stuckinbathroom
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stuckinbathroom
7mo ago
Musk buying Twitter was a crippling blow to SJ, to be sure, but it's far from dead and it still holds the high ground of the academy.
Wokey-wan Kenobi: It’s over, Elonakin, I have the high ground!
Elonakin Blueskywalker: You underestimate my power!
WK: Don’t try it!
stuckinbathroom
4mo ago
(apparently marijuana counts as a psychedelic as well)
[citation needed]
stuckinbathroom
5mo ago
stuckinbathroom
6mo ago
Relevant username if I ever saw one
stuckinbathroom
6mo ago
Where can I find this mystical Colombian connection?
stuckinbathroom
7mo ago
Arguments that taxation is not theft generally advance the view that the “harm” caused by taxation is, in some sense, consensual*, and therefore not evil per the definition above. So, my imagined “harm reduction”-ist would say, we face a tradeoff between two personally risky things (namely, drug users using drugs and taxpayers having to pay taxes—both of these are consensual, but have their downsides). How we optimize between both sides of this tradeoff is a matter of administration, an implementation detail; there’s no fundamental inconsistency here.
Look, this is all my attempt to pass an ITT, to steelman a view that I don’t even hold. I just happen to think that this particular case is a values difference, not an instance of one side or the other being irrational/inconsistent.
*There are better and worse arguments out there for the “implicit consent”/“social contract” views of taxation, and I agree with you that the Rawlsian one is not without its shortcomings. FWIW I am in reality much more libertarian than the median American, so it’s hard for me to give more than a halfhearted defense of this take.
stuckinbathroom
7mo ago
I’m not a “harm reduction”-ist myself, but if I had to provide a steelman here I would point out the various arguments for why taxation is not theft (the Rawlsian veil of ignorance, for example).
stuckinbathroom
7mo ago
OK, I guess we have two different notions of “harm reduction”-ism in mind.
The one I was thinking of is internally consistent, because it is as follows: Call an act personally risky if it is performed with the consent of its actor, and poses a risk to life or limb of that actor, but not to any other party. Call an act evil if it harms (or threatens to harm) another party without that party’s consent. We should endeavor to reduce the harm/risk of harm faced by people who engage in personally risky activity, without requiring them to refrain from the act entirely, but we should not tolerate evil activity.
Drug use should be made safer by safe needle sites and the like because it is personally risky. Domestic violence must be cracked down on with the full force of the law because it is evil.
In other words, my imagined “harm reduction”-ist is not a pure utilitarian/consequentialist. His consequentialism is conditional on the acts in question not nonconsensually harming anyone.
stuckinbathroom
8mo ago
I used to joke with my wife
Why did you stop? (Alternatively, hey Mitch, didn’t expect to run into you here!)
stuckinbathroom
10mo ago
I agree with your overall point, but
Japan is a consumerist culture, more so than America
is a bold claim. What’s your evidence for this assertion?
stuckinbathroom
10mo ago
the two developed countries with the lowest female LFPR are Italy and Japan
... the latter of which, curiously enough, has the highest TFR of any country/territory in developed East Asia.
stuckinbathroom
10mo ago
Oranges don’t have preferences, so I'm not sure there's anything analogous that applies to them
Orange you glad that’s the case?
stuckinbathroom
11mo ago
Huh, I had no idea it was possible for a running usermode process to make any of its own virtual memory pages executable with no special privileges, just by invoking mprotect or mmap. I guess it should have been obvious: otherwise, how could you possibly have a userspace virtual machine?
I suppose you could theoretically create new ELF files and make syscalls to run them every time you want to execute some code that is created dynamically (e.g. via JIT compilation) but that’s a massive performance hit, not to mention the added complexity (e.g. of wrangling bytecode in which only certain code paths have been JIT-compiled, with other code paths waiting to be JIT-compiled the first time they are entered).
