them date and find social networks.
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by polio 4y ago
I'd just make the individuals involved rich with a lump-sum payment ($10m, say) and a lot of good press. Then make it public domain.
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by polio 4y ago
What's the legality of something like this?
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by polio 4y ago
Somebody had a lot of fun making this.
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by polio 4y ago
Right, we all want nice things. But the nice things that the ultra-rich desire are almost garish in their tone-deafness. Spending an extra $10 on a meal is a relatively accessible luxury, that perhaps 90% of the population can imagine doing
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by polio 4y ago
Yes, I know it is my opinion.
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by polio 4y ago
I can believe that some rich individuals are uniquely gifted in some way that makes them deserving of being richer than most of other people. I also think that the magnitude of this phenomenon is not proportional to how much richer they are

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