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by _yid9 2y ago
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by _yid9 2y ago
Or, you know… build homes.
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by _yid9 2y ago
Ukraine’s victory over Russia ? That victory? Right…
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by _yid9 2y ago
Socialists generally despise co-ops, volitional communities (eg. Hutterites) because they work, and provide long-running, successful examples of the benefits espoused by socialists, but ... They are done by free people, using their own re
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by _yid9 2y ago
Open Source doesn’t imply the absence of property rights. It’s a choice to invest my own effort into something I choose to give to some people for free. It literally requires me to use (at personal risk) my savings to create and give a gi
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by _yid9 2y ago
Or, at least package them up as "personnas" and give them an appropriate name, eg. "Church Lady", "Jr. Marxist Barista", "Undergrad Philosophy Major", ... Actually, those seem like an apt composite
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by _yid9 2y ago
It’s almost as if opposition to free markets is based on ideology, not evidence. Which is clearly impossible on a platform like HN, which values interesting facts above boring, religious ideology … right?
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by _yid9 2y ago
Words that call into question the intellectual integrity of an observer: - something -phobia - right-wing something Why not state, instead, the specific claims of the party you disagree with? Such statements are meaningless , and are si
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by _yid9 2y ago
Do you not find it odd that every leftist who votes in a socialist government says something similar? “But I didn’t think the Face Eating Leopard party would eat my face!”
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by _yid9 2y ago
You can vote your way into socialism, but you must shoot your way out .
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by _yid9 2y ago
Civilization: claims open to debate or ridicule. Science: claims open to debate or ridicule based on evidence. Religion: claims open to debate or ridicule based on beliefs; faith open to debate. Cult: claims may not be rejected; faith may n
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by _yid9 2y ago
Make public the training dataset, and the weights associated with various elements of the corpus. Elements of the corpus must be assigned differing measures of importance or validity, influencing the formation of patterns in the resultant
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by _yid9 2y ago
Andrei Alexandrescu is awesome; around 2000 he gave on talk on lock-free wait-free algorithms that I immediately applied to a huge C++ industrial control networking project at the time. I'd recommend anyone who writes software listenin
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by _yid9 2y ago
I’ve been a programmer for 40 years. Many of my friends have been programming and doing R&D for decades. We’ve been aggressively using the latest AIs as they come out, stretching their limits. Not one of us is worried about losing anyt
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by _yid9 2y ago
So, I guess the "grandma killers" that everyone hated, who wanted to wait for the mRNA vaccines to be tested, were ... right? "Mounting evidence indicates that these vaccines, like many others, do not generate sterilizing imm
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by _yid9 3y ago
This is why we need Unenclosable Carriers, and decentralized/distributed "apps" that cannot be de-platformed, and ... There is a reason that Holochain was invented, and this entire conversation re-validates it. The primary ma
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by _yid9 3y ago
Exactly my thought. But, then I’m a 50+ year old white guy, so unqualified to speak. In my personal experience w/ carbon fiber overwound tanks for compressed natural gas — my very first thought when I first heard they used a carbon fi
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by _yid9 3y ago
The system degrades to be a resistance heater as temperatures drop. Ground-source heat pumps are useful in environments where extreme cold is a risk. However, in the systems I’ve deployed, I learned first-hand why every business that depen
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by _yid9 4y ago
Everyone’s a libertarian with respect to their own liberties. It’s only the liberties of others that are up for debate. So when I see “libertarian tech bros”, I laugh, because it’s clear that it is only envy speaking. Enlisting the arm of
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by _yid9 4y ago
Furthermore, the more “progressive” the tax system, the more total taxation and regulatory overhead small businesses and individuals pay. If you compare the total compliance cost per dollar of gross revenue, small businesses pay 10x - 100x
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by _yid9 4y ago
The great thing about the current-gen LLMs — anybody will be able to run one on the next gen of hardware. We’re within one order of magnitude of the capacity right now on retail hardware. The moment of transition from “data-centric” (big c
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by _yid9 4y ago
Right, the "OK" sign... Everyone who does that is a literal Nazi. And, truckers. They're the worst (if you're a leftist Canadian). Ah, for the good 'ol days when we could deplatform those guys!
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by _yid9 4y ago
No. What is condescending and unnecessary is the claim that "They did test that the vaccine reduced risk of transmission", when even the Reuters "fact check" confirms that they did not [0] Gaslighting the HN audience in
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by _yid9 4y ago
Bless you, but it's surreal to have such a discussion in a forum that purports to attract interesting discussion on technical topics. Perhaps you missed the Pfizer's admission to the EU parliament that they did no such testing. Th
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by _yid9 4y ago
So, now that it’s been admitted that testing for immunological blocking response (ya know, “immunization”, the thing vaccines used to do) was NOT done by Pfizer, and testing for risk to human reproduction was NOT done at all — are you still
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by _yid9 4y ago
Capital owners put their capital at risk in the hopes of generating more money. When “capital” can be created and deployed with no risk by people with no skin in the game, I’m not sure that’s actually “capitalism”, no?
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by _yid9 5y ago
I'm sitting at my desk using emacs in a terminal, running tests using "^X^E" via 'make', and seeing the results beside my code -- literally exactly like I did in 1987. It was "Gosling Emacs" then, and &
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by _yid9 5y ago
It was a genuine answer. Is force not linearly related to the gravity / undesirability of the mandate? Are increasingly draconian mandates not rebuffed by more and more people? Are there not plentiful examples of "Socialist"
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by _yid9 5y ago
Good question! As with most choices, the level of force required to achieve compliance is more or less linearly related to the harshness of the choice. Pay a small amount of taxes? Little force required. Give full authority over your life
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by _yid9 5y ago
Only in the "No True Scotsman" definition of Socialism. Because making everyone else to do what you want (eg. give something that they have to someone who you deem deserves it more) will always require force. So, decide right

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