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by 13thLetter 11y ago
Unfortunately that train has already left the station, and to thunderous applause from the media. Twitter already carefully curates hashtags; it's not hard to imagine they'd take the liberty of promoting a series of tweets that th
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by 13thLetter 11y ago
Just FYI, reading the wikipedia article is a really bad idea. A variety of fanatics, political obsessives and involved administrators have been squatting on it for months; it's a dumpster fire.
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by 13thLetter 11y ago
On the one hand, yeah, you're right, I tend to be too aggressive and rude and I really shouldn't do that, especially on a forum like HN. I genuinely appreciate you telling me that. On the other hand, let's not forget that thi
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by 13thLetter 11y ago
Surely in that case the ideal number of humans is zero, because then there wouldn't be any human suffering. This is the logic of a mad artificial intelligence from a science fiction movie.
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"My understanding of many of the most recent military engagements by the US is that they are basically sandbox experiments for prototyping new warfare tech and tactics, especially to study things like asymmetric urban warfare in which
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> So unless we are in a race with some aliens, it doesn't matter It matters to the people who die early because we didn't develop a particular medical treatment. Just to pick a random example.
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by 13thLetter 11y ago
Does it matter? We as a society have no ability to recognize and arrest a moral panic while it's in progress. At best, the people who point out that it's a moral panic get lumped in with the targets of the moral panic and marginal
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by 13thLetter 11y ago
All those moral panics in the past were so embarrassing and obviously silly in retrospect, and I feel for all the innocent people who were attacked and ostracized. It's a good thing that the moral panics we have right now are clearly r
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> Like, is there a conspiracy against the tech industry? I really doubt it. Who said there's a conspiracy? There's no more a conspiracy against the tech industry than, say, people who vote Democratic are a conspiracy against th
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> and there's a reason that the movement for equality between sexes is called "feminism". Except you're going to have a hard time pointing to any of the places where feminism is fighting against this well-acknowledged
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by 13thLetter 11y ago
I switched from OSX Yosemite to Windows 8.1 a while back. I have had substantially fewer problems with Windows 8.1.
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I don't think this search is focused enough to be useful (in either direction.) For example, the first page of NYT results includes stories about a lack of male teachers, but also about gender imbalances against women in labs, varying
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by 13thLetter 11y ago
It's not just tech sites, though, which is what I'm getting at. Major politicians and newspapers constantly go on at great lengths about alleged gender problems in tech. Do they talk nearly as much about, say, the imbalance toward
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> While those are certainly relevant control factors, I would presume that any conclusions are premature without demonstrating a lack of bias in the actual positions men vs. women are promoted to, relative to their experience and educati
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> Tech has a problem with gender. I'm not sure it's helpful to point out that other fields also have similar or even worse problems. It kind of is. When there are other fields which both a) employ more people and b) have a much
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by 13thLetter 11y ago
> The shakedown model just seems so scummy to me. There has to be a better way to monetize ad blockers. Is it necessary to monetize them at all? An ad blocker isn't so complex that it couldn't be run as a free-as-in-beer softwa
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Given the ubiquity of sophisticated cell phones and other recording equipment, it's best to regard the lack of a recording as strong evidence that it does not exist. Just as if multiple people claimed the Loch Ness Monster had surfaced
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by 13thLetter 11y ago
I agree with you that American border control is horrible and abusive. That doesn't mean we ("we" = worldwide press) shouldn't call out other countries for having horrible and abusive policies in this area as well, thoug
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> China and Russia have been oppressing their people and their peoples rights for a long time. Neither have a constitution that is supposed to enshrine the rights of the citizens. SO there isnt much of a story there Counterpoint: If some
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It's kind of pathological to take a story about Brazil doing something wrong and twist it into yet another indictment of the United States. There are other countries in the world, you know.
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It was quite something to see the massively negative reaction from everyone in the thread, followed by the original proposer ramming it down their throats anyway with a sarcastic, dismissive "I appreciate your passion" conclusory
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What's your third way solution, then?
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by 13thLetter 11y ago
"You don't have to be convinced to be respectful. It is certainly not their job and probably not their goal to convince you." Sorry? If they want to create political change in a democratic society, it is their job to convin
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It could presumably accomplish great tasks more efficiently without the waste of individual human beings skimming kickbacks from the interstellar spaceship budget or arguing about what color the ships should be painted, but building them is
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Maybe the individual galactic factions are hive minds, but what guarantees that those hive minds are in turn going to get along with each other and not just recreate individual human disagreements and pathologies on an interstellar scale? P
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Is anybody shocked by this, really? Tim Cook knows very well that he will suffer absolutely no penalty for grandstanding against the U.S. government; in fact, it earns him and his company nothing but good press. Meanwhile his customer base
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by 13thLetter 11y ago
Here's an idea: what if we built lots of personal rapid transit vehicles, but made them operate on the ordinary cheap-to-build-and-maintain roads that already exist, and sold them outright to the end users so there was no need to maint
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> The funny thing is, if you're not being an asshole to people, and stay on-topic, you will never have any problem with the CoC Unless you post a political opinion that someone doesn't like on your own Twitter feed. Then you&#x
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Yes necessarily. You can't build an interstellar spaceship without an industrial base, and creating an industrial base is going to have the same effect on the local ecosystems that humanity is being damned for. At best, our alien hive
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It's the man's job to run the bureaucracy, not be run by the bureaucracy. Any President who lets himself get run is not qualified to be President. (Yes, I know this means most recent Presidents and current candidates are not qua

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