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by wredcoll 2mo ago
> With roads the people using them have much more incentive in maintaining them Are you implying the random people driving down a road also do the maintenance on it? What? How is this any different from literally any other government ser
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by wredcoll 2mo ago
This is so wrong I literally don't know where to start. Governments have as much incentive as anyone else to save money. I shouldn't even need to type this but raising taxes is unpopular and tends to cause people to get voted out
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by wredcoll 2mo ago
What a trashcan of a site.
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by wredcoll 2mo ago
50 years ago a lot of people were called a lot of things. As a society we haven't really figured out how to talk about periods of life when there's more than "child" and "adult". It is, of course, simpler and e
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by wredcoll 2mo ago
Famously places like china/india/japan/etc have extremely traumatic final exams. There was just an article about suicides from some kind of (indian?) final exam screw up. It doesn't take much of a logical leap to associa
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by wredcoll 2mo ago
I agree, but does that study claim there are more errors per line/function/whatever in golang than java?
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by wredcoll 2mo ago
I agree with you that gambling on options via Robinhood is not great, but it at least theoretically has value to society and has a long history of being used by slightly more responsible entities which makes it harder to just, say, ban it o
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by wredcoll 2mo ago
> In this case, Congress already passed a law regulating these activities, and it seems pretty clear-cut that Kalshi engages in interstate commerce, so New York will likely lose if this gets to the Supreme Court. That is a wild take.
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by wredcoll 2mo ago
There is no risk to me if the rockets lose their next game. Unless I bet $100 on them winning, then a risk appears.
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by wredcoll 2mo ago
Just reading the abstract, it talks about finding a number of bugs (across millions of lines of code) but I didn't see any claims that there would be fewer bugs in a different language. Go obviously does not stop you from writing buggy
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by wredcoll 2mo ago
You have your chain of logic backwards. You wanted to be skeptical and "concerned" and so forth so you went out and found reasons to justify it.
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by wredcoll 2mo ago
We can't solve the root cause until we fight our way through trump and his party.
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by wredcoll 2mo ago
What exactly do you consider "before trump"? Also, trump, as a representative, represents a large group of people. It's colloquial to refer to political parties by their leaders.
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by wredcoll 2mo ago
Trump gave them official government support and promoted them.
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by wredcoll 2mo ago
Not that anyone who needs this will read it, but "skeptic" does not mean "already made up your mind and will never change it". People were "skeptical" of vaccines. Then they did science. Now they aren't. T
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by wredcoll 2mo ago
Am I just being boringly cynical when my first reaction is "Uh, what else did you expect"? ChatGPT is not... a computer. It's not a human. It's not an intelligence. It's a way of turning small amounts of words into
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by wredcoll 2mo ago
> Ergo, presumably, if a school had a single purple student. And that purple student was punished for something. Then the entire school had to also be punished for the thing. To not fall afoul of the law. (Or maybe I'm just too auti
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by wredcoll 2mo ago
At the risk of being reductive, isn't this just the argument for emacs/vim?
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by wredcoll 2mo ago
Like a lot of things, society would probably benefit if we had caps on how much a single entity could own.
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by wredcoll 2mo ago
I agree with you about assets being for sale (if someone wrote a big enough check I'd sell my house right now) and commercial not trumping non commercial, but there was, at least for a while, a reasonable argument for opposing "
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by wredcoll 2mo ago
It's an interesting example. People did very similar things during the "desktop shell modification" scene in the early 2000s, by far the most common thing people modified their desktop shell to do was display a bunch of chart
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by wredcoll 2mo ago
Yes, you're right, it would have been more specific to talk about the user/root distinction that people claimed would save you from all sorts of things.
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by wredcoll 2mo ago
I mean, even only considering bombing raids, more people were killed during the various fire bombing campaigns against japanese cities and so on, granted those took 1000 planes instead of 1, but somehow I doubt the people burning to death c
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by wredcoll 2mo ago
I was using one as a way to search for recipes/ideas and I was really quite depressed when the thing replied with "I would recommend...". No, you wouldn't because you're a fucking machine.
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by wredcoll 2mo ago
"See the <government department> didn't even stop this thing why do we have a government at all!!"
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by wredcoll 2mo ago
I cannot help with your actual but this is giving me mild ptsd flashbacks to everyone on hn/slashdot constantly repeating how simple and perfect unix security is, just use user accounts! As if the most valuable thing on my pc was runni
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by wredcoll 2mo ago
Sure, and I dunno, it probably does no one any good, I just find it mildly annoying when people treat the atomic bombs dropped in ww2 as some kind of completely incomparable atrocity. Like the beatles joke, "were the atomic bombs the w
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by wredcoll 2mo ago
Politicians don't count.
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by wredcoll 2mo ago
I mean, there's a lot going on here, contextually speaking. If I made a comment saying "oh just write a quick bash script to change all the files to pngs" and someone commented saying "lots of people cannot write a bash
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by wredcoll 2mo ago
What exactly is the argument here? All programmers should buy programming tools because otherwise programmers will starve to death?

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