antientropic

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by antientropic 2y ago
The economics prize is listed on nobelprize.org ("the official website of the Nobel Prize") along with the other Nobel prizes, so I don't think you can justify calling it "unofficial". Perhaps if the ACM renamed the
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by antientropic 2y ago
Because the plaintiffs are Swiss. Who else should they sue? Similar cases have happened elsewhere, e.g. the Urgenda case in the Netherlands. Pointing to the inaction of other countries as an excuse for one's own inaction is a weak argu
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by antientropic 2y ago
> There is an international court of human rights. There isn't. There is the ICJ, which handles disputes between states, and the ICC, which handles war crimes etc. and definitely isn't going to judge climate legislation.
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by antientropic 3y ago
Your quote left out "subject to a confidentiality agreement". Streamers are not obliged to make this information public, and I don't expect companies like Amazon to do so since they're extremely secretive about viewershi
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by antientropic 3y ago
How would you define "movement" without reference to "time"?
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by antientropic 3y ago
> but it keeps not happening The article you're responding to is a dramatic demonstration that it has happened: Amazon's IPs would not be worth $4.5B if we hadn't run out. It requires us all to ration a resource (namely
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by antientropic 3y ago
Because nobody has yet bothered to sue them for false advertising, so they continue to get away with it.
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by antientropic 4y ago
The vast majority of C programmers do not use a formally verified C compiler, and most of them wouldn't care about that anyway. From a security perspective, demanding a formally verified C compiler is rearranging the deck chairs on the
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by antientropic 4y ago
This is what happens when a new security model is retrofitted onto an existing one. In the original Unix security model, there was no security concern with this (except maybe for chroot environments): it didn't allow a process to do so
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by antientropic 4y ago
Not a very convincing article, since it presents some statistics about the US (e.g. "only 10% of injured Americans ever file a claim for compensation and only 2% file lawsuits") but does not compare them to other countries, so we
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by antientropic 4y ago
Looking at the current war in Ukraine, the "martial spirit" seems to be alive and well in Europe.
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by antientropic 5y ago
> with Crimea specifically called out, ironically, the United Kingdom and the United States have to immediately declare war on Russia and open hostilities. It says no such thing (as the Wikipedia article you linked points out). The most
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by antientropic 5y ago
There is no such thing as an inherent right. Rights are a legal construct. They don't grow on trees and are not laws of physics. There are rights that I may believe should be universal, yet very clearly are not.
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by antientropic 5y ago
East Germany did not "collapse" in any sense relevant to a discussion about preppers. It peacefully re-unified with West Germany and was never in anything resembling a state of anarchy.
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by antientropic 5y ago
The GNU M4 manual has a sizable section acknowledging its precursors: https://www.gnu.org/software/m4/manual/m4.html#History
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by antientropic 5y ago
Or worse than NP-hard: C++ template instantiation and the C preprocessor are Turing complete. (Except that I believe C++ requires some fixed limit on the maximum instantiation depth, but even so it's still exponential complexity.)
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by antientropic 5y ago
What's the difference between a "photo" and a "photograph"?
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by antientropic 5y ago
The author isn't conflating anything - by saying "national misery" he is making it very clear that he's talking about the US situation.
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by antientropic 5y ago
> People have memories. And sometimes they have false memories. For example, regarding: > 8 Months ago Kamala Harris herself said she would NOT get Trump's Vaccine. What she said was that she would take the vaccine if the profess
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by antientropic 5y ago
According to https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/ , Singapore has a total of 31 coronavirus deaths, one of the lowest per capita death rates in the world. So it seems to have worked very well.
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by antientropic 5y ago
I wouldn't be too sure about those GDPR penalties. Dutch universities are also using Proctorio, with the recorded footage being sent to the US: https://www.volkskrant.nl/columns-opinie/opinie-universiteit...
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by antientropic 5y ago
Here is the actual (archived) Euromyths website: https://wayback.archive-it.org/11980/20191004103218/https://... It appears the EC has deleted it since debunking myths in the British press has become rat
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by antientropic 5y ago
> I note that children are incapable of consenting. That’s what the age of consent means. Completing 18 orbits around the sun does not magically imbue a person with free will and the ability to consent. Of course the law has to draw a li
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by antientropic 6y ago
The article does not describe it as a misconception.
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by antientropic 6y ago
How so? It doesn't seem more complex than IPv4.
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by antientropic 6y ago
> Fukushima will be raising ocean radiation for a long time, just one example. Will it? The ocean is very, very big. Contaminated water from Fukushima is a literal drop in a bucket.
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by antientropic 6y ago
The article is about household debt. Nordic households aren't bailing out southern Europe.
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by antientropic 6y ago
That's not "nearly everything". Most people don't spend their salaries on lumber or copper. If anything, it shows how little the prices of raw commodities affect consumer prices. It's also hardly evidence for impend
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by antientropic 6y ago
Western countries traded with the Russians during the Cold War so this seems like a weak argument. Where does the NATO treaty stipulate a trade embargo against the Russians?
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by antientropic 6y ago
The UK did not do great before the EU. In the 1960s it was considered the "sick man of Europe". That was the reason they wanted to join the EEC in the first place (and were refused twice by De Gaulle).

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