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by ythl 10y ago
"Not any worse than alcohol" is pretty darn bad. Alcohol is the cause of so many problems in society that it's hard to even quantify.
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by ythl 10y ago
Generating a screenplay from a bunch of existing screenplays is about as good as generating a poem from a bunch of existing poems. I think there was a story the other day showcasing AI-generated poems, and all of them pretty much sucked. Th
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by ythl 10y ago
My point is that the puzzle should be updated to inform the reader that designing the right kind of box is a part of the puzzle: "Jan and Maria each have plenty of padlocks, but none to which the other has a key. Using only the padlock
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by ythl 10y ago
AI is still having trouble competing with us in terms of general intelligence and creative ability. I will be very surprised if AI can ever generate a movie, song, video game, or book completely on its own that can actually compete with hum
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by ythl 10y ago
That puzzle needed more clarification. The solution talks about having two padlocks affixed to the same box, but I can't imagine any kind of box that can have 2 padlocks affixed to it unless the box is specifically designed to allow 2
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by ythl 10y ago
> What if I told you your choice to support "The War on Drugs" has caused ... I don't necessarily support the current implementation of it. But I am against recreational drug usage and widespread drug availability (i.e. go
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> The person who possesses, uses, or trades contraband offends only the state So are we pretending things that like DUI manslaughter, second-hand cancer, theft/robbery to pay for more drugs, etc. are unrelated crimes?
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> You don't have to embrace anything in your private life. But stay the heck out of mine. Yes, but unfortunately all individual choices eventually start bleeding into other peoples' lives, no matter how much you like to pretend
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by ythl 10y ago
Well I have a friend addicted to heroin. He tried it once, for fun, and was blown away by how good it made him feel. So he tried it again to achieve the same feeling, and again, and eventually it consumed him. He comes from a good family as
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by ythl 10y ago
In that case resisting any evil that people want is futile and we should just embrace it instead of fighting it. People want abortions? Rationalize and embrace. People want drugs? Rationalize and embrace. People want porn, gambling, prostit
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by ythl 10y ago
Would you say the vast majority of drug addicts were physically abused as children? Were you?
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For a lot of people though, myself included, the choice is more like: 1. Resist evil at all costs. Even if it is expensive and takes a long time. 2. Give up resisting evil. It's too powerful. Just embrace it and go into damage control
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> Even if one agrees this is true, that doesn't mean that they aren't also victims of drug prohibition. Every criminal is a victim of the system, then. Had sex with a minor and now you are in jail? You're a victim of sexua
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by ythl 10y ago
> If you prescribe heroin to addicts, a large proportion of them become productive members of society. Prescribing is incredibly inexpensive, because heroin is in fact a very cheap drug - it's expensive on the streets because of pr
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by ythl 10y ago
> I say make it legal, and tax it proportionate to the cost of running enough rehabilitation centers nationally that any American can get treatment if they so wish. Seems like a pipe dream. Tax the drugs too much and you'll just cre
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by ythl 10y ago
> Addicts "make poor choices" because their brains are wired that way. I reject this statement. Even if people are more prone to addiction, that doesn't excuse their choices. Otherwise you could excuse serial killers b
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by ythl 10y ago
> And the addicts are the end-losers, victims of a war between reality and ideology. Drug users aren't victims of the war on drugs (except maybe weed users). If drugs were legal they would still be hopeless addicts. Just because you
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by ythl 10y ago
I know what you're saying, and I mostly agree with it, but some fundamental part of me feels wrong about just unconditionally helping all the addicted users. It's like, they've made so many stupid decisions, disregarded so ma
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by ythl 10y ago
Wow, neat. Is `$$` some kind of jQuery-esque service that Chrome provides?
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Except mental handicaps are not as well understood as physical handicaps. Trying to accommodate every single mental handicap in society is futile and expensive.
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by ythl 10y ago
> We don't need to fully understand a processes in order to reproduce it. That's true, but you still need to understand it enough > We can proceed by imitation, trial and error. As we mostly did for airplanes, for instance
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by ythl 10y ago
That's a really good point. In a world where we use machine learning to decide how to diagnose illness, pass judgment, arrest people, and more, it could be manipulated by bad actors into enslaving us one way or another (no conscious AI
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by ythl 10y ago
I'm still not convinced thinking, living, conscious machines are possible anytime soon, if ever. Until we understand the hard problem of consciousness and other fundamental mechanisms of the brain, we will never build true AI. Increasi
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by ythl 10y ago
Well if you don't believe in God, you might want to start since it appears he's the only hope we have left for a doomed climate.
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by ythl 10y ago
Oh, possibly. I don't actually use EE, but I just assumed it was still unimplemented because the issue is still open: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ee/issues/556 Edit: looks like they updated this
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by ythl 10y ago
New features look awesome. Any idea of when we'll get global search? For a long time I've been wanting to search for a particular code snippet or file name across all projects.
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by ythl 10y ago
> Holy cow, i thought something like %40 of the US economy went towards military No, you're thinking of welfare/social security Edit: anyone care to explain the downvotes? My data comes from here: https://www.whiteho
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by ythl 10y ago
Money. If the organization that governs your sport doesn't lobby the right people, your sport will stop getting coverage. Without coverage you generate no money. Read: wrestling and the olympics.
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by ythl 10y ago
I hate to break it to you, but Unity already dominates in terms of popularity.
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That moment you add a few bytes to your char array to make your program leet.

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