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by sreque 5y ago
I can respect your viewpoint here. I know my response isn't adding much but I think it's important to recognize respect for a differing belief or opinion.
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by sreque 5y ago
It's definitely too simplistic, and we could argue all day over which side is worse, but I think it's hard to argue against the fact that, right now the, left control the levers of power and are the most immediate threat to Americ
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by sreque 5y ago
I'm glad you find me amusing, but I actually agree with you that the concept of power decentralization needs to be applied to corporations as well. I definitely don't claim to have the answers to how to accomplish this, nor did I
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by sreque 5y ago
The reality is that government and law are based on values, culture, and moral and religious beliefs. It has always been this way and always will be. I think the biggest mistake in your framing is the incorrect belief the left are not inter
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by sreque 5y ago
So you sound like you are probably a lot more educated about politics than I am, so hopefully I can learn something from you, but I think one problem in practice is that collectivist views always seem to end in authoritarianism. Even in the
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by sreque 5y ago
I actually agree with a lot of what you are saying. Often it feels like it doesn't matter who we vote for: no president ever actually does anything about the ever-expanding big government. I wish we had someone like Senator Rand Paul,
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by sreque 5y ago
This whistleblower may be saying some true and pertinent things, but overall it seems very apparent she is a leftist activist with a clear political agenda: https://www.dailywire.com/news/facebook-whistleblower-leftis..
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by sreque 5y ago
So I think an underlying assumption you have that I want to scrutinize is that misbehaving students are costlier from a monetary perspective, or that they require more money spent to handle them, or that spending more money will result in b
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by sreque 5y ago
He addresses all of self-selection, demographics, and discipline directly in the book, if I remember accurately. First, to address self-selection as a primary cause, Sowell specifically compares the outcomes of students who won the charter
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by sreque 5y ago
I think there have been enough studies now to show that the problem with most public schools in the U.S. have little or nothing to do with underfunding. Thomas Sowell's recent book, "Charter Schools and their enemies", shows
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by sreque 5y ago
Yes, and I think one important aspect to this is the necessary CI/CD changes needed to support these kinds of optimizations. If your performance targets are tight enough that you are making significant non-standard optimizations in you
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by sreque 5y ago
I am aware that you can hit really good latency targets with GC'ed languages, like in the video game and finance industry. Whenever I investigate examples, though, I find the devs have to go through a ton of effort to avoid memory allo
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by sreque 5y ago
I'm not a rust user, but I would argue you are still managing memory manually, you're just doing a lot of it through rust's type system, which can check for errors at compile time, rather than through runtime APIs like the C
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by sreque 5y ago
More importantly, GC'ed languages tend to use at least 2x the memory of un-GC'ed languages and have to deal with the consequences of GC-induced pauses and generally inferior native code interop. Whether that matters to you or not
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by sreque 5y ago
I downvoted you at first and then changed my mind. I think I would like your comment more if it were more worded like: "buried in here are great examples of important optimizations that did not require a rewrite". Or something lik
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by sreque 5y ago
You should read Michael Knowles' Speechless: Controlling Words, Controlling Minds. Political radicals have explicitly defined tolerance to mean "don't tolerate dissenting views". I don't have the exact quote on hand
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by sreque 5y ago
A better analogy is if you don't intend to run over someone with your car and they jump out in front of you, then you are not at fault, nor were you doing anything wrong. Results do matter more than intentions, but sometimes results ar
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by sreque 5y ago
> I think I would much rather mildly inconvenience people and have my favorite political team’s score go down than the alternative of Italy-style medical system collapse with massive death totals. That's a nice false dichotomy you h
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by sreque 5y ago
If you're at risk of covid, you can get vaccinated and are protected from covid. That's all the defense you need in order to not worry about anyone else being infected. If you're in an at-risk category where you feel the vacc
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by sreque 5y ago
There have been chronic nursing staff shortages for years. We were treating patients in tents during the 208 flu epidemic: https://time.com/5107984/hospitals-handling-burden-flu-patie... The much larger problem is that
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by sreque 5y ago
Your numbers are misleading and deceptive. 78% of the eligible population and 90% of the most vulnerable have been vaccinated in Israel. Children under 12, who are ineligible for the vaccine, are at insanely low risk from covid and at insan
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by sreque 5y ago
https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/27/3/20-4543_article The sample size is very small and they list other limitations to their findings, but: "In conclusion, despite concerns of waning immunity, appr
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by sreque 5y ago
This is just your bias showing, nothing more. COVID has been shown to be seasonal and to hit different parts of the world at different times of the year. Southern states appear to get hardest hit in the summer, while the colder Northern sta
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by sreque 5y ago
https://www.cell.com/cell-reports-medicine/fulltext/S2666-37... "Longitudinal analysis shows durable and broad immune memory after SARS-CoV-2 infection with persisting antibody responses and memory B and T ce
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by sreque 5y ago
Actually we are seeing the opposite to be true. Recent Israel data shows vaccine antibody counts can drop sharply in as early as 2-3 months: https://www.i24news.tv/en/news/coronavirus/1617185858-antibo... Als
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by sreque 5y ago
The CDC report that 2.3x number is based off of was bogus science and it's been debunked repeatedly: https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2021/08/more-voodoo-e... TLDR: The CDC is dishonest and cherry-
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by sreque 5y ago
Thanks for sharing this analysis. I scanned through it and it seems reasonable to me. I don't think anyone actually thinks natural immunity is 7 times as effective as vaccine immunity, as the numbers suggest might suggest without deepe
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by sreque 5y ago
Your tiger analogy is a bit ridiculous unless you give people the ability to carry around a force field and laser defense system for free that gives them practical immunity to death or dismemberment by tiger. At this point we have the tools
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by sreque 5y ago
What's wrong with your 18-29 year-olds making that choice? Freedom means freedom to make sub-ideal choices or even bad choices, including choices that affect others negatively. Really almost every choice we make affects others in some
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by sreque 5y ago
You're right. We both made an analytical mistake, although yours was much bigger. If that means I don't read, then you must not read well either. Congrats on devolving to personal insults about my character though. I guess that me

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