strangeattractr

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by strangeattractr 5y ago
Why bother with the software engineering, your moral sensibilities are needed everywhere. It's not every day someone emerges capable of writing a todo app in react without killing anyone
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by strangeattractr 5y ago
Maybe the blocked content is just divine retribution for the abhorrent cookie consent buttons we all have to press 20 times a day now.
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by strangeattractr 5y ago
Very astute, the form of the struggle is the same therefore the degree of the struggle must be the same too. In the same way that a famine isn't a big deal because we've all got to figure out where our next meal is coming from.
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by strangeattractr 5y ago
Most people that do computer science degrees don't call themselves computer scientists afterward. In fact, the only people I've ever known that call themselves that title are those in academia.
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by strangeattractr 5y ago
Yes exactly, they are pursuers of profit. When they host the videos it merely aligns with their profit motives. When they block something it is because it interferes with their profit motives. I have no issue with this whatsoever, it's
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by strangeattractr 5y ago
What a completely facile comparison. They earn money by plastering ads over user submitted content. Hosting those videos is hardly some act of social conscience, why would they be owed praise in addition to the advertising revenues they rec
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by strangeattractr 5y ago
It's a sad attempt to rescue the reputation of a modern nationalist movement the poster sympathises with by imbuing it with the moral righteousness of the independence movements of the 20th century.
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by strangeattractr 5y ago
I prefer binary protocols but I think you make a good point about HTTP/1 especially from a learning perspective. I remember how enlightening it was when I followed a tutorial to create a http server and found that all I needed to do (i
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by strangeattractr 5y ago
This is making me reconsider how I do IDs. I thought the performance of sequential IDs was significantly better. So my approach was to use a standard auto-increment primary ID and then obfuscate by id * p mod m where p and m are coprime and
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by strangeattractr 5y ago
Bitcoin enthusiasts often say this because they know the energy question is one that Bitcoin can never answer but that doesn't mean it's a good one. The US has national interests economic and strategic that exist independently of
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by strangeattractr 5y ago
Strange reading of Keynes. I never read him advocate for rampant wasteful consumerism. In fact many of his arguments about government intervention (investment) are derived by his observation that consumption is prone to drying up. I also do
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by strangeattractr 5y ago
>Most people are roughly the same in terms of physical and mental capability I don't think this is true. People vary wildly in how long it takes them to learn and understand concepts. Some people are better at this and so they achie
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by strangeattractr 5y ago
Doesn't it feel somewhat hypocritical to accuse others of having their head in the sand whilst claiming slavery, genocide, racism and misogyny are uniquely western phenomenon? I think the irony of the self-loathing westerner, is that i
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by strangeattractr 5y ago
Maybe the people regulating don't understand what they're regulating. Every time I click a cookie consent warning I wonder exactly what they are supposed to be achieving - I can't imagine casual users of the internet with no
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by strangeattractr 6y ago
No those are just tools, you evaluate an argument based on the chain of reasoning from premise to conclusion. Critical thinking is how you produce an apparent contradiction in an argument. Once you put this to the person articulating an arg
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by strangeattractr 6y ago
How do you evaluate the merits of an argument?
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by strangeattractr 6y ago
How would you dismiss points being argued if not on the ability of their proponents to argue them?
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by strangeattractr 6y ago
I'd just like to clarify - you are saying their inability to produce a counterpoint is irrelevant to their argument because there might exist a possible counterpoint not yet articulated that validates their argument?
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by strangeattractr 6y ago
No that's not playground reasoning. If someone points out a contradiction in your reasoning and your only response is to label their pointing out of a contradiction 'dangerous', you are quite literally showcasing the hollowne
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by strangeattractr 6y ago
I mean it's a big leap to say that. Insinuating that he's a troublesome character to work with when most people say the opposite is quite strange. Even if it is related to his personality, sometimes people just don't get alon
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by strangeattractr 6y ago
As someone who writes a fair bit of Go and has dabbled with Rust a little bit after trying to learn it 3-4 times I agree. The Option and Result enums make me feel like I'm not missing an obscure error. Admittedly I find Go considerably
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by strangeattractr 6y ago
thanks for this i've been wondering about kubernetes for a while now purely out of curiosity
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by strangeattractr 6y ago
FT is a great newspaper.
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by strangeattractr 6y ago
All mobile phone manufacturers are spying on you does not automatically follow from the fact that Xiaomi browsers are spyware.
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by strangeattractr 6y ago
What would be the price of BTC if speculation and hoarding was removed?
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by strangeattractr 6y ago
I've always wondered why people are so obsessed with petrodollar recycling? The USD has been a global reserve currency since the 1920s and superseded the GBP completely post-Bretton Woods. The petrodollar mechanism is not what caused t
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by strangeattractr 6y ago
Why did this get flagged? Seems like a legitimate topic of discussion.
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by strangeattractr 6y ago
Congratulations on getting published, I have been looking for a book like this.
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by strangeattractr 6y ago
Unreported crimes aren't factored into the stats you quote.
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by strangeattractr 6y ago
It's funny the way this is often framed outside of Australia as a government fighting back against monopolistic tech giants. This proposal is the result of lobbying by shrinking old media monopolies whose only option for increasing rev

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