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by vladms 7mo ago
Probably a wiser approach is to consider different times require different measures (in general!). I did not study in detail if copyright "has always been nonsense", but I do agree that nowadays some of the copyright regulations a
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by vladms 7mo ago
> Most Europe has way too high electricity prices. Way to high compared to what? Some countries do not even have a problem with prices but with capacity (Netherlands). They would be willing to pay but they do not have the grid to deliver
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by vladms 7mo ago
Is this the free speech we are trying to protect? I do not think the proposal is smart or that will it work, but I am more worried that some people seem to think they hold the absolute truth (on any side of the a debate).
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by vladms 7mo ago
> ... will be required to squash free speech as soon as possible. Maybe pointing the obvious but things happen if enough people care about them or do not care to oppose them. From my perspective speech became "more free" lately
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by vladms 7mo ago
> Regarding art, what do you feel about museums? Why would you go see an original instead of simply looking at a jpg. I go to a museum to see a curated collection with explanations in a place that prevents distractions (I can't open
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by vladms 7mo ago
So, if we apply to software, should we quote Dijkstra each time we use his graph algorithm? Should we also say "if you can implement Dijkstra's algorithm" it's irrelevant because "you did not have the idea"? It
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by vladms 7mo ago
> Whether something is a forgery is innate in the object and the methods used to produce it. It doesn't matter if nobody else ever sees the forged painting, or if it only hangs in a private home. It's a forgery because it'
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by vladms 7mo ago
> higher-profile journals in general have more retractions and research misconduct [1-2] Given that reviews are not a mechanism to check for truth but soundness, the higher profile the thing I would imagine there would be more misconduct
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by vladms 7mo ago
Would the parents comply though? Many of the restrictions work because most adults agree is OK. For example for alcohol, children could drink as much as they want at home, if adults would permit it. If most adults would be convinced there i
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by vladms 7mo ago
I personally am more afraid of what "someone" can convince other people to do rather than listening to me. Sadly there are enough people that are easily manipulated that probably the "smarter" people are completely ignor
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by vladms 7mo ago
In the end money move around. If - for example - the government would just give the citizens the money from the tariffs in equal share (I mean not that I suggest they would, but technically possible), it would be like taking from the citize
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by vladms 7mo ago
You remind me of the fact that humans do not in fact have sensors in the skin to detect specifically wetness. I think given the amount of ideas floating around, it is occasionally good to revisit things that are "known", just in c
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by vladms 8mo ago
I think the brains of our stone age ancestors were not built for relativity either. In the end the normal sequence of generations (having children and then die at some point) offers "re-trainings" of the brains. So, besides waitin
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by vladms 8mo ago
Maybe that's due to Amdahl's law applied to software. Everybody imagines that task X which is improved by 10x is 100% of the total work, so you will get 10x overall benefit, when in fact might be something like 20% of the work, so
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by vladms 8mo ago
I have seen people that cannot focus or are not confident enough about their ideas unless they are with someone. Yes, for me meetings are annoying, but for those people they reduces their anxiety (and tbh sometimes they do have bad ideas th
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by vladms 8mo ago
> and programmers turn those instructions into code that does something somewhere, usually after finding ways to avoid bad or unfeasible ideas, while still complying with the instructions. Some do, but not all did that. With work-from-ho
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by vladms 8mo ago
The initial quote I responded to was: > market incentives pretty much always go opposite of moral incentives because morals put breaks on decisions that multiply value for the company Yes, both market and morals have to be defined and ar
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by vladms 8mo ago
So do you know everyone in the industry that made that such a claim? Sure, maybe you meant to restrict it further to "everyone I have noticed personally that said/wrote that" (or anything along the lines), but even then, do y
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by vladms 8mo ago
More people living more after cancer diagnosis? (ref: https://www.cancer.org/research/acs-research-news/people-are... )
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by vladms 8mo ago
I always wonder if people do not look for external reasons to avoid doing work or taking decisions themselves. Most of the people I know do not spend their free time doing research into the satisfaction of society, and do not donate (even
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by vladms 8mo ago
I find "morals" difficult to evaluate objectively. Some people might find it "moral" that women do not have any education and just stay at home, which I find terrible. But if most people in a society find something &quot
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by vladms 8mo ago
Agree with everything, but would add a small detail : publicly quoted corporations might as well sell dreams and if they are very good at doing that have no profit because of some future potential pay off (of course I am writing this from m
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by vladms 8mo ago
> everyone in this industry So in the last 20 years there is nothing good coming out of the software industry (if this is the industry you mention) ? I find it somehow ironic, because this type of generalization is for me the same issue
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by vladms 8mo ago
Alcohol is bad health wise but probably is used to reduce the harm of social imposed stress between people. So, If I think about it "like alcohol", it would mean "what is the root cause of not being able to keep contact with
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by vladms 8mo ago
To make a parallel to actual human language: you can understand well a foreign language and not be able to speak it at the same level. I found myself in that situation with both foreign languages and with programming languages / framew
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by vladms 8mo ago
The advantage of frameworks is to have a "common language" to achieve some goals together with a team. A good framework hides some of the stupid mistakes you would do when you would try to develop that "language" from sc
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by vladms 8mo ago
But do you think the concept of advertising is the best solution to the problem it tries to solve? I have serious doubts. Sure, 100 years ago you had no other way to make something known, but today with everybody having a smartphone there m
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by vladms 8mo ago
I was talking mostly about Americans I met. What might be true though is that probably I met the well off ones and between 30 and 40, which might like the idea of "we are great because we made it". But they all seemed (to me) that
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by vladms 8mo ago
Isn't it more a cultural issue though? As a European, I think many Americans take pride and love to succeed "on their own" and accept they could "die trying" (exaggerating a bit, hence the quotes, but the feeling ho
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by vladms 8mo ago
> Far fewer young men had ED Do you have some reference? The one (rather simple/incomplete) that I could find at : https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/erectile-... shows that overall ED dropped,

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