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by wesselbindt 1y ago
At what point would AI necessitate UBI? I'm assuming your idea here is, roughly speaking, that at some point, AI will displace a large section of the work force, rendering them homeless and unable to feed themselves, and that to preven
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by wesselbindt 1y ago
Yeah sorry, I was being quite unclear, especially considering that Israel is committing a genocide too. To expand slightly on the point: look at what teenagers from very comfortable, peace-ridden, rich western nations are saying online. Som
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by wesselbindt 1y ago
I was thinking Saudi Arabia
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by wesselbindt 1y ago
Having seen Destiny's loose grasp on facts during the Lex Friedman hosted debate with Benny Morris, Norman Finkelstein, and Mouin Rabbani, I'm gonna go ahead and consider a fan-sourced wiki bearing his name as unreliable.
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by wesselbindt 1y ago
> He even interviewed a known terrorist on his show This is incorrect. The kid you're referring to is not a member of the Houthi tribe, and there's no evidence he's a terrorist aside from him saying some angry stuff on soc
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by wesselbindt 1y ago
I'm not the parent commenter, but I feel the same way. Just because something is a fact (although arguably fat doesn't sound very factual) doesn't mean it needs to be discussed during an interview. If someone started Quizzing
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by wesselbindt 1y ago
Ideology is their sales pitch, it's for you and me to consume. It has nothing whatsoever to do with their goals and intentions. This has been true of Thatcher and her deeply protectionist policies all the way up to today with Trump and
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by wesselbindt 1y ago
Nope, not yet, this post dropped three pages in 5 minutes. I guess someone's feefees got hurt.
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by wesselbindt 1y ago
So at what point does it become acceptable to call a spade and spade and point out that this is fascism?
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by wesselbindt 1y ago
If you replace the assignment in the else clause with something side-effectful it does make sense. But even then it harms the readability of the code to such a ridiculous extent. I've never not regretted adding an else clause to a for
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by wesselbindt 1y ago
Any convention comes with the inconvenience of definition and explanation. So to call the convention that the empty product equals 1 based on that alone seems a bit unfair. The reason the mathematical community has adopted this convention i
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by wesselbindt 1y ago
The first part of your comment is completely correct. The latter is a matter of taste, of course. I think the main thing that can be said for a lot of the definitions we have in algebra is that the ones we're using are the ones that st
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by wesselbindt 1y ago
1 is not greater than 1, and a product of one prime is still a product of primes
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by wesselbindt 1y ago
If 1 is prime, then the fundamental theorem of arithmetic goes from "every positive integer can be written as a product* of primes in one and only one way" to "every positive integer can be written as a product of primes grea
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by wesselbindt 1y ago
I agree with you, too clickbaity, too black-white. But a difference between screws and frameworks is that there's plenty of Django developers but not a single screw carpenter.
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by wesselbindt 1y ago
But GDP (PPP) is not the same as purchasing power, no? I don't know of any actual data but you can imagine two countries, both with the same GDP (PPP), same population size, shared currency (so the PPP doesn't factor in). One has
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by wesselbindt 1y ago
Ah nice it solves the Liskov violation that the standard library has. In the standard library, dates can be compared with <, and datetimes are dates. But compare a datetime with a date with <, and you get an error. This drove me nuts
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by wesselbindt 1y ago
> could act accordingly Concretely, what are you thinking of here?
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by wesselbindt 1y ago
I think there's an erroneous implicit assumption in your reasoning, namely that to be Zionist is equivalent to be Jewish, and to be anti-zionist is to be Muslim (otherwise, why would you be talking about Jew:Muslim ratios). The fact of
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by wesselbindt 1y ago
Popularity and vendor lock are not merit.
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by wesselbindt 1y ago
Maybe because you're stuck with it because a bunch of software has already been written in it, in need of maintenance and extension. Or maybe because the browser only runs javascript.
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by wesselbindt 1y ago
A lot of replies to your comment conflate possibility with necessity. Could and need are different things.
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by wesselbindt 2y ago
Ok, so then take Israel, whatever. Despite the ethnic cleansing that Israel is carrying out, it is not valid to look at a person with suspicion just because they're from Israel. "But it's true!" is in my opinion a poor r
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by wesselbindt 2y ago
Now you're just arguing semantics. "I hate Ethiopians" is just as problematic as "I hate black people". "Don't trust him, he's from Israel"
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by wesselbindt 2y ago
Thank goodness the red scare is over and we live in a more enlightened age.
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by wesselbindt 2y ago
> The vast majority of North Koreans outside North Korea are not defectors, instead they are controlled state assets. So, I'm not a fan of North Korea (is anyone?), but this is definitely racist rhetoric. One thing that helps me see
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by wesselbindt 2y ago
I completely agree.
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by wesselbindt 2y ago
Anyone with half a brain understands the argument you put forward, and there is not a single doubt on my mind that the current administration does. But the point is not the savings. The point is incapacitating the government to the point wh
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by wesselbindt 2y ago
> "me 3 months later" counts as a whole second developer A fairly incompetent one, in my experience. And don't even get me started on "me 3 months ago", that guy's even worse.
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by wesselbindt 2y ago
This section: > Apart from parsing the SQL query, I also considered an alternative testing approach that I might implement in the future: go through each migration one by one, and insert some dummy data into the database before applying

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