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by roenxi 1y ago
I suppose this is a serious question - does this mean that in theory HN should ban UK users? Or is HN likely compliant with this law? It is hard to pierce through the Orwellian language in the article (does "safeguarding children’s per
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by roenxi 1y ago
> “Google Scholar just erased years of scientific history” Sure the tone would be different, but anyone who was totally shocked by Google pulling a service is definitely an idiot. How much worse could Google's reputation be at this
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by roenxi 1y ago
I'm reasonably confident you literally mean the corporations have to do the archiving since the article is about a corporation not doing it. Philosophically you just picked a random subgroup in society to do the archiving. If we'
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by roenxi 1y ago
Churchill at all ages is exactly what the US should be trying to avoid - he was the best product of a generation of politicians who took the greatest empire in the history of the world and flubbed the economics and diplomacy so badly that i
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by roenxi 1y ago
> Critical path/flow diagrams [0] are incredibly useful for both laying out what has to happen in serial vs what can be parallelized. That being said, I've almost NEVER seen them used... Making technically good decisions is one
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by roenxi 1y ago
> “We don’t think people do their best work from home”: Prove it. It isn't the corporations job to prove it, they're paying the salary because of their own internal calculations about what is valuable to them. It really in&#x27
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by roenxi 1y ago
> But it makes it harder for the developer to recognize that the code is buggy. More feedback to the developer allows them to write better code, with less bugs. But the feedback is unrelated to the bug, the bug here is that the programme
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by roenxi 1y ago
It maps very well onto the mathematical concept of a closed interval [a, b] where a and b are endpoints of the interval though. You're adding a constraint for no logical reason and it happens to be very hard to represent in a basic typ
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by roenxi 1y ago
That policy catches and bans any scientists studying the negative health effects of vaccines who later turns out to be right. 1) YouTube doesn't know what is true. They will be relying on the sort of people they would ban to work out w
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by roenxi 1y ago
Do we have anything this century? And frankly; we're talking about something kicked off by 60s US and UK, that map in that wiki article could be mistaken for one of the British Empire. Nothing's impossible but it'll take more
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by roenxi 1y ago
> This is the first rule of strategy: strategy is contextual. ... Is there any aspect of anything business related that isn't contextual? Tactics are even more contextual than strategy. Optimisation is contextual. Programming is con
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by roenxi 1y ago
I just want to add one angle I don't think the other comments covered well - it is obvious that nobody pushing the propaganda angle ("encouraging them to rise up") is serious because the track record is far too clear. I can&#
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by roenxi 1y ago
> The U.S. Geological Survey's most recent forecast, known as UCERF3 (Uniform California Earthquake Rupture Forecast 3), released in November 2013, estimated that an earthquake of magnitude 6.7 M or greater (i.e. equal to or greater
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by roenxi 1y ago
> I’m lying, being slimy, and [...] I think it’s time I pull the plug on this little exchange. Take care. Well I'm glad we're ending this on common ground, but I note that you can make anyone say nearly anything when you start
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by roenxi 1y ago
That is largely irrelevant, they weren't in control of their own destiny at that point. What we learned in the 50s/60s was that the US leadership in the 40s/50s had a really good idea of how to build a country up and score di
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by roenxi 1y ago
But, key difference, the people pushing green sky or flat earth narrative don't get deplatformed, fired, yelled at or called Nazis. I still haven't seen anyone attempt to do a cost-benefit on whether the COVID lockdowns were a net
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by roenxi 1y ago
> Not sure quoting the guy’s literal words is “smearing” A literal quote involves, at some point, quoting what he said literally. Something you haven't and can't do to support your claim. Lying harder isn't going to get yo
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by roenxi 1y ago
I have no horse in the race and would usually just implement my clamp function the way the article does. However, if the clamp function clamping a number is an unpleasant surprise, I'm not going to accept that it is the fault of the cl
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by roenxi 1y ago
If we're trying to solve problems with good design, use endpoint1 and endpoint2 and then the function sorts them. Having max and min is itself a bad design choice, the function doesn't need the caller to work that out. Why sho
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by roenxi 1y ago
The issue with the hypothetical is if you give a team lead 25 competent people they'd also get bad results. Or at least, the "team lead" isn't really leading their team on technical matters apart from fighting off the od
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by roenxi 1y ago
I have a policy of not responding when I feel like writing some variant of "read what I just wrote". I'm going to make an exception here because this is an otherwise dead thread. I spent 3 quite long comments explaining what
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by roenxi 1y ago
He's not advocating stoning the gays in that clip. If anything he seems to be pointing out that quoting Leviticus as the final interpretation of God's law is a mistake. it is hard to tell what he's actually saying because the
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by roenxi 1y ago
Hmm, yes. I am forced to agree. Sorry, please interpret my comment as talking about globalisation (the effect), not globalism (the ideology).
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by roenxi 1y ago
Is this you volunteering to do the port? I'm guessing you're not going to learn how to do this new thing. The real irony here is that they are actually implementing your suggestion - they're potentially going to hire some ran
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by roenxi 1y ago
Insofar as a "pro-labour" position exists in practice it has to be anti-globalist. If pro-labour is going to mean something it has to mean trying to get labour a better deal than a free market would offer, otherwise it isn't
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by roenxi 1y ago
> I don't think that's the contract. Government must be funded by citizens which all are consumers. What billionaires extract from consumers can't go towards funding the government. I don't think you're articulat
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by roenxi 1y ago
That seems like a difficult position to make coherent. The comment seems to start by arguing that government spending should increase as much as is reasonably possible because it draws resources away from billionaires. Then the second half
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by roenxi 1y ago
I doubt any foreign policy aid would get pulled from Israel. Israel doesn't need to be taking actions perceived as genocidal. If the US wasn't offering full and unconditional support they'd just have to go about their foreign
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by roenxi 1y ago
If only the blue representatives would resolve this tension by pulling support for a now internationally-recognised genocide! :( I suppose that option is just too radical to put on the table.
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by roenxi 1y ago
Either go ague with Wikipedia, or put some argument in the comment when making claims you expect people to verify themselves. People are just going to look it up on Wiki. > SpaceX was founded by Elon Musk in 2002 with a vision of decreas

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