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by tlholaday 5y ago
It's fun for life expectancy. Step one: Ask for your own life expectancy. Step two: Ask for the life expectancy of someone years' younger. Step three: What. Step four: Oh.
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> What does pro even mean? It means “the materials and manufacturing budget is increased to allow the designers to push the diminishing-returns boundary further.” For competitive use-cases, where an increase in capability makes the diffe
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Yes. Search “Public Facilities Privacy & Security Act North Carolina”
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Yes, I am sure we should be referencing the logic of his proposal, and that we should consider that moot’s implementation of ephemerality on 4chan allowed too much persistence.
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by tlholaday 5y ago
moot (Chris Poole) Conjecture: bind anonymity to ephemerality for best results. Consider ten seconds persistence limit. Like short-term memory for the spoken word.
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by tlholaday 5y ago
Strong evidence, perhaps dispositive evidence, for the Simulation Hypothesis.
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Sounds bad for surface life. Morlocks live underground.
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by tlholaday 5y ago
Thanks for the link. I wonder what temperature prevails at 1.0 AU. On the one hand, artists’ conceptions of boiled oceans and cities in cinders that saddened and discouraged me in my childhood. On the other hand, the heat energy density of
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by tlholaday 5y ago
Sol is gas, right? Gasses cool when they expand, right? What’s the expected surface temperature of Sol after it has expanded past Earth’s orbit?
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> in the end it ends with one person one vote. Do you see tyranny-of-the-majority and factional-rule as evils to be mitigated, or as desirable reflections-of-worker-cooperator-sentiment, regardless of consequences?
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> One member, one vote. Worker cooperatives are democracies. Do you agree that the Democratic Caucus of the Colorado State House of Representative is a democracy? In 2020, they eschewed one member, one vote in favor of Quadratic Voting.
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> "Shorting" is frequently accompanied by disinformation campaigns against a target. It's scary to think about what this will lead to. Do you agree that it would lead to colossal losses by the disinformation promulgators a
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> Truly a bizarre way to conceptualize the world. If familiarity is what you seek, look for echo chambers.
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> where worker cooperatives take over the world? Suppose that worker cooperatives have taken over the world. Suppose then that the worker cooperatives must choose between policy options, for example { "increase payments to retired w
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by tlholaday 5y ago
Turns out I miss You're the Man Now Dog stares.mov isn't bad.
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> What are the advantages of having unencrypted cloud backups? Unsophisticated users who have lost or forgotten their passphrase can recover their data.
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> … people should be allowed to make their own decisions … Should they be allowed to decide to buy a device whose manufacturer maintains a sole-source app retailer?
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by tlholaday 5y ago
It seems unfair to deprecate algorithms which "favor 'provocative' ideas that drive clicks" as a `distortion` of the marketplace of ideas. It seems more that by driving clicks, the algorithms are `facilitating` the marke
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by tlholaday 5y ago
Randall Munroe "Suspicion": https://xkcd.com/632/
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Did Cory Doctorow's explanation address valuing intellectual property via Harberger taxes?
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> If people use apps less often, they are probably using less apps. They’re probably using more apps from more authors, each app being built to do one thing well.
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by tlholaday 5y ago
Ahh, so blasé. The farthest observable galaxy is 1.34 x 10^10 light years. This FRB is 1.17 x 10^7 light years. So if you're at zero and end of the line is at 1340, this FRB is at 1.17. That doesn't feel close?
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by tlholaday 5y ago
> … profit margins … … are completely dependent on what expenses are attributed to the revenue by the cost accountant. Is producing WWDC an App Store cost?
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by tlholaday 6y ago
People who can’t be arsed to rotate their subscriptions will steal.
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by tlholaday 6y ago
> ... unprecedented government pay-outs ... The G.I. Bill after World War 2 is a precedent. Do you think CARES is larger, or smaller?
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> ... the more you can pay your accounting team ... I would wager the typical Hacker News reader would be able to explain accelerated depreciation after sixty seconds of reading the instructions for Schedule C. It's not arcane.
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by tlholaday 6y ago
> Among the mechanisms Netflix is using to achieve its next-to-nothing tax liability are accelerated depreciation (which appears to have cut the company’s tax expense by $148 million); deductions for stock options for Netflix executives
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by tlholaday 6y ago
Yes, many instances of modern literary criticism come to mind, such as Ben Jonson's commentary on the works of Shakespeare, his friend, producer, and cast member; Cervantes' analysis embedded in Quixote and Sheridan's analysi
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> people have been doing literary criticism forever. Do you have any examples? I'm recollecting Augustine, Aquinas, Boethius, Abelard, Plotinus, Maimonides, et al, and nothing like Poetics comes to mind. What am I not remembering?
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> ... in what I assume is an attempt to downplay "cancel culture" and portray mostly conservatives and concerned liberals as knee-jerk reactionaries. Question your assumptions.

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