T-hawk

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by T-hawk 5y ago
Nice army of straw men. You're trying to redefine literally existing in public as recklessness. Self-centered? The people demanding the nonvaccinated cease existing in society because of their fears are the selfish ones. I'
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by T-hawk 5y ago
It's not deadly to the vaccinated. That's the whole point of the vaccines. Or are you arguing that the vaccines don't work?
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by T-hawk 5y ago
No, once everyone who wants it is vaccinated, their health is their problem not mine. If anyone is still scared of unvaccinated people, they can keep themselves at home forever, they don't get to force medical choices and restrictions
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by T-hawk 5y ago
Nuclear is more expensive per KWH basically entirely because of the regulatory environment. Not because of anything physical about the method or its fuel; it's not more expensive in France, for example. Get the costs of regulatory co
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by T-hawk 5y ago
> Or maybe they just recognize that their AI is causing more harm than good. Google recognizes that these flaws in their AI aren't worth caring about. Google doesn't have any mission or obligation to help the world share video
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by T-hawk 5y ago
My guess would be that there must be something to do from an investing angle -- but also that industry insiders and specialists who look at such things dedicatedly and professionally would have already priced in or arbitraged anything far a
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by T-hawk 5y ago
Note that New York to Chicago by Amtrak is so slow largely because there's no direct route. You either take the Great Lakes route going through Albany, Buffalo, and Cleveland, or the northeast corridor route to Washington DC and then
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by T-hawk 5y ago
Sure it does. They want to amplify that opinion. They think that calling out Reddit is worth the negative of paying money to Reddit.
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by T-hawk 5y ago
Right. And one way to combat that is IP geolocation, show your ads only to a first world audience. Of course, then a VPN or other IP spoofing techniques will combat that .
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by T-hawk 5y ago
Not quite, because in this case the 50,000 listeners do exist. It's just that 45,000 of them are shills paid by the radio station. But if the advertising contracts didn't exclude for that, then there's no grounds to complai
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by T-hawk 5y ago
Yes, it does. I think most of the various silly awards they have nowadays don't do it, but at least the original Reddit Gold award before all that other stuff does elevate a post or comment.
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by T-hawk 5y ago
Reddit gold makes tons of sense. People can pay money to amplify the opinions they want amplified. Reddit actually monetized internet arguing.
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by T-hawk 5y ago
And a similar data point: I read GEB around age 30 and liked it but didn't love it. About the first third of the book was interesting in new ways of thinking about symbols and self-reference. After that it kept looping back around the
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by T-hawk 5y ago
Just to be clear: The ship is still there and still stuck. They were just able to straighten it enough (parallel to the shore) to be out of the way and no longer blocking boat traffic. Edit: I think I saw an earlier article, other reports
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by T-hawk 6y ago
If you continue being okay with every loss of speech, then the only endpoint will be to have no speech at all.
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by T-hawk 6y ago
I've been doing what you describe with emulator consoles during the lockdown as well. I got the NES and SNES classic versions, and they do indeed have that same effect for me. I use them on a TV with no other computer or cable hookup
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by T-hawk 6y ago
This is a major and serious point. A large part of the discourse has become slapping the "extremist" label on every dissenting argument from the other side, regardless of where the position actually is. If you ban extremist spe
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by T-hawk 6y ago
This is known as the multiple-endpoints fallacy, where you deliberately pick the outlying data point after the fact and ignore all the mundane ones. Another example is when you see reports of some county experiencing a once-in-500-year floo
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by T-hawk 6y ago
It's a trade-off. Which way do they gain more money? From showing the YouTube ads to Firefox users, or from getting users into the Chrome ecosystem for however that is monetized?
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by T-hawk 6y ago
That last point isn't a "you could argue" or "most cases", it's literally the law. Rear-ending is always the rear car's fault and it's always their responsibility to leave enough space and time to re
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by T-hawk 6y ago
It's kind of amazing, the macro view that's going on here. Computational capacity has become so much of a commodity, that gamers can't get it for their graphics, because they're being crowded out in the market by someone
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by T-hawk 6y ago
Yes I'm comparing it and you don't get to tell me I can't. It's not about the stakes. It's the idea that in rolling your own, you're going to get it wrong, or otherwise do worse than existing ways that have al
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by T-hawk 6y ago
If you're going to use a key space in the trillions, and partitioned and sparsely populated rather than sequential... isn't that just reinventing what the UUID already is? A UUID is just a 128-bit integer, with creation algorithms
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by T-hawk 6y ago
This sounds like a case of "premature optimization is the root of all evil." Do you have any performance numbers that show UUIDs being any noticeably slower? A UUID is only the size of two 64-bit integers anyway. And either iden
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by T-hawk 6y ago
As programmers, aren't we proud when we can get rid of lots of code?
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by T-hawk 6y ago
Yes, yes, and yes. People should choose their own risk management decisions, not have a government forcibly do it for them. If you're concerned, you can choose to restrict yourself, but you have no business restricting me and any numb
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by T-hawk 6y ago
People can't do these things even WITH everyone's consent. What if I and 500 of my friends want to have a comics convention? With everyone fully aware and accepting of any risks? Nope, absolutely not allowed anywhere in the entir
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by T-hawk 6y ago
There was a county in Louisiana that went back into a shutdown Thanksgiving week, when nothing at all had changed, except that a local university was on break and had stopped flooding the daily statistics with thousands of negative tests. N
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by T-hawk 6y ago
I said "fuck it, I'm taking my life back" months ago. And then I realized how little that is possible. How are you going to protest your way into a concert that isn't performing? How are you going to demand your way int
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by T-hawk 6y ago
You're glossing over the insurance replacement like it's free. It's not. Your replacement Tesla was paid for by everyone else's premiums. The more Teslas that get stolen, the more each Tesla will cost to insure.

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