shlurpy

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by shlurpy 4y ago
Rusts error handling is almost identical to checked exceptions in practice. The reason it works is because there is no real equivalent to easily handle-able unchecked exceptions, and because macros and sum types make it very easy to wrap a
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by shlurpy 4y ago
Empirically, most people care more about making the trip efficiently then how exactly it's done. If all those people are motivated to not use cars, think of how much less traffic there will be for everyone else? It turns out that bike
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by shlurpy 4y ago
That's one of the purposes of government regulatory agencies. Laws could be enforced entirely through courts, but regulators can fine on behalf of the ordinary people instead of those wealthy enough to sue.
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by shlurpy 4y ago
What would being held in contempt mean? It seems to be just another fine.
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by shlurpy 4y ago
Somethinf that would require the attention of thr intelligence services, like, say, getting an unwanted pregnancy in America. The government can and does change its standards, and the tools that can be used against you will be used against
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by shlurpy 4y ago
The biggest trick ever played by the ruling elite was convincing people that private property rights and capitalism were somehow related to and necessary for democracy. Democracy should be that power comes from the people, but wealth create
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by shlurpy 4y ago
Such rights mean nothing when people lose their respect for them. Democracies work when a sufficiently vast majority of those within them belive that the systems are fundamentally good. Lynching represent a public belief that whatever syst
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by shlurpy 4y ago
Water is a necessity. Making it unaffordable literally is a death sentence. Those who would mass murder poor people rather then have a yellow lawn are morally reprehensible.
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by shlurpy 4y ago
They literally constitutionally cannot ask the farmers, and you need a very mobilized populace to change the constitution. That's only going to happen when people see the consequences of inaction, and its probably better that happen gr
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by shlurpy 4y ago
Yeah, I just mentally translate it to "Just shut up already and let's move on to stuff that matters."
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by shlurpy 4y ago
The threat of suffering and death are the threats used both to make you work for money, and to make you eat healthy and work out. However, the consequences of the former are much more imminent, while the consequences of the latter can take
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by shlurpy 4y ago
You gloss over the economic issues, but those are fundamentally at the center of it. Some copy-able work can be done by semi-amateurs in their free time, and some can be paid for as a 1-off contract without needing exclusivity, but most see
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by shlurpy 4y ago
It's not about pollution, it's about actively spending billions to prevent any solutions once we knew it was a problem.
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by shlurpy 4y ago
The better solution would be something like separate elected offices for different interests, with representation based on how much an area is affected by that legislation, instead of a single position for everything.
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by shlurpy 4y ago
I think the jury thing is onto something... a small group rather then an individual can work wonders to cover for the failings and corruptability of the others.
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by shlurpy 4y ago
Another alternative is voting without choosing leaders. Aka actually trying democracy.
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by shlurpy 4y ago
Go one further, why do we need to have leaders at all? Assigning specific jobs to make decisions for specific domains makes sense, but trying to have one person be in charge of everything seems like it's been proven too big a task. Pol
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by shlurpy 4y ago
A 20% chance still happens quite often.
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by shlurpy 4y ago
There are probably more people involved in providing food for people among the 10000 NYC people then the 100 Kansas farmers.
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by shlurpy 4y ago
It's an embarrassingly bad take. "The sociopolitical system that I am benefiting from also happens to be the inevitable final and best one" is something that so many people have claimed over the years, and has failed each tim
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by shlurpy 4y ago
It turns out individualized software freedom, like all individualized freedom, results in deep systemic problems.
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by shlurpy 4y ago
If they did, it would suddenly become that much more clear that the system is deeply antidemocratic, due to people not having any say in the institutions that govern them.
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by shlurpy 4y ago
Maybe your time is wasted thinking about the lever, and would be better spent stopping the madmen who keep tying people to the tracks.
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by shlurpy 4y ago
Then you would support an effort to get rid of the EC and increase democracy?
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by shlurpy 4y ago
The reality in which we live is one crafted by people, and if you don't have a seat at the table crafting the rules, then you are the one being taken for a ride.
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by shlurpy 4y ago
This is location specific, but one reason is because American cities were irreparably ruined by suburbanization.
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by shlurpy 4y ago
Goedels incompleteness seems to me to disprove such omni, and if you are stuck thinking by our best models of thinking, its annoying exponential. Basically, to think about a universe enough to predict outcomes, you have to simulate it. To f
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by shlurpy 4y ago
The McDonald's leaving thing was always totally absurd to me for this reason. There are real examples of economic dependence that could and do cause problems. The owners withdrawing ownership though is a pure benefit to Russia. Threemp
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by shlurpy 4y ago
I don't think they like ad absurdum arguments. But without systematic evidence, there is not way to determine if if such an argument is actually any less valid then the initial claim.
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by shlurpy 4y ago
Counterfactual imaginings make for poor evidence. But ideology can make a fool of anyone.

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