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by zentiggr 6y ago
Capable, yes. Unafraid to try something new in an area they believe they can't understand? Much more rare. You introduced the shoelaces level unnecessarily at the start of this whole debacle. Computers are, to the people we're hol
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by zentiggr 6y ago
Shoelaces are a strawman. We've had laceable shoes for at least a century. Work any sort of tech support and you'll find that many people who are otherwise intelligent, capable, and at the top of their field look at a computer as
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by zentiggr 6y ago
I think you give too much credit to the level of technical knowledge of the average person.
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by zentiggr 6y ago
> Then there's the railing against the large targeted-advertising companies (I guess that's what they have most in common). There's technically been a trade already. Our data for their services. So for whatever service the
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by zentiggr 6y ago
I absolutely love the idea of imposing a cost for holding personal data. It should be an expensive, carefully weighed decision whether anyone's data is kept for any longer than absolutely necessary. The only incentive companies genera
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by zentiggr 6y ago
I would say as a first point of enlightenment, medicine. Many afflictions have been eliminated or mitigated. > But fundamentally I disgree with your opinion that the real world is muddled and confusing. I was illuminating the difference
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by zentiggr 6y ago
That was certainly not my intent; we can generalize to say that basically every political entity ever has taken from others in order to grow. By violent means or occasionally by less violent, that is the human condition.
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by zentiggr 6y ago
The real world is muddled and confusing... science in its proper form observes that world, attempts to find the underlying facts and make our understanding of the muddled confusion clearer. It takes a lot of observing, thinking, and testing
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by zentiggr 6y ago
So the bar did the job of ablative armor, per se. Still not remotely optimal but avoiding damage to the tunnel requiring far more blockage seems like a good tradeoff.
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by zentiggr 6y ago
I think Baldwin and so many others have a very strong point, and the ideal picture of America is too enticing for many. The blunt reality is that the country I've grown up in was facilitated by bloodshed and presumed superiority. Every
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by zentiggr 6y ago
Old school administrators that are stuck on the idea that amounts of published work in only certain journals is the only signal of prestige. "Science advances one funeral at a time." When prestige signalling is no longer tied to t
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by zentiggr 6y ago
Nope, this is human nature at it's most basic and obvious. Saving face by not admitting egregious mistakes and even lying about making or not making them even after the evidence is public and irrefutable is just the human ego defending
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by zentiggr 6y ago
Zoom seems to be a poster child for the surveillance state. Does anyone reasonably want their "encrypted" conversation to route through servers physically in China?
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by zentiggr 6y ago
I've got to wonder who wants their e-to-e connection to root through servers physically in China. Zoom seems to be a poster child for the surveillance state.
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by zentiggr 6y ago
"Part of" certainly does not mean "controlled by". Powers are generally enumerated or reserved to the states. Plus and minus lots of interpretive scotus precedents.
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by zentiggr 6y ago
I think that message could be extremely productive, if refusing a government contract means not assisting questionable or immoral or even unsupported actions by _any_ agency.
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by zentiggr 6y ago
> Fine you are protecting the job of the union but what you are really doing is prevent job creep or scope creep. I think that should really read "Fine you are trying to prevent scope creep but what you are really doing is protectin
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by zentiggr 6y ago
Consider the state and intent of a group of humanity as a spin glass, and you can apply a little bit of vaguely applicable analysis. I've tried for most of my life to internalize that most of the difficulty in life is caused by differe
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by zentiggr 6y ago
Awww, poor stockholders. Maybe we'd see a shift toward companies actually being run in responsible and ethical ways, instead of the present, near total disconnect from reasonable actions and constraints.
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by zentiggr 6y ago
My coder's eye has always read their name as "Yahoo not not ..."
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by zentiggr 6y ago
Rather than being some ostensibly neutral cloud, Palantir was/is CIA funded. So data straight into CIA/NSA/whomevers hands.
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by zentiggr 6y ago
A Forth word is simple enough that defining any other level of handling just isn't necessary. Trying to put an IR in would just be another layer and an unnecessary complication. Using Forth gets pretty close to being the most compact
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by zentiggr 6y ago
I think I've had my own moment of clarity that spans both Forth(s) and Lisp(s) and explains why neither is as common as other languages. In most common languages, there is a complicated base spec that covers many cases and defines a br
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by zentiggr 6y ago
I'll agree with the article's author - there is a quality to a Forth-style solution that just doesn't compare to other languages' styles or overall structure. When I first heard of Forth and started trying out some of my
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by zentiggr 6y ago
The rest of the storyline of this page covers what I think is the core concept that Chuck Moore started from, and defines Forth as its own environment: the core of the language that needs to be defined in order to write and execute Forth wo
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by zentiggr 6y ago
Power is local citizens banding together, grilling city council members about what equipment they will authorize the municipal police to use, and voting them out until the next councilor is one who will follow through on their election deal
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by zentiggr 6y ago
(Disclosure: proud US submariner '94 - '00) We're talking about them paying for military surplus like vehicles, machineguns and other items that 95% of departments don't need. If the DoD weren't spreading surplus Ar
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by zentiggr 6y ago
Sounds like all they had to do was give people proper departure operations, and although they would have not saved as much expense, they would have avoided looking like amoral jerks and maybe even avoided a bunch of labor lawsuits in variou
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by zentiggr 6y ago
This sounds like an excellent case for equipment limitations. At the very least making departments pay 'retail' for gear instead of getting effectively donated surplus.
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by zentiggr 6y ago
When has legislation ever solved the underlying problem (uncontrolled violence in this case)? Legislation almost always winds up being the softball nearby target that does something visible, not necessarily something useful.

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