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by ForrestN 7y ago
There are entire schools of designers devoted to producing work that contradicts popular taste, and cultural consensus around design changes super fast. There is also a huge gap between the taste of elite practitioners and the general publi
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by ForrestN 7y ago
These matters of taste are subjective, and the more someone believes in the righteousness of a given aesthetic opinion, the less you should listen to them regarding matters of culture. Controversy is difficult to quantify. But millions of p
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by ForrestN 7y ago
I'm surprised that this scandal doesn't seem to be causing anyone to think one step further and realize that the entire premise of "elite" colleges with competitive admissions is a device for the perpetuation of inequali
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by ForrestN 7y ago
It’s time to retire the ignorant notion that nation-state space programs can be morally disentangled from the governments pursuing them in no small part for political ends. Their success is the regime’s success.
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by ForrestN 8y ago
Source beyond your own experience? Would love to read more about the fact that Apple is offering people 40% and refusing to negotiate. That would be huge news.
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by ForrestN 8y ago
Yes. I agree completely. The part of the media committed to appearing savvy at all costs is definitely part of the problem.
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by ForrestN 8y ago
This is an incredibly backwards hot take. The media has made many mistakes and continues to do so. But in the opposite direction. In addition to the extraordinary number of people already indicted as part of the Special Counsel’s work, ther
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by ForrestN 8y ago
I’m agnostic about the short term effects of OpenAI’s decision, but I wonder if and hope that the eventual equilibrium will look more like things did before the internet. In, say, the 1960’s, if someone stood on a street corner with a sign
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by ForrestN 8y ago
Thank you for the answer!
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by ForrestN 8y ago
Agree to disagree in this case, wherein I believe two or more people's gestures do communicate something real regardless of the eventual balancing out. Thanks for the reminder.
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by ForrestN 8y ago
Woah! Even after so long on HN, I'm surprised by multiple downvotes for even a question that merely implies an interest in inclusivity for non-cis people.
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by ForrestN 8y ago
Congratulations! Do you have a policy regarding non-binary or genderqueer people? And are there any steps you're planning to take to keep your community free of TERF transphobia? I'm curious about building a gender-based community
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by ForrestN 8y ago
Can anyone who has a full context compare this to OpenAI's work on Dota 2? Which is more impressive, both in how far along it is and the relative game difficulty?
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by ForrestN 8y ago
The responses to this, articulated and expressed as downvotes, are extremely telling.
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by ForrestN 8y ago
If you want to understand how anti-black bias affects even wealthy African Americans, you have to use methods like this. The GP was saying, basically "if the Obama's succeeded, it doesn't matter that their competitors were ch
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It’s the End of News as We Know It (and Facebook Is Feeling Fine)(motherjones.com)
3 points by ForrestN 8y ago|0 comments
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by ForrestN 8y ago
Oh wow! Yes, that's very easy! Let me count the ways. First of all, Obama's daughters are much more likely to be murdered, abused or falsely accused by police than they would be if they were white. Even iconically famous black peo
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by ForrestN 8y ago
Think of it like this. If you wanted to support all individual poor people in America equally, you'll end up helping a disproportionate number of black people, because black people are disproportionately poor. So it's actually rea
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by ForrestN 8y ago
I think the most useful way to think about this is that unequal outcomes almost always lead us to unequal opportunity upstream. If, for example, you made admission to elite colleges(which is a whole other can of worms) ignore ethnic backgro
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by ForrestN 8y ago
Thank you very much for sharing this perspective. I think it probably does a good job standing in for how a lot of people think about these things. This is a difficult area of discourse, and I know people feel strongly about it. Obviously,
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Grand Canyon National Park turns 100 as climate change puts its wildlife at risk(latimes.com)
2 points by ForrestN 8y ago|0 comments
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by ForrestN 8y ago
The degree of harm is correlated with the degree of use, just like cigarettes. If you smoke a handful of cigarettes a year, it probably won't affect you much at all. But if you use cigarettes multiple times a day for years, you'll
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by ForrestN 8y ago
I don't think the idea is to make individuals pay market rates for drinking water, but rather commercial water users, especially industrial and agricultural projects.
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by ForrestN 8y ago
Because all persuasive essays are "unbalanced" and it cites a number of reputable sources? Because its argument is compelling, clearly stated, and its author clearly has no vested interest in the argument apart from his profession
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by ForrestN 8y ago
I encourage you to read the essay, and then also imagine your last paragraph with "cigarettes" instead of "FB."
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by ForrestN 8y ago
If you do some quick research, you'll find that the harmful nature of Facebook is the subject of a vast public discourse in the United States and Europe. Lots of academics and public health professionals continue to research the negati
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by ForrestN 8y ago
There is a robust debate about whether or not facebook provides negative value to its users. In my opinion, it's charitable to say that the question of whether Facebook harms its users is open to debate. There seems to be a clear corre
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by ForrestN 8y ago
I find it shocking that Facebook would still be considered as a peer to these other companies in terms of desirability as an employer. I would only accept a position at Facebook, which seems to be building a fundamentally destructive produc
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by ForrestN 8y ago
The Vox series on Netflix has an exceptionally good story about the water crisis generally. I left with the impression that right now water is not priced appropriately, and the solution is to impose more normal market pricing on water marke
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by ForrestN 8y ago
Or not :(

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