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by sumy23 4y ago
Maybe… however in the debate of this law, one side is saying “the law says you need purpose to cause” and the other side is saying “no it doesn’t. If you could read more than 14 words you would know that.” I’m not a lawyer, but I imagine an
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by sumy23 4y ago
No one’s 401k was plundered. Most of this was funded by the Federal Reserve via a combination of quantitative easing, low interest rates, and increasing the money supply. The Fed created the perfect environment for runaway speculation.
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by sumy23 4y ago
Does anyone else hate the long tail? Most of the content I consume comes from the long tail. The content itself is interesting and great. I love it. However, consuming long tail content feels like another step along the path towards social
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by sumy23 4y ago
All measurement, but especially so at the quantum scale, involves interacting with the observed subject. One of the observations made by quantum mechanics is that you can't observe a system without interacting / altering it in som
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by sumy23 4y ago
Sorry, I’m not understanding what you’re seeing. The law says “purpose to cause” and then lists two things joined by an OR clause. But you’re arguing that the “purpose to cause” language is irrelevant. I don’t see that in my reading. Can yo
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by sumy23 4y ago
Crypto firms aren’t systematically important, so no bailout is necessary or warranted. This is more like the .com bust than anything else. In both cases, irrational exuberance surrounding unsound companies quickly vanished.
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by sumy23 4y ago
I wouldn’t say heroin addicts act with purpose to cause inconvenience. They do cause inconvenience, but that’s not the purpose of their actions.
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by sumy23 4y ago
Really? An entire Wikipedia article filled with detailed explanation of the phenomenon and its cause is an appeal to the stone? Really? Sorry, but that is absurd .
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by sumy23 4y ago
It's always a bit terrifying to me how often I see people on Hacker News confidently asserting some phenomenon can be explained by something that any rational person would recognize as non-nonsensical.
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by sumy23 4y ago
> That won't put the water back. Revenge is just the final form of prioritizing the comfort (or discomfort) of a handful of bad actors over the well-being of the other 99.9999% of the world. Punishing the perpetrators won’t put the
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by sumy23 4y ago
It really depends on the specific situation. Public space is for everyone’s enjoyment. Unfortunately, some people take advantage of their right to the space in a way that detracts from everyone. Take a park for example. Typically, a great p
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by sumy23 4y ago
That's just color commentary from the author of this piece. If you read the rest of the article, the specific changes proposed by the SEC are outlined.
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by sumy23 4y ago
Your outrage is unwarranted. The proposed changes are: 1) Limiting PFOF because it creates possible conflicts of interest. 2) Limiting "gamification" of trading via engagement prompts. 3) Adding sub-penny prices to exchanges to ha
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by sumy23 4y ago
Those are good examples of inheritance. However, I think they'd be better served with mixins, which is another form of composition.
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by sumy23 4y ago
First of all, people aren’t pro-abortion. They’re pro-choice. Second, why start defining someone a human at conception? Isn’t birth control depriving a possible person of their rights too?
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by sumy23 4y ago
I think a very legitimate, legal purpose of the technology is for the implementation of financial systems. How many billions of dollars of computers, networks, mainframes, and engineers are dedicate to running the financial system? Distribu
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by sumy23 4y ago
> It is the same argument used to justify any opinion without proof You offered an opinion without proof, which is that Apple wouldn't exist. This is why these "debates" are so unproductive. Both sides have unfalsifiable p
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by sumy23 4y ago
What does that have to do with control of one's body?
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by sumy23 4y ago
Have you heard of the butterfly effect? You can't predict what would happen if you go back in time and change something. Maybe Apple wouldn't exist, or maybe it would exist and would be even better. Or some other company would exi
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by sumy23 4y ago
The point you are trying to make is starting to require a lot of caveats. She might be director not a writer, she's a producer not an executive producer, etc. Also, Lim lists herself as a director of the film in her Twitter bio[0], s
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by sumy23 4y ago
Again, there is no debate to be had. Those who are against abortion are saying the the fetus has rights. That is unfalsifiable. There is no point in arguing about it. If you question whether or not a slave is a person, then I don't kno
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by sumy23 4y ago
This article from Vanity Fair does a good job collection the circumstantial evidence surrounding the lab leak theory: https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/03/the-virus-hunting-no... The tl;dr is that there is
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by sumy23 4y ago
Class inheritance in OOP seems to be largely derived from such contrived examples as "Duck extends Animal." It's basically a worthless concept and OOP would be better without it. Composition over inheritance leads to much bet
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by sumy23 4y ago
I don't see why you'd debate that. You could debate what the rights of the mother vs. the rights of the unborn baby are until you're blue in the face and you'd be unlikely to convince the other side that they're wro
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by sumy23 4y ago
> I’ve thought a lot about this, and it does make sense for it to be up to each individual state. Many believe, myself included, that women should have the right to control their own bodies, and access to abortions is part of that right.
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by sumy23 4y ago
I think research has shown the opposite. Low-intensity cardio makes people more hungry, in general. Personally, after a long hike, I have a voracious appetite.
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by sumy23 4y ago
`() =>` is just the lambda syntax. JavaScript has, by far, one of the most understandable lambda syntaxes. For instance, look how blocks are declared in Objective-C: http://fuckingblocksyntax.com/
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by sumy23 4y ago
> How many other second-tier directors who could make great films are out there not getting funded? I don't know, how many? Your example of Daniels is interesting because Daniels were discovered, so it doesn't help me understan
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by sumy23 4y ago
There are open datasets with that many image-text pairs. E.g. https://laion.ai/blog/laion-400-open-dataset/ There is even a dataset with 5 billion image-text pairs if you're feeling adventurous: https:/
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by sumy23 4y ago
This is the Wikipedia article for the film: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Untitled_Adele_Lim_film

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