gameman144

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by gameman144 6d ago
I don't think this is an unreasonable view, but it does seem to me that the declining Christianity rates aren't super useful on their own for determining actions from a systems thinking perspective. Maybe rates are declining becau
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by gameman144 11d ago
I actually have long disagreed with this sentiment -- I know people who don't want and never want kids, and they seem to totally comprehend the kind of love I have for my children. I also remember being a teenager and always kind of un
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by gameman144 23d ago
I don't see any editorializing, mostly just reports that China is actually competing well. Whether you're for or against China, seeing that they're outperforming or performing close to American-owned chipmakers seems like v
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by gameman144 3mo ago
> You can't expel people for 'working like they do in the real world'. You totally can, though. In the real world if I can't remember something, I might look it up in a textbook. Closed-book tests have historically be
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by gameman144 5mo ago
Given that we support megafauna today, could you explain why? Legitimately asking, since I don't see a reason they couldn't adapt just as well.
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by gameman144 6mo ago
It would, yes. There's large worker/union pressure in many of these fields to not take away overtime by reducing hours, though, since it is such a huge part of total compensation.
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by gameman144 7mo ago
Government physical mail has the benefit that substantial tampering is way harder to do at scale. It's the same vein as criminals using cash vs Bitcoin; both can hide crime, but one is way easier to scale up.
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by gameman144 8mo ago
It's also wild just how cost-effective interventions like this can be. You can pay a thousand here and there, or a few hundred thousand incarcerating these people when they turn to crime out of desperation.
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by gameman144 8mo ago
I don't think the parent is even saying that, their point is pretty reasonable: having some objective measure for before and after in any study is more reliable than self-reporting, especially when the subject might be incentivized t
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by gameman144 10mo ago
Could you elaborate? The project structure looks extremely normal to me, but I don't know if I'm overlooking red flags all over the place.
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by gameman144 10mo ago
This seems to have the positive effect that patching applications on your own device (a la Revanced patching Spotify) appears blessed, since government prosecution would need to demonstrate a public interest case, if I'm reading this c
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by gameman144 11mo ago
This metric disincentivizes carpooling -- everyone should drive a light single-seater to minimize their tax. (I agree with the spirit, just calling out that there are going to be edge cases galore with a scenario like this)
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by gameman144 11mo ago
In the world we could assess this completely and with perfect accuracy, you're spot on that that'd be all that we need! In the current world, though, due process exists because there are sometimes messy and fuzzy details that ne
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by gameman144 1y ago
I don't think the author was arguing at all that these things should be illegal, more just that there should be more consideration of other people's preferences where possible. It's also legal to play an annoying song on repe
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by gameman144 1y ago
> I concur (fancy word for believe which I wanted to share lol) you are talking about america. Just a heads up but concur means "agree", not "believe"
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by gameman144 1y ago
> but it is common for people attending the Church to pay donations for absolution This is not at all common and hasn't been for a few hundred years. (That said, your point about wealthy people making big donations as a PR move is d
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by gameman144 1y ago
I saw one of those word-substition browser plugins a few years back that swapped "dependency" for "liability", and it was basically never wrong. (Big fan of version pinning in basically every context, too)
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by gameman144 1y ago
It isn't feasible to audit every line of every dependency, just as it's not possible to audit the full behavior of every employee that works at your company. In both cases, the solution is similar: try to restrict access to vital
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by gameman144 1y ago
> It's not feasible for me to audit every single one of my dependencies, and every one of my dependencies' dependencies I think this is a good argument for reducing your dependency count as much as possible, and keeping them to
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by gameman144 1y ago
Safety and utility can often be at odds. Sometimes safety concerns outweigh utility, sometimes they don't. For instance, car accidents are an incredibly prevalent cause of death, and even though we had methods of transport before (an
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by gameman144 1y ago
Legitimately not trying to be coy, but would you consider a game like Fortnite to be an instance of "lock-in" for teenagers? For instance, a teenager might say: 1. Fortnite doesn't have an iPhone app, so if I switch to iOS I
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by gameman144 1y ago
I think the above things are commonly considered theft. Totally fair to contend that the definition is wrong (and IMO that's a reasonable-minded contention), but I don't it's particularly double-think to bucket these digita
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by gameman144 1y ago
This is interesting, I definitely use "theft" colloquially for all these things. For the digital assets, I mentally bucket copyright infringement and theft differently. For instance, if I copy someone's photography and sell i
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by gameman144 1y ago
Does it? There are loads of types of theft that don't remove the good or asset from the owner: Identity theft, IP theft, theft of private digital assets (e.g. photos, writings, music)
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by gameman144 1y ago
I think one difference is that for most investments, you get some say in what you invest in. For public schools, you have school districts. For infrastructure you have utility districts. For libraries and parks and amenities, you have munic
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by gameman144 1y ago
I mean, if there really was a book that was too harmful to allow at all and it was successfully banned, we likely wouldn't know about it at this point. I am extremely against book banning, but the possibility of some time in histor
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by gameman144 1y ago
I'm not even in favor of banning/heavily-regulating AI developments, but I think this position here is a little reductive; you could boil anything down to the point of absurdity. The point of nuclear weapons bans, for instance,
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by gameman144 1y ago
I think there's a justifiable fear/dread when things that used to demonstrate virtues no longer do so. For instance, being in shape used to (usually) demonstrate discipline. Art or music used to demonstrate attention to craft and
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by gameman144 1y ago
> Your answer to this question determines whether you believe in ideology or data. I mean, you're technically right, but that doesn't invalidate anything the parent commenter said. I could equally ask "What if it turned
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by gameman144 1y ago
As an analogy: Your ability to make calls on a cell phone is not a right. Nothing is stopping you from setting up a cell tower, but it's quite possible AT&T does not want their brand tied with your calls.

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