sullyj3

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by sullyj3 8y ago
Because police take advantage of peoples' ignorance of their rights.
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by sullyj3 8y ago
Plenty of people function very well without believing in a notion of objective meaningfulness.
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by sullyj3 8y ago
I've heard it called base rate neglect.
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by sullyj3 8y ago
The transcript mentions a couple of times interference in the process by Peter Dutton and Scott Morrison, the PM, does anyone know what this is referring to?
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by sullyj3 8y ago
That seems reductive
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by sullyj3 8y ago
It's true that there's a fair amount of bullshit in humanities. However, thinking in terms of fuzzy categories like "grievance studies" is lossy and imprecise. It's not really a term which carves reality at the join
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by sullyj3 8y ago
As much as I'm extremely reluctant to endorse the actions of the US government and military, I don't think the right answer in cases of moral uncertainty is "I guess we'll just leave things as they are and hope they turn
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by sullyj3 8y ago
A certain number of photons will fall on any given square meter per second. You can't extract more energy from that square meter in a second than those photons provide.
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by sullyj3 8y ago
Presumably you need another proof for GOTO >= WHILE and therefore GOTO = WHILE
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by sullyj3 8y ago
"You're not allowed to do anything good ever if you're not already a maximally good person. That would make you a hypocrite, which is way worse than someone who doesn't do anything to help in the first place."
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by sullyj3 8y ago
It's easy to have principles when they're not being put to the test.
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by sullyj3 8y ago
I bet you five dollars OP was looking for TUI programs as well.
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by sullyj3 8y ago
Not to be cynical, but there's enormous PR pressure on Google and Sunday Pichai specifically to make this their opinion. Widespread public opinion is turning against silicon valley, and even technological advancement more generally, li
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by sullyj3 8y ago
For me, it's at least refreshing to see one that doesn't rely on the implicit hazy assumption that biological intelligence is magical.
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by sullyj3 8y ago
Clojure places a lot of emphasis on its built in hashmaps.
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by sullyj3 8y ago
https://blog.givewell.org/2018/06/29/givewells-money-moved-a... I feel like that pretty comprehensively answers your question. Givewell is a[n ea affiliated] charity which empirically evaluates the effectiven
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by sullyj3 8y ago
Let's accept for the moment that tools are morally neutral. Notwithstanding that, when you're thinking in a consequentialist fashion, you don't just ignore the knowledge you have of how the tools you build are going to be use
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by sullyj3 8y ago
Nim has been around since 2008, Go since 2009.
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by sullyj3 8y ago
Learning rust is difficult, and takes time. It's debatable whether it's worth it, but a learning a new paradigm (automatic memory management via borrow checking) hardly qualifies as a drop in replacement if you don't know how
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by sullyj3 8y ago
This seems to be competing in a similar space to Zig, and especially Jai. How does it compare to them?
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by sullyj3 8y ago
https://www.mckinsey.com/business-functions/strategy-and-cor... In general, when you write C, there are a multitude of ways to introduce memory related vulnerabilities if you don't know what you're doing, and
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by sullyj3 8y ago
Well for starters you know it's much less likely to leak memory, segfault, or experience buffer overflows. Not necessarily relevant to xsv specifically, but speaking of rust tools more generally.
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by sullyj3 8y ago
It's advice tailored for a particular audience, I don't think it's intended to be universal. http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/06/09/all-debates-are-bravery...
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by sullyj3 8y ago
No, because it doesn't involve deception.
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by sullyj3 8y ago
The information is out there, due to the authors indiscretion in getting it published in the first place. Someone was always going to do this analysis. The only thing an individual can affect is whether it happens sooner or later.
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by sullyj3 8y ago
The issue is that something like this difficult to operationalize. User Engagement conflated with user satisfaction, with poor results. Maybe you could force your users to fill out Likert scales all the time, I bet they'd love that.
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by sullyj3 8y ago
Because you've spent some time on the site and think that the people on it are likely to come up with good recommendations. And if you haven't, maybe you shouldn't.
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by sullyj3 8y ago
A lot of the time they have enough in house talent to not need to
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by sullyj3 8y ago
That seems like a pretty serious disadvantage
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by sullyj3 8y ago
What's the difference between a persistent universe and an MMO?

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