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by tbrownaw 11mo ago
> You've reframed it in a way that removes responsibility No, the comment you're replying to pretty clearly put the responsibility on the party that "rushed the land reform with no preparation". And also accurately
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by tbrownaw 11mo ago
" The alternative"... no, one of those proposals being false does not require that the other be true.
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by tbrownaw 11mo ago
How do we know that whoever asked him to step down already privately knew?
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by tbrownaw 11mo ago
This seems to be saying that a large fraction of poor people are poor only because of bad habits, which they have only because nobody taught them any better?
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by tbrownaw 11mo ago
> All this means is there are enough buyers who can afford 2,800 sqft houses to keep builders from wasting a lot on a 1,600 sqft house. So there's a limited supply of lots (or of permission to use those lots).
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by tbrownaw 11mo ago
> Supply is driven by demand unless there is a monopoly in house building (there isn't). There is, however, a monopoly on issuing building permits.
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by tbrownaw 11mo ago
> superhumanly plausible What? Plenty of humans are competent confabulators.
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by tbrownaw 11mo ago
> However, some experts say big tech firms such as Google should not be inviting users to fact-check their tools' output, but should focus instead on making their systems more reliable. That is a very strange thing to say. They bo
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by tbrownaw 11mo ago
> shown they don't respect the user when they force shutdown for system updates Are you familiar with the prior state of things that explicitly motivated this change?
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by tbrownaw 11mo ago
So... RPA built in to the OS, with an AI layer so you can be fuzzy about things?
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by tbrownaw 11mo ago
Unless you just never talk to anyone, how can you be sure you'd know?
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by tbrownaw 11mo ago
> Unpopular opinion: private companies should poly people more often in hiring, it could prove more useful than other arbitrary kind of culture fit interviews. Food for thought. Because what we need is more inscrutable judgement call
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by tbrownaw 11mo ago
Relative to other control flow, not (necessarily) to exceptions in other runtimes.
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by tbrownaw 11mo ago
This would require that it's a one-way door, where bad circumstances persist indefinitely across generations but good circumstances don't. It would also require that to not stretch back too far, since bad circumstances were rath
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by tbrownaw 11mo ago
I read it more as a claim that people who advocate against AI are picking arguments as a means to an end rather than because they actually believe or care about what they're saying.
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by tbrownaw 11mo ago
> Does Kubernetes have its downsides? Yeah, it’s complex overkill for small deployments or monolithic applications. But to be honest, there’s a lot of complexity to configuration management on traditional VMs with a lot of bad, not-so-g
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
Isn't that just because the successes are invisible?
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
> Why is it not fair for each state to have equal representation? Some people aren't used to thinking of states as relevant sovereign entities.
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
So is this a "how do we de-commoditize the OS" thing?
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
Semantic drift.
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
> I always found it terrible security, it’s basically advertising what someone would get if they stole your laptop. My work laptop has a hard-to-damage sticker on the bottom with inventory control information. Company name, serial numb
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
Leave the backing on the sticker, put it on the laptop with rubber cement.
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
> On the same flight, we sat with another individual who got himself arrested, missed his flight, and was eventually released to sit on our flight because he wore a belt adorned with bullet shells cut in half. I've heard of simila
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
> Obviously, gay or trans stickers are not in the category of offensive things. It's at least plausible to taxonomize them under either politics or sexuality. Either of which larger categories some might consider categorically off
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
> But at work, that's not a healthy attitude. You're there to work together, not to be uncompromising in expressing yourself. Well there was that corporate-approved "bring your whole self to work" thing in recent ye
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
> Ok, put some "conservative stickers" on your laptop and submit a pic to the site-- no one's stopping you. I didn't see any Java or COBOL or even .NET stickers, but there was at least a fairly clean one with a Sun
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
Isn't evading pesky legal restrictions pretty much the entire point of cryptocoins? Sanctions, capital controls, banned substances, ransoms ...
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
> you should be opposed to this kind of clawback threat because it nakedly represents an attempt to place a non-profit in a double bind The clawback is this sentence, yes? "NSF reserves the right to terminate financial assistance
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
> Not to make this even more political but this sort of thing is exactly why so much of the Republican base is against funding NATO. Really? The stuff I remember seeing was entirely about countries not spending the required amounts o
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
IOW the minority party has a moral right to get their way on any issue they can prevent defectors about. And the majority party doesn't.

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