Anyway, thanks for the detailed explanation!
stuckinbathroom
11mo ago
I have 0 experience with low-level systems programming on Windows, but I did my share of Linux programming (twelve_years_of_it_in_azkaban.gif)
My understanding is that on modern Linux, executing an ELF binary with user privileges on an x86 CPU, any attempt to set the instruction pointer to a virtual address outside a segment marked “executable” will cause a segfault. In particular, dumping the contents of a file into some writeable memory region (e.g., within the .bss or .data segments, or a stack-allocated buffer) and then attempting to jump to an address in that region is a no-no. Presumably kernel code is not bound by these restrictions (for example, it could just mark all segments as “executable”), but I haven’t written a line of kernel code in my life.
You’re telling me that this sort of thing is A-OK in Windows, even for a non-privileged, usermode process?!
stuckinbathroom
11mo ago
What you are describing sounds more like a boot sector, i.e., raw machine code meant to be read from bootable media and executed directly by firmware (the mobo BIOS in your example)
I’d be surprised if in any modern operating system, executables (even those loaded and run at boot time) were handled that way. Then again, one is reminded of the old chestnut about idiot-proofing software…
stuckinbathroom
11mo ago
Right, but presumably that’s already happened
stuckinbathroom
11mo ago
Is there a statute of limitations on the offense that the mother originally committed (visa overstay)?
stuckinbathroom
1yr ago
The supply of loanable funds (a nominal quantity) does not necessarily represent the full production possibilities of the underlying economy (a real one). That is, there are 'real' savings that are not represented by nominal savings at a given price level/quantity of money.
From within the Austrian framework, I think this claim does not hold. I think what you are saying—and please correct me if I’m wrong—is that there may exist savings held (e.g.) in the form of dollar bills in a deposit box at a bank. These bills cannot be lent out as part of the bank’s operations, and hence the real wealth which they represent can never participate in the economy as “investment”.
However, an Austrian would say that those dollar bills are not savings in the sense of forming part of the supply of loanable funds. Savings-as-loanable-funds are a subset of savings-as-deferred-consumption; the former entails the assumption of some risk, while the latter (as in the case of bills in a deposit box) need not.
If you like, holding money qua money, rather than allowing it to be lent out for investment purposes, could be called “exercising demand for money” or less charitably, “hoarding money”, as distinguished from “saving”. An Austrian would say that such hoarding is economically no different from exercising demand in any other way (e.g., through consumption of real goods/services).
stuckinbathroom
1yr ago
It isn't a proper snowclone of the original, though I guess there's an alternate interpretation where the local squire's name was Seamus and the pregnant tenant girl went on to marry a Paddy
stuckinbathroom
1yr ago
I saw what happened in Atlanta, in Philadelphia, in Detroit.
What exactly did you see? And did you see whatever it was in person, with your own two eyes, in each of the 3 cities you mentioned?
If not, then how exactly did you see “what happened”, and have you considered that whatever you saw may have been selectively curated, edited or manipulated?
stuckinbathroom
1yr ago
He could’ve not side lined Atlas (if you read Atlas’s book, you’ll see that Trump seemed to agree with Atlas but lacked the courage to implement his messaging in full).
So instead of trying to build a coalition of like-minded scientific advisors in the administration, it sounds like Atlas just threw up his hands and refused to play ball. One might even say that Atlas shrugged 🤷♂️
stuckinbathroom
1yr ago
Adderall doesn’t just restore executive function to baseline
What exactly do you mean by this? That Adderall can boost executive function to superhuman (or super-non-enhanced-human) levels?
stuckinbathroom
2yr ago
more like weasel on him, if you get my drift
stuckinbathroom
2mo ago
I dunno, I could imagine one of his legion of donors offering him a chance to defect, under cover of night, to a sympathetic foreign country (Russia? Venezuela? South Africa?) where he will spend the rest of his days eating from that government’s trough and parroting the lines they spoon-feed him about “white man bad” to throngs of starstruck admirers on TikTok
don't I fucking know it ...
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