YouAreGreat

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by YouAreGreat 8y ago
> a right not to have idiot parents interfere The only reasonable default assumption is that even "idiot" parents have more interest in the survival and well-being of their own children than the vaccination industry equivalent
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by YouAreGreat 8y ago
> All of your data structures have types ... Static typing just means that you annotate ... Programs have (static) types, data does not. Static typing removes correct programs from the language. Try this in some ML-like language:
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by YouAreGreat 8y ago
> traits that are highly correlated with climate denialism Sure. Since it is socially so much easier to be a secretly skeptic climate congregationist than an open climate denier, I'd bet one such correlated trait would be extreme ho
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by YouAreGreat 8y ago
> "Darwinian Fairytales" by David Stove The search engine coughed up a PDF. I randomly opened it (p. 173) and read up to this author-provided "TL;DR" on p.176: The main reason, however, for thinking that sociobiology
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by YouAreGreat 8y ago
The source frames the issue as merely "street names, or not." That glosses over the question of how to name the streets, a question quite conductive to nasty political fighting. Maybe that already happened.
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by YouAreGreat 8y ago
> how moderation works Crowdsourced via the flag button, which acts as a "superpowered downvote" even though it's not presented as such.
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by YouAreGreat 8y ago
True if you don't cooperate at all with the collector, but easily avoided in many cases. E.g., when using Boehm, try using gc_malloc_atomic() for data that you know cannot contain pointers, like your encryption buffers.
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by YouAreGreat 8y ago
> argued that some races are more suited to slavery than others > see if he was misrepresented Did you find out whether or not he was misrepresented?
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by YouAreGreat 8y ago
> To me, Rust is nearly the same thing as steveklabnik That widespread perception could have been part of the problem.
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by YouAreGreat 8y ago
> semantically inaccessible, not syntactically inaccessible. You can give the semantics of everything that happens in a safe d-t language in terms of church encoded tag-value pairs and yet the programmer can't break the abstractio
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by YouAreGreat 8y ago
> "A type system is a syntactic method for enforcing levels of abstraction in programs. " [1] > What syntactic methods are used in dynamically "typed" languages? Interesting. You may have unwittingly provided one o
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by YouAreGreat 8y ago
> All languages are typed, either with rich types, or they are unityped Almost all languages. There is one language that can be typed without a type, the empty language. Since the empty language contains no programs, it follows that
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by YouAreGreat 8y ago
> struggling to understand how this doesn't wind up being a proxy for racism Here's the gist: Human bad. Capital good.
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by YouAreGreat 8y ago
Wherever you can publish text or media (eg, on a cooking site) speech crimes can be committed under your account. Fancy a prison term in one of the more enlightened European jurisdictions, or Canada?
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by YouAreGreat 8y ago
> Most Haskellers write out the types Maybe that's partly because Haskell can easily become a bit too elegant. Between all the currying and combinators, the type helps to understand code "top down", i.e. when you don&#x2
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by YouAreGreat 8y ago
> flagging is not like "downvoting", this isn't reddit. "Flag" on HN has devolved into an overpowered downvote button.
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by YouAreGreat 8y ago
> our human minds have not sufficiently evolved They're also not evolved to deal with TV news.
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by YouAreGreat 8y ago
> "trigger the conservatives" to force them to attack the actions of private companies Conservatives will come to understand that big capital is not a conservative.
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by YouAreGreat 8y ago
Thanks for that link! Hipp: > ... also learned that apparently no one feels the need to help novice CoC writers feel welcomed or safe. Apparently! Good to see he's still got a sense of humor. Then, a very enlightening response fro
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by YouAreGreat 8y ago
> enough to write statically typed code in Lisp Certainly not in the way "statically typed" is usually understood. Containers (outside of specialized arrays) aren't parameterized, so every time you extract a value from a l
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by YouAreGreat 8y ago
When I looked (decade ago), your description would have characterized their online haunts but not IRL meetings. Maybe being online turns anything into Reddit/HN. On the other hand, word was most members are inactive and only a small
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by YouAreGreat 8y ago
That's like saying a woman can't leave an abusive marriage until she's secured a new husband.
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by YouAreGreat 8y ago
> it sucks it leaked to nutty Brietbart and not a real new organization Lack of reporting from others is no reason to believe Breitbart was first to know, e.g. https://mobile.twitter.com/jacknicas/status/10400
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by YouAreGreat 8y ago
> Human brain is like a peacock tail I don't think so. Curious detail about that tail: The females don't have it.
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by YouAreGreat 8y ago
Wikipedia says there's a "lack of consequences for perjury in claims" ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmca ).
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by YouAreGreat 8y ago
Please don't write "humanity" when you mean "capital". It's confusing.
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by YouAreGreat 8y ago
People who honestly believe a lie can convincingly tell it. Analogously, people who don't get tripped up by bullshit might be better (more convincing) at spouting self-serving bullshit. Framed that way, I can believe it.
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by YouAreGreat 8y ago
> reflects very poorly on the New York Times The alt-right was on the verge of defusing the "racist" accusation as an effective weapon in the culture wars. The NYT's Sarah Jeong stunt effortlessly made alt-right types lite
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by YouAreGreat 8y ago
Why would Google's own Mozilla do this... unless Google is planning to buy Cloudflare.
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by YouAreGreat 8y ago
> It's the smallest number you can't count to Funny. If explaining infinity to a kid had been my problem, I'd have tried hard to avoid calling infinity a number.

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