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by pyrale 1y ago
> Not all choices need to be subsidized. Interesting choice of vocabulary. You could decide not to serve people without also describing them as freeloaders in order to feel morally righteous about your choice.
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by pyrale 1y ago
> When you choose an eccentric lifestyle Many "eccentric" lifestyles are not chosen. For instance not owning a smartphone or not having access to power easily is not necessarily limited to well-off tech-savv hipsters who want t
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by pyrale 1y ago
There is a blog post by Aphyr doing just that (typing the technical interview), which is well worth a read. That being said, it is a very small subset of what prolog does, and it has little practical use beyond writing a blog post.
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by pyrale 1y ago
Prolog and haskell communities are pushing in very different directions, and just because one piece in the haskell compiler happens to do one thing that prolog does, doesn’t mean haskell users get exposed to prolog ideas, or even that said
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by pyrale 1y ago
> YC is arguing that their incentive for funding that basic research should be taken away in order to spur innovation? Ma Bell is arguing that Bell labs has been a fountain of knowledge everyone admires and has contributed tremendously t
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by pyrale 1y ago
Here are a few other genocides of the 20th century: the Armenian genocide [1], Porajmos [2], the Rwandan genocide [3]. Please enlighten us on how pointing similarities in the administrative involvement, the systemic nature of the targettin
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by pyrale 1y ago
No, there isn't such evidence. My comment was mostly based off DNA left by interbreeding between Neanderthal and Sapiens. Modern humans do carry a small but significant share of DNA inherited from our Neanderthal ancestors [1]. My poin
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by pyrale 1y ago
Brain size alone isn't a great indicator of performance. See for instance Neanderthal vs. Sapiens.
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by pyrale 1y ago
That way of saying that the holocaust is a thing of its own, that can be compared to nothing else is simply a way of separating genocide victims into first-class and second-class victims. The only outcome would be to weaken the collective &
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by pyrale 1y ago
> There are no doubt many aspects of American culture that go unnoticed by Americans but are obvious to Canadians. Also maybe some aspects of geography, like knowing in which continent Canada is.
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by pyrale 1y ago
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by pyrale 1y ago
> This touches upon something that Europeans generally don’t understand about Americans’ individual wealth: the very last years of your life can drain almost any retirement account. This is also true in some parts Europe. Retirement home
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by pyrale 1y ago
Of course it what you describe is a lasting situation, no one outside of the US would buy from an industry that is only propped up by subsidies, whose product is available for cheaper elsewhere, and likely subject to counter-tariffs. From t
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by pyrale 1y ago
Doing that at scale is tricky and requires a lot of people to participate in the mechanism, whereas the law only forces producers above a given size to participate. The estimates we get from seasonal studies are usually close enough, especi
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by pyrale 1y ago
In my area, "buckets" of average load are prepared ahead of time in coordination between the transporter (who gives the order to shed), the distributer (who implements the shedding operation as close to consumers as possible), and
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by pyrale 1y ago
Burying lines is not a panacea, it generates massive reactance changes compared to a classic line.
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by pyrale 1y ago
These days, the formal difference between the two is really hard to grasp, and mostly depends on which way accountants find they’ll pay less taxes. There is no point nitpicking someone because they used one term instead of the other: Bezos’
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by pyrale 2y ago
Dropping 95% is even more secure, plus it lives the lucky few that get past it a sense of pride and exclusivity.
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by pyrale 2y ago
Before you jump to conclusions, you should make a reasonable claim that IQ is still a reasonable measure for an individual's intellectual abilities in this context. One could very much say that people's IQ is bound to decline if s
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by pyrale 2y ago
It also means that not all US companies have to comply, and that the ones that do are the most competitive companies in the market, making their claim that they have trouble competing moot.
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by pyrale 2y ago
> the same rules would apply to EU native competitors .. if there were any. By this same logic, I guess we can say that the EU isn't trying to build a trade barrier favoring local competitors. So, while, as you say, > It's w
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by pyrale 2y ago
In this case, there's an open source maintainer who was fine with a MIT license, and even helping onboard people from a big tech firm, only to realize that even attribution was too much to ask. Since the terms of the license were viola
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by pyrale 2y ago
You can be biased but adopt a systematic methodology and a deontology system, both of which help journalists mitigate their bias and produce quality reporting. The big issue with the current news ecosystem and social media is their complete
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by pyrale 2y ago
We need a market for emotions. Want a good laugh with your friends? That'll be $10. A moment of peace with your so? That'll be $100. Rewards of up to $.50 for people willing to be scared to death (or, you know, moderate social med
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by pyrale 2y ago
If we're to compare Google's situation to that of finance companies on other markets, even a small part of what Google did would result in a significant part of their execs and maybe a few tech staff wearing orange jumpsuits for t
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by pyrale 2y ago
I would say sending rockets to space is currently orthogonal with current issues we are facing as a species. A decade ago, I would have said the big issue was finding a way to live without destroying ecosystems, but apparently finding a way
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by pyrale 2y ago
You are trying to theorize it too much. There’s a big difference between growing part of your own food and buying it. Also there’s a big difference between wanting to rely less on anonymous service providers and not wanting to communicate w
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by pyrale 2y ago
Another analogy: my friends and I often eat at the restaurant I own, and occasionally, I pick the tab. I complained angrily about it, and now they want to try out other restaurants or dine at home.
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by pyrale 2y ago
U, v and w are all derived from the same letter v, for which no distinction existed in latin (same for i, j and y). Apparently, when different languages started to make the distinction, they picked a different letter combination: ov, ou, ow
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by pyrale 2y ago
> Also, it's not clear if aircraft carriers are survivable in a vaguely peer context. It's not clear if the planet is survivable in a vaguely peer context. What do you want, build a second planet and make Mexico pay for it?

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