mads_ravn

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by mads_ravn 2y ago
I think number 1 is the essential point for anyone supporting democracy. Ukrainians, not Russians, decided who they elect as their leaders (1) and which organizations they want to join. It is depressing to hear people in democracies arguing
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by mads_ravn 3y ago
Isn’t it just a reasonable application of the “extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence”? And I say this as someone really hoping that this is true, since I assume this would be great news for renewable energy (and we really need
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by mads_ravn 3y ago
Yeah, I also thought of Eternal September [1] in 1993, when I saw the claim to prescience. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September
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by mads_ravn 4y ago
> I will make one point: in the US, it’s never been the government’s job to build homes. That might be technically correct on the build part, but the US government used to subsidize home ownership through loans as described in [1], e.g
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by mads_ravn 4y ago
Again, I don’t think we are going to end up agreeing as I believe that a significant portion of the Russian people are aware, that they are being lied to, but are to scared to do anything about this. Please also note, that I don’t believe t
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by mads_ravn 4y ago
Hmm, I fail to see how this is even remotely comparable to Russian propaganda/related to the topic at hand, but I’ll give you that the “West” has also behaved atrociously in the past. Though please be aware, that arguments like the one
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by mads_ravn 4y ago
Then we fundamentally disagree in how human psychology works: I believe that if authorities (be they government officials, parents or others) habitually lie and cheat, then that behavior becomes socially sanctioned as a way to get ahead. Th
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by mads_ravn 4y ago
I’m curious: You don’t think that being continuously exposed to government propaganda and threatened with jail/fines for dissenting opinions will increase the frequency of “shitty people”?
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by mads_ravn 4y ago
It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it —- Upton Sinclair. But agreed that this boggles the mind. The only explanation I’ve been able to come up with is lobbying by German in
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by mads_ravn 4y ago
IMHO there is a lot of value in learning the rules and then breaking the ones, that in your judgement does not apply to a given situation. A variation on Chesterton’s fence [1], or, if more literary inclined, the parable of the camel, the l
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by mads_ravn 4y ago
One party is currently torturing and murdering civilians, which tends to skew the conversation in a particular direction. Once Russia has withdrawn all troops from Ukraine we can discus behavior of other nations.
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Russian Army Executed Civilians(cnn.com)
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by mads_ravn 5y ago
I’ve been sort of amazed by the line of reasoning as well: Russia can invade a democracy aligning with “the west”, but if “the west” were to, say, bomb the military in a country that is aligning with Russia (after ignoring election results
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by mads_ravn 5y ago
You are of course correct, but speed does give an upper bound on how quickly you decelerate. Anyways, I got curious and looked up accident statistics in Denmark [1], and only ~10% of accidents that result in fatalities happen on freeways (w
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by mads_ravn 5y ago
On the positive side I’m pretty sure that if you have a crash at 100+ km/h, then vehicle insurance is going to be the least of your worries.
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by mads_ravn 5y ago
I personally blame the robustness principle[1], which I think explains a lot of the accidental complexity in web programming. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robustness_principle
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by mads_ravn 6y ago
I remember reading “The Age of Spiritual Machines” and the “events vs time” plot (criticized below) https://kk.org/thetechnium/the-singularity/ was the calling bullshit moment for me [1]. It is a nice thought thou
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by mads_ravn 6y ago
Oh, I forgot, when looking at percentage of population over 65 both Sweden and Denmark clock in at ~20%, whereas the population density of Sweden is ~25 people/km^2 and Denmark has one of ~135 people/km^2. In other words I will ar
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by mads_ravn 6y ago
Quoting from the article > The report states that the main factor in the problems in residential homes for the elderly was simply the fact the virus spread so widely in society. With regards to the difference in strategy, there has been
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by mads_ravn 6y ago
> Sweden has had a lower per-capita COVID deathtoll than European states with heavy lockdowns. But 5-12 times that of comparable neighboring countries like Norway, Finland and Denmark https://www.statista.com/statistics&#
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by mads_ravn 6y ago
This is completely fair to the subject: He got a tax refund for taxes paid for dividends, that he never paid in the first place. This is not a loophole, open to interpretation or in any way anything except plain old fraud. Now you can fault
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by mads_ravn 6y ago
Sounds really interesting. Do you have samples, benchmarks or other resources you can share?
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by mads_ravn 6y ago
This. At least that is what I often think, when I hear people describing micro-services. If there is no data sharing between computations, then the problem is embarrassingly parallel [1] and thus easy to scale. The problem is not the monoli
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by mads_ravn 7y ago
You can use an obfuscator (see e.g. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/19163701/how-can-i-obfus... ). Note that you can still decompile the obfuscated code and look around (I’ve done so to attempt to debug a 3rd p
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by mads_ravn 7y ago
In Denmark, a country of approximately 6 million people, there are three different regions running the public hospitals. Two of the three regions choose a custom system, whereas the third choose Epic. The results apparently doesn’t favor Ep
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by mads_ravn 7y ago
Danish constitution https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitution_of_Denmark (Though it probably helped that the French Revolution had happened before ;))
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by mads_ravn 7y ago
Thanks for the link. But isn’t it sort of meaningless to talk about unweighted percentages? If either side applies an extremely high tariff for a product that is rarely traded, then it would have a large effect on the unweighted average, bu
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by mads_ravn 7y ago
Do you have any sources listing total tariffs on each side? I tried searching, but couldn’t find anything.
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by mads_ravn 7y ago
> Especially when there are linter rules requiring comments you'll have something like def open_thing(x, y): and a comment, "defines a function that opens thing." I actually think those comments are useful in two ways: 1.
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by mads_ravn 7y ago
I remember reading it years ago and thinking it was a large collection of straw man arguments (and this is perhaps too generous as it implies that there are actually reasoning present; in fact the story is more along the lines of: “heroes l

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