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by weavejester 1y ago
I'm not sure I buy that we can entirely separate the freedoms of journalists from the freedoms of individuals; but I do like your idea of coming up with a list of criteria for measuring the freedom of speech for individuals. It seems
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by weavejester 1y ago
So your argument is that if we define freedom of speech according to US law, then only the US has freedom of speech? I mean, I agree with you on that, but it's a circular argument. My comparison to North Korea wasn't whataboutism;
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by weavejester 1y ago
There's some truth in what you say, but it's filtered through a distorted lens. Like many countries, the UK government makes the laws and the courts interpret them. The government can't ignore the courts, but can introduce
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by weavejester 1y ago
Which countries would you hold up as exemplars of free speech?
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by weavejester 1y ago
Speech is a form of expression; freedom of expression encompasses freedom of speech. To quote from the link you provided: "This right shall include freedom to hold opinions and to receive and impart information and ideas without inter
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by weavejester 1y ago
> UK citizens don't have a constitutional right to free speech They do. The UK has an uncodified constitution, and this includes the Human Rights Act, which guarantees freedom of expression to UK citizens.
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UI, Pure and Simple (By Christian Johansen) [video](youtube.com)
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Simple ideas with impact from Clojure and Rama [video](youtube.com)
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by weavejester 2y ago
> No, facts can't contain undefined properties like "free and fair". Free and fair are very much defined. It's why in democratic countries we have election observers and secret ballots, to remove or at least reduce po
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by weavejester 2y ago
Weird how the Ukrainians don't seem to want to be "liberated". They're acting almost as if they're being invaded by a warmongering dictator who wants to conquer and plunder their country.
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by weavejester 2y ago
> That's not a fact, that's an opinion. It's a fact. A free and fair referendum cannot be held by an occupying force, because their very presence biases the results. This is true even if the occupiers are honorable. It goe
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by weavejester 2y ago
A referendum carried out by an occupying force means nothing. That's a fact. If Russia were serious about self-determination of the Dombas and Crimea regions, they'd have first proposed a referendum audited by international obse
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by weavejester 2y ago
Change their position how, exactly? Are you arguing for more or less sanctions?
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by weavejester 2y ago
It's lost 80% of it's value in 2 years, which usually isn't great. The most charitable view of X/Twitter is that it's now a propaganda platform that Musk doesn't mind taking a loss on in order to enact politica
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by weavejester 2y ago
Other countries have higher minimum wage but more "third spaces", so I don't think this argument holds water. Also if the minimum wage increases, that puts pressure to increase all other wages.
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by weavejester 3y ago
Why bother keeping minor commits in feature branches? They just clutter the main branch without adding any useful information that a future maintainer could use.
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by weavejester 4y ago
I've been experimenting with this recently. You've got to be explicit about how you want ChatGPT to behave, particularly how it handles failure. For example: "Let's roleplay. You are a DM. I am a player. When there is a
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by weavejester 4y ago
Thanks for the clarification; I wasn't sure how you meant it.
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by weavejester 4y ago
> This is all very sane and consistent with previous opinions on the matter. Is that sarcasm?
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by weavejester 4y ago
Regular expressions can be written verbosely and with comments; you don't need to write them like line noise, any more than you need to do so with normal code. Regular expressions also have the significant advantages of being both pure
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by weavejester 4y ago
> Overhead is the wrong metric. Depreciation over fixed costs, marginal variable cost (e.g. fuel, oil, etc), and opportunity cost are what you want to look at. If you use a car more it wears out faster and needs to be replaced sooner. It
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by weavejester 4y ago
> Ever consider if the effective duty cycle of your car is increased the vehicle wears out quicker? Sure, but by how much? What's the average extra overhead per person? By that I mean, what's the average distance that a taxi wo
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by weavejester 4y ago
It's certainly the case that societal changes are hard to predict. It might be the case that self-driving vehicles will encourage longer drives, for example. That said, I think my own personal carbon footprint would likely fall, becaus
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by weavejester 4y ago
> Self-driving cars, if even attainable (which is questionable), don't solve any real problems besides bolstering the want for cars and thus more roads and highways, which are primary contributors to greenhouse gas emissions. It ma
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by weavejester 4y ago
Dependency injection frameworks don't have to be "massive kitchen-sink things". They can be minimal and predictable. Ideally, they should just be a more declarative way of defining function dependencies and execution order.
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by weavejester 4y ago
Once you go beyond integers, using [closed, open) or (open, closed] becomes more important, because otherwise you cannot represent adjacent intervals.
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by weavejester 4y ago
"I can tell you, "if something's fishy about the situation, just leave". You can do this not because of some particular training inputs or examples I give you, but because you have common sense and a sort of personality
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by weavejester 4y ago
"When you get attacked in the forest by a guy in a clown costume with an axe you don't need to add that as a training input first before you make a run for it." Sure, because it's already a training input. We'd ru
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by weavejester 4y ago
Biological brains have had a few billion years to optimize. Over the past decade or two, it's been increasingly apparent that the structure and algorithms that govern a particular neural net's behaviour are extremely important to
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by weavejester 4y ago
"What happened is that a lot of the British press absolutely loathes the current government over Brexit and wants them booted out" That makes it seem like the UK press is largely left leaning, when most of it is very much right

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