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by roenxi 1mo ago
So what makes kid users on linux so special that they don't need nanny state protection? Are the Californian legislators just throwing them to the wolves? Or are the protections being put in place here not actually important? Seriously
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by roenxi 1mo ago
> Good job, California lawmakers! Is this serious or sarcasm? They passed a horrible law, now its an internally contradictory horrible law because apparently it isn't important enough to consistently enforce. So, you know. Why legis
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by roenxi 1mo ago
If you can figure out how to turn the "should" in that sentence into "can" then you'll die wealthy. Tracking goals and turning them into a coherent strategy is a major unsolved problem in software engineering. We ac
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by roenxi 2mo ago
It's a social manoeuvre, the idea is basically like standing up and clapping to show support. For example, maybe someone wants to support/oppose a position but is genuinely not the sort of person who believes in making an argument
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by roenxi 2mo ago
Given the relatively recent European experience (Nazis and Communists, among others) there is a reasonable argument for data privacy even if it hampers economic growth. However... > If the rules are so terrible, why did nobody choose mar
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by roenxi 2mo ago
I have to say that is almost an excellent point - think tanks are ultimately propaganda outfits, so it is hard to have a "fake" think tank which is merely that. But in this case the "fake" label means that the think tank
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by roenxi 2mo ago
Its more a foreshadowing of Simpson's paradox and a cluster of similarly counterintuitive effects. Statistical evidence that is technically of high quality can cause decision makers to believe the exact opposite of what is true.
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by roenxi 2mo ago
> Ahmed Hussein al-Sharaa[g] ... has served as the president of Syria since 2025. > Born in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, to a Syrian Sunni Muslim family from the Golan Heights, he grew up in Syria's capital, Damascus. Al-Sharaa joined a
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by roenxi 2mo ago
Yeah, but the anti-datacentre people won't care about that. That is an issue for local people and specific cases. Myrmidon isn't addressing the comment at people who have actual local issues with water issues; it was advice for th
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by roenxi 2mo ago
Credit isn't negative sum, it is a positive sum game. "Negative sum" has a specific meaning here and just because wealth is being transferred isn't that significant; positive sum games also have wealth transfers. It is r
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by roenxi 2mo ago
I don't think we can say this one is a distraction - historically the US dollar has involved the "secret" deal [0] where the US was trading military protection in the Middle East for having a major energy supplier only accept
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by roenxi 2mo ago
I'm torn on whether I like this parody. It is quite funny and IMO in good taste (which is hard to do when diagnosing 9,625 out of every 10,000 as deficient). It probably works well as an in-joke for people who prefer critical thinking
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by roenxi 2mo ago
Yeah but in some sense you can't use any number because we're comparing the incomparable. "Larger economy" isn't a well defined term. And we can't measure it based on nominal GDP because that involves exchange
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by roenxi 2mo ago
That sounds like a viewpoint that would be vulnerable to just accepting everything that is as preordained. Every country's destiny is heavily influenced by their neighbours. It is by no means a given that Britain and France would see a
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by roenxi 2mo ago
> The importance of understanding your own incentive structure, and not believing everything you think. There is an implication from this one that the article doesn't get into, which is whether you've picked a strategy of fail-
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by roenxi 2mo ago
That goes to the heart of it though. If we approach this cynically there are some massive downsides - we're destabilising the leadership circle that controls the largest nuclear weapons cache in the world and pushing one of the major r
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by roenxi 2mo ago
> As sovereign citizens of their own country, Ukrainians have the right to decide under which flag they want to collectively pursue peace and prosperity. Much like Iran. And yet we took out their leadership just this year (again) because
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by roenxi 2mo ago
> since it is in our interest to prevent a humanitarian catastrophe happening on the Polish border. If your argument is preventing trouble on the Polish border, why is the strategy dumping billions and billions of dollars in weapons into
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by roenxi 2mo ago
On the other hand, we can't tell if the US has a goal or not in the middle east or if destabilising countries is the geostrategy unto itself. People really need to dial down the hype, engage with the real world where large countries ge
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by roenxi 2mo ago
It is also difficult to see what the legal basis would be for allowing people to read books if Amazon's use isn't fair. If I read a textbook and come up with an algorithm based on it that gets used at scale, is that supposed to be
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by roenxi 2mo ago
The Australian government has probably learned from the Canadians and set the law up so the tax is more successful. Recall that the government has the power to levy unfair taxes and handouts in principle, so it doesn't matter all that
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by roenxi 2mo ago
That is similar to saying someone who refrains from murdering random strangers is circumventing the law that would send them to prison if they did. Not triggering this sort of law is a totally acceptable response and there is no reason for
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by roenxi 2mo ago
Well, yes. But the US launches fairly regular unprovoked invasions. We might be watching them ramping up to one in Iran even as we type, it is quite a delicate situation. So the author clearly isn't worried about Russia just because th
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by roenxi 2mo ago
This article just seems a little bit unbelievable > They ran roughshod over their new bosses. They went joyriding in the expensive cars in their care. Of course, they too skimmed their operations money, but they did so without the veneer
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by roenxi 2mo ago
It isn't just that I agree, but that I just wrote long - excessively verbose, I thought - posts upthread and downthread explaining how I expect the situation would play out, how it would affect me and how I'd respond to it. What m
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by roenxi 2mo ago
I recommend Amazon. You can buy a tanks of the stuff to call your own if you feel like paying someone something. There'd be specialist companies that do bulk oxygen supplies too, a quick search found things like https://www.
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by roenxi 2mo ago
I'm sure you're just being silly, but ok. Take what you can. That is pretty much literally how it works. I'm not stopping you.
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by roenxi 2mo ago
> I'm personally of the mind that, as long as I trade with certificates that bear Caesar's face (or trade with proxies for such certificates, like a MasterCard), he gets to make the rules in exchange for my being able to lean o
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by roenxi 2mo ago
You pay market price for oxygen. It just happens to be 0 right now. There isn't any reason in principle that price can't change (eg, if you want to go underwater getting the oxygen will most certainly cost you something, if you wa
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by roenxi 2mo ago
> This requires that we accept that there is such a thing as a neutral procedure... Yes, it does. And we live in a society. So by extension we do already accept that neutral procedures are possible and that we have achieved them. The Eng

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