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Chomsky as usual seems to be arguing a straw man. More interesting might be to ask ChatGPT to write an essay on global hegdemons hegdemoning hegdemonically in East Timor.

I'd enjoy seeing Chomsky debate DAN.

Comment · 3 years ago

This song is as Gord Downie might say, a Nautical Disaster. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8Fi46BFAF0

Comment · 3 years ago

Start marketing her company? She's now solved two problems, first she has a client, second she has a track record.

Comment · 3 years ago

I cite its approval. Again, "the science" mostly revolves around policy, instead of you know, science.

"The science" as presented popularly regarding the COVID vaccines was that the risks were low and it less risky for anyone of any age group to get vaccinated rather than risk COVID, that turned out to be false. For some age groups, especially young people its less risky to get COVID, especially omicron, than to get vaccinated. The messaging still hasn't really changed in this regard.

Either way no matter the risk of COVID, the lockdowns, and vaccine passes, and mask mandates were ridiculous and very unscientific.

Comment · 3 years ago

People aren't anti-science, no one cares about a bunch of papers saying vaccines are / aren't effective, people care that you aren't allowed to go to a restaurant without you're vaccination papers or mask, that's not science, that's politics / policy.

Also, it turns out that many of the risks of the vaccine were understated or unknown. That's also not science. And it's especially not science when the "anti-science" people proposed a theory that turned out to be right. Namely, that the risks of the vaccine are not known / being understated.

And yes, a lot of the anti-vax activists also publish a whole bunch of non-scientific bs.

I like vaccines, I got vaccinated, and it pisses me off that the anti-vax people we're right about the risks being unknown / understated. I dunno if I'm still pro-COVID vaccine, but I never thought it was right that people who didn't want the vaccine couldn't enjoy the same rights as those who did. My thoughts were I'm vaccinated, I'm protected, if you want to get COVID without a vaccine, that's your business.

Comment · 3 years ago

Rare earths aren't really that rare, so probably not. Everyone has lots of rare earths, the rare thing is an environmental policy that allows them to be mined economically.

Comment · 3 years ago

The pyramid of loserdom goes all the way down, unless you're Elon Musk there is someone richer, and there's always someone poorer. Winners figure out how to make it with what they have. Losers always blame lack of resources, look at people who win the lottery, most return to the same standard of living within a few years.

Almost anyone can afford $5 a day in ads to test market.

Comment · 3 years ago

Thanks for that, I had no idea. Do you know if zero is truthy in erlang? It makes sense for elixir (based on ruby) but I'm wondering if erlang is that way too.

Comment · 3 years ago

In what other languages does 0 evaluate to true?

Comment · 3 years ago

Python is a communist apartment block, brutal in design and conformity and not very efficient.

Comment · 3 years ago

I like C++ because I find angle brackets to be harmonious to the eye.

Comment · 3 years ago

Unless seems to be pretty common in many languages. https://www.indifferentlanguages.com/words/unless In my mind the javascript community would do well to address the idiosyncrasies in its language standard before criticizing other languages for using common human language patterns. If you want to pick on ruby for being weird with conditionals, consider the following.

   if 0 
     puts 'true'
   end

which will print true. I think there is a much greater chance that 0 being true will cause problems with programmers from other languages than using unless which is quite natural to humans. Ruby is first and foremost a language for humanity, and probably dead last a language for ease of implementation.

> As a general rule I think that if a language has some feature for which there is already a commonly understood syntax across other languages, it should just use that syntax. If you’re introducing a complete paradigm shift, then that’s fine, but unless is not that: it’s just a different way to write if ! and people jumping back and forth between ruby and, say, javascript, now have one extra idiosyncracy to keep in mind.

Comment · 4 years ago

Yeah, here's how to do it.

1. Set a monthly ad budget for your startup.

2. Run ads for your start up.

3. Change the credit card code so it puts a hold on their credit card and removes it. (You want to make sure your customers can actually afford your product)

4. Once the user signs up direct them to a page saying due to overwhelming demand you can't provide the service yet and let them know that their credit card has not been charged.

5. Once your startup is earning more than its ad budget, hire a developer to make it.

6. If you don't like this part of the business, absolutely do not start a startup.

Comment · 4 years ago