It’s healthier for the discussion culture here as well.

I’m surprised the Israelis are so capable with intelligence, yet bungled this so much that not one post they pointed out was violent?

I’m happy to stand corrected, but when someone shows a perfect record in a data review I’m naturally suspicious.

EDIT: I’m confusing the linked PDF and HRW’s report. But I still have doubts about HRW’s numbers.

It’s just that being NP hard or complete is not enough.

The theoretical definition of one way functions is used to define cryptography. So reading on that my clarify this some more.

The text gives an example to the core problem, and to argue differently requires thinking around it.

In practice. I’ve seen many attempts at measuring productivity, but once you dig into them, you see they are just abstraction mechanisms above something that is similar to lines of code.

I have yet to see an idea that sidesteps the core issue described in this post. Also, it applies to many types of work, and software is not unique in any way.

If you use debit, you might be leaving 2% of the deal on the table. (But you are helping the merchant, which could be a good reason)

2 seater - smaller car

No wheels or stuff - saves money on the build and parts.

Now instead, you find a way to get the amount of dollars a person can pay extracting cents from the people who used to pirate a game, and hundreds from those who have money.

It’s bad for the game, but great for the developers’ pocket.

EDIT: for example, Nintendo made 3.7B in 2023, King made 2.7B or so it seems. Nintendo is one of a kind, companies like King are a dime a dozen.

If you did, this could have been a good and useful discussion.

But media, PR and politics don’t play by these rules. Mention two things together and the messages will go through.

A similar example would be Whataboutism, a logical fallacy, but it seems to work very well in politics.

The truth is that many people don’t view the world through these lens. They just enjoy a hobby and a community. Participating in a forum is a fun experience for many, and I’d guess the average Redditor would be less happy if they bought into the mindset that they must be paid for the writings.

The biggest issue, if we ignore moral values and try to keep it a cold hearted calculation (which I don’t agree with), then you have one big problem: making prisoners a profitable business will encourage imprisoning more people. Economy responds to incentives, and this seems to me like a bad incentive.

Say in some UI code called FooBarItem you suddenly have some call to set padding to 12. People will take this number, put it in constant and name it FOO_BAR_ITEM_PADDING = 12.

This is not better. It’s just jumping more through the code, and whatever is in the name of the constant is easily deductible from the usage pattern.

I learnt that pattern from others and nowadays I see it as useless. If you can add interesting info in the name or comments of the number, don’t bother extracting a constant.

Remember: If the numbers don’t add up, first check what you’re missing.

(That’s not to say they’re not infringed implicitly in the same ways a minority group in the US or Europe is, but the law gives Israeli citizens generally the same rights whether they’re Arab or not.)

But, there’s a power law distribution for virality, so removing the top 1000 most viral posts might still be impactful.

This is similar to a programmer parent getting a “hello world” shirt for their baby.

People generally call time functions, and a good testing setup should keep your code the same (or mostly the same).

Anything else makes testing less approachable, and requires extra time from developers.

The provider and mocking (or a fake if you got one) approach is probably the best you can get with most programming languages.

In a way, looks like Apple is gambling on that direction.