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by troad 2y ago
> The increase in child labor-related deaths is happening and will continue as child labor laws are rolled back in states across the US. You’re accepting the claim because you already believe it to be true, but both you and the original
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by troad 2y ago
>> I honestly can't believe I'm seeing people arguing against child labor laws. And where are you seeing these people, exactly? My argument is that the claim “winding back labour law has caused a rise in workplace deaths inv
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by troad 2y ago
I’m still on the 11 Pro, and I feel similarly. I’ve not seen any reason to update to date, though the new AI functionality might just turn out to be it. I’m unsure I’m willing to lock myself in to the Apple ecosystem to an even greater degr
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by troad 2y ago
We’re up to three terribly sad anecdotes. Even if we multiply that by a hundred to account for the shadow deaths you mention, we’re still nowhere near a mass epidemic in a country of over 300 million. The claim, though, was that rolling bac
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by troad 2y ago
> ...because in small scale, instead, would be acceptable?! Because it’s generally a bad idea to legislate for over a third of a billion of humans on the basis of rare freak accidents.
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by troad 2y ago
> They’re using hyperbole to illustrate the point; don’t miss the point or deliberately try to derail the conversation. Hyperbole is by definition false, its use illustrates nothing beyond the speaker's willingness to stretch the tr
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by troad 2y ago
I genuinely doubt 14 year olds are being killed on any mass scale by sawmills in the United States. That seems incredibly hyperbolic. The closest thing I could find was a single 16 year old killed in Wisconsin last year. Very sad, but n=1,
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by troad 2y ago
If you're using a version of 1Password that's several years old and no longer updated, and also splitting your passwords across two solutions, one of which is not accessible on all your devices, I'm not too surprised that you
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by troad 2y ago
> I have been fighting switching to the SaaS version I felt that way on principle for a long time, but honestly, on reflection, 1P is probably subscription that is most justifiable. I want to outsource online security to people that kn
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by troad 2y ago
> If you have some sufficiently isolated machines, they're probably fine indefinitely. The eternal dream of unplugging, and living free on Amigas.
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by troad 2y ago
> if you don't update your local software and it isn't currently backdoored, then it won't magically become backdoored without some active involvement somewhere If you don't update your local software then it will ce
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by troad 2y ago
I understand the sentiment, but it's impractical to live in a trust-less society. If you've ever had dental work done, you've put an awful lot of faith in a stranger pushing a drill into your head. Ditto for riding buses and
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by troad 2y ago
They already have root. Their software is closed source. There is absolutely nothing stopping them from uploading all of your data right now. If you don't trust the people making your OS, your problems are much deeper than fretting a
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by troad 2y ago
The trick is to claim all projects are military related. "Yes, Senator, upgrading the covered wooden bridge to Sleepy Hollow is essential. It cannot presently bear the weight of a column of M1 Abrams tanks, such as would be required
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by troad 2y ago
Haha, that's an interesting thought. Not to play devil's advocate, but can you honestly tell me the average American's weekly car need couldn't be met by a horse? (Mostly kidding.) I think the distinguishing thing here i
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by troad 2y ago
> This really doesn't mean much. The second cube (or another shape) isn't going to double the line count. That's an absurd standard. "Writing an OS is easy, because once you've written enough code to get Doom to
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by troad 2y ago
Also in the Czech Republic, and registering a new address requires the issuance of a new mandatory ID card, which is a paid 'service' (unsure how this meets any definition of 'service', but I digress). The last time I ne
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by troad 2y ago
OpenGL is being sunset, no one cares about Metal, and the only people who voluntarily write Vulkan are bearded code wizards taking the weekend off from writing the kernel. There's no end of frameworks and engines out there, most unfini
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by troad 2y ago
This is flat out not true. Your health insurance is paid by your employer, and it's not at all cheap. If you were self-employed, you would be paying for your own health insurance. This is de facto the same system as in the US, except i
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by troad 2y ago
I've always been kind of interested in that idea. I'm not sure what to call it - a sort of civil resistance by selective non-palatability. Preventing commercial AI from being trained on your art by making sure there's some th
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by troad 2y ago
I recently posted my observations about taking an interest in Common Lisp and a few people kindly pointed me to this resource, which was very, very helpful. If you, like me, are drawn to Lisp because of its reputed elegance, just bear in mi
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by troad 2y ago
The thing about poker strategies unrelated to the cards dealt is that they tend to be short lived, and aren't really all that interesting from an internal poker perspective. Trading stocks for teh memez is a lot like streaking at a foo
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by troad 2y ago
I think the primary difference is in the communities. Every six months or so I log back into Mastodon and the discussion there is one hard 'Nope' for me. I don't understand why I'd voluntarily read a platform where every
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by troad 2y ago
The gridlock is a feature, not a bug. The system is deliberately rich in checks and balances so as to make it difficult for a slim majority or a determined plurality to hijack the state. You basically require a supermajority for any radical
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by troad 2y ago
The difference, as I understand it, is that the REPL is the running Lisp, and all of its code. You can inspect or redefine any function inside of Lisp itself, live, no matter how integral, in the same way you input any of your own code. T
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by troad 2y ago
In linguistics, this is called the 'poverty of the stimulus' argument, and is used to argue that there must be some kind of soft blueprint for language - whether in the brain (certain areas appear to be highly associated with lang
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by troad 2y ago
> Besides, as a professional (computational) linguist, I have met many trained/professional linguists that know only one language - typically English - well - I think that is professionally totally unacceptable when your mission is
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by troad 2y ago
Definitely. I can't help but be slightly amused at the choice of words though, given "virtuous" comes from the Latin for "manly" (vir = man). The love of a virtuous man is wonderful too.
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by troad 2y ago
Hexameter just means that the lines have six feet. What counts as a foot in a language will differ, e.g. English feet are based on stress, whereas Ancient Greek feet are based on length. For example, in Ancient Greek, an iamb would be a sho
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by troad 2y ago
> I have never seen anyone write "Prince's Hwy" (or "King's Hwy" for that matter), the apostrophe-free version would be far more common. I don't know what to tell you; I've seen it often. I'm

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