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by psd1 3y ago
OTOH, reading from a read-only copy reduces load on the master
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by psd1 3y ago
Every community needs a subversive - or, at least, a clown.
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by psd1 3y ago
Your quip about "PIPs or jobless" is not great. People have core values. For some people, caring about others is a core value. I see people suffering: I experience emotion about it. I do not feel one bit ashamed to admit that. You
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by psd1 3y ago
The bad-faith filter is manifested in the "flag" button. The problem is that "rational" is taken as the highest good by some people, and a key part of their identities. Unfortunately these people have mammalian brains, w
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by psd1 3y ago
HN is a living vindication of dang's curation. I say that as someone who has been corrected by dang in the past. I imagine that HN world devolve into a shitshow without him, or someone doing similar work with a similarly deft touch. We
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by psd1 3y ago
I read it, though I don't feel like I've benefited at all. Dang cited examples; you haven't. You appear to be going on feeling. I'm an intuitive thinker and subject to that myself. When I've collected data, I often
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by psd1 3y ago
A more charitable interpretation for that cohort of comments would be: - I have a physical disability or a deficiency in my personal technological capital that reduces the accessibility of this content - TFA is good but could be improved ev
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by psd1 3y ago
I disagree for the simple reason that I've lived in the UK for 40 years, and I recall each home secretary being more authoritarian and pro-surveillance than the last. The RIP bill is a decade old and was strengthened, under home sec Ma
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by psd1 3y ago
I spent a long time rebutting each counterfactual in turn, but then I recognised that I was falling for a gish gallop. Furthermore, as dang is (rightly) adamant about avoiding personal remarks, I had to cut out the funny bits. So instead, h
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by psd1 3y ago
The may be other planets where the economics work out better. Probably wouldn't want to live there. Replicants would be able to run their fridges, though.
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by psd1 3y ago
True, but affordability and word-of-mouth can go a long way. It's not a foregone conclusion.
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by psd1 3y ago
Was it snake oil like memory compressors? Are some instructions cooler than others?
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by psd1 3y ago
That's a logical fallacy. Breathing must be toxic because dirtbags breathe. AIUI, doxxing requires either publishing a subject's days or taking action against the subject. The authors of this paper day they have no intention of do
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by psd1 3y ago
> Almost everyone can identify the provenance of Gucci’s double-G spangled Dionysus shoulder bag; only initiates can spot a Birkin. I bet some large majority can identify an Hermes bag as an expensive bag, logo or no. And perhaps more im
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by psd1 3y ago
Maybe, but the advantage of manufacturing over, say, financial services is that it creates working-class jobs.
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by psd1 3y ago
I think both of you are holding the idea of ranking organisational strategies on a linear scale. But what works for a tech startup might not be good for operating a chemical plant.
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by psd1 3y ago
It's a loan word, but "amok" is the consensus spelling in English
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by psd1 3y ago
Protobuf seems like the odd one out. I understood that googlers created it for their own benefit and tossed it over the wall because "why not". Am I mistaken?
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by psd1 3y ago
Personally, I think his storytelling is poor, but it's not the worst. 5th percentile for plotting, say. But he plumbs new depths with his prose. I am not above reading trash, and you often have to accept crappy writing in genre fiction
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by psd1 3y ago
Chlorophyll has very narrow bands of absorption. Collecting wide spectrum insolation with solar panels gives you plenty of energy to emit narrow-band light from LEDs, even with efficiency losses. In fact, plants do fine in red light. Hydrop
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by psd1 3y ago
I agree with your general point but I think you have to inspect the numbers. Ag has problems that vertical farming still looks like a solution for: - market gardening is labour-intensive - water shortages look like getting worse, not better
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by psd1 3y ago
The vast majority of neurotypical English-speaking adults would have no difficulty categorising it as a veiled threat. Note the strong consensus in this comments section. The message has two parts - the response that X wants from Y, and the
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by psd1 3y ago
I think you've muddled "Elysian fields" (the reward of heroes) with "being put out to pasture" (superannuation).
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by psd1 3y ago
That's not really the salient point. The article is about subjects of psychological studies being English speakers.
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by psd1 3y ago
My app doesn't let me edit comments, but I think you need to hear this: use of the word "natural" is a strong indicator of intellectual dishonesty. Crunchy people recoil in horror from a listing of ingredients by chemical nam
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by psd1 3y ago
Another way to look at it is that the dating asymmetry comes from risk asymmetry. The big risks are pregnancy, violence, and slut-shaming, and those fall far more on females than males. - Pregnancy is a solved problem in humane technologica
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by psd1 3y ago
There's room for conflicting viewpoints of course, but Shakespeare is enjoyed in the original by English speakers in the 21st century, and academic consensus calls his language "Modern English" - as opposed to Middle English,
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by psd1 3y ago
I can't agree that Bitcoin has survived every attack vector, given the animosity over the BTC fork.
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by psd1 3y ago
Gimli Glider incident: https://simpleflying.com/gimli-glider/
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by psd1 3y ago
Not to invalidate your point, but some countries have the concept of "utility" defined in law. This adds a bunch of gates that must be passed before the provider can cut service. Your power can only be cut after months of non-paym

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