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by savanaly 6y ago
I see this comment all the time and I'm never sure which of the two stances (or a third? don't want to pigeonhole you) people hold: a) Offsets don't do what they claim to do, as in the earth in the universe where you give the
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by savanaly 6y ago
But doesn't everyone sort of agree now that it really is bullshit? Were they right but for the wrong reasons?
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by savanaly 6y ago
What's the matter with that notation? I work in a code base many millions of lines large, see those every day, and think nothing of it.
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by savanaly 6y ago
I was interested by the following part: >COWEN: Now, as you know, Wikipedia is open. It’s free. It doesn’t have ads. It’s a dream of the early tech utopians. Why is it the only surviving dream of that kind that has persisted? >WALES:
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by savanaly 6y ago
It's just insane enough that I want to wait and hear "the other side" before passing judgement. Are there any other details that might have been left out for example that make it a less clear cut case of theft than what is de
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by savanaly 6y ago
>Sure, there have been games written in Lisp and some games written by language dilettantes fond of Objective Caml, but they never turn out to be programmed in a functional style. You can write imperative code in those languages easily e
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by savanaly 6y ago
I would vote for yes, Captain Disillusion. See for example videos like [0]. He's great because he follows in the spirit of people like Randi while being at the same time original and appropriate to his era by focusing on dishonest visu
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by savanaly 6y ago
I first learned about him through some things Martin Gardner wrote, I believe. But I felt like I came to know him a lot better from watching the movie An Honest Liar [0]. [0] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2246565/
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by savanaly 6y ago
>Then again, Budapest at that time period produced a great many other world-class scientists and mathematicians, so maybe there are confounding factors there. For one, they were all Ashkenazi too. [0] [0] https://slatestarcode
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by savanaly 6y ago
Have you considered as an explanation the concept of "epistemic learned helplessness"[0]? [0] https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/06/03/repost-epistemic-learn...
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by savanaly 6y ago
>But it will likely just be on the employee to pay for all these things, and the companies will reap the benefits. Not for long, surely. Workers' productivity has presumably not changed much and the companies remain in fierce compet
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by savanaly 6y ago
I don't even live in California, but I enjoyed reading this anyways, especially the National Races and State and Local Races sections as the candidates are described so colorfully.
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My California ballot, 2020 (by Scott Alexander)(old.reddit.com)
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by savanaly 6y ago
What about the dumping is not internalized? Do companies not pay for landfill? I know that historically companies would take their trucks up the river and dump it in and hope nobody noticed but I sort of doubt that Amazon does that today.
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by savanaly 6y ago
Isn't this just the broken window fallacy though? Creating work is not a good thing in and of itself.
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by savanaly 6y ago
I'm curious what you ever made, if anything, of the looks you would get for drinking ice water. I know it is considered very unhealthy with a strong taboo there (at least, my data is from China, not sure if applies to other asian count
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by savanaly 6y ago
I get the complaint about deceiving uber and lyft drivers about the maintenance cost they are incurring by using their own vehicles, but what's the deception when it comes to people voluntarily working from home as a call center employ
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by savanaly 6y ago
Fascinating story but one that begs to have the other side heard.
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by savanaly 6y ago
>anything So if a human ever stated such nonsense, that would disprove the idea that they could truly reason about "anything" as well? Or does it just prove that they are capable of spouting nonsense?
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by savanaly 6y ago
In Elm (and many other languages, I assume, I'm just most familiar with Elm) there's a pattern called "opaque data type". [0] You make a file that contains the type and its constructor but you don't export the const
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by savanaly 6y ago
Yeah that was the first one I tried and it wants me to name my baby..."China". Not sure about that; seems confusing at the minimum. Surely this has to be one of the more common combinations people will need too?
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by savanaly 6y ago
>Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith. [0] [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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by savanaly 6y ago
After I listened to the podcast Conversations with Tyler interview music writer Ted Gioia [0] (one of the topics: "how to cultivate excellent taste in music") I would have to say a good place to start is read books by him, follow
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by savanaly 6y ago
I don't follow. Is that intended to reveal a flaw in the argument or is just a joke?
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by savanaly 6y ago
How so? People regularly get several pieces of legitimate mail per week, not even counting spam which if you did they get countless pieces of mail per week. How can one extra piece of mail for the entire year cause an “unprecedented" v
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by savanaly 6y ago
I live in the US and out of hundreds (thousands?) of purchases only one or two have made me question if they were counterfeit, and even those worked well enough and I didn't return them. There may be a selection bias in the comments yo
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by savanaly 6y ago
The only thing the article does to address the topic of the headline is include this link [0]. The rest is a combination of anecdote about a doctor failing to wash his hands and history about hand washing. [0] https://www.ncbi.nl
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by savanaly 6y ago
Introductory economics usually frames the purpose of money as being threefold: 1. Medium of exchange; this is what you're referring to as "the whole point of currency". But don't forget about: 2. Unit of account; Somethi
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by savanaly 6y ago
>because executives, investors and engineers have negotiating leverage Are you sure it's not because their marginal product is higher? Are you implying that collectively those groups managed to finagle a situation where the marginal
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by savanaly 6y ago
What about Guido's >PS. I like you a lot but there's no way I'm going to "bare" with you. :-)

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