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by 23B1 3y ago
The road to hell is paved with good intentions – and plenty of people use 'make a better world' to justify atrocities. How many violations has Google committed under the guise of 'don't be evil'? How much human expl
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by 23B1 3y ago
Dudes like this have been painting mediocre portraits for tourists in NYC forever. This dude is just the first to effectively use social media to promote his otherwise forgettable illustrations. If he can toughen up (or shrug it off) and co
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by 23B1 3y ago
Many of them were acquired by larger commercial entities that service the defense/intelligence community. It's also possible to license and process much of this commercial data from brokers.
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by 23B1 3y ago
Companies can, do, and will lie. They will lie about their intent. They will lie to regulators. They will lie about what they're actually working on. Some of these lies are permissible of course, under the guise of competition. But the
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by 23B1 3y ago
I'm sure King Bezos is very grateful to the men of his round table.
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by 23B1 3y ago
I accidentally cost my company half a million dollars, but it's not really my fault HR misplaced a comma.
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by 23B1 3y ago
I'd wager that the best fingerprinters/profilers work at Meta and/or the NSA.
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by 23B1 3y ago
You're so busy moving the goalposts that you can't hear the whoosh as the point passes over your head!
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"don't generally make it into big retail bookstores" ...which of course use the same algorithmic approach as Amazon to maximizing popularity and volume over quality or creativity. The book marketplace is now the equivalent of
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by 23B1 3y ago
Your point was completely orthogonal to mine, which is why I didn't address it. It's harder finding new or worthwhile reads because Amazon is incentivized by volume, not quality; it's the same reason high-quality clothing bra
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I'm not talking about getting a book published, I'm talking about the joy of discovery, which can lead to success for authors who otherwise don't have the 'right' commercial approach (or the right skin color or back
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You've actually picked up on the point I'm making, but drawn the wrong conclusions. The ideologies you've listed work in some ways, fail in others – namely that every time they decide that 'we know best' they crumbl
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by 23B1 3y ago
I think the better question is: which writers is Amazon killing by favoring popularity over discovery? A thousand rediscovered or newly discovered writers are buried every year by optimization for profit. If you actually want to broaden you
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by 23B1 3y ago
Sure, my point is that "we" is presumptive, as in "what do you mean 'we', white man?" The neoliberal instinct to assume 'we' and then decide 'we' 'must do something' from atop our
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by 23B1 3y ago
> There is simply no way to feed 8B with cozy 'holistic regenerative' approaches to farming This is exactly wrong. I highly recommend you dig deeper, start with Wendell Berry and then into the authors and scientists in his orb
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"so we'd better do nothing" The idea that there is a 'we' and that 'we' 'better do something' is the very ideology that got us here in the first place.
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Would love to know why this article got flagged since it's a response to this discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38050236
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I'm not talking about expensive in terms of currency, I'm talking about it in terms of human cost. Many, many wars have been fought over attempts to control food, and the lives lost can be counted in the hundreds of millions.
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This author agrees with the possibility of that and so do I, which is why I'm such a big fan of localism (as opposed to further industrialization – of food even further removed from the human experience)
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Sorry, I'm trying to understand your comment. The author's position is that bureaucrats ignorantly shape policy, and then refute her position by pointing out that bureaucrats ignorantly shape policy? > A Guardian columnist has
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by 23B1 3y ago
> Where's The American Conservative stand on regulation to guide agribusiness by those "right principles"? Since, you know, otherwise they'll just keep doing whatever makes the most money. You seem to have seen the
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...and history has shown that the hungry masses don't take too kindly to 'let them eat cake'.
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by 23B1 3y ago
Like nearly all social engineering/behavioral economics theories , they fail the moment they're exposed to reality. So while Monibot et. al. can make a fine caloric calculation, they fail to imagine what'd happen when you st
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Against a Dystopian Farm-Free Future(theamericanconservative.com)
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In an effort to make diets and agriculture “sustainable,” urban bureaucrats make policy based on industrial agricultural data, completely ignoring experience and practices coming out of holistically managed operations. EDIT: Would love to
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by 23B1 3y ago
This article is the first time in 20 years of doing this that I've ever heard of UX/design work referred to as "feminine"
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FR1ST PR0ST
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Right, the business people are dishonest and the engineers are honest. Cringeworthy naïveté.
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> Most engineers are honest to a fault This is not something I'd bet millions of my own or investor's money on. The sooner engineers realize this – that their honesty simply isn't germane to the discussion at hand – the so
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by 23B1 3y ago
To the product managers, strategists, and designers at Meta: you know, you could just decide NOT to create harmful, exploitative applications.

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