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by skissane 9mo ago
> Your argument basically is a professional motte and bailey fallacy. No it isn't. A "motte-and-bailey fallacy" is where you have two versions of your position, one which makes broad claims but which is difficult to defend
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by skissane 9mo ago
> What do you consider torture? and what do you consider sport? By "torturing babies for sport" I mean inflicting pain or injury on babies for fun, for pleasure, for enjoyment, as a game or recreation or pastime or hobby. Doing
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by skissane 9mo ago
But those aren't actually counterexamples to my principle. The Nazis murdered numerous babies in the Holocaust. But they weren't doing it "for sport". They claimed it was necessary to protect the Aryan race, or something
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by skissane 9mo ago
> Pretty much every serious philosopher agrees that “Do not torture babies for sport” is not a foundation of any ethical system, but merely a consequence of a system you choose. Almost everyone agrees that "1+1=2" is objective.
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by skissane 9mo ago
I think there are effectively universal moral standards, which essentially nobody disagrees with. A good example: “Do not torture babies for sport” I don’t think anyone actually rejects that. And those who do tend to find themselves in pris
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by skissane 9mo ago
The actual drug my father and I were discussing was clonidine. In the UK and New Zealand, they sell 25 microgram clonidine tablets; in Australia, the smallest dose on sale is 100 micrograms. Clonidine is a very old drug – it was released ba
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by skissane 9mo ago
I was having a conversation about this with my father-a retired pharmaceutical industry executive-a few weeks back, about why certain generic prescription medication formulations were unavailable in Australia yet sold in New Zealand. He exp
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by skissane 9mo ago
People who are distinguishing them here are relying on peculiar definitions of these terms, which are largely peculiar to Americans-and I’d add, only some of them. To an Australian or Briton or Canadian or New Zealander, “Republic” means no
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by skissane 9mo ago
> The United States is a flawed system designed to protect the feudal, mostly southern property based system A lot of the constitutional factors you object to - like smaller states having voting power out of proportion to their populatio
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by skissane 9mo ago
Cygwin literally isn't what I describe, because it is an additional layer of code which isn't supported by Microsoft, doesn't come with Windows, and contains a lot of complex inefficient hacks to do things which Microsoft cou
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by skissane 9mo ago
You can have POSIX while having a radically different "not-POSIX" API. A good example of this is IBM's flagship mainframe operating system z/OS – it is a certified Unix, and recent releases have even added a big subset o
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by skissane 9mo ago
What I’d like to see them do, is add more POSIX APIs to Win32 (not some separate environment like WSL is). It would make porting apps from Linux/macOS/etc to Win32 a lot easier, and remove the amount of code required in cross-plat
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by skissane 9mo ago
I think you mean trademarks, not copyrights “X Subsystem for Y” vs “Y Subsystem for X”, where you own one of those trademarks but the other is somebody else’s, is the kind of thing that seems irrelevant to most developers, but pays the sala
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by skissane 9mo ago
I am sure I am not the only person who has no idea what you are talking about. Do you have a link to the PR?
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by skissane 9mo ago
> It's something we mostly take for granted today but was a real advancement over earlier, often text-based, programs that used simple text effects like highlighting or different colors to represent visual effects that were only ful
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by skissane 10mo ago
> But the birthday date didn’t change so it shouldn’t move to a different day. But it does. My brother moved to the US for a few years. So we’d send him birthday wishes on the day of his birthday (Australia time), and he’d get them the d
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by skissane 10mo ago
What are the odds the current Supreme Court majority are going to uphold voiding Trump's pardons? Pretty to close to zero. The only way you could do this would be if you changed the SCOTUS composition through court packing or impeachme
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by skissane 10mo ago
The idea that there is a clean distinction between databases and file systems is very POSIX/Microsoft. On mainframe and minicomputer operating systems they were often far less clearly separated, with a lot of functions which POSIX&#x2F
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by skissane 10mo ago
> I've seen many futurists claim that human innovation is dead and all future discoveries will be the results of AI. I think there's a big difference between discoveries through AI-human synergy and discoveries through AI worki
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by skissane 10mo ago
I think the real test will be, not whatever this administration does, but how much of that survives into the next one - how much is the new normal versus how much is a temporary aberration. That’s true even if the next administration is Rep
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by skissane 10mo ago
> If you grep (via fuse) you will end up opening lots of files which will result in fetches to some API and it will be slow. This is a limitation of the POSIX filesystem interface. If there were a grep() system call, it could delegate se
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by skissane 10mo ago
> or Dell will do it for you: Only in certain countries. Dell refuses to sell laptops with Linux installed in Australia. And they've never given a believable explanation as to why.
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by skissane 10mo ago
> I specifically would increase the tax rate the more properties an entity owns (Not a lawyer so IDK how to treat one guy owning 10 companies as 1 entity the right way). Very hard to make this work, people find complex ways around it; e.
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by skissane 10mo ago
They are all irrelevant to everything, because in dollar and percentage terms they are a drop in the ocean
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by skissane 10mo ago
> The demand for pill bottles literally does grow before anyone takes the medication, no? Only really in the US. In most other countries they use blister packs instead. Global consumption of blister packs is so huge (not just for prescri
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by skissane 10mo ago
> For example, the first order effects of growing GLP-1 prevalence are actually consumption of prescription pads, new demand on pill bottles, and gas consumption of pharma sales reps. I take injectable tirzepatide prescribed by an electr
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by skissane 10mo ago
International law is real. It has discernible content, people who professionally study it, and it does influence (however incompletely) the behaviour of the world’s governments This idea that law can’t exist if it doesn’t have a clearly ide
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by skissane 10mo ago
This is a bit confused-if you send them to the Hague, they can’t be executed-because neither the ICC nor any ad hoc tribunals located in that city have the death penalty. As an abolitionist state, I doubt the Dutch government would ever con
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by skissane 10mo ago
I wish someone would do the same for the VT525. The last DEC terminal, it is close to a superset of the preceding ones (ignoring some features that were dropped) and those of a bunch of other vendors too
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by skissane 10mo ago
I asked Baidu's Ernie (ernie-5.0-preview-1203 on LMArena, currently highest ranked Chinese model on their text leaderboard) to "Tell me about age discrimination in China" – it gave me a lengthy response starting with: > Ag

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