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smegma2··on IRS guidance for thieves, drug dealers, and corrupt officials
The 'just move' argument doesn't work. People want to live here and improve the country at the same time. Likewise, someone may say to someone who advocates for higher taxes 'waive you citizenship and move to Sweden,' which is equally unfair
smegma2··on My Dad Published Lolita
Another one is The Collector by Fowles. It reminded me a lot of Lolita, for example in both books the narrator refuses to take responsibility for their actions.
smegma2··on Google isn’t happy with Microsoft over online news
What's missing in .net core/standard for it to be a Java alternative today? I work with .net on windows so I'm not sure.
smegma2··on We are sending more foster kids to prison than to college
Cool, thanks for the paper. It looks interesting from the abstract.
smegma2··on We are sending more foster kids to prison than to college
That's what I'm wondering, is there a way to measure how common this situation is? I'd be curious to see
smegma2··on We are sending more foster kids to prison than to college
Do we have something to compare this number to? Don't we expect most crimes to not go to trial, if the convicted person agrees that they committed the crime?
smegma2··on JingOS: Linux Distro Inspired by the iPad
The parent comment was comparing Android with JingOS, not iOS.
smegma2··on I logged my activities at 15-minute intervals for the whole year
There are other productive activities besides those that increase your wealth. For example, if I'm trying to learn an instrument, then I would consider practicing to be a productive activity. In this sense productivity is not a scam at all; it's a necessity to live a good life.

Speaking purely in terms of money: yes, doubling the productivity of those working for you is better than doubling your own productivity. But many of us don't have that option. If you are a normal employee, increasing your productivity is one of the few ways to increase your earnings.

smegma2··on I logged my activities at 15-minute intervals for the whole year
My understanding of what you said is that most productive things we do are for someone else's benefit, therefore we shouldn't have an interest in tracking our productivity.

But why not argue the following instead: Most productive things we do are for someone else's benefit, so let's try to fill our time with more things that our productive to ourselves. Would you agree with this take?

smegma2··on How to Stop Endless Discussions
Is this a criticism of the format? What format would you suggest that doesn't have this quality?
smegma2··on Amazon and Walmrt not sharing extra profits made during pandemic with employees
I don't see why this would be a meaningful comparison. Employees make wages, not profits. They do not expect to share profit with their employer. If the company made a loss, they would rightfully not share the loss either.
smegma2··on Exotic Programming Ideas, Part 3: Effect Systems
I was curious about this function:

    fun addRefs(
      a : forall<h> ref<h,int>, 
      b : forall<h> ref<h,int> 
    ) : total ()
    {
      a := 10;
      b := 20;
      return (!a + !b);
    }
Why is it total instead of st<h>? Won't this have a side effect of setting the references?
smegma2··on How to stream audio from your phone to your laptop with PulseAudio
Yes! There are a few answers here: https://superuser.com/questions/605445/how-to-stream-my-gnu-... I'm using the top one and it works well for me.
smegma2··on GitPals – Find team for cooperative development
I think something like this exists, where you can schedule time with someone to work over video so that you can stay focused. I've seen it mentioned before on here but I don't remember the name.
smegma2··on U.S. to block cotton, tomato product imports from Xinjiang over forced labor
I would find this more compelling if you gave examples or countries that had a stronger response, otherwise I don't see a reason to criticize this move.
smegma2··on What I Learned Going Through YC as a 17 Year Old
I'm surprised that you didn't know that before, and that you learned this from the article, considering that there's no mention of privilege in it.
smegma2··on Inventing Monads
`on` runs a binary function by first running a unary function on each argument.

  Prelude> import Data.Function (on)
  Prelude Data.Function> :t on
  on :: (b -> b -> c) -> (a -> b) -> a -> a -> c
  Prelude Data.Function> f = undefined :: Int -> [Int]
  Prelude Data.Function> g = undefined :: Int -> [Int]
  Prelude Data.Function> :t ((&&) `on` (not . null . ($ x))) f g
  ((&&) `on` (not . null . ($ x))) f g :: Bool
Alternatively in Control.Arrow there's a 'fanout' operator &&&:

  Prelude Control.Arrow> f = undefined :: Int -> Bool
  Prelude Control.Arrow> g = undefined :: Int -> Bool
  Prelude Control.Arrow> :t uncurry (&&) . (f &&& g)
  uncurry (&&) . (f &&& g) :: Int -> Bool
Of course it's still probably simpler to just write it out in this case.
smegma2··on Inventing Monads
Why would we judge them by that standard? Monads are useful models for plenty of things. That has nothing to do with how many monad tutorials are out there.
smegma2··on US travel firm $4.5M ransom negotiation open chat
I think you're confusing two different areas of law enforcement.
smegma2··on Study finds learning music won’t make children smart
How is it not well defined when we can observe positive correlations between unrelated cognitive tasks?
smegma2··on The Rise of Synthetic Audio Deepfakes
Is this true? On Google I only see mentions of using voice data to improve their speech transcribing.
smegma2··on Noprocrast (2010)
Yes, some sites are more resilient somehow. I experience the same thing with twitter. You could try flushing your dns cache but IIRC that didn't even work for me.
smegma2··on Noprocrast (2010)
I don't think this is particularly relevant to the post.
smegma2··on ‘Strong Opinions, Weakly Held’ Doesn't Work That Well
Not sure what you're getting at here, but this sounds like a rare occurrence i.e. difficult
smegma2··on Haskell for a New Decade [pdf]
What was the problem exactly? I don't see any issues with generating e.g. an infinite list of random numbers in Haskell.
smegma2··on BHP to destroy at least 40 Aboriginal sites, up to 15K years old, to expand mine
How do you propose to stop two [groups of] people from willingly making a trade agreement? If you have an issue with it, what gives you the right, or ability to stop them?
smegma2··on Hundreds of Facebook employees walk out as Zuckerberg plans town hall tomorrow
Do teachers wield massive political power?
smegma2··on In marginal decisions, favour action over inaction
That makes sense, thanks.
smegma2··on In marginal decisions, favour action over inaction
This sounds wrong to me, what would be the analogue of the door being revealed?
smegma2··on The evidence behind putting money directly in the pockets of the poor
A negative income tax would only discourage earning money in the same way that a progressive income tax does anyway, right? Or do you mean more from a psychological perspective?
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