wutbrodo

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811.
by wutbrodo 6y ago
> This is the proof that how we write software is inherently wrong, if we allow innocent lives to be destroyed because we don't want to write it differently. I think there's a lot of room for writing software better, including
812.
by wutbrodo 6y ago
Fair enough, and I apologize
813.
by wutbrodo 6y ago
The claim was that the _API_ is simple relative to the system's capabilities, including being discoverable and standardized (w openapi). If passenger jets had a comparable API you could use to ramp up to the level of competence that yo
814.
by wutbrodo 6y ago
Agreed, the knee-jerk reaction to "France regulates [something unexpected]" is usually that it's lunatic bureaucrats gone wild (in the way that "America deregulates [something unexpected]" often is the converse). Id
815.
by wutbrodo 6y ago
> Edit: fellas I asked a question downvotes aren’t necessary Hacker News has by far the weirdest downvote patterns of any forum I've used. I wouldn't pay much mind.
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by wutbrodo 6y ago
> I guess I am one of those kind of people who get their news from John Oliver. From your clarifications in this comment, it doesn't sound like you're the type of person I'm talking about. I don't disagree at all tha
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by wutbrodo 6y ago
100% agreed, and to some extent people _do_ need to be protected from themselves where irrational decisions are likely. But the comment I responded to referred to payday loans in general as a scam, and anyone who's bothered to study th
818.
by wutbrodo 6y ago
They do. GP, like so many in this thread, has a poor grasp on the logic here. They're referring to the _maximum_ allowable rate.
819.
by wutbrodo 6y ago
Note up top that my comment was in response to someone saying that payday loans per se are a scam, a widely-held view in my social circles which I disagree with strongly. > That's not using debt as a 'tool', that is weapon
820.
by wutbrodo 6y ago
> Your arguments are entirely theoretical while ignoring the fact that payday loan businesses are regularly shut down for fraud I alluded to empirical evidence of their usefulness. Here's a study from the FDIC[1]. It's dated, b
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by wutbrodo 6y ago
> In the process I debated reaching out to one of those payday loan places, despite the fact that I knew they were scams. Because they're not, the idea that they are is paternalistic bullshit from the kind of people who get their ne
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by wutbrodo 6y ago
> I've heard banks using SMS!!!! It sounds like you're incredulous that even banks are being insecure, but history has shown that you can expect banks to be roughly last in terms of competent and secure IT. I trust my Walmart.c
823.
by wutbrodo 6y ago
I don't know that this follows, given that the prior probability that your info was leaked is pretty low. "Only" 20% of global accounts' info were leaked, and only 13% of US accts
824.
by wutbrodo 6y ago
> Inertia is only that - inertia. It doesn't affect the overall trend, by definition no democratic system can withstand a popular-but-harmful idea that remains popular over a sustained period of time (Brexit might be an example). If
825.
by wutbrodo 6y ago
I don't think it's a given that the architectures that get us to AGI will be constrained in exactly the way current neural networks are.
826.
by wutbrodo 6y ago
The credible solution already existed, before we prohibited private entities from providing restrooms. Banning pay toilets effectively meant banning public toilets, since municipalities self-evidently don't have the will or competence
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by wutbrodo 6y ago
> When you hike? I'd have thought doing it in nature would be fine (considering all the animals doing the same) I assume it's because sometimes there's enough brush that you don't want to squat more than you have to,
828.
by wutbrodo 6y ago
I wonder why this is so downvoted? If you think peeing in a bottle is degrading, it doesn't seem that using a product like this would be any more degrading than the male method. I have women friends who use devices like these when we h
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by wutbrodo 6y ago
I'd be extremely surprised if the percentage was "fairly high", having worked in FAANG for half a decade.
830.
by wutbrodo 6y ago
It's regularly commented-on that the reason we don't have widespread public bathrooms like many other developed and Middle-income countries is due to insane laws prohibiting against pay toilets, on the grounds that. Turns out when
831.
by wutbrodo 6y ago
No arguments there! It's a pretty good rule of thumb that the no-exceptions maximalist view is wrong, on almost any topic over which there's meaningful disagreement.
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by wutbrodo 6y ago
Is that not the point here? Labeling something a "trope" isn't a self-contained argument. The reliability of Linux systems is terrible for certain contexts: modern gaming[1], universal hardware compatibility, taking advantage
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by wutbrodo 6y ago
> I'm aware that it does happen to some users, but I have trouble believing that I'm just really unlucky with Ubuntu/Debian/PopOS and Fedora. "Unlucky" is probably the wrong word, since I doubt all those fai
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by wutbrodo 6y ago
> A criticism of the Settings App as it stands today based on your usage of it a year ago How do you know his/her opinion is based on year-old usage?
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by wutbrodo 6y ago
> Summed up in the following: > Its time to upgrade your PC. Now. We don't care you're running a presentation. yeah We'll let you delay it... for now. My roommate in college refused the Windows update request enough tim
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by wutbrodo 6y ago
In this case people are saying "don't give me awards, you're sending the subject of my complaint money"
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by wutbrodo 6y ago
Strip the subjectivity and emotion away from your analysis for a moment (not permanently), and it's easy to see both sides. Construct and add the same amount of emotion/bias in the other direction and you can construct just as &qu
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by wutbrodo 6y ago
The distribution of property owners is not the same as the distribution of renters (most obviously with respect to class), even in a subpopulation like "Latinos".
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by wutbrodo 6y ago
This is just asserting the conclusion instead of arguing it. Some people disagree that one needs to adapt to changes ad infinitum, and think that there's value in social capital, continuity, etc. I'm personally pretty inclined tow
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by wutbrodo 6y ago
> They move in, knowing full well (or should know full well) that there is an airport there, then a year later they bitch and moan about the noise and try to shut it down. Would this be relevant for something that is in violation of the

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