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I wasn't saying that this invalidates the objection. I was (very clearly) asking them to lead by example. Regardless of the legal structure, the non-profit should still be calling …

Mozilla is leveling this criticism? How about leading by example? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15940144 Thanks to altairprime for mentioning it first: https://news.ycombina…

I'm a little bothered by the reddit discussion, which dismisses the concern because it was tested on a machine with "only" 32 GB RAM, and normalizes letting apps get bloated: https…

Yes, it's not an identical situation, but I thought it was relevant because of the concept of recovering a dead body's resources for consumption by the remaining living humans.

Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri: "It is every citizen's final duty to go into the tanks, and become one with all the people."

For the reason the article gives: products would be labeled with the thing that actually matters for safely maximizing producing usage -- how long it's safe to actually use the pro…

Agreed. In this case, a better title would be "California replaces 'Sell by' Labels with 'Use by', Hoping to Cut Food Waste" Still a simplification, but doesn't horribly mislead yo…

Okay but in this case, the act, if successful, would have the outcome that it prevents recovery of critical evidence in a homicide, so yes that would count as obstruction. It didn'…

What point that I made are you responding to? I was disputing someone’s appeal to a specific intuition for being an unhelpful one to use here. So I obviously get the concept of som…

I get that involving a human body complicates the analysis. That was the point: that you can’t appeal to it as a simple example to ground the intuition in other case. Also: >Stacki…

Okay but that depends on the intuitions the question is trying to justify, which makes it circular. We also know, for example, that the body uses more than twice as much energy to …

I mean, this has long been a loophole in US law. Generally, you can't be compelled to testify against yourself (5th Amendment). But when it comes to taxes: 1) You have to declare a…

I'm aware I can read the prospectus. And, to the extent that I found the relevant portion of the prospectus (that you could have done yourself and posted) here's what I see: >The F…

Sure, I was simplifying a bit with the technicals. But you're sure their leeway is enough that they can say "nah, we don't like what the index is doing now, we'll do our own deviat…

No, that's not all. They had additional criteria that they changed right when big-name companies wanted to get added. Now, if they had historically gone by pure market cap, and the…

This. I don't mind having a phone call, but I do mind wasting time on it by repeating everything that they could have learned about me before the call and running into sanity check…

>Correction: index funds don't have a choice. They must follow the index, and so must buy the stock. Right, if they've advertised as an S&P 500 index fund, they have to robotically…

Yeah, you are being pedantic. The clear meaning is that you're not just allowed to insure arbitrary properties. If you wanted to correct a misconception, you should provide a bette…

>This essay on Japan's corporate diversification and physical tacit knowledge is an interesting read. However, as an East Asian, my assessment is that this system is heavily driven…

Yeah I'm hesitant to take a strong opinion on this given how many of the replies could themselves be AI, or humans counter-trolling by baiting him to say "aha! I got you!" to the m…

Heh, one time when I got this style of question[1] (but for JavaScript), I took a glance at it and said "Um ... you really shouldn't write code like that." The interviewer replied,…

Haha agreed, but remember, it's posted on lit[erature]hub, not tech[nical]hub.

Whoa there. The US being wrong to make war in Vietnam absolutely does not vindicate those who supported the Viet Cong!

Yeah, I was surprised to learn that Ticket to Ride (downloaded on Steam) uses like a half gigabyte, but the most data-intense thing it does is a few musical tracks and 2D images wi…

Goodhart's law does not cleanly apply here, because the group cares about more than making money, and would bear all the costs of not doing (what observers regard as) being in thei…