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by seadan83 2y ago
Good points. To go further, the analogy I give is it is like hiring Stephen king vs a mediocre writer. The latter can get some interesting articles written, but the former will spawn book series, spinoffs, movies. Which is to say, I think t
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by seadan83 2y ago
IIRC, Joel's thesis was could not program anything. I believe his example was fizzbuzz, and he stated an absurd number of people could not do that in an hour
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by seadan83 2y ago
My impression is the accountability is not there. The city just settles, the money comes out of taxpayer pockets. I will be shocked if any police officer, seargent, anyone, loses pay, demoted, or held accountable for criminal negligence. Wi
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by seadan83 2y ago
CS gas and tear gas are chemical weapons. Period. By definition. It is not a technical distinction. See WWI. The fact there are more deadly chemical weapons does not change that use of CS and tear gas are chemical weopons and their use in w
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by seadan83 2y ago
Good point, for the analogy, I should have written conductor instead of orchestrator. The point remains though that the difference is in the source of synchronization.
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by seadan83 2y ago
My point was not well stated. My hope is that if people learn to question AI summaries, they might also learn to question the rest of the search page.
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Another thought, where do you see that Greenpeace is opposed to the technology? I don't take that as a given, perhaps that is why we disagree? The stated concern is mixing of seed crops, not a blanket concern for any GMO crop of any ty
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by seadan83 2y ago
Interesting. A counter example, WWE (wrestling) is choreographed. The wrestlers react to the cues of the other wrestlers. It's not necessarily based on time or music, but instead a pre-agreed sequence. I think the catch is that not all
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by seadan83 2y ago
A local financial issue that was raised by local farmers. Thank you for the clarification, though, my apologies - I feel a bit confused about it. I think missing context: is that it is somewhat common for big agra to build farms adjacent to
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by seadan83 2y ago
Try reddit instead for the puns! (My apologies for the snark)
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by seadan83 2y ago
To add to this, height advantage is enormous in combat. Arguably even more so then than today. A mob trying to storm up a narrow staircase under fire.. there is a strong force multiplier effect.
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by seadan83 2y ago
Same reason people build those prepper bunkers. The towers were presumably not there for the general public. Consider as well other castles and sieges. There is a limit of how many people would be allowed in, and everyone in a siege needed
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by seadan83 2y ago
I think you are speculating a lot and drawing unwarranted inferences. There is no evidence for any of the sentences you have written (EG: do you know how many people are members of greenpeace, and have you seen a statistically significant s
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by seadan83 2y ago
That latter point might be illuminating for a number of additional ideas. Specifically, should people have questioned Google's credibility from the start? Ie: these are the search results, vs this is what google chose. Google did wel
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by seadan83 2y ago
Common ancestor with potentially a similar gut. That is not definitive against. The researchers have shown an unexpected effect. They do not know the pathway. The fact the effect exists indicates there is some biochemistry at play that we d
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by seadan83 2y ago
I find this an interesting statistics, in 2023 there were 36.5k total people employed in the US coal industry. [1] It's simply just not a lot of people in the grand scheme. That speaks to how industrialized coal production is in the U
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by seadan83 2y ago
Are you referring to 2004 when the movie came out? Just curious what "at the time" means. My personal recollection, the early 2000s was part of a pushback and the movie was part it. As a trend from the late 80s to 90s, fast food w
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by seadan83 2y ago
I was curious, looks like the equivalent (calorie-wise) of fries & a double cheeseburger is 1KG of salad.* So yes, quite hard to overeat salad. Plus, eating that much salad would give a lot of nutrition, and throwing some beans & he
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by seadan83 2y ago
We potentially agree on quite a bit and maybe might not talk past each other. With regards to our differences, I view software management more as a leadership role rather than as a decision making role. We won't quibble that leaders ne
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by seadan83 2y ago
Do you know of any credible sources/references that have attempted to quantify that "human suffering discount?" I'm genuinely curious. My impression is that China simply has the Solar industry established. It's a bi
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by seadan83 2y ago
I really don't see managers as decision makers. They do help communicate strategic direction, but in terms of tactical decisions, they are too removed to really have valuable input. OTOH, unless you are the team lead, the amount of bik
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by seadan83 2y ago
Do you have citations for how Chinese solar panel production causes undo environmental damage? My impression is that China subsidized their solar panel industry and gave that industry grants. Basically they did "Solyndra" a couple
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by seadan83 2y ago
Industries which receive subsidies today and still have incentives "to do better" are counter-examples to your statement. " Pumping them out might well mean free money" The article talks about this, Wrights law. The &quo
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by seadan83 2y ago
Replace "remind me" with "what about" and the sentence reads perfectly. That is usually a good test for what about'ism > Whataboutism is when two entities are doing shitty stuff with roughly commensurate negative
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by seadan83 2y ago
I think it's by definition that the unique elements of a set is a subset. Nonetheless, the clarification is a good point. To take a stab at a yet more correct statement, maybe something like the follows captures it: In the algorithm n
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by seadan83 2y ago
All of the above is to say, western morality is not all good (nor is it all bad), but the same goes for all the rest. To know more about further examples, that is an ignorance you need to work on personally to cure. Travel outside of the We
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by seadan83 2y ago
> You’re avoiding the question Hard to answer such a question. It's not well formulated. The set of non-western morality is all of the rest of them. Name any morality and you can likely find an example from present day and/or h
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by seadan83 2y ago
Non western is the rest of the world. It's a big place, lots of cultures. Cherry picking examples from select and extreme examples is not very representative, particularly when many elements of that list are also present in western cul
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Imagine 1PB of data and you expect 30% of it to be unique. That needs 300TB RAM to store unique elements. Keep in mind the values in a hash table are the elements themselves, so a hastable of perhaps 300TB. Doing that without that much RAM,
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The subset is very important, it is the subset of unique elements.

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