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by sedachv 9y ago
> Where you are required to do some labour work for the community (cleaning wild areas, swiping side walks, planting trees etc.) in exchange for some better than average benefits. All of the things you listed are geared towards improving
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by sedachv 9y ago
Yes, Peterson must have read that exact article because the wording he used was almost verbatim. The problem is that he is convinced that this is somehow a new phenomenon in the context of European society going back to Roman times, which i
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by sedachv 9y ago
> Dowry is almost non-existent today in Western culture. Do you not understand that being able to provide a dowry in the past is being "rich" today? Peterson's whole approach to evolutionary psych can be summarized as &quo
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by sedachv 9y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dowry is an extremely common practice across the world going back a very long time. The fact that Peterson asserts that "only rich women get married" was not the case in the past
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by sedachv 9y ago
Jordan Peterson also argued that "Now only rich women get married." [1] Someone who has no idea what a dowry is has no business trying to teach anthropology. Peterson gets attention for being an obnoxious know-it-all but he just r
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by sedachv 9y ago
> Frankly, I think this is an unrealistic expectation. The whole point of spying/intelligence is that you operate in foreign environments without their knowledge with the assumption they may have a hostile response if you're di
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by sedachv 9y ago
> You can almost build a yacc grammar that will read C and emit assembly. I have looked at a lot of C parsers and compilers and have written a C to Lisp transpiler and this statement is ludicrously wrong. You cannot even parse C code wit
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by sedachv 9y ago
> I have trouble rationalizing this romantic view of the homeless as these poor downtrodden, down on their luck people who just need a hand up, with the realities I see everyday of mentally ill, dangerous, and completely uncontrollable p
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by sedachv 9y ago
Here is an HN comment from jawns on one of the WP articles that tries to explain this: "This reverse submarine -- a critique of Amazon published by Jeff Bezos' paper -- tries to give what appears to be a biased news source a patin
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by sedachv 9y ago
Your comment is absurdly wrong. Old Belarussian/Ukrainian is the circa-Early Middle Ages language of Kievan Rus that is the ancestor of modern Belarussian, Ukrainian, and Russian languages. What destroyed the use of Belarussian literar
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by sedachv 9y ago
Native Americans practiced setting fires as a forest management technique for thousands of years and the forests of the Pacific Northwest survived. It took less than a hundred years of logging by the USA following the Indian Wars of the 19t
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by sedachv 9y ago
There are large old growth forests in the Canadian boreal regions that are currently being destroyed by logging companies like Resolute. Since Canada has a strong government, Resolute can do things like file malicious lawsuits against non-p
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by sedachv 9y ago
Your entire comment boils down to repeating Sturgeon's Law over and over, which can be summarized as "ninety percent of everything is crap," which is to say, your comment is obnoxious and off-topic to the discussion of Digita
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by sedachv 9y ago
> Note that many of the working poor got themselves into that position because of their choices, generally they had a kid at 16 and dropped out of school as a result The vast majority of teenage mothers in the United States do not choose
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by sedachv 9y ago
Yandex has free email for domains: https://domain.yandex.ru/
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by sedachv 9y ago
You can get around UEFI Secure Boot by installing an old signed bootloader with known exploits (if I understand correctly this is why the "Secure Golden Key Boot" exploit of last year[1] cannot be patched without changing public k
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by sedachv 9y ago
> Remember: This proposal would mean millions more for social programs. Why not just skip the middleman and raise capital gains and estate taxes? Also what would keep the 2% landowners from paying lobbyists and politicians to lower the c
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by sedachv 9y ago
> You have to resort to hacks in Python to reload modules, which has unclear semantics. This is the crux of the issue. Even in Python 3 the semantics for reloading modules is wrong: Other references to the old objects (such as names ext
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by sedachv 9y ago
> But I'm curious if common lisp has some way of completing a "round trip edit" such that an edit/correction made on a server process, in situ, are able to be easily propagated back to your master source? In SLIME you
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by sedachv 9y ago
> What is the difference between setp, setf, defvar, and defparameter? Why is the documentation so technical and dense? What is a "form"? What are multiple return values and how do I get to them? Should I spend time learning th
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by sedachv 9y ago
> But I think it's silly to suggest that you can hike it to whatever you want and the theories from economists will align and the consumer won't pay more; that it just comes from profits and that won't affect anything. Wel
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by sedachv 9y ago
You wrote: > if everything costs more Then you wrote: > many businesses simply respond by upping the price Which should be "some" businesses for "some" products. The price/wage spiral is mythical because it do
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by sedachv 9y ago
You cannot mention efforts to teach programming to school-age children without talking about the work of Seymour Papert: https://www.media.mit.edu/events/papert/ A few comments have already mentioned Logo, which c
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by sedachv 9y ago
> The cost gets passed on to the consumer. So if everything costs more What you are describing is a mythical concept that in economics is called the "price/wage spiral." This is not what actually happens (indeed one of Fri
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by sedachv 9y ago
> If you eg still use a linked list data structure as an input, you are never gonna be faster than O(n) no matter how clever your implicit parallelism is. I think you took away completely the wrong point from Steele's talk. The bott
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by sedachv 9y ago
GNU Shepherd is an init replacement written in Guile, a dialect of Scheme. Guix ships with GNU Shepherd. Anything that runs in place of init should in principle be small, and hence not too difficult to write and maintain. So you are right t
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by sedachv 9y ago
There was a great post by https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=maxxxxx about why the ruling class of the United States views copyright the way they do: Copyright and IP (and probably real estate) are pretty much the only w
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by sedachv 9y ago
> By the way, I don't see how Church-Rosser would give you any free parallelism---even in theory. Church-Rosser theorem means that all possible reduction sequences lead to the same normal form, so you can β reduce the subterms in pa
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by sedachv 9y ago
I looked through the slides but not the video and the slides ignore the hard problem: how do you schedule these requests? How do you know how many parallel requests you can issue without hammering the database or service? How do you batch q
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by sedachv 9y ago
I do not know if it was automated, but two eBay sellers I purchased from were doing this with their Amazon Prime accounts - the items were shipped to my address by Amazon. I was upset because the reason I shop on eBay instead of Amazon is t

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