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I don't think it's absurd at all. I think it is a practical principle that shows up all the time in collective action problems. For example, suppose hypothetically there were a bun…

Like every other decision SBF would prefer you not examine: It fits because the ends justify the means. It's important for the business that the insurance fund is safe. If you look…

I don't really understand the analogy. Mechanical watches have created an industry of skilled practitioners trained to fix them because they often need diagnosis and repair. NASA h…

It's especially hard because the stdlib changes quite a lot still. Examples go out of date so adding documentation like this is not just one-time work. I am working my way through …

> E.g. if A patents X and some large company B wants to use X and A refuses, then B cannot use X even if they offer millions. How does this situation improve in any way if X is a t…

That may be true but people here aren't talking about firing the bottom 10% of ICs, they're talking about firing "50% of Google".

While that's true, I'd be very surprised if git delta-compressed the commit objects themselves. Changing a commit to point at a different tree wouldn't impact the delta-compressed …

I just follow a couple YouTubers who make videos about it. For example: William Lin - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKuDLsO0Wwef53qdHPjbU2Q Errichto - https://www.youtube.com/ch…

These things really aren't so far apart. --> solve the problem / see a problem \ --> exploit the problem

As someone who occasionally watches competitive programming for fun (and competitive programming is basically competitive whiteboard interviewing) it gives me quite a bit of perver…

> Granted, the file that the commit touches would need to be not touched in other commits. That's not how git works. The commit contains the entire tree. You could prepare two sepa…

Every commit references every file. If you change the content of an old commit you would only affect people who check out the old commit. So this is utterly pointless and not what …

Commits aren't patches. They contain the whole tree. Retroactively changing a commit can't possibly introduce conflicts with other commits on top of it, the worst it can do is intr…

The point isn't to authenticate control of an account, it's to tie the account to some kind of expensive-to-replicate real-world cost, ideally one that most potential customers are…

The DMCA has a couple major parts. The part most people are familiar with deals with safe harbor provisions and "DMCA takedowns". The relevant part for this discussion makes it ill…

Usually complaints like this have more to do with the social processes around coding than the actual task of storing and versioning source code (which as you say is portable and st…

I haven't figured out whether the C I learned was poison. I often wish I could intuit Haskell without translating everything to imperative in my head, because of how cleanly many c…

Authorization has a common English definition too. If, for example, an employee's credentials were compromised, anyone who wasn't that employee who accessed the database would be c…

Pretty incredible that it's survived decades and multiple iterations of the game, and you can still pick it up and buy your trusty AK or M4 and play essentially the same game from …

Yeah, for sure. The flood is one of my most vivid memories in gaming (and I didn't even play the game until years after it had come out, around Halo 3 days I think). Many games sin…

There's a related corollary to this question though, which is whether systems that require less human memory enable you to remember other things better. For example, your phone can…

I think people who say other languages "just don't get it right" are living in a fantasy world. At the end of the day, Smalltalk is a pretty extreme language. The insistence that, …

The basics are easy. A rudimentary normal mode with HJKL for movement is not hard. Block-select, sensible paragraph hops, copy/paste registers, repeatable macros, etc. is much hard…

Inadequate clothing is not a protected class under the Civil Rights Act. Hence there are major legal differences between refusing to serve a person because they are black, and refu…