BrenBarn

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by BrenBarn 3mo ago
It's nice to see someone willing to act on their principles. Unfortunately, as this person found out, most people are not that good. More than that, I tend to think that so many Rubicons have already been crossed by Google and their i
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by BrenBarn 3mo ago
I totally agree that there are lots of problems with just assigning the benefits based on coarse categories like "race". My point is just what I said in the quote: a process that seems "locally" unfair may produce a mor
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by BrenBarn 3mo ago
I like how the article has little notes saying "Trivia", when actually the whole article is trivia. (This isn't to detract from it, it's fun trivia and I enjoyed reading it!)
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by BrenBarn 3mo ago
This is a weird take. I don't understand how what this guy did or didn't do with his phone has any relevance for whether kids should have phones or do certain things with them. About the most I could say is that I would agree th
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by BrenBarn 3mo ago
The argument has already been made. They argued that their business model would collapse if they weren't allowed to train on a bunch of data that wasn't theirs, and nobody stopped them. The argument will be made even more later,
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by BrenBarn 3mo ago
> No, what we decided was wrong was using race as a salient factor to discriminate between people. That’s why all our laws use that word. The laws reflect the moral principle. I think this discussion shows that there is fundamental disag
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by BrenBarn 3mo ago
So, what if you steal $1000 from me and then give it to your cousin?
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by BrenBarn 3mo ago
It depends how you conceptualize fairness. If you believe that some people have a pre-existing unfair bias in their favor, then applying a countermeasure is indeed fair.
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by BrenBarn 3mo ago
This is all talking only about BibTeX info. Is the author not aware that Zotero can store the actual full text of every article, as PDF and/or HTML? That is the real benefit for me. The killer feature isn't organizing the citat
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by BrenBarn 3mo ago
Both were pretty influential. Roughly speaking I think a lot of people saw T2 and thought "wow, that looks really cool in a high-tech way" and a lot of people saw Jurassic Park and thought "wow, that looks really realistic&q
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by BrenBarn 3mo ago
> Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play? I think this is pretty grossly overstating things. Yes, chat control is bad, but there's little doubt in my mind that EU regulations overall have been better for consumers than the
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by BrenBarn 3mo ago
You could, but if you have herd immunity, you don't need to, and if you don't have herd immunity, it's a losing battle.
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by BrenBarn 3mo ago
It's more a case for why the US system of government is a failure.
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by BrenBarn 3mo ago
Maybe that means we shouldn't have so many large corporations.
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by BrenBarn 3mo ago
Well, seconds, minutes, and hours are also arbitrary.
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by BrenBarn 3mo ago
Whoop de doo. I'm sure there'll be huge earth-shaking changes in their activities now, right?
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by BrenBarn 3mo ago
Yes, but the thing is just that if people are looking around for new providers it's an opportunity for alternative systems to attract attention and users.
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by BrenBarn 3mo ago
That's actually the first thing that came to my mind when reading about thumb scrolling, since I use a trackball. But that wouldn't explain why left or right handed scrolling would be different.
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by BrenBarn 3mo ago
So sad to see that no articles about this even mention Mercurial. This is a golden opportunity for Hg providers to shine.
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by BrenBarn 3mo ago
> The right question is "what is the value (in dollars) of the right for farmers to repair their equipment". That is exactly right. That is why the punishment for not giving customers the right to repair needs to be in the bil
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by BrenBarn 3mo ago
I had to read this a couple times and look at the comments here before I realized they were talking about scrolling on a phone. I was like "who scrolls with their thumb?"
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by BrenBarn 3mo ago
I still have a bunch of these called "FromOld".
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by BrenBarn 3mo ago
Those are many words to say "no one feels an obligation to do the right thing".
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by BrenBarn 3mo ago
> they would never make the videos that in recent years made youtube the place it is nowadays, but they would make some other stuff. Yes, that's exactly it. What I'm saying is I'm fine with not having the videos that in r
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by BrenBarn 3mo ago
I read all your comments and as far as I can see they presuppose that people are making videos to make money and would not otherwise make them.
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by BrenBarn 3mo ago
Do you really not understand that people might want to do things for reasons other than money?
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by BrenBarn 3mo ago
I think both should be in play. The financial penalties should largely apply against the individuals running the company, not just the company itself. The CEO should be in danger of losing their home and being left penniless on the street
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by BrenBarn 3mo ago
I don't really expect anything. All the people who want to make money from YouTube can just stop making stuff if money is what's motivating them.
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by BrenBarn 3mo ago
> prison has rather hideous personal costs (for the individual and their friends and family). I mean that's kind of the point.
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by BrenBarn 3mo ago
This is the perennial problem in our society with regulation. We're not willing to set the penalties high enough. The penalties need to be absolutely ruinous.

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