oberstein

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by oberstein 11y ago
No, I recognize it's a hard problem, that's why we should be devoting significant resources to doing things now. I get the point about unintended consequences with cascading problems (and cascading solutions to the new problems) (
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by oberstein 11y ago
When you have treated all symptoms and stopped them from arising again, the disease is effectively cured even if you still carry it. The final solution will be complete mastery over our planetary weather, it's better we do that sooner
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by oberstein 11y ago
I'm a fan of: http://stanford.edu/~moore/Boon_To_Man.html Near the end: "If mankind had to choose between a warmer or a cooler climate, humans, most other animals and, after adjustment, most plants would be
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by oberstein 11y ago
Buy iron, dump in ocean. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_fertilization ) Donate to geoengineering efforts and lobbying against insane moratoriums against geoengineering efforts.
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by oberstein 11y ago
"Runtime", or "REPL" time, or "doc time" are all ways you can just "look at it". Do you think knowing "x" is type "Foo" tells you anything about what you can do with "x",
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by oberstein 11y ago
I doubt Rich will ever push for it, but stranger things have happened. Types get in the way of data. When you ask a request "What's in you?" in Clojure you can just look at the data and find out. In Java you can ctrl+space in
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by oberstein 11y ago
Any goal by the President must be fulfilled within 8 years at most, otherwise there's no chance. See for instance https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_outpost_%28NASA%29 initiated by Bush and killed by Obama. Great
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by oberstein 11y ago
And as long as they do pop up scary warnings when the DV certificates change possibly due to a MitM attack it'll be even more fine.
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by oberstein 11y ago
Pretty hard to imagine people here aren't familiar with Lovelace. I'd rather see more things named after https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Hamilton_%28scientist... or https://en.wikipedia.org&
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by oberstein 11y ago
Liberals simultaneously believe they can outlaw guns but they can't outlaw drugs. Hypocrisy can be fun to notice in your hated enemy, but sometimes you have to dig into the details of each idea separately without analogies to similar s
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by oberstein 11y ago
There was no censorship on saying a lot of things the puritans didn't like said, but the consequences of saying them could be your life. Nowadays the consequences for saying what you can't say are merely limited to loss of job and
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by oberstein 11y ago
Just another instance of dunning-kruger. When he's older and had more interactions with lower IQ people, he may come to terms with his gifts...
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by oberstein 11y ago
But magic powers at 30.
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by oberstein 11y ago
Flooding the country with Arab speaking immigrants with the goal that some will filter up to the TLA agencies to help with surveillance on their former countrymen is ludicrous. If you want the numbers of Arabic speakers increased, you teach
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by oberstein 11y ago
I was an October baby, so I started "a year late". I only had one good friend a year above me, we got out of touch when he went to Junior High while I was stuck in 6th grade. My other friends were in the same year and considering
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by oberstein 11y ago
Batman was pretty bad, but you can't use any game from Bethesda to further your argument. It's pretty well known that if you don't want a super buggy Bethesda experience, wait for the game of the year edition.
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by oberstein 11y ago
The data should speak for themselves. Unfortunately people who don't know statistics think they can't, because as we found out from emails, the data were "manipulated" via statistical methods: https://en.wikip
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by oberstein 11y ago
Is there potential evidence you could imagine that would change your mind about that premise? I agree with GP that inequality is fine if the basic needs of everyone are met, I also go further and agree with Paul Graham that inequality is a
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by oberstein 11y ago
But like, how are you supposed to move when you have no car, no job, no computer, are 20 miles from the nearest city with things like libraries in it, and use up enough a fraction of your parents' monthly income (or whatever other sour
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by oberstein 11y ago
You kind of need an AI God to bootstrap that. At least, that's the easiest way to get from here (needing a money concept) to there (not needing a money concept).
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by oberstein 11y ago
Is IQ a resource?
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by oberstein 11y ago
You don't really need it when reading tutorials either. Rainbow, simple matching, or manually counting parens is very much helpful when you're editing code, not so much when you're reading, at least if the code follows standa
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by oberstein 11y ago
Very neat demo, I hope it gets integrated into the major Clojure IDEs soon as it could make the onboarding experience smoother. I'm happy with just vim though -- I never liked the fashion of editors inserting/deleting/replaci
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by oberstein 11y ago
It's pretty expensive, my own informal surveying of people with kids suggests the 'good' childcare places are basically equivalent of an extra one-bedroom apartment per month per kid. Relative to historical standards, you had
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by oberstein 11y ago
Some other perspectives on "rehabilitation": it's easy to associate that word with treatments like Anders Breivik's, which to many (most?) Americans seems insane and they feel he should just be shot. A variant of 2 is th
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by oberstein 11y ago
Here's a classic "OMG I can hear him moving around" recording that works with the cheapest of headphones: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUDTlvagjJA Most of the audio experience quality comes out of the prod
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by oberstein 11y ago
> And I was commenting on the general nature of Firefox, not this particular button. Then we have no argument there. I thought you were commenting on the general nature of the Pocket feature, which is also probably complicated given it&#
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by oberstein 11y ago
Stick a printf/file write/breakpoint at the root of the code path if you want continuous verification that the code path never executes except by clicking the button. This isn't hard.
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by oberstein 11y ago
You don't have to understand it in this case, you just have to make sure that code path isn't invoked by anything other than clicking the button. This can be pretty easily verified.
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by oberstein 11y ago
Hell, the investor themselves can demand this service. Call it empathy building, and remember, if you don't work 80 hours this week you get to go join the salt mine devs!

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