lordlic

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by lordlic 5y ago
I already gave the two examples necessary to address this. - Kissinger. He was Nixon's National Security Advisor, intimately involved in prosecuting the Vietnam War, a war which he fully supported on the grounds of containing the influ
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by lordlic 5y ago
My point was that giving the prize to an American diplomat for taking a break from his collaboration with Nixon to try to end the imperialist war that we started , on terms agreeable to us , after at least a million Vietnamese people were
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by lordlic 5y ago
It's a good thing they have any credibility left after giving the Nobel Peace Prize to Kissinger in 1973 (!) or to Obama in 2009.
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by lordlic 5y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beck_v._Eiland-Hall
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by lordlic 5y ago
That's not what salting does, and different hashing methods are irrelevant. The danger of having your hash leaked is that it can be cracked and the plaintext password recovered. The hash itself is entirely useless for logging into othe
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by lordlic 5y ago
No, it's my observation that conspiracy theories about organized child sex abuse are largely a right-wing narrative. For example: > QAnon (/ˌkjuː.əˈnɒn/) is a far-right conspiracy movement centered on false claims made by
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by lordlic 5y ago
Any time conditions exist for someone who doesn't care about others to get what they want, that person will try to get what they want. That's not particularly insightful on its own. That's like the one-sentence synopsis of th
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by lordlic 5y ago
You make it sound like priests are just bad at maximizing their income, so they must be damaged somehow. But putting it in economic terms like that is silly. Priests aren't in it for the money or an easy lifestyle. Similarly I don&#x27
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by lordlic 5y ago
> I don’t think anyone would ever dispute the mental health benefits Excuse me, what? I certainly would, and I don't know how you could possibly think that nobody else would.
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by lordlic 5y ago
That is a big part of it I think, and just being able to provide meaningful names for code/documentation/discussions makes a huge difference, though I'd say communication problems alone don't tell the whole story. Even
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by lordlic 5y ago
There is no "standard library function" for inverting a binary tree. That's not a thing that exists, probably anywhere in any standard library for any language, and even if it did you should still know how to write it yoursel
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by lordlic 5y ago
I actually do think you have a point about the fetishization of trivia knowledge in this field. It's really not ideal, and I think it's more driven by social dysfunction or over-compensation for various kinds of imposter syndrome.
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by lordlic 5y ago
Beyond parody.
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by lordlic 5y ago
I think usually people who try to make this point are just pouting over how they shouldn't be expected to know basic, fundamental things. Like https://twitter.com/mxcl/status/608682016205344768
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by lordlic 5y ago
> I don't have to memorize random things I don't even use in my day job Yeah, imagine what kind of nerd would be interested in the field and genuinely want to learn all they can, ha ha.
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by lordlic 5y ago
The article says why. The US Chamber of Commerce has fought tooth and nail against climate legislation because they view themselves as "job creators" and see anything that threatens corporate profits as an existential threat to so
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by lordlic 5y ago
That doesn't conflict with anything they said.
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by lordlic 5y ago
I'm just pointing out that it's a common belief (and it is , your ignorance notwithstanding) and giving them the search term to read more if they're interested. What's so difficult to understand about this? And it'
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by lordlic 5y ago
Conscious beings flourishing is the goal, whether they be human or AI. That might seem like a fine distinction, but the importance going forward is stark given a quote from TFA: > The third judge, Lord Justice Birss, took a different vie
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by lordlic 5y ago
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computationalism It's a very common worldview among the tech set. Edit: Uh, downvotes, really? I think it's totally reasonable to assume this as a given since it's, like
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by lordlic 5y ago
> they're at least all consistent so there's plausible deniability that the author just didn't know English that well
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by lordlic 5y ago
No, I'd argue that there's basically no use case for email beyond stuff that you want the other person to be able to ignore. If you're expecting a response, but don't care when it comes, that's ideal for chat.
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by lordlic 5y ago
I agree that there's not a single instance of double-spaces in the text, and I thought that was a really bizarre claim, but there are some instances of misspellings that help it along. For example: 1. missles instead of missiles 2. car
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by lordlic 5y ago
I meant "really" worth, for some reasonable definition of "really." But I can't argue that market cap is a more pragmatic definition of worth, so your point is fair enough I guess.
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by lordlic 5y ago
I just scanned this, but some of it seems ludicrously wrong. Like rating chat a neutral face for "find" when honestly one of the biggest advantages to chat in my mind is being able to search for key terms long in the future and
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by lordlic 5y ago
$4.9B over what the fine would otherwise have been is pretty hefty. I don't think any human alive is worth $4.9B to their employer.
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by lordlic 5y ago
I'm not sure what you think minority ownership of a public company should entail, but surely you'd agree that it should protect them from the majority shareholder spending unlimited amounts of company cash to save themselves from
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by lordlic 5y ago
If you're assuming I haven't gone through nicotine withdrawal myself then that's mistaken.
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by lordlic 5y ago
Yes? Duh? That's the point of anti-forgery laws.
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by lordlic 5y ago
It's kind of jarring to see Doctorow praise hypnosis in one paragraph and then excoriate tobacco companies for their science obscurationism in literally the next paragraph.

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