javert

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by javert 2y ago
This is patronizing. Especially since the response was tautological. You should not assume that I know nothing.
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by javert 2y ago
I was interested in a little more detail. Is the home directory on another USB, or maybe a laptop's built-in SSD? To add new software, is he creating a new custom image every time? Is this practical as a daily driver?
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by javert 2y ago
> personally I use a custom alpine live-usb that is immutable and I fully shutdown and start-up all the time. openrc doesn't give me any grief, the bulk of my startup time is copying my 500mb rootfs into a tmpfs I'm assuming th
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by javert 3y ago
Perhaps the Tao of Pooh is better than the original Taoism, or is an improvement. If you like TOP better, or think it's more correct, or more wise, that's fine. (I don't think so, but someone else might.) I also strongly disa
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by javert 3y ago
I am impressed with the clarity of your thinking on this. Since you value epistemological hygiene, you might like Ayn Rand's work in metaphysics and epistemology.
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by javert 3y ago
I would highly recommend "The Parent's Tao Te Ching" by William Martin. It's a retelling of the Tao Te Ching into plain English, using parent/child relationships to make the points. I recommend this both to parents,
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by javert 3y ago
I don't understand what part of this (if any) I cannot do at home. Couldn't I just run me_cleaner myself and then install the desired OS?
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by javert 4y ago
According to the article, a foreign ship can stop at multiple US ports, as long as it only offloads. A ship can go from DR to Jacksonville and stop in San Juan on the way.
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by javert 4y ago
People say PR is a second class entity, but I think almost any US state would be far better off with Puerto Rico's deal. PR gets to harvest its own taxes, whereas the other states are tax fiefdoms for the Federal bureaucracy. This is
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by javert 4y ago
A non-US ship can go to PR and then another US port. From the article: "The concrete results are that a foreign ship can enter a U.S. port to drop off its foreign cargo, it can even from there sail to different U.S. ports to drop off o
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by javert 4y ago
I live in Puerto Rico. I'm curious about the actual mechanics of how the Jones Act affects PR. For context, I'm against the Jones Act regardless of the exact effects it may or may not have---but I'm still curious about the me
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by javert 4y ago
Most people here enjoy that sort of story. I certainly do. Your comment wasn't tacky and didn't deserve a snide response.
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by javert 4y ago
This comment really stood out to me as being particularly nasty. Most people here like hearing the sort of stories that your comment serves to actively discourage.
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by javert 4y ago
The paper refers to citation 53, which is this paper: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.1c04277 I'm still digesting this one and would appreciate input from anyone else who wants to read it. As someone
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by javert 4y ago
Does this mean it isn't safe to live right next to the ocean? I'm referring to the following sentence in the abstract: > Levels of PFAAs in atmospheric deposition are especially poorly reversible because of the high persistence
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by javert 4y ago
Here is the actual paper (it's linked in the article): https://cryptoeconomicsystems.pubpub.org/pub/murialdo-physic... It's a little bit hard to figure out if this work is: a) a fascinating but ultimately imp
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Fully decentralized stablecoin pegged to electricity(cointelegraph.com)
2 points by javert 4y ago|1 comments
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by javert 4y ago
> Our dependency tree has steadily grown to almost four hundred third-party crates, and we have thus far lacked a mechanism to efficiently audit this code and ensure that we do so systematically. (-Firefox) Wow. This makes me feel like I
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by javert 4y ago
> You could try and cheat in those papers but why bother? You'd just be undermining any possible future jobs in industry, so I find these papers to be pretty reasonable. I was a grad student in CS for 8 years, but left without finis
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by javert 4y ago
This article repeats a common misunderstanding of how bitcoin works. Bitcoin's decentralization does not come from miners. It comes from the fact that users will not recognize blocks that do not follow the protocol rules, as being part
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by javert 4y ago
I appreciate your thoughts. I agree that pushing for cultural/political change is a hard way to go given the populism in America. I'm an American. On a personal level, I think the country is so broken that it's not worth fixi
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by javert 4y ago
> You're absolutely on the ball, except that everything is ~100x worse and more hopeless than you're describing :( Far from overstating it, you're understating it. I mean, you can't get 100x worse than "60% of re
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by javert 4y ago
The terminology here doesn't work. If you're calling something a "tulip," you're calling it an *unsustainable* bubble, because it comes from Dutch "tulip mania." But to take an easy example, gold isn'
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by javert 4y ago
Valid points. It's an uphill battle, but still winnable over the long run. A big part of it is maintaining an extremely high level of scientific rigor and professionalism. Take the NSF for example. (Pardon a US-centric example.) If you
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by javert 4y ago
That made me laugh. Much of the fraudulent work isn't coming from Chinese researchers, but much of it is.
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by javert 4y ago
If I were a billionaire, I'd fund a research institute whose only purpose would be to detect and call out fraud and shoddy work in academia. I'd hire the very best people I could in each field and put them onto this task. I imagin
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by javert 4y ago
The definition I found of sarcasm is the following: "a sharp and often satirical or ironic utterance designed to cut or give pain" I think the response I'm complaining about is satirical, so I think it matches sarcasm by this
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by javert 4y ago
The free economy self-regulates. That's why it works. What I mean is, people won't buy your good or service if it sucks, or a better one is available. Companies that are mismanaged lose out to their competitors and go out of busin
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by javert 4y ago
If someone thinks the negation of each sentence is self-evident, a good response is "I think the opposite is self-evident." No sarcasm necessary.
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by javert 4y ago
A comment that negates each sentence of what it's responding to is not using the "same device." It's being sarcastic. Using the "same device" would be saying, "I think the opposite is self-evident..."

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