yifanl

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by yifanl 7y ago
Swift has the advantage of being the Javascript of iOS.
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by yifanl 7y ago
The whole notion of country shouldn't exist in the conversation of "global warming". Unless Germany plans on building rockets and leaving the planet entirely, they'll be as affected as everyone else on the long-term scal
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by yifanl 7y ago
That implicitly means it's biased towards the status quo.
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by yifanl 7y ago
Ultimately, advertising runs the internet, so it's not at all a trivial thing to denounce advertising. And precisely for that reason, it is dangerous ;)
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by yifanl 7y ago
How do we verify that our hypothetical perfect software is what's running on the voting machine?
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by yifanl 7y ago
I could probably be convinced that not having any natural-preconceptions of the language actually leads to better performance in Scrabble: you're only concerned about knowing all the high-value words, and not the words you'd use i
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by yifanl 7y ago
I assume these are the default values that were selected a while ago, and it would be considered breakage to change them now?
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by yifanl 7y ago
It's more of a 3-2 split, no? Afaict, the Bloc are a right-leaning party. (Not familiar with Quebecois politics, so I could definitely be wrong)
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by yifanl 7y ago
> They look beautiful. You know, like art. Is that also of no value? Ecologically speaking, yes, there is zero value whatsoever in aesthetics. And yes, I do understand I look like an insane homeless man with my unkempt hair and decade ol
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by yifanl 7y ago
So, if there isn't a solution to do something at scale, then the answer is to simply not do said something at scale. The defence that "this isn't technologically possible" isn't at all a defence. The _most_ charitab
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by yifanl 7y ago
My need to acquire capital to purchase the goods required to survive forces me to work, being the only reliable manner to acquire said capital. If your counterclaim is that no one forces me to survive then I suppose I don't have an ans
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by yifanl 7y ago
Why would food or drinks need advertisement? These are products that have literally infinite demand, nobody can live without them.
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by yifanl 7y ago
I've read that, but the sole case I've heard was well beyond what a normal consumer would be doing (I don't remember the details well, but he was doing something like doing electronic repairs for his college dorm by ordering
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by yifanl 7y ago
Which is something I try my best to avoid, yes.
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by yifanl 7y ago
As a single data point, I've uninstalled all my (2) blizzard games and tried to purge what data I could from my account. I submitted a ticket to delete all my data, but they requested a government photo id... and given that I don'
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by yifanl 7y ago
I think a caster was canned as well, which I'd definitely qualify as an employee.
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by yifanl 7y ago
I suppose it simply bears worth repeating that the democratic process no longer exists, and I'm assuming they did a recent investigation and found exactly what everyone was expecting.
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by yifanl 7y ago
Simple doesn't mean easy, unfortunately. There's more than a few sources of CO2 emissions, and some of the significant ones arent even (directly) manmade.
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by yifanl 7y ago
Sure, but what's your definition of "true"? Derivable from first principles? General consensus? Observed once and seems to fit with the current model?
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by yifanl 7y ago
Not to be glib, but there's no indication that continuing to scale won't result in the same death & suffering. And yeah, I wouldn't be alive today (and probably would've never been born in the first place) if not for
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by yifanl 7y ago
I read that as sarcasm, especially with the leading qualifier ;)
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by yifanl 7y ago
I'd attribute that to storytelling, there's not much interesting about expanding on the technical details, but there's plenty to embellish from the interactive moments.
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by yifanl 7y ago
Certainly, but skepticism doesn't mean reporting "nothing is true". When the vast majority of medical sources claimed opioids were safe, most media understandably wanted to avoid looking as conspiracy theorists.
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by yifanl 7y ago
This is mostly cultural no? We've done an excellent job of moving away from basic animal instincts thus far, what exactly determines what cultural behaviours can and cannot be changed by technology?
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by yifanl 7y ago
That's putting the cart before the horse. If we're here in 100 years then of course we'll have solved the problem... but we're not going to here in 100 years if we just decided it'd be solved in 100 years.
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by yifanl 7y ago
And that's the issue isn't it? It's not readily apparent and the instant it is, we're essentially beyond hope of a fix. I remember an argument I got into a while back, essentially it went "They've been saying w
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by yifanl 7y ago
We haven't come close to solving the environment, whatever that means. If we had that solution on any scale, then almost by tautology, climate change wouldn't be a problem.
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by yifanl 7y ago
Sure, a game where the rules can't be easily codified but understandable by humans would pose a good challenge. I'd like to see a computer play Calvinball :)
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by yifanl 7y ago
A quick search states about 2% of college football players manage to go pro. I'm not familiar, but I imagine it's a bit of a cliff for the other 98%? There don't seem to be too many transferable skills from college football i
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by yifanl 7y ago
(In spite of what I said yesterday,) the reason why a policy change is made is important. I might agree with the policy specifically, but the context matters.

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