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by rovolo 5y ago
I think that you're missing the point of the comment you're responding to. Here are some similar statements: "Permission is only a concept that exists within an Authorization scheme" "Legal and Illegal are only conc
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by rovolo 5y ago
> Manhattan was purchased It wasn't purchased from the people who inhabited the island. [0] The dutch created a deed to claim the island, and paid one village to move to make the deed seem legit. [1] [0] https://en.wikipe
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by rovolo 5y ago
It depends on how you characterize the zoonotic transfer: - "Came from bats": "People in China ate bats" vs "Bats poop on things livestock/humans eat" - "Came from the wetmarket": "Chinese w
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by rovolo 5y ago
As a compromise between you two: > Fortunately, the process is engraved in dense equations. Unfortunately, the dense equations make it difficult to learn why we're following this process.
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by rovolo 5y ago
I understand that you don't want to use the term "concentration camp" because it's associated with Nazi extermination camps. What term would you prefer instead, "internment camp"? There really needs to be a ter
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by rovolo 5y ago
FYI for other readers, Mises is an Austrian Economics think tank with Ron Paul and Andrew Napolitano on the board [0]. It's true that food shortages don't necessarily lead to famine. However, the potato harvest did drop by 80-85%
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by rovolo 5y ago
He also was hired at Apple in April. ~2k Apple employees then signed a letter condemning his hiring after excerpts of his book circulated. This wasn't so much a Twitter mob resurfacing an old book, as a group of Apple employees using a
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by rovolo 5y ago
> if Trump had tried the same tactics NZ did he would have been met with vitriol about how racist and xenophobic he was. This point doesn't follow from the article you linked. The HuffPo article has two major complaints: 1) Trump&#x
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by rovolo 5y ago
That article is from 2020-03-12. By that day, we had a total of 40 deaths and 1.5k confirmed cases. It was pretty obviously spreading within the US at that point, and just closing the borders wasn't going to stop it. Headlines for cont
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by rovolo 5y ago
I totally agree that many people aren't following the news closely and they'll probably eventually get vaccinated. However, I don't see what you're criticizing in the Nature article. They're pretty clearly distingui
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by rovolo 5y ago
"val" is short for "value"
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by rovolo 5y ago
Okay yeah, that's a different issue than what I thought you meant. You're saying we should focus on the most asymmetric careers because they'll give us the best understanding of gender gaps. That makes sense, but personally I
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by rovolo 5y ago
My point wasn't that all the specified careers were above the median salary, my point was that the most dangerous jobs don't seem to be the best paid jobs. The original question was > But then why do those careers earn less mon
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by rovolo 5y ago
There are two orders of magnitude difference between the number locomotive operators and the CEO & engineering jobs: 55k/7m = 0.8% 7m/170m = 4% There's a legit difference between arguing about a $40k line item on a $1m ho
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by rovolo 5y ago
> Did I express an opinion? I'm pretty sure I just quoted a statistic. Picking which statistics/examples to cite is an opinion. Furthermore, you did express an opinion: "give a cop a good reason to shoot you".
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by rovolo 5y ago
The question is why those careers earn less money. Your assertion is that the careers men choose are more dangerous, so those careers earn more. My question is, are dangerous careers well paid? Here are the totals for occupational deaths:
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by rovolo 5y ago
There are: 55k "Locomotive engineers and operators" (90% male) 1.7m "Chief executives" (70% male) 1.9m "Software developers" (80% male) 3.2m "Architecture and engineering occupations" (85% male) Maybe
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by rovolo 5y ago
When I hear "bring your whole self to work", I think of gay people who couldn't mention their loved ones because that would out them. When you say there should be a "strong separation between your private life", I d
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by rovolo 6y ago
To expand on this: they basically won the right to bundle on appeal, but they were found to have abused their market power in support of IE. First Trial: > On June 7, 2000, the court ordered a breakup of Microsoft as its remedy.[19] Acco
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by rovolo 6y ago
The issue danaliv is talking about is not the sharing of public information. It's the act of curation which adds additional meaning to that public information.
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by rovolo 6y ago
FreeBSD by default installs command-line only. FreeBSD is intended to be a base system suitable for both servers and desktops, so X11 is an optional install. The guide for newbies [1] and the FAQ [2] both point to GhostBSD or MidnightBSD as
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by rovolo 6y ago
This is purely a guess, but I think it's because all the exponents are scalar. You get exponents when the derivative of a function is proportional to itself: d/dx (f) = k*f So exponentials will be scalars because the expo
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by rovolo 6y ago
I'm guessing they're referring to the fact that he only answered questions from March to October 2009. That's a short time, but we shouldn't really expect people to donate time answering questions on SO either.
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by rovolo 6y ago
They tell you if you broke a class of things, and I think that class of issues is pretty broad: * when you remove a method from a class, no user of that class calls that method * when you change the return type of a method, all users of tha
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by rovolo 6y ago
I'd like to dive in to one of the specifics. It's easy to disagree about which values people hold when you don't back up those assertions. From the NYT article: > He described some feminists as something close to Voldemort
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by rovolo 6y ago
> I often handle Either (and Option) using pattern matching when I feel it's important to give both code paths equal importance and equal visibility in the code, but people change it because flatMap is supposedly more idiomatic, and
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by rovolo 6y ago
I'm only familiar with the Jenny Durkan (mayor of Seattle) incident. However, I don't think graffiti on her fence and the street are really the same type of 'storming'. From her public complaint: https://drive
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by rovolo 6y ago
>>You cannot yell "fire" in a movie theatre. >Actually, you can. This is protected by Brandenberg as I understand it. Brandenberg says that the government can't restrict inflammatory speech unless it's "d
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by rovolo 6y ago
I'm more familiar with Alaska and had a 130˚F delta between the high and low air temp. The garages I'm familiar with were always insulated and contained the furnace. Even if the garage was unheated, the excess heat from the furnac
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by rovolo 6y ago
I don't follow rocket technology closely, but is SpaceX really unique in regard to reusable rockets? Didn't Blue Origin do each milestone (announcement, vertical landing, relaunch) before SpaceX did?

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