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Not killing someone when one can (in a not them or me situation) is not “good will”, it’s one of the most basic ethical principles. I’m surprised you need to ask this question.

I guess you view what would be the worst crime against humanity ever to be committed (and yes, I really do mean to include all the previous ones in that statement) to be an accepta…

> Like, of course you can prevent all memory safety errors by using a garbage collector. That has been known since the 90s. No, it's been known since GC was invented. > In fact, th…

For homework: if you make homework results not count towards the final grade, then there's no reason to use an LLM - the point then just becomes to have practice problems and feedb…

The open source policy described above was in place 16 years ago (I went through it to continue working on some existing projects), and I doubt it was very new then.

You can proportionally reduce the time in the role;) Though the most senior people wouldn't be there long...

There's about 500k kids in California each year. The 100th smartest is undoubtedly smarter than you or me.

This is an extremely simplistic view. For instance, the US moves more of its freight (by percentage) than all western European countries except Switzerland: https://en.wikipedia.or…

Not to mention India without the spicy peppers...

I don't think the other governments that collapsed in 1989 in the face of public protest could be honestly described as "relatively liberal".

> Only as a last resort. If possible, governments, just like any other organizations, should have absolutely no say about anyone’s identity. An unusual position, as historically go…

No, this is bunk. App Engine and GCE, the earliest components of GCP predate Kubernetes. [I've been there for nearly all the relevant time]

Not intrinsically or commonly deadly. https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/conditions-and-diseas... says "1 in 10 people will develop a pituitary adenoma in their lifetime" - pit…

I think https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Pasteur wins this one, though.

> Even unemployment, which is your top line, seems... fine? The unemployment one is interesting because if you look at that graph, the universal pre-2022 pattern is basically a spi…

The bit about "Canon, Sony, and Nikon may have replaced Kodak for professionals" was entertainingly silly. AFAICT, Kodak cameras were never used by a significant fraction of profes…

Except it cannot decide all Horn clauses.

> In my experience, when one begins to program in Prolog, they pepper their code with cuts to try and stop unwanted bactracking, which can often be avoided by understanding why Pro…

> renewal mechanisms Conveniently, for individual sports like tennis there's a guaranteed renewal mechanism - the near-term likelihood of 50 year old tennis champions is low, and t…

And then there's Bulgarian, with no cases and definite articles, to throw that scale off...

> Quite the opposite. The benefits of rent control grow the longer you are in the same apartment without moving as the difference between what the tenant pays and the You're assumi…

The GRE vocabulary is actually based on French, Latin and Greek, not English. Much less rare and unusual once you realise that.

> Rent control in particular is an economic basket case policy Switzerland has had rent control for a long time, and seems to have (rather successfully) avoided this economic baske…

> > History shows people are also very resilient at moving on from trauma > i’m extremely skeptical that people move on Historically, essentially everyone who lived long enough to …

I'd write code after work if I wasn't writing code at work ;) But...