smitty1e

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Is academic writing getting harder to read?(marginalrevolution.com)
3 points by smitty1e 2y ago|0 comments
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by smitty1e 2y ago
Ambiguity is heaven for humor and hell for coding.
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by smitty1e 2y ago
Turnout is also a problem, but one needs to ensure that knowledge of non-participation doesn't become proxy votes cast by people In The Know. Rest assured: any workable angle you can think of an many you have not have already been empl
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by smitty1e 2y ago
There will be no problems until Washington is under serious party contention. Then, suddenly, the weak security of the postal system will look dodgy. When, as in the CA case, ballots roll in after the polls close and magically ALWAYS flip t
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by smitty1e 2y ago
This was the point of having peaceful, scheduled revolutiona on a biennial basis. Worked until technology shrunk the world and WWI happened and the Administrative State began building a Progressive Tower of Babel under Woodrow. If you are i
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by smitty1e 2y ago
Are you saying that a government cannot balance a budget?
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by smitty1e 2y ago
It's all so much authoritarianism, as far as I can tell. The Socialists seem to do a better job of providing a crypto-religious veneer.
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by smitty1e 2y ago
Capitalism is a continuously evolving system, as the shift from print to radio to television to the internet shows in a thoroughly obvious manner. Or you can look at the top X stocks on Wall Street and see how many exist in subsequent decad
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by smitty1e 2y ago
I'm only a victim of an un-scalable federal government whose debt burden and resulting tax load would be an obvious resource leak in an information system. People do not scale in a linear fashion. Ignore reality at your peril. Oh, and:
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A Retro Proposal to Restore the Public's Trust in Media(ethicsandjournalism.org)
2 points by smitty1e 2y ago|0 comments
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by smitty1e 2y ago
I suppose that if one were motivated, one would run a https://github.com/plomlompom/htwtxt service and then point the audience to it. Not clear that the juice would be worth the squeeze over, e.g. Mastadon.
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by smitty1e 2y ago
I fully agree that Socialism is a simpler and more beautiful approach. What I haven't seen is Socialism scaling in any sustainable way above, roughly, Dunbar's Number[1]. I submit, looking at human history, that the non-scalabity
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by smitty1e 2y ago
12-year election officer here. This idea is great for small groups of informed voters. However, I submit that there are (at least) three other crucial discussions to have: - Does my status as an informed voter bias me toward a system for wh
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by smitty1e 2y ago
I've had some prior exposure and been going through DuoLingo German. Being mostly done, I'm at a low B1 proficiency in a year. It is quite an astounding piece of learning software, overall. They have a music module that I've
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by smitty1e 2y ago
Disagree. You have a marketing opportunity for a hipster character named "Stu" to be the spokesman.
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by smitty1e 2y ago
Bureaucracy + poetry = "bureauetry"
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by smitty1e 2y ago
Ecclesiastes 7:4 "The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth." https://bible.com/bible/1/ecc.7.4.KJV
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by smitty1e 2y ago
Can we generalize this point to the idea that the user might want to manage the complexity level of products? It's great to have the fully-integrated television that can be controlled by a phone app. This may seem great, until the spyw
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by smitty1e 2y ago
Ah, yes, the Sapir–Whorf hypothesis => https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_relativity
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by smitty1e 2y ago
> The killing of Brian Thompson was the act of an apparent madman whose confused ideology defies social media ambitions to make him some kind of hero. In my view much of the celebration of the killing is self-indulgence. I doubt it accom
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by smitty1e 2y ago
Possibly not the optimal way to comment code, but sure.
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by smitty1e 2y ago
{"comment":"This valid JSON document totally has a comment."}
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by smitty1e 2y ago
Maybe I should just shop for a non-antiquated keyboard.
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by smitty1e 2y ago
Assassination assumes some premeditation. I can at least grasp killing in some sort of immediate self-defense situation. However, assassination seems a slippery slope to some anarchy that is unlikely to please anyone this side of Hell.
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by smitty1e 2y ago
I hate the Caps Lock and want to nuke it from orbit. And its little dog Number Lock, too.
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by smitty1e 2y ago
I submit that human beings are the Leaky Abstraction, and the techo-fetishing involved in reducing society to a series of spreadsheets and AI models is the Orwellian bugaboo. In my Glorious Future of Applied Handwaving, the system would t
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by smitty1e 2y ago
What assassination would be "justified"? This tragedy in the same city that could potentially throw the book at a Daniel Penny...
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by smitty1e 2y ago
> not sure they could find a jury to convict them A trial should be about setting forth the law and the facts and letting the jury handle any relevant "leaky abstractions". It's fairly clear that the act was illegal. If th
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by smitty1e 2y ago
One term that captures a sizeable slice of the discussion is Emergence[1] There is some size tipping point (waves hands) where the Toy Problem exits the nest and starts encountering the Real World. The really good RDBMS design encounters da
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by smitty1e 2y ago
And applying that 80/20 rule implies a culture of writing things down and communicating them, which doesn't scale and is highly dependent upon the general chattiness of the team in question.

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