sethrin

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by sethrin 8y ago
No, there was no assumption related to an exact doubling, and it's not reasonable to infer one, and arguing against it by means of analogies to unlike goods is unsound.
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by sethrin 8y ago
Competition is broadly inconsistent with natural monopolies.
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by sethrin 8y ago
Interesting. Which framework(s) were these teams using? How large were they? xdebug is not always the most straightforward thing to set up. I don't tend to bother with it unless I am doing a lot of PHP development (which fortunately ha
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by sethrin 8y ago
Is there empirical evidence to support the idea that PHP developers do not use xdebug? If not, perhaps you can explain why you think this? I have largely stopped coding in PHP, but I did use xdebug when necessary. I have very little idea of
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by sethrin 8y ago
Non sequitur, and rude.
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by sethrin 8y ago
Physical processes cannot be made arbitrarily more efficient. There are thermodynamic limits to computation, the same as any other form of work.
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by sethrin 8y ago
Yes, it's absurd to consider that there will be any large-scale violation of thermodynamics in the indefinitely far future. Literally, nothing is less probable.
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by sethrin 8y ago
I don't know what it is about the idea of the far future that makes people so willing to throw out fundamental physical laws. The relevant point here would be that there are fundamental limits to heat transfer, and a finite amount of w
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by sethrin 8y ago
One can write very similar things about the evils of C, Java, or JavaScript, particularly if you happened to be an asshole. It's mostly value judgments, and consequently it has low informational value. It's an angry rant. CS needs
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by sethrin 8y ago
If you want to see that, I'm sure you will. It says more about you than about PHP, though.
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by sethrin 8y ago
No, that post is past its utility.
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by sethrin 8y ago
Hiring is a cargo cult; there are very few people even attempting to be empirical. The cynic in me suggests that people hire based on the last blog post they read about hiring.
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by sethrin 8y ago
I did indicate that the power issues are not inherent, even in the quoted sentence. I am disappointed in your response to the degree that it does not address other externalities. In some ways the general lack of exactitude in human affairs
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by sethrin 8y ago
While the 2008 crash can be described as an informational failure, my understanding was that this information was deliberately omitted, not just unread; it was fraud, not just a systemic failure. Also, you seem to be describing blockchain c
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by sethrin 8y ago
That doesn't sound like it gets quite as many clicks, and people tend to fund more exciting research. I'm thinking that this problem wouldn't exist, except for the perverse incentives. This is probably particularly true of t
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by sethrin 8y ago
The thing to recognize is that they are not using the same truth-finding-function that you are. That may in fact mean that you can't meaningfully compare truths. You are being empirical; they are either relying on "it makes sense&
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by sethrin 8y ago
There's an austere beauty to the laws, but physics restrictions do take all the fun out of speculation, it's true. And it does place the stars out of reach of the individual, at least until we cure aging. Empirical truth has a hea
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by sethrin 8y ago
You mean, others assume a logical impossibility and proceed from there. Violence is not an eradicable part of humanity, even in prisons. It doesn't go away if you get rid of the violent government, you simply have unrestrained violence
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by sethrin 8y ago
Nature isn't commonly held to work in mysterious ways; it's generally held that nature is knowable. Being able to travel faster than light, or send messages faster than light, would not involve objects popping in and out of exis
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by sethrin 8y ago
Do you consider FTL plausible? If so, why?
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by sethrin 8y ago
Yes, that is the definition of government. Until you remove the capacity of man to do violence, that is the only form of government which can exist.
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by sethrin 8y ago
To me this says that parables are fairly useless: with enough padding any trivial insight may seem wise. I can't at the moment imagine something that I would think important to communicate which would be made more clear by a parable. I
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by sethrin 8y ago
The following video is probably reasonably well known, and I wish that I had a more intelligent commentary than to say that it blows my mind, but it does I think bear out the point of expressivity rather well. https://youtu.be&#x
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by sethrin 8y ago
There's really very little reason to ever use that expression. It's not a particularly good translation of petitio principii , which is itself not a good translation of a previous text. The Latin is a less ambiguous way to refer
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by sethrin 8y ago
I would phrase it as, "The government is the natural monopoly of natural monopolies".
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by sethrin 8y ago
Was "sacrilege" the word you intended? Or perhaps "sacred"?
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by sethrin 8y ago
Why should one not run Terraform locally?
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by sethrin 8y ago
There's a fair amount of VR porn already. It's maybe not quite entirely fair to associate porn with new display technologies, but I can see why people might. And in this case, who knows what you're really looking at?
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by sethrin 8y ago
I don't think that's a fair assessment. Quite a few people in this thread do not share the same values that you do, even the more fundamental ones like patriotism.
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by sethrin 8y ago
Oh cool :) Yeah, I did get the impression that the name list represented more former acquaintances than current ones, and I think he got pretty burnt out on YouTube generally. He seemed like a pretty great guy, and the series was excellent,

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