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by wredcoll 1y ago
What moral hazard? Is there someone out there smoking 16 packs a day on the basis that their lung cancer will be treated for free?? I think bad health is usually its own punishment.
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by wredcoll 1y ago
Yes, my point is that you don't even have "it compiles" as a way to measure a code review. Maybe you did a great job, maybe you did a terrible job, how do you tell?
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by wredcoll 1y ago
But you must allow it. That's not the question. The question is how best to represent it.
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by wredcoll 1y ago
What's the benefit to 64 bits? They're still hard to memorize and they're still not going to be backwards compatible.
935.
by wredcoll 1y ago
I would have gone with corporation instead of gangster, but yes, exactly. People so often rail against a government telling them they can't do something but so rarely justify they would be able to do it if the government was destroyed.
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by wredcoll 1y ago
My definition of this (which apparently I'm now trying to popularize) is "power can never be destroyed, only moved". If we destroy an entity that has power, the power goes someplace else and in the case of (democratic) gove
937.
by wredcoll 1y ago
There is literally no way to get more than 4 bytes of address space out of midleware routers that limit the addresses to 4 bytes. There is no way to make that backwards compatible.
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by wredcoll 1y ago
I agree, lets limit the total number of internet devices to 4 billion just in case we need to memorize one of the addresses. The other 4 billion people on the planet don't really need internet connections do they?
939.
by wredcoll 1y ago
I think the main issue is "why is the prefix changing"?
940.
by wredcoll 1y ago
Wow, that would get us a whole... 6 months of extra runway!
941.
by wredcoll 1y ago
How does the relational model or sql help with the problem of allowing vip customers to edit in-flight orders or whatever?
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by wredcoll 1y ago
Checkable automatically is nice. Actually readable by humans is required. Every year someone figures out that a program can pass the most rigorous compile time type checks and yet still be wrong.
943.
by wredcoll 1y ago
There's very few objective ways to measure review 'performance'. Coding is easy, it works or doesn't.
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by wredcoll 1y ago
We're optimized for walking , not sprinting. And if you think our moving->sweating is bad, check out horses and dogs.
945.
by wredcoll 1y ago
What a truly horrifying comment section.
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by wredcoll 1y ago
Sure, but what these types of people fail to understand is that the only way to solve the problem is also government. It turns out the real world is a big complicated messy place and there's rarely a simple answer like "delete gov
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by wredcoll 1y ago
What part of the cost of healthcare involves providing profits for middlemen?
948.
by wredcoll 1y ago
Something I've run into in similar situations is the "moral necessity of punishment", sort of a reverse just-world fallacy. "There are people not good enough for health care and helping them would violate this natural or
949.
by wredcoll 1y ago
Well, I am perplexed then. It does kinda sound like he's trying to reinvent X11.
950.
by wredcoll 1y ago
You keep saying that and yet you keep failing to provide any proof that someone actually made a mistake. Why is that?
951.
by wredcoll 1y ago
He probably uses tmux which has features for all of those things, why should the terminal re-implement them?
952.
by wredcoll 1y ago
I'm trying to track this argument through this thread but I feel like something has gotten lost here, is there someone arguing against increasing the housing supply? Like, did someone upthread say something like "no, I think we
953.
by wredcoll 1y ago
Someone "interviewing" a pundit by letting them speak for 3 hours contributes very little to our understanding of reality . We might understand a bit more about the pundit's opinions, which can be entertaining, and could the
954.
by wredcoll 1y ago
This is a great point and well made. I would take it a step further and argue that it's not so much a topic as facts . Like objectively measurable things about the real world. There's always going to be some limit to what we can
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by wredcoll 1y ago
> No, this is not the purpose. I say this as someone who uses the phrase. Please do not try to explain my own intentions to me. This may not be your intention, but these actions certainly do a lot to help the people whose purpose it is
956.
by wredcoll 1y ago
I think a more practical method would be to trace the provenance of a claim, in a way that lets you evaluate how likely it is for the person making it to actually know the facts. A simple scenario would be reading a news article about ameri
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by wredcoll 1y ago
> Thanks, thinking about this - I think there are several ways to serve this concern: one could be having an agent as a server, where "prompting" is just a command `prompt ...` sent to the agent as a server. Then you never leav
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by wredcoll 1y ago
> Termination of employment is not speech. It cannot be "censored". It can, however, be called out as unjust, and cited as evidence of a trend of unjust extrajudicial punishment. This is the key point of this argument and it bo
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by wredcoll 1y ago
Yes, obviously, but my point is that focusing on them, or even treating them as equal, is not the most effective way to actually solve the problem. Designating someone as a "bad person" and then focusing on punishing them is simpl
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by wredcoll 1y ago
So this is a complicated subject that's hard to cover in a hackernews text box and I do actually appreciate you taking the time to engage with it. To briefly touch on your examples of Damore and "mr-hank", as you point out, t

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