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by rosser 9y ago
How is having a job different from slavery, where personal autonomy is removed by economic force rather than physical force?
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by rosser 9y ago
I worked on a mega-LoC (millions of lines of code) C++ project in the late 90s. It wasn't even (to the extent I could honestly tell at that point in my career, anyway) a particularly hellish codebase or design, and suffered none of the
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by rosser 9y ago
Every single time I've seen someone say something like, "We don't need constraints; we have validations", they've had to clean up their data — when it turned out validations aren't enough. Please do future-you
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by rosser 9y ago
I'm not sure that a book written by a dude whose position is basically, "the direct experience you have of your own consciousness is an illusion" is necessarily the best choice for exploring what a "sense of self" o
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by rosser 9y ago
How is a thing which half the population doesn't have the disposable income to participate in "effective" in addressing income inequality?
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by rosser 9y ago
I don't see where I said it did. You didn't answer my question. EDIT: Forty-some percent of Americans don't have the cash on hand or free credit to handle an unexpected $400 expense. [0] That statistic is almost 3 years old.
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by rosser 9y ago
How does that help people who don't even have that $100 to spare? They'd benefit far more from meaningful access to an economy's growth, wouldn't they? The people who can afford to do that in a way that truly pays off al
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by rosser 9y ago
Interesting: nominally more of the bottom quintile both stay in that quintile, and make it to the top quintile, than stay in the top, and drop to the bottom. bottom -> bottom: 41% top -> top: 40% bottom -> top: 9%
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by rosser 9y ago
> There must be an anti-pattern that describes this kind of behavior... Well, the anti-pattern that describes this kind of logic is the Straw Man. If all Design Pattern articles were theoretical blah blah blah, The Fine Article might
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by rosser 9y ago
No healthcare provider or energy distributor has as large a share of their respective markets as Amazon or Facebook do theirs. They're in the best position to abuse their market dominance. If this ruling is upheld, their ability to do
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by rosser 9y ago
What SCotUS decides here establishes precedent for future cases. Some of those cases will involve tech companies.
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by rosser 9y ago
Consumer protection isn't just about prices, and antitrust isn't just about consumer protection. In United States v. Microsoft [0], Microsoft was found to have abused its dominance as the maker of Windows to compete unfairly aga
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by rosser 9y ago
It's not about whether big tech companies — or any companies — cause "market failure". It's whether their behavior is anti-competitive. Are they leveraging their market leadership in a way that hinders other players from
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by rosser 9y ago
I'm curious why you use "scoffing" when The Fine Article simply says "suggested" to describe the manner of her response. What, in her two-sentence account of this experience, suggests she was overtly dismissive of h
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by rosser 9y ago
I think we're agreeing past one another here. I'm merely encouraging looking at these different behaviors, which of course warrant different responses, from a broader perspective. That keeps us in mind of why we're engaging w
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by rosser 9y ago
> Is the latter example okay? No, not really, but we must find a way to not lump that guy in with the physically aggressive guy. Yes, it's important not to conflate those two very different behaviors. At the same time, however, we
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by rosser 9y ago
That's a reductio fallacy. If you want to play that game, it was being deployed to that specific place that caused their deaths. Or was it enlisting in the first place? Maybe merely having been born? This is a strictly technical exam
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by rosser 9y ago
> AFAIK the only animal that regularly does this. Humans? Deforestation, strip-mining, dumping waste, drilling, war... Just because we wrap all that up in an "economy" or "politics" doesn't make it non-destruct
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by rosser 9y ago
Mazel tov, Nick and team! I'm really glad to see this.
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ATT loses years-long quest to cripple FTC authority over telecoms(arstechnica.com)
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by rosser 9y ago
Not least because of gender assumptions (see, e.g., implicit bias) on the part of the clinicians.
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by rosser 9y ago
Broadly, maybe? [0] It's hard, if not meaningless, to attempt to extrapolate hard conclusions from general trends. Individual variance within a population almost always exceeds that population's statistically visible tendencies. A
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by rosser 9y ago
It's entirely possible to lmgtfy without snark.
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by rosser 9y ago
Ok, my apologies. I've never heard that phrasing before, but now that you clarify, I understand it. Ambiguity in online discourse is an ongoing problem. Thanks for helping resolve this occurrence without acrimony.
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by rosser 9y ago
> In many such cases you'll still want to pull backups anyway... In all cases where you care about your data, you must take backups. There is no substitute for that step. Additionally, you want to periodically restore your bac
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by rosser 9y ago
The Fine Article is, indeed, light on meaningful approaches "backup", despite its prominent presence in its title.
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by rosser 9y ago
It also doesn't manage failover. Shared storage is a totally viable approach. (I've worked as a PostgreSQL DBA for over a decade and have built multiple shared storage-based HA environments for multiple employers.) If you mis-mana
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by rosser 9y ago
I have a friend who makes high-end violin, &c , bows (think: five-figure price tags) who was recently at a conference of sorts for musicians, bow makers, and such. An acquaintance of his was carrying a Stradivarius, on loan from some f
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by rosser 9y ago
Isn't it reasonably likely that the people citing, e.g., the FBI's murder statistics by race of perpetrator and victim, are asserting their own sort "ideological hygiene", and hence the down-modding? That is: aren't
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by rosser 9y ago
Because the service providers for post-paid phone accounts are also in the business of re-selling your PII to marketers, probably. You can get a pre-paid with cash in many if not most places. Your identity can probably be deduced from call&

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