DoofusOfDeath

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by DoofusOfDeath 5y ago
I made my original post as an invitation to discuss my current views (which I admitted weren't settled). I was hoping to find any faults in my views' logic so I could replace them with something more logically consistent and, hope
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by DoofusOfDeath 5y ago
FWIW, I think you may have misunderstood what I was trying to say. I apologize for my post's confusing wording.
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by DoofusOfDeath 5y ago
Thanks for that. It sounds like I did a terrible job of expressing my thoughts. Perhaps one of my mistakes was using HIV as an example. If someone only skimmed my post, they may have pattern-matched on the whole "AIDS is punishment fro
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by DoofusOfDeath 5y ago
> You can flip peoples' tribal affiliations on this topic by changing the disease to COVID. Do red-state antimaskers deserve treatment? Should responsible Americans pay for their reckless lifestyle? Personally, I'm not sure. As
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by DoofusOfDeath 5y ago
Thanks very much for engaging the content of my post. I was disheartened to have shared my inner conflict on the issue, only to be downvoted into oblivion.
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by DoofusOfDeath 5y ago
From a now-dead comment: > He’s a bigoted right-wing conservative who doesn’t want to hear about interesting scientific developments that he views as benefiting people with lifestyles that he condemns. Perhaps not here, but I think this
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by DoofusOfDeath 5y ago
Funny coincidence. Around 2000, I worked for a company that coined the term "Norway problem" for a different software problem. Their product used an MVCC database (I think ObjectStore). One of their customers in Norway had a probl
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by DoofusOfDeath 5y ago
Depending on the processor, it can also be the difference between instructions in a tight loop only needing to be decoded once (because of micro-op caching) vs. decoded each loop iteration.
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by DoofusOfDeath 5y ago
> that is a stupid comment. It's possible to strongly disagree with a comment without inflammatory language. E.g.: "I really disagree with that comment." It helps keep the conversation productive.
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by DoofusOfDeath 5y ago
I don't understand why the identity of the guidelines' author matters. I would think their suitability is independent of that.
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by DoofusOfDeath 5y ago
It's awesome how the spring reverb is a sneaky way to somewhat simulate polyphony beyond 3 voices.
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by DoofusOfDeath 5y ago
Agreed. Hitachi makes a rather famous "muscle relaxer" called the Magic Wand.
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by DoofusOfDeath 5y ago
IIUC, this particular article deals only with keeping a camera on the ballot box after it's been sealed, and on the subsequent vote-counting. So I don't think this poses a risk to anonymous voting per se .
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by DoofusOfDeath 5y ago
Amazon's proposal may be entirely reasonable. But I could easily imagine that it's part of a very sophisticated strategy on Amazon's part to ultimately undermine a legitimate vote. I have trouble guessing which approach appro
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by DoofusOfDeath 5y ago
I don't think that policy is ridiculous at all. It's mine as well, and IIRC it was Billy Graham's. It minimizes the chances of (a) false accusations of inappropriate behavior, and (b) adultery. It makes me a little sad for th
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by DoofusOfDeath 5y ago
Can you give more info on that podcast? I'm finding a bunch with that name.
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by DoofusOfDeath 5y ago
"Everything is sex." - Robert California
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by DoofusOfDeath 5y ago
I'm pretty uninformed on this topic. Can some explain why the parent comment would get downvoted?
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by DoofusOfDeath 5y ago
A submarine.
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by DoofusOfDeath 5y ago
You make an interesting point. I suspect the post is downvoted only because of the second-to-last sentence.
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by DoofusOfDeath 5y ago
Once again, brevity is the soul of wit. Well played.
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by DoofusOfDeath 5y ago
If a man steals a pizza from his neighbor, and then gives 3/4 of it as a tax-deductible "gift" to his favorite causes, shall we call him a hero?
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by DoofusOfDeath 6y ago
> Also this is an oral drug! Asking as a layman: Would that be a problem for patients who are unconscious or with breathing tubes?
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by DoofusOfDeath 6y ago
I've been trying to figure out why this topic in particular triggers exceptionally passionate discussion on HN. I have some pet theories, but they're really speculative, and I'm not very confident in them.
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by DoofusOfDeath 6y ago
Again, I'm just trying to understand why my BS detector squeals at evo-psych and not physics. Regarding an example: I was thinking along the lines of physics models that, in daily use, physicists treat as genuinely true. This includes
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by DoofusOfDeath 6y ago
> This is a useful reminder. It's a reminder that associative thinking can invert causal relationships and turn anything into a symbol for anything else. There is no rational limit to things that can be attacked this way. I've
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by DoofusOfDeath 6y ago
> The sports team thing is really offensive though. Offensive to whom? Someone is deciding which groups deserve to be free of offense, and which groups don't. I'd like to shine a spotlight on them, and their hypocritical abus
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by DoofusOfDeath 6y ago
I agree with your criticism. Still, I'm trying to figure out exactly what my issue is with evo-psych claims that I don't have with e.g. physics claims. There seem to be some commonalities between the two fields: developing models
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by DoofusOfDeath 6y ago
Not sure if this is the kind of thing you had in mind, but... `clang-format` saves a non-trivial chunk of time during code reviews, eliding a very banal topic.
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by DoofusOfDeath 6y ago
I'm not sure what the term for this is; maybe "quorum problem"? If too few people sustain a boycott, then they suffer without accomplishing their goal, so a net negative. If enough people sustain a boycott, they'll suffe

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