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by yongjik 3y ago
I appreciate the general idea of using strong types, but I think the chosen example was a bit unfortunate and distracts from the actual problem. (Granted, it was a toy example, but still.) Any system dealing with people will inevitably end
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by yongjik 3y ago
Knowledge is knowing that sizeof(int) is implementation-defined. Wisdom is understanding how likely your code is to ever run on any platform where sizeof(int) is not 4, and if the answer is "not really," then stop worrying about i
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by yongjik 3y ago
Holy strawman, who said anything about eradicating most of humans? Let me rephrase: realistically speaking, the things humanity will manage to do in the next 10 years will be such a lukewarm attempt that the chance we will "accidentall
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by yongjik 3y ago
The way I understand it, the "uncertainty" about global warming as of 2024 is the same kind of uncertainty as whether an alcoholic with liver cancer can live three or six more months if he continues ignoring his doctor's advi
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by yongjik 3y ago
> If a would be dictator were elected in the United States, would it be better if the courts had broad power to check the executive branch's actions, or would it be better if the courts' power of review was very limited in scop
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by yongjik 3y ago
Meh, you can make any industry look awful by picking the worst side effects. Rocketry: We can now incinerate civilians 0.5 seconds faster than before. Pharmaceutical: The stage-4 cancer patient will spend five more days in agony. Electronic
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by yongjik 3y ago
Imagine you walking alone in a beach eating chips. You wouldn't just throw the empty bag into the beach, would you? Even though nobody sees you, the sea is vast, and the chance that throwing it or not would make any difference to any
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by yongjik 3y ago
I don't think that's South Korea - in South Korea you aren't allowed to just "quit" because you hate the army.
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by yongjik 3y ago
> > The Japanese government started the war and was free to stop it at any time. > No. The US started the war with economic sanctions. This is a historical fact. Ah, you are the kind of person who consider the US the aggressor of t
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by yongjik 3y ago
When Bush invaded Iraq, I remember a scene when the US military showed an areal video of some Iraqi vehicle to reporters: the vehicle got hit, boom it goes, and everybody cheered. It wasn't even some kind of "We have to do this b
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by yongjik 3y ago
Which makes Airbus even more impressive, TBH. How many "deliberate political project from various countries to stay competitive in the X business" can you think of that actually became successful?
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by yongjik 3y ago
On the other hand, students in France or UK don't have to do active shooter drills. Different countries, different social problems, different styles of bigots, and different solutions.
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by yongjik 3y ago
> If they stopped over-fishing, that would just attract Chinese fishermen who would fill the gaps. Maybe that's true, but isn't this the exact same argument used by Americans: "Why should I stop driving my SUV, when China
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by yongjik 3y ago
I'm sure sometimes China's legal system works, but we should also consider frequent cases when it does not, e.g., https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wenzhou_train_collision (2011) 40 people died in train collision
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by yongjik 3y ago
If the CCP forbids such announcements, young ambitious Chinese scientists will decide that they should get out as soon as they have a chance, because otherwise they will never make international fame. Consider what that would do to Chinese
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by yongjik 3y ago
This sounds more like anti-nuclear propaganda. Decommissioning a functioning nuclear reactor doesn't need to be more expensive than running it. You just unplug it, let it naturally cool down, and later you can figure out how to recyc
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by yongjik 3y ago
And by "record low", we mean "nearly six times that of neighboring France." Compare: https://www.energy-charts.info/charts/energy/chart.htm?l=en&...
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by yongjik 3y ago
Those people who are "forced" to leave will be the same people who couldn't keep up with paying the same real estate tax as their neighbors, but still enjoying the same prime location and municipal service. At which point, on
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by yongjik 3y ago
> Would it be socially acceptable for a high class person? One nice side effect of Korea's tumultuous 20th century is that old social hierarchy mostly collapsed, because everything burned down. Hyundai's founder was famously a
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by yongjik 3y ago
I think your view of Korean culture is outdated, probably because your Korean friend is second or third generation Korean American. (Many of those people tend to keep facets of Korean culture from when they emigrated. Considering that Kor
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by yongjik 3y ago
If you take a complicated social issue and reduce it until it becomes a one-dimensional question, of course it sounds stupid. Imagine a foreigner learning English and asking "Why do I have to care if people are male or female? What a
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by yongjik 3y ago
In Korean there are four commonly used forms, which map into the combination of (formal vs informal) x (polite vs not-so-polite). (That's a simple picture and the reality is a lot messier... but let's not get into that.) E.g., Fo
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by yongjik 3y ago
Korean also suffers from similar issues, where it's a bit more ridiculous: the textbook version of "polite" 2nd singular pronoun ("dangsin") has fallen so low that it's pretty much an insult now, and no other t
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by yongjik 3y ago
> Searching for a Ron Burgundy meme is evidence of what, exactly? Nice of you to ignore all other searches and focus on that one thing.
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by yongjik 3y ago
So build those cheap, affordable, clean $6B solar plants in addition to nuclear plants and let's use them. California spent $100B on high speed rails that aren't even working yet, it can certainly fund two $6B energy projects.
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by yongjik 3y ago
Fun fact: it is believed that there are stars that have a neutron star at the core, formed by a giant star "swallowing" its companion neutron star. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorne%E2%80%93%C5%BBytkow_obj.
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by yongjik 3y ago
> All the effort of thought, hiding it from the producers, thinking themselves so radical, and nobody noticed anyway. And good for them! In this modern age of rage porn, someone would have noticed, started a twitter storm (or is it X s
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by yongjik 3y ago
That sounds backwards. If competition were actually cutthroat, no ISP could easily demand payment from Twitch, because then Twitch would just say "Due to the unreasonable demand, Twitch streams will be throttled for SK Telecom users t
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by yongjik 3y ago
Protectionism doesn't have to be a matter of national security. Korean ISPs love money and they have friends in the government, that's basically it, as far as I know.
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by yongjik 3y ago
Candidate seemed like a good fit until I saw something inexplicable, a black tongue, dark as sin, slithering out of the candidate's mouth like a serpent, writhing about as if it had its own mind, and when it touched Tim (the shadow int

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