rcoveson

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by rcoveson 6y ago
This is tangential, but it's striking to me that in today's egalitarian culture sociopaths are so obviously outside the umbrella of protection from generalization. With most groups, especially disadvantaged groups, we hesitate to
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by rcoveson 6y ago
Your conversations aren't just not encrypted, they're totally public. That's unacceptable for most communications. Take everything you do on a phone call, over SMS, and over the Internet. Subtract anything personal, anything
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by rcoveson 6y ago
Well, you're using an extremely limited global resource. Blasting your voice around the world with 1,500 watts behind it is something that not everybody can do at once. So we need some sort of internationally agreeable rule set. The co
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by rcoveson 6y ago
It's a law governing the ham radio bands' usage in general. No encrypted/obscured communications. In fact, you have to regularly, unambiguously, and publicly identify yourself every ten minutes if I recall.
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by rcoveson 6y ago
> Just because something is subjective it doesn’t mean it should be disregarded. Right, I completely agree. Which is why I'm confused when somebody brings up how a topic is subjective, complicated, and has been approached in the pas
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by rcoveson 6y ago
> Personally I'm in favor of modesty... I'm a little confused. Didn't your first paragraph illustrate how "modesty" is basically subjective? If that's the case, what does it mean to be in favor of it? Are yo
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by rcoveson 6y ago
Now do longshoreman. :)
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by rcoveson 6y ago
I'd take my financial experience as a college dropout software engineer over that of a doctor or lawyer any day. I get to spend my 20's debt free and mega rich (by young adult standards), and I've been able to save most of my
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by rcoveson 6y ago
Lots of arguments can be and have been made in favor of racially discriminating policies. I believe the response must always be "no, that's morally wrong". A good "Church of Satan" reaction to these policies in Cali
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by rcoveson 6y ago
It's amusing to imagine a stodgy company like Microsoft naming it something indie like "tux4win".
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by rcoveson 6y ago
They're both phrased unnaturally, IMO. The suffix "for Linux" strongly implies it's software for use on Linux. It's like the "4j" and "4win" suffixes, implying software built for the Java and Win
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by rcoveson 6y ago
When I hear "Java uses too much ram," lazy reclamation of the heap and other GC overhead are not the first things that come to my mind, personally. Java doesn't have a "struct". If you want to represent an array of
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by rcoveson 6y ago
What we now recognize (and decry) as greed looks very similar to the force that created intelligent life from primordial soup. Greed, ambition, and Darwinian fitness seem close to synonymous. Also, there's nothing uniquely American abo
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by rcoveson 6y ago
> JavaScript will mop up most CLI apps in performance I'll bet half the coreutils are a minimum of 10x slower in their day-to-day use cases (i.e. small n) when re-implemented in any interpreted language like JS. Cold start overhead
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by rcoveson 6y ago
Vim is a whole different thing. The popularity of vim is mostly the popularity of the vim way of editing text, regardless of environment. Emacs, on the other hand, is popular as an environment. Vim, or something with "vim" in its
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by rcoveson 6y ago
You may be underestimating the costs of _not_ archiving large amounts of potentially-sensitive data in a way that is accessible to a large number of employees (and therefor not very secure). Alexa needs training. Training requires data, as
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by rcoveson 6y ago
> You mean the story where she said send message and it did just that? No, the story where Alexa incorrectly interpreted some part of the conversation as a wake word, then incorrectly interpreted another bit as a send message confirmatio
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by rcoveson 6y ago
> Alexa demonstrably does not listen to your conversations I won't soon forget this story[0]. It listens to everything, and if it thinks it hears the start of a command it starts doing stuff with what it hears. That detection can ha
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by rcoveson 6y ago
Stoicism: Worry exclusively about the things you can control. The only things you can control are your own intentions. The behavior of others, the results of other's actions, and even the results of your own actions are all outside you
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by rcoveson 6y ago
> ______ isn’t going anywhere and it is demonstrably useful for national security. Fill in the blank, masters. Maximize our security.
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by rcoveson 6y ago
I think you're right in theory but wrong wrong in practice. While there probably exists a form and degree of surveillance that is very beneficial at the expense of minimal freedom, it's far more difficult to hold the line there th
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by rcoveson 6y ago
> No, I'll use New Jersey because it's the state that I'm most familiar with. That's fine; you should say something like "In New Jersey, the median salary for cops is...". Stating only that "The median
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by rcoveson 6y ago
> The median salary for cops is more than $105,000 a year[1]... From what I can tell 105k a year is the highest median police salary for any state in the country. Why bring up New Jersey specifically and act like it's representative
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by rcoveson 6y ago
There are sociology studies, published in closed journals, that detail the positive impacts that public libraries have on communities. The PhDs of that field must either be (1) blind to the irony, (2) totally resigned to this state of affai
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by rcoveson 6y ago
It's not the correct answer for division of the reals. For division of IEEE 754 floats, it is the correct answer, because division in that context is defined that way.
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by rcoveson 6y ago
> A housing suburb is undeniably a less wonderful place than the forest it replaced. Agreed, though with the notable exception of my own housing suburb, which I prefer over whatever it may have replaced.
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by rcoveson 6y ago
> ...the underlying causation behind this 'fact' is that there is systemic bias against black men from law enforcement and the rest of society. How is this rhetoric any better than Damore's? At best we can do studies that
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by rcoveson 6y ago
> The same way that someone would say, "I'm not saying all black men are criminals, but on average, they go to prison more." This is unfortunate but also true. Which is exactly what Damore might say about the distribution
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by rcoveson 6y ago
I'm sorry that most of the other replies to your comment end with sass or sarcasm. However, you are misunderstanding that quote if you think it implies that women are biologically incapable of anything, or that _all_ women are biologic
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by rcoveson 6y ago
No, checkmate is the end state of the game, and the king cannot be captured. Any action by a player that would allow their king to be captured is an illegal move. When one player has no more legal moves, the game is over.

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