pwodhouse

7 ms·

1.
by pwodhouse 7y ago
A corporate is literally, legally, a "person", but not a "natural person". AI "unnatural person". And since it's "incorporated", it has a body too :-) Since a person has a body and an intelligen
2.
by pwodhouse 7y ago
I assume that you refuse to be paid more than a construction workers then? Part of the legal definition of a salaried professional is that the job entails the use of judgment.
3.
by pwodhouse 7y ago
Outside of the MAGA contingent, people hope to build a better life than the previous generation had. Working 50 years at the steel mill isn't the American Dream. If you live your life in a bubble apart from the rest of humanity, and yo
4.
by pwodhouse 7y ago
ALEC is a conservative organization with 98% Republican membership.
5.
by pwodhouse 7y ago
Most stores lower price on product as it ages, if they don't sell out. they don't waste time negotiating one-off deals for a single item purchase.
6.
by pwodhouse 7y ago
Parent comment didn't mention price controls.
7.
by pwodhouse 7y ago
That photo is so dark and blurry that I can't see the holes.
8.
by pwodhouse 7y ago
How would you enforce that? How would you find and ban AstroTurf? (Thank you, Google GBoard, for the marketing autocorrect built-in)
9.
by pwodhouse 7y ago
Marketers haven't overrun those like they have on reddit?
10.
by pwodhouse 7y ago
What on Earth are you talking about? Social services are massively underfunded, despite getting a lot of funding, because the need is gigantic. Quite a lot of that funding is just compensating for some of centuries of theft, from slaveowner
11.
by pwodhouse 7y ago
Surveys are one thing. Votes are another. Voters have consistently voted to put oil companies in the highest seats of power for decades, because they are "pro-business".
12.
by pwodhouse 7y ago
No one does. The mining rights are stolen by corrupt governments and then given away to cronies.
13.
by pwodhouse 7y ago
Likewise, don't insinuate people are ugly or don't deserve sleep.
14.
by pwodhouse 7y ago
For all of the Eastern bloc's problems, education was phenomenal by global standards. I suspect that's a natural consequence of good people being held down in poverty by tyrannical government.
15.
by pwodhouse 7y ago
People are happiest either slightly before they have kids or slightly after their kids turn 18, depending on whether they had children late or early. Childless married people coast through marriage years.
16.
by pwodhouse 7y ago
Why is it better to have to pretend to have everything out of control, and for living a healthy life to be shameful instead ideal? This mentality that success and maturity and health are evil is societal suicide.
17.
by pwodhouse 7y ago
It's my older. Aesop published the gable of Sour Grapes.
18.
by pwodhouse 7y ago
You overlooking the critical term: variable-length .
19.
by pwodhouse 7y ago
Haskell is not declarative. It is a specific form of lazy + graph-reductive. Thinking of it as declarative leads to polynomial exponential runtime cost in CPU/memory and not understanding why or how to fix it. https://stacko
20.
by pwodhouse 7y ago
Strong disagree. I don't remember passwords like I remembered phone numbers. Perhaps because I don't say them out loud, hand write them, and lunch them on a tactile keyboard frequently
21.
by pwodhouse 7y ago
I never heard of tui (an ironic name for a gui), but I used ddd.
22.
by pwodhouse 7y ago
The authors advocate for run of the mill rdbms plus their sharing system.
23.
by pwodhouse 7y ago
The authors are the owners of Google Slicer, a sharding system that enables stateless frontends to connect to sharded data stores (user stickiness).
24.
by pwodhouse 7y ago
Iran has zero ability to win a regional war against the US, unless you consider bombing Israel to be critical damage to the US, or if the US has no stomt for Iranian casualties.
25.
by pwodhouse 7y ago
I can't comprehend why national governments would engage in backroom deals to allow false flag attacks on themselves, knowing they'd be leaked immediately.
26.
by pwodhouse 7y ago
...which Iran claimed was violating Iranian airspace and the shooting Trump claimed was a rogue general's mistake, not a state act of aggression.
27.
by pwodhouse 7y ago
Trump is all in on Obama's drone warfare policy
28.
by pwodhouse 7y ago
Counterparties don't care if a treaty is withdrawn from or merely violated.
29.
by pwodhouse 7y ago
It's disrespectful to deny the agency of the oil companies and military contractors who sat in the White House for many years.
30.
by pwodhouse 7y ago
Border disputes does not a rogue nation make. Else Pakistan and Israel and Russia and China and USA are rogue nations, which rather dilutes the term.

More ›