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by tomp 5y ago
Do you have any examples of "livable cities"? People often point to Europe, but having lived in 3 different European cities (London, Zurich, Ljubljana) all of them are much better with a car (especially with a family - imagine
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by tomp 5y ago
> Does free speech absolutism mean unmoderated ISIS and Al-Qaeda posts are fine? As a free speech absolutist, "yes". That's literally literally what the word "absolutism" in "free speech absolutism" mea
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by tomp 5y ago
> the vast majority of progress civilization has made has been under conditions much more regulated in terms of who can have sex with whom
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by tomp 5y ago
This is a false dichotomy. There are other ways to implement moderation that isn't censorship. I've proposed "blocklists" before, where users could create different blocklists (e.g. "no vegans"), other users co
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by tomp 5y ago
Buy a dishwasher. Best investment ever.
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by tomp 5y ago
I'm joining a protein folding AI startup next month. I think it's awesome. Being on the cutting edge of our civilisation.
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by tomp 5y ago
> We're not banning you , we're just want to prevent you from using our electricity for undesirable activities . Well, since we cannot actually distinguish undesirable activities from non-undesirable activities, we'll
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by tomp 5y ago
You're falling for, and perpetuating, left-wing propaganda. The bill doesn't prohibit "saying gay". The bill prohibits discussing sexual orientation. Straight and gay alike. Personally I think that at those ages basicall
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by tomp 5y ago
Would you want to take your kid into a kindergarten where the teacher would be showing (or reading) them porn? If "no", how do you square that with "teachers can say anything they like"? I mean literally no employment
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by tomp 5y ago
For some weird reason, the same people can be OK with Cloudflare or Twitter banning someone for their political views, but wouldn't be OK with a bank or electricity provider banning someone for their political views.
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by tomp 5y ago
It’s also true if burning gas is “cleaner” than burning plastics.
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by tomp 5y ago
You should probably read patio11's article on fighting credit agencies instead. https://www.kalzumeus.com/2017/09/09/identity-theft-credit-r...
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by tomp 5y ago
But the point is that properly burying plastics is better than burning it; that way, fossil fuels are returned into the ground.
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by tomp 5y ago
Even before using more servers, one should consider using (one) bigger server (and another as backup). Massive servers are laughably cheap these days. E.g. 16 cores, 128GB RAM is €112 from Hetzner.
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“they did not want to do the Fast deal given they had effectively zero traction”(twitter.com)
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by tomp 5y ago
Well actually they first said “no way I’m taking Trump’s vaccine” and then flipped. So yeah blind disrespect for authorities has a much better track record.
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by tomp 5y ago
Which countries exactly? EU kept it’s head firmly in the sand until Bergamo happened towards the end of February, and even then the prevailing philosophy was “Italians are idiots, this can’t happen to us”.
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by tomp 5y ago
Based on your recommendation I listened to a few episodes of The Paycheck. I would strongly recommend this podcast to anyone that enjoys leftwing propaganda, strong rebuttals of strawman arguments, and misinterpreted statistics. In particul
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by tomp 5y ago
I think it's just biology/genetics. Men want young sexy women. Women want strong successful men.
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by tomp 5y ago
Not really. Clearly the current socio-economic model discourages smart women to procreate. So encouraging smart women to procreate would in reality simply unbias our society and make things fair again. No need to invoke "eugenics"
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by tomp 5y ago
> are expected Not just expected but also want to . Money for men is like makeup for women - it makes the person (appear) more attractive.
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by tomp 5y ago
Paying more productive people the same as less productive people is a great way to ensure there are no productive people.
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by tomp 5y ago
Sure but here we're talking about LGBT. I include women because of this: > I anecdotally recall studies that found organizations with greater diversity deliver better financial results AFAIK most of these studies focused on "wo
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by tomp 5y ago
It's not "common sense". It's the basis of Western (sub-)civilisation: Enlightenment Values . It's most definitely not "common sense" because it took us (the human civilisation) several millenia to arrive
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by tomp 5y ago
Why would that be the case? AFAIK it's equally probable for a woman/gay/trans person to be born in a wealthy family or a poor family.
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by tomp 5y ago
This only works if you know what to edit up-front. If you're processing a tree-like structure via recursion (e.g. type-checking an AST implemented with persistent immutable structures in a compiler) it's no longer easy.
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by tomp 5y ago
Can you provide a list of reference-counted functional languages?
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by tomp 5y ago
> we are further away from what? The goalposts differ wildly, depending on who you ask literally anything the intelligence of a wasp; the intelligence of a cat; the intelligence of a Downs syndrome person; the intelligence of a 3 month o
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by tomp 5y ago
No, I mean "update" in the persistent sense - create a new list, with some (or none) elements changed/added/removed. e.g. say you have a method remove_all_in_values that takes an int x and a hashmap of list of int, a
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by tomp 5y ago
> This is especially bad if you want the data structure to be shared across multiple threads. Just iterating over a tree now requires taking and releasing oodles of locks. Um, what? Persistent data structures don't require locks at

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