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by xtian 8y ago
> Secret kill lists are for terrorits. We don’t kill our own citizens. I’m an Enlightenment since everyone deserves due process, but in a defending our national interests sense, that can never be the case and never has been. The parts of
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by xtian 8y ago
Sorry, the post I responded to asserted that “our motives are ultimately guided by our self interest”. It seems like you are now applying my words to a different context.
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by xtian 8y ago
If the rules of the game are that we only act out of self-interest, then I would only praise you if it directly benefits me in some way. Is that the sort of relationship you would like to have with everyone in your own life?
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by xtian 8y ago
> You could also say that humans don't really deserve praise since our motives are ultimately guided by our self interest You could say that and you would be right. Why should anyone praise you if your underlying motivations are sel
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by xtian 8y ago
An organization which only chooses to do the right thing in response to righteous anger from the public is never going to be worthy of praise.
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by xtian 8y ago
Talk on JPL's software for the Curiosity rover: https://www.usenix.org/conference/hotdep12/workshop-program/...
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by xtian 8y ago
You did claim that you were “struggling to find any” bugs in Elm. There are definitely a lot of bugs in the JS ecosystem, but one should also compare the avenues for remediating bugs in that ecosystem versus Elm (easier to fork/patch b
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by xtian 8y ago
My best reference for links would be the Slack logs from the job where I was using Elm full-time, but I'm not at that job anymore. If you're interested I would recommend trawling the issue trackers for the elm and elm-lang GitHub
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by xtian 8y ago
There are both long outstanding bugs and sorely missing features in the currently released version.
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by xtian 8y ago
Yes, there are bugs in Elm. Anyone who's worked on a production app will have run into issues with the compiler and/or first-party libraries, all of which are maintained by one person (as well as all of the official documentation,
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by xtian 8y ago
What?
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by xtian 8y ago
> Having said that, it would be in our long term interest not to continue doing this until the system collapses. You’ve stumbled through the straw men and into the point, my dude. The way of thinking which frames humans as “best animals”
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by xtian 8y ago
> Is it really so terrible to research arms for the people who risk their lives keep us safe? If that’s all that was going on, maybe not. But when armaments and enterprise become intertwined, the idea of safety becomes subservient to eco
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by xtian 8y ago
No, your standard of living absolutely won’t increase. I would actually say almost everyone living in that kind of city is (perhaps unknowingly?) choosing to sacrifice in that column. Depending on what you value, however, your quality of li
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by xtian 8y ago
If you are making $90k and living in SF you should be looking at studios or for roommates, not at one bedrooms. A one bedroom in a city like SF is a luxury.
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by xtian 8y ago
> Being a monopoly is fine. The problem starts when a company abuses it's monopoly power. This is dangerously incorrect. A market economy requires competition to function correctly. Any monopoly — but especially one in a major marke
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by xtian 8y ago
“Monopoly” is a term which can only be used in the context of a market. A market is defined only by the demand for some specific utility. iOS devices do not form their own market as the utility they provide is also provided by other product
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by xtian 8y ago
Have you reinstalled Windows lately? A vanilla Windows 10 install comes preloaded with a dozen crappy third-party demo/F2P apps (including Candy Crush) which you have to remove one by one. The question is not why laptop makers bundle c
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by xtian 8y ago
> The basic training that lasts a few weeks “a few months” would be more accurate
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by xtian 8y ago
> But I do think there's an inconsistency wrt the wide latitude we give the armed forces. To the extent that such inconsistency is acceptable, I'm curious as to why. The armed forces are specifically looking to replace any crea
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by xtian 8y ago
Sure, but why would you ever return an ID as a number? IDs are explicitly a data-type where arithmetic operations or other numeric transformations will not yield meaningful results. String is the best choice in JSON but ultimately only so
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by xtian 8y ago
Is the current legal situation actually preventing the deleterious societal effects you predict? There is an enormous amount of crime and abuse associated with controlled substances now. If our current strategy was going to work, wouldn&#x2
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by xtian 9y ago
And the versions of IE in use didn’t support application/xhtml+xml anyway so you would have to switch to text/html based on the user agent string. It was never clear what the technical benefit of this was supposed to be. I only ev
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And?
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Is that a fact or a fear?
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by xtian 9y ago
Here's what looks to be the same document from the senate intelligence subcommittee website: https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/sites/default/files/hear... On pages 123-124: > A portion of the Resea
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by xtian 9y ago
> Its a bit surprising that I'm being downvoted on a tech forum for asserting that information doesn't have weight. You are being downvoted for espousing an erroneous definition of the word "physical".
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by xtian 9y ago
> I'm not sure I agree that the DOM is that bad(more that people are using it improperly and for the wrong things) If an API makes it easy to make mistakes it's a bad API. Blaming "people" is a cop-out.
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by xtian 9y ago
> Unlike marijuana and mushrooms it is easily possible to have a drink or two and function normally. What do you think happens if you take a low dose of marijuana or mushrooms?
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by xtian 9y ago
My Casper mattress started out relatively firm but over the course of a year or so became pretty mushy. It significantly impacted my sleep (without me realizing it) during a period of my life where I really would have benefited from quali

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