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by programmarchy 4y ago
I’m not a skeptic but recognize Hume has a point, and if one doesn’t take epistemology seriously then one is merely a dogmatist. Dogmatism has become an acute problem in our institutions as the OP indicates, and surely you’ve heard of the r
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by programmarchy 4y ago
Facts are carefully constructed human artifacts, not ideal platonic forms. Since they are usually formed by a consensus, or at least the appearance of a consensus, they are inherently political. The scientific method will tend to produce fa
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by programmarchy 4y ago
As mentioned, official support was dropped and the community supported extension hasn't been updated in ~2 years. If you need to target WebGL, then Unity is a better bet.
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by programmarchy 4y ago
You don't need an app to detect alcohol because you can taste it, unlike GBH.
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by programmarchy 4y ago
It's interesting to see a Tweet by the founder of YC get flagged on HN.
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by programmarchy 5y ago
Most people in the world don't have time to post on HN, or even have the privilege of knowing it exists. You posting a reply here is a very strong entitlement. But if they did, they would probably come here and reply that they don&#x27
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by programmarchy 5y ago
Thankfully, I don't live in ancapistan, so I can vote instead.
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If you have a family home, you probably don’t want 8 college students moving into the house next door to you. This was a restriction in my college town. As a student, I didn’t like it, but as a homeowner with a family, I completely understa
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by programmarchy 5y ago
Suggesting alternate investments is a separate issue than a critique of index funds. Of course people will be reluctant to offer financial advice. But the author of the article is advocating for value stocks.
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by programmarchy 5y ago
Unlike American corporations, it'd probably have to be decentralized, highly liquid, and ideally trustless, but I can't think of anything like that. However, another strategy could be a basket of currencies in developing countries
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by programmarchy 5y ago
Michael Burry has two main points against index funds: 1) large-scale passive investing has deteriorated the price discovery mechanism for index funds and 2) there's a liquidity risk because trillions of dollars are linked to stocks in
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by programmarchy 5y ago
Isn’t Vulkan compatible with macOS, though? MoltenVK is an implementation using Metal.
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by programmarchy 5y ago
Presumably there's an epigenetic effect from this i.e. having dumber parents would have negative effects on their children. But over time that should improve with the removal of lead from the environment. So we can at least take solace
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by programmarchy 5y ago
And so few capable of nuanced discussion.
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by programmarchy 5y ago
You appear to be shadow-banned, FYI. Other than this comment, most of your other ones show up dead.
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by programmarchy 5y ago
Right, I think you could say a binary tree is a kind of B-tree, though.
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by programmarchy 5y ago
I had assumed btree in Postgres was referring to a binary tree but that is definitely not the case. I also learned when to use a hash index, rather than a btree. (If I understand correctly if you’re only using the = operator rather than som
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by programmarchy 5y ago
That's impressive. Of their suite of apps, OmniFocus is the low hanging fruit, though. I doubt OmniOutliner would even be possible in SwiftUI because I imagine they're heavily relying on TextKit. Part of me also wonders, though, i
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by programmarchy 5y ago
Can you elaborate a bit? Doesn't the Ukraine/Russia conflict imposing an existential threat on Europe change your calculation? For example, we see Germany re-militarizing [1], which would have been unthinkable even a few years ago
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I thought of this in a very similar way, but couldn't articulate it as well as you did. To add my two cents, peace is not simply lack of war, it's an active way of being. Psychedelics are a passive form of being, essentially a for
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by programmarchy 5y ago
I love native apps as a user, but as a developer why invest time and energy into a shifting landscape? Better to put effort into building a SaaS. I think this quote from the article sums it up well: > Right now, it feels a little bit lik
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by programmarchy 5y ago
1. Couldn’t have been won without it though. 2. Ships, jets, and rockets all require fuel. Coal is required to produce steel. 3. Could have been, but this trend is reversing. The only place becoming more unified might be Europe, and the rel
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by programmarchy 5y ago
Pipe dream. You can’t run a military on green energy. The West needs to re-industrialize, quickly, or it’ll lose the next Cold War.
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Right, it’s owned by a financial elite who also have control over the state. In China and Russia, there’s a managerial class who run the state and have control over the financial elite.
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Yo!
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I understand that it’s the same sequence but the immune system doesn’t “know” about the sequence, it “knows” about the shape, no? Seems like a misfolded protein would have a different shape and receptors would bind to it differently.
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by programmarchy 5y ago
The article mentions it’s a prion or prion-like. Kinda scary. Does our immune system not have any way to fight prions? If not then presumably vaccines wouldn’t work against them either.
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So now the deplatformers become the deplatformed.
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Reuters is obviously systematically biased toward the consensus of Western elites.
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It’s starting to feel like the West is using this conflict as a proxy to implement China-like Great Firewall measures on its own populations. The “globalist” ideal that international commerce and communication would bolster peaceful relatio

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