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by woodman 11y ago
> ...the USMC study purporting to prove women are unfit... I'm not sure which study you are talking about, because the USMC has been fighting it for several decades - and conducted many studies to back their position. I wrote a pap
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by woodman 11y ago
I know that there have been several vocal proponents of affirmative action in tech, but it always seems to me that the justifications are presented as self evident truths - with a strong smell of moral superiority. I say let the market dec
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by woodman 11y ago
It wasn't the poor moonshiner's ability to finally squeal for daddy that pushed the mafia out of the liquor business... it was the fact that they could not compete in the market place. Sure they could have went on a rampage and w
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by woodman 11y ago
> Any code which relies on the short-circuiting behavior of a logical operator is bad code. What is obscure about it? I hate to think about how even more verbose C would be without short-circuiting. Now if there had been a side effect.
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by woodman 11y ago
11.a.5: "Haggle over precise wordings of communications..." "productivity killing" is exactly what sabotage is, be it cutting railroad track or persuading telephone operators to randomly drop calls. You just said that s
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by woodman 11y ago
It isn't a value judgement, but I would certainly prefer a system that is structured to reward rational actors and execute the stated mission. The current design seems pretty ironic to me.
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by woodman 11y ago
That is not in their own interest though, the incentives aren't aligned with the stated mission. Consider job security, advancement and cop culture.
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by woodman 11y ago
> It describes a consistent model -- for spherical cows -- and chooses not to examine whether the model fits the real world. Ok, so to be clear, you don't have a logical inconsistency to point to? Your complaint is purely utilitari
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by woodman 11y ago
> Every system of ethics contains a relative ordering of values... > ...anarcho-capitalism most certainly doesn't value speech over freedom from intimidation absolutely. It has been several years since I last gave this a lot of t
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by woodman 11y ago
> ...I am not aware of any single system of ethics where free speech is a higher value than preventing all forms of intimidation. I'm not sure how you define "system of ethics", but systems that eschew relativity and focus
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by woodman 11y ago
> In any case, the ideal of free speech originated in the desire to share novel ideas and speak truth to power. Did it? Or did it originate from the idea that it is immoral to react violently to noises coming out of somebody's face
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by woodman 11y ago
> You have yet to make an argument that... Correct, I have no interest in arguing that position. Any highschool graduate should immediately recognize "majority tyranny" and the political theory that it is connected to. If I h
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by woodman 11y ago
> That depends on whether you are endorsing it or not. You might want to reserve the use of the word "fallacy" for cases where an argument's logic does not follow. Ironically, use the word otherwise often betrays one&#x27
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by woodman 11y ago
> This is a classic case of the just world fallacy. Who is experiencing the bias here, the founders of the representative democracy or me for pointing to the political theory? I assume you're talking about some system that isn&#x27
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by woodman 11y ago
So instead we hope that the results of a popularity contest are experts in crafting 'proper legislation'? No, representatives are theoretically there to guard against majority tyranny - it has nothing to do with building the most
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by woodman 11y ago
In the context of performance, how so?
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by woodman 11y ago
Performance The restrict keyword should be used rarely if ever wut?
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by woodman 11y ago
np, thanks for listening!
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by woodman 11y ago
Heh, I have a friend who would say the same thing - "Everything happens for a reason." My response was always, "Everything happens because it happens." We all have to choose at what level of abstraction we spend most o
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by woodman 11y ago
The antics and over-the-top bravado, reaching levels of self parody, is an acquired taste - the family connection must have provided a measure of inoculation. There is a reason why they always put the infantry barracks in the furthest corn
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by woodman 11y ago
I knew that the cultures were different, but I never would have guessed that the Army had post-9/11 recruit quality problems - especially for combat arms. When the fourth 9/11 anniversary rolled around the USMC leadership was swe
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by woodman 11y ago
0331, infantry machine gunner. We saw a lot of combat in Fallujah, which might have taken the starch out of most. There is also the timing to consider, 01 to 05 were interesting years for the military - a very large injection of middle an
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by woodman 11y ago
Your perspective is not very unique, there are a lot of veterans due to high churn. It is my experience that there is very little crossover between the military and police. Of the hundred-something guys in my last company, only two went o
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by woodman 11y ago
I'm pretty sure the base install of vim has everything you're looking for, it just requires a little reading. One problem that vim does not have is a lack of documentation. My favorite uses of tabs is scripting a work space base
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by woodman 11y ago
Yeah I don't think you'll be surprised to hear that I'm not a heath care worker, I'm a programmer and amateur logician. You may have noticed that my prior statement did not touch on the subject of actually addressing he
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by woodman 11y ago
> Those who oppose contraceptives reveal themselves for ... It isn't that simple. I was hoping that the article would dive into the reason why contributors to these endeavors are so quite about it, given the title, but unfortunatel
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by woodman 11y ago
> ...but because of seeing these videos it seems we're all more anxious, rational or not. It is perfectly rational to be anxious around anybody who can legally kidnap you. I'm not worried about being shot, I'm worried abo
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by woodman 11y ago
You're right about the cold storage aspect, I was thinking about some of the transparent encryption gateway products that are out there. Email sent to folks without PGP would still be unencrypted when it goes through the corporate MTA
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by woodman 11y ago
I don't know how it is over there, but legally mandated record keeping requirements are a pretty good excuse for not using public key encryption on corporate mail servers. There are products that act as middlemen that transparently co
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by woodman 11y ago
Neural networks would certainly benefit from the additional dimension, no more confusing furniture with animals[0]. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9749660

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