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by zimablue 6y ago
Yeah it ends when you make a statement about someone that accuses them of a crime or otherwise libels them, in the UK at least. If someone has committed a crime, we have courts. We've been doing this for centuries.
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by zimablue 6y ago
That's true and the nature of language is such that there are constantly evolving dog whistles and methods of expression, but dog whistles aren't directed harrassment so I would basically allow them. Feel free not to vote for a do
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by zimablue 6y ago
It's not moving the goal posts, you seem to be creating a false dichotomy between: "support free speech" -> must support lack of reprisals for all free speech, including directed racial slurs "do not support free spee
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by zimablue 6y ago
"Freedom of speech isn't freedom from consequences of that speech" That's not true, it doesn't even really make sense. Freedom of anything is freedom from consequences for it. If I say I believe in freedom to have a
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by zimablue 6y ago
This is not true, the spectator is a very right wing newspaper which our current pm used to edit (who was undeniably on the right wing of our the Tory party, which if you run the numbers on voting must put him in the rightmost 20% of the co
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by zimablue 6y ago
Not to be divisive but I see a parallel here with what happened in the gaming industry. As it became more popular and socially acceptable, the quality of games went down, from the perspective of people who played games when they were unpopu
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by zimablue 7y ago
One way of looking at it is training, you practise punching a bag and later you go box, you prove trivial results 5 ways then when you have a problem that isn't trivial you have 5 approaches in your locker.
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by zimablue 7y ago
Technology doesn't seem to be (in terms of what people can cheaply get hold of) there yet though? Amd as soon as it does get there, you'd arbitrage to third world guys not Western guys who want to live in Thaliand. We're in a
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by zimablue 7y ago
Regardless of the validity of the argument this should be down-voted as old-school trolling where you totally derail a thread by politely starting a massive unrelated argument. It's also missing a point that the original post and a lot
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by zimablue 7y ago
You couldn't write it as a function, unless you pass in the 1+2 part to an outer function (macro) as either a list of arguments (1, math.add, 2) or a string (+you have an eval fn). At that point you're emulating lisp without the e
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by zimablue 7y ago
I feel like what you're actually testing with this is "amongst the top percentile of programmers, what are the proclivities of people by choice of favourite language" Because the implementations vary so much, that's the
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by zimablue 7y ago
HFT isn't relevant in this context, you need a better example of an active fund that you think reliably makes money by holding, or at least making big trades over longer time periods. HFTs don't normally move the market, they&#x27
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by zimablue 7y ago
Because it's a false assumption that the "natural" distribution perfectly reflects the demographics of the population.
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by zimablue 7y ago
There's a much more rational way to try and account for that though- your parents income/wealth. That's what actually determines whether you are a leg up or a leg down, so if you're committed to this type of equality Ind
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by zimablue 7y ago
Effectively you're under their families power, being "discreet" and doling out money adhoc I wouldn't view as positive, it's them maintaining permanent control. I've long thought that the approach taken by my p
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by zimablue 7y ago
I think the tone of your post seems to imply that writing languages in some quasi-democratic (rather than oligarchic/dictatorial/elitist) way is or should be default. In fact, those assumptions are not the default (I can't th
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by zimablue 7y ago
Specifically on freedom of speech, the left and right oscillate tons based on who is feeling more authoritarian (the other axis). A small, very vocal portion of the identity-politics left is currently very authoritarian and anti freedom of
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by zimablue 7y ago
The real problem is way more fundamental than this, imo the real problem is the concept of school as a discriminator of aptitude rather than an educator (or indeed as both). When you're teaching someone, teach them. Test them as late a
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by zimablue 7y ago
I disagree massively with this, to me Jupyter is a repl+ development environment + rapid prototyping in ETL/visualisation. There's no rule that they have to be used for exposition, or any writing at all. I don't know why you
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by zimablue 7y ago
[Spoiler alert, Hyperion series] That sounds totally lifted from the Hyperion series, but maybe the idea is earlier than that, does anyone have a proposed source for that idea that's earlier than 1989?
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by zimablue 7y ago
Thanks, so it's kind of specific CPU stuff and "advanced" peripherals. I get what people are talking about now.
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by zimablue 7y ago
I genuinely don't understand this Linux incompatibility thing, people always make the point and I never know what they're talking about. I've always just bought an arbitrary laptop, installed Ubuntu on it and it's just r
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by zimablue 7y ago
This post seemed to use a lot of acronyms and technical words to say not much, are you just saying that humans have more than one camera and gyros, integrated well?
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by zimablue 7y ago
Inflation is normally shorthand for "basket of goods" inflation, which notoriously /does not/ include housing costs. That's how we've had "low inflation" whilst having a bubble in housing and equity,
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by zimablue 7y ago
worth mentioning the attr library in this context, which is I think the most popular implementation and inspiration for dataclasses (I think I read the reason it's not in core is to allow it to move faster). My interpretation of datacl
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by zimablue 7y ago
As someone who uses (but doesn't love, actually) Airflow. I think this might be a situation where lots of people are tempted to think that they're "scale". I disagree slightly with your use of "business level"
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by zimablue 7y ago
Couldn't you just compile cljs=>js=>wasm? cljs is mostly the same language right
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by zimablue 8y ago
Yeah it's absolutely an incel meme but do no means do I think that they invented it or that it's unique to them. I think almost all men have this feeling to some extent, I think it's a rare guy who is happy to know that every
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by zimablue 8y ago
There's a sliding scale from mail order brides all the way down to women slightly lower class than the male with something in the middle like travelling to a poor country to meet girls. The third thing is definitely effective and on th
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by zimablue 8y ago
If you accept the premises: free information leads to higher female promiscuity aimed at top % males Lower % males will always be aware of this At some point this leads to increased violence and conflict There's no way to put any of t

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