ilugaslifg

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by ilugaslifg 9y ago
Yeah, sorry, I didn't at all intend that as a slight against you specifically.
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by ilugaslifg 9y ago
Liberating proprietary software is a moral good. Full stop. The number of hopeless herbs on here who have so thoroughly internalized "legal == moral" is depressing.
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by ilugaslifg 9y ago
Vancouver: where senior developers would be genuinely lucky to top out at $90k, a single bedroom on a transit line is $800k, a teardown in a distant suburb is $1.5M, and bottom shelf cheese costs $40/lb. I don't think a startup sc
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by ilugaslifg 9y ago
Short 3rd-party addendum on SA's defunct politics subforum "Laissez's Faire", the secret birthplace of many parts of internet leftist political culture. https://www.reddit.com/r/ChapoTrapHouse/c
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by ilugaslifg 9y ago
Also, redefining "nature" to include non-physical things does not get you around the problem. We run into a language limitation, when you attempt to define away this fundamentally impossible premise. That is what I mean when I s
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by ilugaslifg 9y ago
An ontology is an attempt to define any divisions beyond "all of that which is". Whatever I "am", philosophically, is whatever label describes somebody who does not presume to make any such distinctions. Or, rather, al
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by ilugaslifg 9y ago
I'm just going to come out and say it. There is no good reason to believe that any ontology you can come up with to help you describe and attempt to comprehend reality, on the time and energy scales you live on, has any basis in the fu
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by ilugaslifg 9y ago
Unless I'm missing something, you've just described "materialism", which is exactly what I am arguing for. I'm not saying that we are the only "conscious" systems, or that "consciousness" is some
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by ilugaslifg 9y ago
So you distinguish between dualism and the supernatural by expanding your definition of "natural" to include a distinct realm of non-material "nature" with no definable rules. And, of all the phenomena that might be iden
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by ilugaslifg 9y ago
How would you distinguish between "dualism" and "the supernatural"?
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by ilugaslifg 9y ago
Even having that argument in the first place is basically crypto-dualism. The idea that there is objectively such a distinction is 100% reducible to any other attempt to assert that some definitional dichotomy "actually exists".
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by ilugaslifg 9y ago
Sure, but that's not all. Or maybe it is -- who knows. Certainly not you or I, because the only information that is public is the score and the date. The problem is the opaqueness of it Which leaves a lot of room for the appearance
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by ilugaslifg 9y ago
Judging by the upvotes and timestamp on that story (90 points, 4 hours ago), and not being able to find it on at least the first 3 pages of HN (for comparison, there's a story on page 3 with 33 points, 22 hours ago)... That was one of
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by ilugaslifg 10y ago
Fantastic answer, thank you.
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by ilugaslifg 10y ago
Would you mind translating this into english? Even seeing the definition of LTV above, I still don't understand the story your comment is telling. What is "paid user acquisition"? How would a higher "lifetime value per
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by ilugaslifg 10y ago
But a senior engineer in Vancouver makes less than a coffee-fetching intern in SF.
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by ilugaslifg 10y ago
You're right, that is much more rightfully offensive than just the naming problem. We have a similar bit of bullshit in British Columbia, where government health insurance is paid through premiums, administered outside of the tax syste
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by ilugaslifg 10y ago
The term "TV License" is 1000% more offensive and outrageous, to my Canadian ears, than "TV Tax" would be. A "license" is a permit from the government to do or use something, and carries the implication that it
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by ilugaslifg 10y ago
You do not understand what a typeclass is or how it's meant to be used. If you are redundantly restating a single thing in a Haskell program, you have taken a very wrong turn. Give me a single example of something that it turns out is
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by ilugaslifg 10y ago
Selection bias. The cartels using trebuchets aren't getting caught.
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by ilugaslifg 10y ago
Object-oriented programming is a disease, and I can't wait until we're collectively done with it. All of these abstractions, when rarely they are actually needed to express a program, can be naturally expressed within the type sys
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FCC Republicans vow to gut net neutrality rules “as soon as possible”(arstechnica.com)
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by ilugaslifg 10y ago
That is absolutely a true thing you can say about the media and the election. They came to believe that Trump would not win the election, by being in a bubble where everyone they talked to had the same views as themselves. But that is a to
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by ilugaslifg 10y ago
As much as I would normally support this kind of cynicism, in the particular case of Trump's election, the media were as genuinely shocked as everyone else. Opponents and supporters, informed and not. Almost nobody thought that was se
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by ilugaslifg 10y ago
Yes, "black lives matter as well ". That is a statement that I now understand and strongly appreciate the power and full meaning of, after spending a good amount of time and emotional and intellectual effort on it. The problem i