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I think it’s talking about the messaging app named Slack.

You didn’t say “only if”, so it’s still possible to click the inverted triangle without being a jack-ass.

No, I've seen SEO spam sites starting to take advantage of this trend by mentioning "reddit" on their pages.

Congratulations, you came up with a programming verb that’s even more disgusting than “squelch”.

No, it’s not more accurately described as arbitrage. Arbitrage involves buying something and then selling it for a higher price in a different market. That might describe something like a temp agency, which buys labor from employees and then essentially sells it to other companies. It does not describe most businesses, which directly use the labor provided by their employees rather than reselling it.

I agree that “price discrimination” isn’t quite right; it’s more of a metaphor. It works if you imagine that companies are selling money that is bought for the price of labor. In different markets, people will accept more or less money for the same labor, or equivalently spend less or more labor for the same money, which allows for price discrimination.

My family does this! We call the game Demon, the piles “demon piles”, and we shout “demon” to end a round. The rules are the same as you described them, except possibly that we allow “stacking” multiple cards to place them on the same common pile simultaneously; this follows the same rules as placing them sequentially, except that (naturally) nobody else can interrupt. (I can remember a time when we played without this rule, so it may be a house rule.)

Paying employees more or less depending on where they live is an instance of price discrimination, in a sense. This isn’t necessarily good or bad, but it does mean that it’s not inevitable. Laws against certain forms of price discrimination already exist.

“Ideas can be harmful” is gibberish?

Yes, I read the same article. Do you believe, based on a single word, that the author believes that literally zero people in the entire course of human history have ever suggested “brighter lights” until Yudkowsky came along?

Sort of. He believes that if people try to come up with infohazards and then immediately spread them, there’s a nonzero chance that they succeed. It’s unlikely, but still not something to encourage.

(This is not the same thing as “being certain that a minor modification of Roko’s basilisk would produce an evil time-travelling AI,” to be clear.)

Are you honestly claiming that the author believes that Yudkowsky was literally the first person in history to suggest making lights brighter?

Also, you should read anything Yudkowsky himself has written about Roko’s basilisk. He’s never claimed that it could work, or that it’s dangerous at all.

(“Why did he ban it then?” Because he wanted to prevent it from inspiring an infohazard brainstorming session that could produce a real danger, and he apparently hadn’t heard about the Streisand effect.)

I don’t think English is such that every sequence of letters is a valid encoding of phonemes, either.

How is it in any way significant that the sequence of letters “ethi” is not present in a Wikipedia article?

> Brutalist buildings are characterised by minimalist constructions that showcase the bare building materials and structural elements over decorative design.[4][5]

This website certainly does seem to be minimalist, showcase its structural elements, and eschew decorative design.

Nobody make any strange images based on this data…

> Part of what causes this is the type of 1 itself. Haskell, unlike Rust, allows literals like 1 to be interpreted in any number type.

This is false. Rust allows 1 to be a u8, an i16, etc. It does distinguish between integral and floating numeric literals, but integer literals are still polymorphic. The difference is just that in Rust, numeric literals are builtin rather than extensible.

That’s not what “strongly typed” means, though.

Nothing about this algorithm relies on similar words producing similar hashes. If the word “foobar” has a 0 in the first digit of its hash, and you see a green 1 in the first digit in Passwordle, then you know that the answer can’t be foobar.

The correct password is impossible to calculate from the given data, but it seems like it should be possible to check whether a password matches the data.

If you design a robot that can independently decide to kill people, that's on you.

The existence of VC funding is directly responsible for teachers starving? I don't see how that follows.

It would probably be better to remove "Wow" from the title.

You mean you were able to solve a problem with a few minutes of talking rather than an elaborate technological process? I’m shocked, truly.

Yes? It’s not Fight Club.

As I'm sure everyone has heard in response to the Matrix, "humans make for pretty terrible batteries".

Did he really say those specific words? It's common, on the internet, to use quotation marks to signify "here's what I think someone else is saying, it's not my own belief". (That is also an example of such a usage.)

Why does it “rankle”? Would you expect, a priori, that the universe would be very unlikely to contain large amounts of matter that only interacts gravitationally?

Seems likely.

  Starting Nmap 7.80 ( https://nmap.org ) at 2022-01-01 14:17 CST
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Sounds like you might like dath ilan.

A diversion is an activity done for fun or enjoyment, rather than for money or similar. A sports field is the area in which the sport is carried out, and has the connotation of “outside” from its other meaning as a meadow.

A definition of “sport” as “an activity undertaken for enjoyment, in a specific environment, commonly outside” is pretty decent in my view.