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by wredcoll 15d ago
Site down?
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by wredcoll 15d ago
This is like telling people to drive better to prevent crashes. It's considerably more effective to invent/mandate seatbelts, airbags, crumple zones and hopefully in the future some kind of automated magical computer system that t
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by wredcoll 15d ago
Is there an android equivalent?
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by wredcoll 16d ago
You're right, but that doesn't discount the point about fraud, especially the "mega"fraudsters like favre and trump and friends. It's not just the literal stealing, it is, as you point out, the ripple effects of des
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by wredcoll 16d ago
Evo-psych is impossible to falsify.
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by wredcoll 16d ago
If you're asking socially, you don't, that's the benefit of writing laws instead of programs. If you're asking technically, well, google made over 400 billion dollars last year, they can spend some of that to figure it
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by wredcoll 16d ago
At no point did I say anything was "cost-free" or even make any reference to cost. It's extremely rare for the cost of an action to be at all relevant to its morality. > Someone brave attempts to jump onto the moving troll
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by wredcoll 17d ago
Look, nobody brings up the trolley problem because they're concerned about what they're going to do when a train car goes out of control. They use it as a metaphor to attempt to make an argument about a different, actually real, s
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by wredcoll 17d ago
Microservices are a solution to business/team organizational issues. Never technical ones.
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by wredcoll 17d ago
My point, such as it is, is that trying to divide people into groups that are "good" or "evil", based on the actions of their ancestors is morally dubious at best. It doesn't (should not) matter whether you are de
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by wredcoll 17d ago
> Software Devs love solving pretend problems, and the state of modern web development reflects this. Are you kidding, have you seen the C programming language?!
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by wredcoll 17d ago
The point is that, from my perspective, the value proposition rapidly diminishes when you start needing to special case things to live inside the nixos configuration world. Other people might be getting different benefits. (Really this is j
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by wredcoll 17d ago
What if they left for a while then wanted to come back?
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by wredcoll 17d ago
The ones who arrived in 1800CE? Or the ones who arrived in 1000CE? Or the ones who arrived in 1500BCE? Or the ones who arrived in 15000BCE? Where do you draw the line?
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by wredcoll 17d ago
You can literally read the campaign speeches, senate debates, newspaper articles. It wasn't that long ago.
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by wredcoll 17d ago
The true version of the trolley problem requires perfect knowledge of the future. This can't exist in the real world.
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by wredcoll 17d ago
As if there was such a thing as a universal definition of indigenous people and everyone who met that definition had the same behaviour.
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by wredcoll 17d ago
America literally delayed joining both world wars because of how strong the desire not to be involved with other countries was.
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by wredcoll 17d ago
> n the counterfactual where the US maintained control of these countries, they would not have been developed to first-world standards, they would have just been exploited overtly. Since you state this so confidently, surely there's
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by wredcoll 17d ago
> The US lost 50,000 soldiers trying to subjugation the Vietnamese, who would nit bend. This is just ridiculous on multiple levels. The US fought a war to prevent north vietnam from conquering south vietnam. You mention 50,000 US deaths
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by wredcoll 17d ago
This is, obviously, an incredibly complicated discussion and any attempt to predict what the world would look like now if we changed a decision made 200 years ago is doomed to failure. That being said, as an American, I think we were in a
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by wredcoll 17d ago
To elaborate in a way that will make absolutely everyone unhappy, framework vs library is a decent analogy here and nixos is very definitely a framework. Compare that to systemd, which despite having more tentacles than your average jellyfi
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by wredcoll 17d ago
When I first met NixOS, it struck me as a super cool idea that would be incredibly useful just as soon as every other piece of software/programmer in the world converted to using it. I haven't seen anything to change my mind sinc
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by wredcoll 17d ago
I thought it was funny. Depressing, but funny.
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by wredcoll 17d ago
The "trolley problem" is literally never a valid argument for anything because it purports to create an analogy for a real world problem but does so by creating a scenario that cannot exist, hence any argument based on it is non
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by wredcoll 17d ago
See also: the price for uber rides.
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by wredcoll 19d ago
> I haven't written anyone off, I just plain don't like most of them. I'm not trying to convince you , but for anyone else reading this, especially if you're young, people are social creatures and being social will m
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by wredcoll 19d ago
> We don't fix disabilities What? Why not?
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by wredcoll 20d ago
There's hundreds of years of "depression isn't real and even if it was real the only treatment is to take a walk in the woods!!" and like a decade of "man, ssris are great, they really helped me". Public respon
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by wredcoll 20d ago
Wait til you hear about microplastics!

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