Fernicia

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by Fernicia 5y ago
>If anyone dies as a consequence of this, it's not acceptable Right, then you are just down some bizarre philosophical rabbit hole if you truly believe that. Under this logic policing is unacceptable, vaccine research is unacceptabl
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by Fernicia 5y ago
The argument is that it saves more lives than it kills. >Killing someone innocent for the good of others is never acceptable You make this trade off all the time by e.g. not giving all your money to charity.
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by Fernicia 5y ago
How does this refute OP's point? He proposed that the benefits outweighed the downsides, not that there weren't any downsides. Your point is that there are ultra-low frequency, high salience risks. This doesn't speak to the a
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by Fernicia 6y ago
I went to a school where the teacher's union made it impossible to remove incompetent teachers. Teachers who got consistently poor student results, didn't control the class, took several months of "sick" leave, etc.
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by Fernicia 6y ago
If you agree that AI can reach human levels of accuracy is your point that we shouldn't ever try to assess someone's emotion in decision making, whether it's a person or machine deciding?
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by Fernicia 6y ago
How does Facebook have a monopoly over news discussion? Isn't that what we're doing here? And reddit, and twitter?
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by Fernicia 6y ago
OK your definition of labour is hugely broad. If you're calling market speculation, investment, and innovation 'labour' then wages have most certainly kept pace with productivity.
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by Fernicia 6y ago
What makes you think labour is the cause for the productivity growth? (if that's your assumption)
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by Fernicia 6y ago
But there is no tourism in the U.S. right now. ESTAs and Visas haven't been approved since April.
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by Fernicia 6y ago
Presumably Twitter staff can still access expired Fleets. It's not an issue with Instagram stories.
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by Fernicia 6y ago
I imagine for soccer the task of determining where the ball is based on player locations would be a lot harder than you think.
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by Fernicia 6y ago
Is it worse than letting them open and spread a deadly disease?
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by Fernicia 6y ago
Criticism like this essentially boil down to the adverts not being targeted enough. Lumping you in the wrong group, not knowing enough about your intentions, etc.
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by Fernicia 6y ago
This isn't a scalable solution. If the value per ad decreases, services will need to display more til the user generates enough value to support the costs they incur. If TV was able to cater ads to individual viewers then ad breaks wou
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by Fernicia 6y ago
Well similarly, I can access BBC iPlayer from outside the U.K. too. It takes reconnecting to a VPN several times and streaming over a patchy connection, but I can do it. Does that make the BBC's geolocking pointless? No, because most p
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by Fernicia 7y ago
This is basically a Nigerian prince fraud. What's new?
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by Fernicia 7y ago
What a boring and redundant follow-up that sentence would have been. Surely we are not accusing Vox of all places of having a Republican slant?
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by Fernicia 7y ago
>the faster you fail, the better your chances of success, and the more time between attempts, the more likely you are to fail again This is confounded by the fact that the closer one is to success the more frequent their attempts tend to
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by Fernicia 7y ago
What makes you think the big brands can't calculate ROI? They're able to target specific areas & demographics and compare that with pre-targeting levels. And that's completely ignoring all the traceability that ad platfor
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by Fernicia 7y ago
"Secondhand Time: Last of the Soviets" is an oral history of the USSR. Lots of interesting stories and perspectives. I really enjoyed it.
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by Fernicia 7y ago
That's precisely the argument he was making... Buying impractical things for social signalling is not characteristic of frugality.
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by Fernicia 7y ago
>Tourists tend to be cheap Interesting take considering the existence of "tourist pricing". >You only spend money on things you identify with emotionally Is this usually how you decide what to eat? I've had $2 pizza in
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by Fernicia 7y ago
According to this, a US citizen has a 54% chance of being able to work in the United States. That's great, thanks.
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by Fernicia 7y ago
Firefox, but it's happening in both browsers I try. edit: Apologies, it was due to my work's restrictive proxy that stopped several components from loading.
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by Fernicia 7y ago
Am I being stupid or is the terminal window not responding to typing? edit: my bad: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21283632
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by Fernicia 7y ago
>there is absolutely nothing that replaces physical buttons, encoders, sliders and toggles Even space, versatility, & cost aside, there are definitely tasks that a touch screen does better. Using a map with a touch screen is incredib
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by Fernicia 7y ago
It's marginal utility, not labour value or labour usefulness that determines wage price. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_value
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by Fernicia 7y ago
I don't think anyone is under the impression that image can be seen with the naked eye.
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by Fernicia 7y ago
I like the scrolling bar notes. They help visualise the structure of the piece. It lets me see patterns that I ordinarily wouldn't have picked up on. Also quite useful if you're trying to learn the fingering.
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by Fernicia 7y ago
It's surely fair to use the page title as the HN link title.

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