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by rcoveson 7y ago
Insurance coverage covering drug use in a world where it is legal seems like it would clearly exist and many would take advantage of it. And I don't see why climbers would be any more or less likely to be covered than recreational drug
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by rcoveson 7y ago
I definitely agree that in practice it basically works this way. Though I'd expand on it by saying that driving functions as a risk-tolerance + prevalence + utility anchor, as all three of those variables factor into whether society wi
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by rcoveson 7y ago
Here's the parallel I'm attempting to draw: Society must pay for drug rehabilitation -> society should consider banning drugs. Society must pay for medical bills -> society should consider limiting behaviors that have a high
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by rcoveson 7y ago
You're right that it's not absurd, and that scares me. By the same logic it wouldn't be absurd to limit people's right to go ice climbing or paragliding. Down a different path of rationalizing, it would also make sense t
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by rcoveson 8y ago
Java 9 and 10 were the first limited-support "intermediate" releases. 10 was released late March 2018 and received its last update mid-July 2018. Because those versions only had 6 months of support planned, very few people moved o
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by rcoveson 8y ago
Ubuntu LTS users have had the option to install Java 11 for exactly 24 days today. The maintainers' choice to package Java 10 as "openjdk-11" and leave it that way for as long as they did was a mess, to be sure, but let'
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by rcoveson 8y ago
It's really nothing at all like the XP situation was in the Vista days. XP stuck around for years after its LTS replacement was being distributed. Java 11, on the other hand, only made it to Ubuntu 18.04 less than a month ago[1]. Java
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by rcoveson 8y ago
Detecting data exfiltration has always seemed like an impossible problem to me. The implication is that "infiltration" has already occurred, and now the attacker just has to read/send the sensitive data somewhere. But if they
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by rcoveson 8y ago
Now all that's left to do is hope that your analysis succeeds in robbing the author of their ill-gotten joy.
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by rcoveson 8y ago
I think the question is whether or not the discriminating factor was age. Mass firing requires establishing some sort of discriminating criteria (unless you just fire at random), and some of those criteria might be correlated with age. That
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by rcoveson 8y ago
Would it be fair to describe it as a place where nothing ever happens?
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by rcoveson 8y ago
> As to the rest, see the other replies: "I have and have always had good bargaining power" does not imply "I will always have good bargaining power". In fact, the belief that how things are now is how they always mus
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by rcoveson 8y ago
Corporations pool resources to make things or offer services. Unions are just bargaining devices that attempt to tip the scales. If you want to compare unions to corporations, consider this: What if all the local companies got together and
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by rcoveson 8y ago
Your thinly-veiled derision doesn't mask the fact that you are being willfully ignorant of the intent of the person you're replying to. You're not here from Reddit, are you? It's not about entitlement, but it is about co
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by rcoveson 8y ago
The Pony devs did chime in and mentioned that they do define division by zero to be NaN (or positive infinity) where the underlying type supports it (e.g. IEEE 754 floats). Most integer representations have no space for such a value, so the
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by rcoveson 8y ago
This is a misapplication of Occam's Razor. If a study discovers a correlation between two variables, the Razor does not take the side of either causal direction. In this case, the "simplest" explanation as far as the Razor is
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by rcoveson 8y ago
It's a very broad definition of "manipulating people" that includes recommendation algorithms. The problem, as stated, seems to call for an implementation of a perfectly benign strategy for recommending content. Clustering us
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by rcoveson 8y ago
Not sure I understand. What would be stacked in the first chart you describe? If it's the sub-categories that are stacked, I believe that's what I've rendered here. If it's the top-level categories that are stacked, it&#
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by rcoveson 8y ago
I've rendered the data as a stacked bar chart; I think the reason a bar chart is ineffective here is clear. It would have to be logarithmic to deal with the wide range of values, and logarithmic charts make it extremely difficult to qu
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by rcoveson 8y ago
I disagree. Comparing bar heights with large dynamic range requires vanishingly small bars or a graph that doesn't fit on one screen, both of which inhibit intuition about relative size. I don't know that that would be the case wi
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by rcoveson 8y ago
When differences are vast, a linear bar chart becomes unreadable, and logarithmic bar charts make intuition about sizes difficult. Two dimensional spatial comparisons are intuitive and compact.
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by rcoveson 8y ago
> "USB C" cable Would that it were so simple.
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by rcoveson 8y ago
Can't speak for Wine users, but VMs are working now. The workaround was found within days of the patch (they were just checking for the CPU feature "hypervisor"), and they actually ended up rolling back that check due to the
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by rcoveson 8y ago
They broke GPU passthrough setups as well at first. There was some community backlash and they rolled that back, and I believe they also mentioned they intended to work with the wine people on a solution for that as well.
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by rcoveson 8y ago
You should get into cocktails instead. Less pretense, more variety.
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by rcoveson 8y ago
> an undisclosed maker of servers So Supermicro
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by rcoveson 8y ago
> It's rather unfortunate that so many people look up to him, despite his serious personality flaws. It's as unfortunate as you decide it to be. A lot of engineers and scientists love reading Linus (and watching House) because
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by rcoveson 8y ago
> By committing to use GitHub, you're only really committing to git. Make sure you also tell your users not to use GitHub's comments, issue tracking, pull requests, release system, favorites/watches, or authentication. So
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by rcoveson 8y ago
There is no HTTP method "TAKE". Check it out: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2616#section-9
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by rcoveson 9y ago
Imagine if South Park did a completely serious episode where an adult Cartman's wife had a miscarriage. It would be mocked mercilessly. Whether it would be morally right to mock it or not is anybody's guess, but mocked into memedo

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