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Asking questions is obviously fine. "Just asking questions" is a specific bad-faith rhetorical tactic: https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Just_asking_questions

Yes, but I think this is what they meant by > Making watch logic for that sometimes is too complicated or changes the outcome (race conditions especially).

> we're going to need much more difficult driving tests. Sounds good to me. Let's require regular re-testing while we're at it.

> The Alcubierre drive “beats” the speed of light The Alcubierre drive is only a thought experiment that requires "exotic matter" (aka fairy dust) to work.

> In my book, it's wrong to pay if original authors don't get that payment. Wait, are you under the impression that the authors don't get paid?

> > How often do people really plan trips? ... probably once or twice a year if you're lucky. > Many many people use travel planning software as escapism Heh yeah I caught that too…

> the real outcome is simply delaying those deaths, spreading them out more over time. Which is still a good outcome , because you don't want to overwhelm the healthcare system to …

Oh, huh. Yeah, you're right. Really showed my whole still-on-2.7 ass here haha

An old joke: any sufficiently advanced Sinatra app is indistinguishable from Rails.

> Mutable strings by default was a huge mistake in Ruby This was changed in 3.0. String literals are now frozen/immutable by default.

> I'm genuinely curious to know why you feel the need to point it out. I haven't seen it in this thread either, but it's been a very common [false] talking point in the conspiracy/…

Exactly. Getting vaccinated is not just about you , but everyone you come in contact with - especially those who may be at higher risk than you are. Maybe even people you care abou…

> I wouldn’t be surprised if linguists find a new “internet dialect” of English in the future as well. You might be interested in "Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of …

> Activesupport is hugely widespread, yeah. It's a bit unfortunate since it provides so much Even this is becoming less and less necessary as more of the commonly-used syntactic su…

> or example asking whether a variable is present? (truthy, so empty str and empty [] should return false) Actually this is kind of the whole point of #present? - it's not just a t…

Yeah, and marc also skipped over the part where the creator actually gets paid.

> But the payment processors are the unspoken guardians of internet commerce, and without VC level backing good luck getting them to touch something like adult content. You're comp…

> When are we going to see a Medium or Substack for pornographic content? That's...what OnlyFans is?

> It's not expensive It absolutely is, because you still need to get paid, and unfortunately 18-20% fees are completely normal for adult-content payment processing. And OF clearly …

> Besides adult content, what else is considered "high risk"? Off the top of my head: gambling, medication, gift cards...stuff that's legal but more-likely-than-average to chargeba…

> People really do just want a one click solution for creating adult content They want a solution for distributing adult content and getting paid for it. By far, the single biggest…

> Watching other people do it is not. Are you equally as dismissive of reading books other people wrote? The heart of TikTok is video creation and remix. That's why memes spread so…