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by origin_path 4y ago
No they wouldn't, because that's not how bribes work anymore. Basically all bribes of politicians or civil servants are based on promises of jobs or consulting work after leaving the public sector. Look at how frequently politicia
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by origin_path 4y ago
That's fascinating. I always wondered why the political colours were backwards in the USA. The left is historically associated with red globally, and conservatives normally adopt blue, but in the US it's the other way around. Had
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"In addition, the judgment over matters of serious concern should be presided over by experts. No decision of serious concern should be made without a meta-study, to root out bias and find the best possible solution." That'
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by origin_path 4y ago
It's an interesting story in light of the way that the population is routinely forced to obey policies justified only via complex statistical models that require a computer to evaluate.
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by origin_path 4y ago
It means that you get long periods with no functioning government at all and when one does happen it tends to be unable to do anything coherent whilst simultaneously becoming committed to a handful of bizarre and extreme policies that the s
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by origin_path 4y ago
OOP interfaces as the core concept have several advantages over a pseudo-file based system, even if you assume a higher level RPC system that uses files under the hood: 1. OOP can at least in principle abstract over whether code is in-proce
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by origin_path 4y ago
The reason software has to be recompiled so often on Linux is not to do with ABIs vs text based protocols. It's because the act of compiling on Linux is used by the toolchain developers as a signal to automatically 'upgrade'
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by origin_path 4y ago
I think a bigger problem is that a pseudo-file is not actually an especially good API for any use case. It's a sort of compromise solution that makes nobody happy. The sockets example is a good example. What programmers want is a funct
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by origin_path 4y ago
Well, most of the world uses Windows (not a UNIX), macOS/iOS (owes more to NextSTEP than UNIX) and Android (owes more to BeOS than UNIX). The latter two use a UNIX kernel to get basics like scheduling and a filesystem but the userland
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by origin_path 4y ago
At least for JavaOS and Singularity there were a bunch of problems: 1. They were primarily research OS', Singularity was never even meant to be used at all. Its successor Midori was, but again it never made it outside of MS. JavaOS was
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by origin_path 4y ago
The argument for the Java behavior doesn't depend on how long pauses are. It's purely about efficiency. If your runtime is collecting then it's not spending that CPU time on your apps workload. If you're GCing to reduce
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by origin_path 4y ago
Interestingly the lack of finance graybeard mentors was listed was a factor for why a short seller (Marc Cohodes) suspected ftx was going to go down, over a month ago.
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by origin_path 4y ago
IIRC that decision was made shortly after Wojcicki (YT chief at the time) posted a video that got some incredibly huge quantity of dislikes vs likes, and/or Biden had the same issue. Don't recall the exact timeline. Dislikes disap
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by origin_path 4y ago
The reason the Tomcat filled memory is that for the longest time Java would only run GCs if you were actually running out of memory. The assumption was, if there's RAM there doing nothing then why would you waste CPU and electricity on
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by origin_path 4y ago
"Errors always get handled because the linter points them out and the devs don't cheat by setting up multi-function try/catch blocks" My experience with Go has been that errors get "handled" by propagating th
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by origin_path 4y ago
Yes. It's important to remember that large parts of the global population are still banned from entering the USA because they didn't take the shots. For instance about a third of the Swiss population still cannot enter America for
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by origin_path 4y ago
Perhaps relevant, posted today: https://taibbi.substack.com/p/the-fbis-transformation-from-n... In the incident that led to Friend’s suspension, the FBI wanted to execute a SWAT raid on a subject who’d been communicat
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by origin_path 4y ago
Kind weird perception. I did a startup 6 years ago that was Kotlin all the way.
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by origin_path 4y ago
How is that different to Python, Ruby, Node, etc? There is at least jlink which creates standalone app directories, and native-image, which makes AOT compiled native (standalone) binaries.
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by origin_path 4y ago
How many teachers are there in Ontario?!
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by origin_path 4y ago
That's a good question! Hopefully it never goes to court.
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by origin_path 4y ago
The scope of this conversation is drifting - we started by talking about whether scientists always use scientific methodologies in trustworthy ways. The BEST project you mentioned uses very similar methodologies as climatologists usually do
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by origin_path 4y ago
The whole point of standards of evidence and court rules is to diminish the importance of influence. Those rules and standards also don't "prioritize" people with finances: there is nothing in any rule or standard that says &
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by origin_path 4y ago
Who are the male CEOs who did what she did, exactly, and how do you know they're guilty?
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by origin_path 4y ago
Which powerful groups do court rules and standard of evidence prioritize?
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by origin_path 4y ago
"Are we harming our own customers by allowing them to make demands that in turn only harm themselves in the long run?" It sounds paternalistic but yeah, that can happen. I've been in this sort of office politics situation w
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The 2010s didn't show there was no counter-argument to begin with re: the hiatus/pause. What actually happened is that climatologists rewrote the temperature data of that period to simply remove the pause from history. In other wo
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by origin_path 4y ago
Re: Trends. You can compute it if you like. People have done that. I don't recall the results but they were close enough to zero to be equivalent. Re: ClimDiv. Yes, but from my comment: "they have kept on using the old broken net
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by origin_path 4y ago
But defunding the police was never cancel culture, that's a separate thing. Cancel culture refers to the practice of trying to get individuals fired for things they said, or sometimes to try and get customers of a company to abandon th
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by origin_path 4y ago
"Scientists look for inconsistencies and potential flaws, and try to understand how significant they are, if they can be controlled for or if they completely invalidate the research they're reviewing" That's giving aca

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