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roflc0ptic
·4년 전·discuss
My relationship with Chinese people is great. I have a chinese ex, whose mom is hyper critical of the CCP and hates communism. They’re not Han chinese, they’re one of the less desirable ethnicities, and they didn’t feel well treated. Anyways.

Authoritarian regimes are bad. The fact that this authoritarian regime has mongoloid/asiatic facial features is irrelevant. I hated GWB’s expansion of the security state and two senseless middle eastern wars, I hated Obama killing American citizens without trial, and I hated Trump’s… everything, basically, but admittedly withdrawing from Afghanistan was p cool. Stopped clocks etc.

Anyways it’s totally consistent with wanting a just world to also hate the largest authoritarian regime in that world. This “but what if it’s because you’re racist?!?!” line is an absurdity
roflc0ptic
·5년 전·discuss
There really, really isn’t that much news about SSC. Scott spent most of his blogging career being incredibly averse to publicity.
roflc0ptic
·5년 전·discuss
It's an unsettling combination of literacy and illiteracy there.
roflc0ptic
·5년 전·discuss
I spent like 8 months working for a company that specialized in home HVAC contracting advertisement. I'm not going to say the best minds of our generation were working on this particular problem, but still. What a fucking waste of human life.

Think about this market. People need air conditioning services. They're going to get air conditioning services. The only real question is which service operators get their business. It's zero sum. Every cent spent on marketing is valuable to individual businesses, costs other businesses. Marketing and adtech are necessary as part of an arms race, but it's net loss for the world. You're just spending money on market conflict. That company has produced nothing of value: they only attempt to divert flows of money from some people to other people, entirely independent of merit or value provided.
roflc0ptic
·7년 전·discuss
Google scrapes the info and then displays it on the search page, meaning you get your question answered without needing to click through. So basically denying anyone else traffic, while still being useful to end users.
roflc0ptic
·9년 전·discuss
writing DSLs with Free monads is an example of this. Recursion schemes are another example - see kmett’s library in Haskell, or Matryoshka in Scala.
roflc0ptic
·9년 전·discuss
Also, he discusses some of the limitations of this approach here - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=A-lmrvsUi2Y He also calls for another language, although his asks for that language seem different.