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by xp84 9d ago
I can agree that not everyone will find them having human or equal-to-human rights. But you point out that some factions would give rights to a set either large or smaller than "the set of all already-born humans" (which presumabl
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by xp84 9d ago
First, i'd like to compliment your extremely organized and precise way of thinking and arguing a position. A+, would discuss again > If an entity gains consciousness does it get human rights? The former is a clear "no" and
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by xp84 9d ago
This sounds like how a scientist should approach the goings-on within a petri dish. We should be curious how the various bacteria interact and be sure to learn how one new mutant strain might interact with the existing population. It's
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by xp84 9d ago
If in the future (or present) we recognize that they are conscious, and that brought the moral duty that you say, "stop creating conscious beings" isn't a solution; the millions that may already exist at that point already wo
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by xp84 9d ago
> Autism is also multiple things. This rings true to me. As someone with an autistic loved one, I obviously think about it a lot. If it were as simple as there being some simple genetic basis that gives you a single thing called autism
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by xp84 9d ago
wow, watch out, someone might steal that idea right out from under you
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by xp84 9d ago
> The same interviewer actively liked to have loop bodies modify the loop conditions (e.g. by taking items out of the source array and decrementing the end condition, so the loop would end earlier). Wow. That is the kind of monkey busine
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by xp84 9d ago
Ruby adds an alias `inject` for reduce. The #1 way I see it used there is like this: some_hash = my_array.inject({}) {|accumulator, item| ... } But I honestly very rarely use it (by either name) outside of a couple of pasted-in snip
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by xp84 10d ago
> tax the ever loving fuck out of anyone worth more than a million, dump those taxes into public services like education and healthcare Have you met California? That's literally the exact thing we do here. Yet our crime is terribl
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by xp84 10d ago
K. And cops also have guns, tear gas, the right to pull people over, arrest them, etc. etc. If they cannot be trusted with a licence plate database, then they can't really be trusted with those either. Are you advocating to just abolis
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by xp84 10d ago
The detractors around here would like to cede the absolute maximum possible territory that can be ceded to the copyright bully types, to avoid even the slightest possibility of trouble. "Did you even once enter Caffe Macs and eat a cro
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by xp84 10d ago
> and this creates a major conflict. Apparently. But Apple should be ashamed of themselves for that fact. What are they so afraid of? That Mac OS is so inferior to Linux that if they publish specs so that a driver can be made, that every
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by xp84 10d ago
none of this is incorrect, however, how freaking sad is it that in order to get any OS that's not locked down and owned by Apple on the hardware we buy and supposedly own, someone (together with whole open source organizations) has
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by xp84 10d ago
Twitter is not society. It's a privately-owned web site, nothing more. Always has been. Participating in it is giving your bogeyman power.
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by xp84 11d ago
Then... don't? If it sucks so much why do you need to read the tweets? Great take: "This private website is owned by a man I don't like, so I refuse to pay for it - or even give it the possibility to monetize my traffic with
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by xp84 11d ago
major [citation needed] on that. There are very limited exceptions to the massive power of copyright -- and they're mainly granted to libraries in the form of narrow waivers. And just the cost of fighting the most powerful copyright ho
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by xp84 11d ago
My guess? Because even with a paid endpoint, the type of unscrupulous yahoo that is DDOSing IA today would probably still abuse the free endpoints because they can. The revenue that might come from a paid endpoint could help to scale up, bu
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by xp84 11d ago
oops, forgot citation: [1] https://www.pewresearch.org/journalism/fact-sheet/newspapers... and https://www.census.gov/data/tables/time-series/demo/families... (Table HH4)
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by xp84 11d ago
What's really hard, together with the quantity of them is that they're white! I haven't actually seen many star stickers used, but agree that's a great idea. Often, when the Flag's depicted in kids' art, paints
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by xp84 11d ago
The examples you gave though are about switching cost, and network effect, and defaults baked into browsers by paid placements (e.g. Firefox, Apple). And I even get that large, complex WP-based sites at least seem to have a lot of inertia
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by xp84 11d ago
Nobody's claiming that it's security. I'm saying that every web property I've ever seen logs for is swept at least daily for /wp-admin/... and similar URLs. I've also seen WP instances left unpatched becom
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by xp84 11d ago
I'd roughly agree they are, but they have clearly positioned themselves in the opposite way as the mainstream media - the rest compete for ad-supported clicks and views; those two are fully paywalled and at a price that deliberately dr
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by xp84 11d ago
Slightly reminds me of how we used to use TINYINT in MySQL to store boolean flags (which can store a range from -128 to 127 or 0-255 if unsigned). I'm the kind of nerd who secretly wished to store many such bools in one integer and use
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by xp84 11d ago
I enjoyed that the Union Flag just gets its own 'preset' - the fact that it's still presiding over a large handful of others makes it a very efficient decision compared to trying to tease out all the necessary shapes to recon
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by xp84 12d ago
It’s been more than a decade when CNN was a respected institution. I agree it’s too late for the news media in general. Their incentives are unfortunately all lined up just like social media: pure ragebait is the fully optimized product. Th
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by xp84 12d ago
Sorry, I didn’t realize you weren’t the other guy.
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by xp84 12d ago
Imagine how glad they were at some point that they didn’t go with “Adolf’s Sneakers”!
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by xp84 12d ago
It used to be pretty good. Same as most fast food.
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by xp84 12d ago
In 2010 WordPress seemed like important technology. It wasn’t perfect, was a big and fruitful hacking target, but it had been built and refined and had a big ecosystem. I’m not sure how and why controlling it today is seen as an important t
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by xp84 13d ago
What? Is that not their whole business?

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