seoaeu

48 ms·

511.
by seoaeu 5y ago
> disinterestedly with facts, statistics, and published analyses I think this is the core of the disagreement, and why we're talking past each other... Your argument (let me know if I'm stating it correctly): on the objective m
512.
by seoaeu 5y ago
Private prisons aren't some abstract thought experiment about how tuning incentives can produce lower recidivism rates. They are real human institutions that inflict cruelty on a daily basis. Here is the ACLU saying to get rid of them
513.
by seoaeu 5y ago
> I'm not an expert, but my intuition... Do you see how this might not be received well? You admit to not being an expert and not basing your opinion on evidence, and then jump in with supporting something anyway. A quick google sea
514.
by seoaeu 5y ago
Or, we could look at what people who've thought about this for a long time suggest: abolish private prisons. Recidivism isn't the only way that incentives are misaligned. Everything from cutting corners on food safety to lobbying
515.
by seoaeu 5y ago
I don't understand this narrative that Google is making the search results get worse or "letting" companies game it. Search result ranking is adversarial! If the results are worse than they once were, that just means that Goo
516.
by seoaeu 5y ago
If you show someone a painting you made and they tell you "That's beautiful", you may reasonably conclude that they think you're a good painter. Similarly, if you come up with an idea and someone tells you it's stup
517.
by seoaeu 5y ago
In the very unlikely event it actually had a 0.00% death rate that would be the most likely response (because places would lift all their restrictions). The harder question is what to do if it is milder than delta, but still potentially dea
518.
by seoaeu 5y ago
Not sure why this is downvoted. Given all the google hits for "transmissible viral vaccines", people have surely thought about it. I'd honestly be more surprised if people in power hadn't at least tried to look into the
519.
by seoaeu 5y ago
Did you mean to reply to a different comment or something? Not sure where the 99.9% number is coming from
520.
by seoaeu 5y ago
You aren’t following. The hard fork lets me double spend the tokens from those blocks.
521.
by seoaeu 5y ago
What stops me from doing a hard fork to roll back both blocks?
522.
by seoaeu 5y ago
Comparing uptime between comparable services is reasonable. (Though I will say that having used some GitHub competitors, counting the number of features really overlooks the actual user experience between them.) Comparing uptime between a p
523.
by seoaeu 5y ago
> For the past year, they have been down a couple of magnitudes more time than I have spent managing my server. I have spent orders of magnitude less time feeding my pet rock than the average dog owner spends feeding their pet. The diffi
524.
by seoaeu 5y ago
They’ve been saying Etherium will switch to proof of stake “soon” since like 2017!
525.
by seoaeu 5y ago
What stops miners from sending their tokens somewhere, then hard forking from a previous block where they didn’t send them? This has a clear answer in PoW, but not in your scheme
526.
by seoaeu 5y ago
Um, the difficulty of switching to renewable energy is directly proportional to the amount of capacity you need to build. That we’ll eventually reach net zero carbon so emissions now don’t matter is a rather outrageous claim
527.
by seoaeu 5y ago
And if github.com tried to host their website entirely off your little home server, they’d surely have 24x7 outages from being bombarded by too much load. All your anecdote proves is that it is easier to keep a single server online than ope
528.
by seoaeu 5y ago
That was the alleged (but false) reason they picked WGSL over SPIR-V, not the justification for designing WebGPU. Vulkan’s C API isn’t really compatible at all with JavaScript and has memory safety concerns and so forth. WebGPU has a slight
529.
by seoaeu 5y ago
Their model was something like buy houses for 'market_price(house) * 95%' and then sell them for 'market_price(house)'. The article argues that they should have devised a core complex model for asking prices, but an equa
530.
by seoaeu 5y ago
You could use that argument to justify spending more money on any unprofitable venture. If you discover that some market segment is higher risk or lower profit than you expected, that is a good reason to consider course correcting. Around 2
531.
by seoaeu 5y ago
I think there is a reasonable argument to make that (many) pickup trucks are purchased for aesthetics and the "usefulness" of them as trucks is largely irrelevant. As one friend pointed out, a work truck should be expected to be d
532.
by seoaeu 5y ago
They weren't criticizing the headline for a grammatical error (after all, passive voice isn't grammatically wrong). Rather they were using incorrect grammatical terminology to express their actual complaint: that the emphasis wasn
533.
by seoaeu 5y ago
A lot of that article feels like too much of a gotcha. There is a difference between "Alice died of a gunshot wound" and "Bob fatally shot Alice". The fact that neither one is passive voice according to the author&#x27
534.
by seoaeu 5y ago
I don’t indent my code, my autoformatter does. It is way less effort to get the braces right and then have the indent level inferred automatically
535.
by seoaeu 5y ago
Zillow is passing on an infinite number of potentially profitable enterprises. The reason they attempted this one is because they thought they already had good enough models to avoid taking large losses . If you read their statements, it i
536.
by seoaeu 5y ago
Zillow thought they already had enough data and accurate enough models to buy and sell houses profitably. The last two quarters proved they didn’t. In the first quarter they were puzzled by making too much money and in the second they lost
537.
by seoaeu 5y ago
That is not the "only" reason that Mozilla is struggling. There are vanishingly few companies their size who manage to remotely hold their own against Google for over a decade, let alone in a market segment that Google has investe
538.
by seoaeu 5y ago
If Apple learns of NSA surveillance of a specific individual... maybe? Beyond that what are you suggesting they do, send an alert to everyone in the US that the NSA might be spying on them?
539.
by seoaeu 5y ago
Except for future users targeted by those same attackers, for whom it is immensely helpful that they aren't being tipped off
540.
by seoaeu 5y ago
Those are all reasonable arguments which would have made sense to include on the product webpage. That said, are there really that many people who are unhappy with the 5-7 years of support that a company like Apple provides? And is it rea

More ›