taeric

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by taeric 5mo ago
From the intro of the page you link: "The orthographic depth of an alphabetic orthography indicates the degree to which a written language deviates from simple one-to-one letter–phoneme correspondence." So, sure, if you want to di
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by taeric 5mo ago
I contest this. There is no correct "step from" in this. There is a post-hoc explanation for why a lot of things work. And there is some benefit in regularity. But most of this is, as stated, post hoc. Consider, how do you rea
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by taeric 5mo ago
And, of course, the main reason we have spelling bees is that people enjoy them.
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by taeric 5mo ago
I think you don't understand the various orthographies. Again, you base the claim that English is not phonetic based on confusions in how different phonemes are represented using the 26 symbols of our alphabet. A thing that is defined
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by taeric 5mo ago
"Reading is almost phonetic" is a largely meaningless phrase. There are some orthographies that are more regular than others. But, indeed, the very confusion people love to talk about with English only works if it is phonetic, b
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by taeric 5mo ago
I was curious on this when it came out. There are some really good youtube videos of folks taking a dive on this and it was a delight to watch them.
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by taeric 5mo ago
Are they, though? There are certainly some cases where it has happened, but I don't think it has been established that that is the norm. Naive searching on the term shows that they common in PE, and they do have a worse default rate a
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by taeric 5mo ago
Exactly, that is pretty much what I was aiming towards.
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by taeric 5mo ago
Yes. That doesn't change my question, here. You can arrange to bootstrap another company. It could go bust in a way that you are not on the hook for any money, but you should be on the hook for the things you did. That is the entir
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by taeric 5mo ago
I didn't give any money in that hypothetical. Rather, I convinced a lot of other people to give them the loan. That is, largely, exactly what fundraising is. You convince other people to give money to someone or something. If people
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by taeric 5mo ago
Fair, but the nefarious scenarios people are talking about should at least be a major reputational hit for the people that did the fund raising. We are literally describing a ton of value getting destroyed. Someone is taking that hit.
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by taeric 5mo ago
I mean, if I'm allowed to just make up silly hypotheticals, I can easily justify anything. Say I raise money for a friend to buy a house and they proceed to rent it out to meth dealers. The friend is the one on the hook for the loans,
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by taeric 5mo ago
There is a long practice of having cosigners on home loans. This feels basically like that. Which, granted, if you don't like the idea of establishing a company to take on loan responsibilities, I am not trying to offer a defense of t
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by taeric 5mo ago
Leaving aside that the new company is the buyer; the point remains that home and car loans are leveraged loans. With the main asset in the leverage being that which is being bought. Defaulting on that loan results in the assets going to t
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by taeric 5mo ago
I mean, it is functionally the same as home loans? Would you be proposing a carve out that buying a house or car is ok this way, but nothing else?
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by taeric 5mo ago
Fair. I had meant my point to be an "in addition" and a pointer to more fun things to look up on it.
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by taeric 5mo ago
I don't think std::find typically uses a sentinel, though?
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by taeric 5mo ago
If you are talking smaller arrays, linear search with a sentinel value at the end is already tough to beat. The thing that sucks about that claim, is that "smaller" is such a nebulous qualifier that it is really hard to internali
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by taeric 5mo ago
This feels wrong, too? Younger generations smoke less because we have made it very hard for them to smoke more. Literally where are they going to do it? And the proliferation of zyn and similar isn't exactly problem free. Alcohol is
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by taeric 5mo ago
I mean, I don't think it has to be quite so literal that you can't work with it. Translate is also a thing. And if you are building your own list, that is still perfectly fine for how this would work. My suggestion was not to r
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by taeric 5mo ago
This assumes that most people would choose that feed? Which, I'm less convinced. That is, this sounds like the idea that telling people if bad things happen when you eat too much candy, then people will eat less candy. Just flat not
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by taeric 5mo ago
This is an odd topic. On the one hand, we do seem to have a problem where attention is hijacked by engagement farming. On the other, we also know of problems from draconian management. I would actually like it if we had something that cou
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by taeric 6mo ago
I find it funny that I found the "single C0" pretty much instantly. I grant that the post largely has a point, mind you. But scanning for a needle in a haystack is something that you just don't often do? I am, of course, now
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by taeric 6mo ago
I think the claim is more that if you provide financial support for X without solid record keeping to verify X, expect that you will get more self reported people in that description. Put differently, relying on self reporting for any sort
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by taeric 6mo ago
Apologies, I only meant my gripe with the comment I was responding to. Is why I put "as stated." I meant that to be that I was not arguing what I think they were messaging towards. The callout on "evidence" I have ther
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by taeric 6mo ago
It is against the idea that the beneficial traits will survive to the present. It could be that there was some trait/gene that was absolutely needed for survival in the past, that flat out became irrelevant and dropped off before the
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by taeric 6mo ago
As stated, this feels wrong. Specifically, it does not account for traits being appropriate for environment. I like to say it as what was needed for one stage could be the problem for the next stage. That is, traits that stop registering
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by taeric 6mo ago
Honestly, this looks far more like a stylistic choice that the company thought was fine? And... it is? It actually gave me a bit of a smile. :D
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by taeric 6mo ago
This is as useless as the circular view that releasing dependencies for others to test makes you a free-rider on them using your stuff. Which, honestly, I think it is fair to say that a lot of supply chains are lulling people into a false s
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by taeric 6mo ago
Agreed. You can also say that they are better engineered for most use, nowadays. With the adage that anyone can build a bridge that doesn't fall over, an engineering team is needed to build one that has the minimum resources to stay

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