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by rosser 9y ago
That you apparently think there's a "utility function" in play in bombing civilians suggests to me there is no meaningful possibility of dialogue here. Between that and your position that taxes which are used to support the l
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by rosser 9y ago
I'm not saying there will be a good outcome, if P and you play along. I'm saying that's the argument. I think cryonics is as much snake oil as Pascal's God. I'm baffled that I should need to clarify that, given th
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by rosser 9y ago
How is this argument materially different from Pascal's Wager? It is entirely the same structure: P: (cryonics works | God is real) If !P and you don't play along, no outcome If P and you don't play along, "bad
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by rosser 9y ago
It's interesting that you invoke Adam Smith, given how strongly in favor of redistributive policies he was. EDIT: As for specific things that taxes should pay for, no, I don't think there's a lot of room for agreement. I
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by rosser 9y ago
My position is that people who think "taxes are theft" should have to face a world where the things those taxes pay for aren't available to them. I'm pretty sure, with, as Einstein put it, "a probability approaching
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by rosser 9y ago
My information also comes from Piketty. I appreciate that my confirmation bias is possibly (probably) also in play. The campaign to smear his work, and muddy the waters around his conclusions, probably makes anything short of re-analyzing a
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by rosser 9y ago
You absolutely should have a choice. But if you did, and don't pay taxes, you shouldn't get to benefit from the things those taxes pay for. "Why should I have to pay for a fire department? My house isn't on fire...&quo
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by rosser 9y ago
The vast majority of the "rich" are beneficiaries of generational wealth. They didn't "figure out how to succeed"; they were literally handed everything they have , without ever having to earn a damned thing. If yo
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by rosser 9y ago
I just came home from Europe, flying CDG-SFO on an Air France A388 (A380-800). That was one of the rougher flights I've been on, both in terms of frequency and intensity of rough air. The flight over wasn't as bad, but it was stil
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by rosser 9y ago
And it was the community that drew me in. Very early in my database career, I was having massive performance problems with my postgres install. I sent a very sharply toned message to the postgres performance mailing list. Within hours of
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by rosser 9y ago
It's not that we can't "terraform" our own planet. It's that the consequences of getting it wrong, in doing so deliberately, could easily be worse than those of the "accidental" ways we've been doin
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by rosser 9y ago
Is anyone else getting NXDOMAIN for democf.danalinc.com? Is that perhaps an "Oh, shit. They found us!" move?
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by rosser 9y ago
"All models are false. Some of them are useful."
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by rosser 9y ago
I don't think your comment's parent was advocating doing that. It merely offered an existence proof. Your anecdote can't beat up his, and vice versa .
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by rosser 9y ago
> Anecdotally... This sounds to me like nothing so much as confirmation bias. I've lived in SF for six years now, and gone on dozens of first (and far fewer, but still nonzero, subsequent) dates. While I do see some slight evidenc
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AWS Middle East(aws.amazon.com)
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In Amish Country, the Future Is Calling(nytimes.com)
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by rosser 9y ago
Yes. FaceID just makes it easier, which was the OP's question.
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by rosser 9y ago
Cuff someone, pull their phone out of their pocket, hold it in front of their face. "Is this your phone? Oh, it looks like it is..." How's that Fifth Amendment thing working out for you? EDIT: There's legal precedent tha
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by rosser 9y ago
I think the argument is that if you do put both your local DNS server and 8.8.8.8 in your /etc/resolv.conf, then yes, they should return the same results. Put another way, a configuration file that enumerates DNS servers isn&#
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by rosser 9y ago
Episode of...? EDIT: Oh, Voyager. That's also on Netflix, and probably other places. S4E22, "Unforgettable".
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by rosser 9y ago
> And science historian Jöran Friberg, retired from the Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden, blasts the idea. The Babylonians “knew NOTHING about ratios of sides!” he wrote in an email to Science. “When a distinguished but elde
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by rosser 9y ago
> Also, "pushing off with your heel" is not a thing. It's imprecise language, to be sure. I think it's more about where you're concentrating the force. If you look at the .gif that 'WalterSear shared down-
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by rosser 9y ago
It might be clearer phrased as pushing through the heel, instead of off it. Or maybe that just makes it worse. It's a bit in the vein of riding a bike: you can't very easily explain it to someone who's never done it; with
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by rosser 9y ago
I'll own having missed that as well, or at least overlooking it in my having read the "wrong" as being about the how , and not the why . I think the gadgets and accessories can be helpful, but absolutely: they're not t
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by rosser 9y ago
I've almost always been towards the lower end of the healthy BMI range for my height (to the extent BMI is even a meaningful metric), so that wasn't a consideration for me. That said, absolutely: if you're at all overweight,
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by rosser 9y ago
You're right. Thanks. Pushing off with the heel is actually specifically (if indirectly) part of what I'm working on with the bodyworker I mentioned, even. I really should have completed the thought. Thanks for catching and clarif
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by rosser 9y ago
The Fine Article doesn't really go into how we're doing it wrong, beyond a passing mention of barefoot running, and some dissing of treadmills (which is hyperbolic and orthogonal to reality; you can run "correctly" or
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by rosser 9y ago
This looks great! You sold me with the object dependency graph alone. As someone who's fed himself as a PostgreSQL DBA for over a decade now, I'm excited to see what this can do for me. Thank you!
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by rosser 9y ago
We won't go "back" to barter because, contrary to popular — and mistaken — belief, we didn't come from there. Go pick up a copy of "Debt: The First 5000 Years" for a complete defenestration of that tired trop

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