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by Hasu 2y ago
> If the upstream comment wants to choose bias, then a "yes" answer to my question would be a consistent position and interesting if sincerely answered that way. I have no idea what you're saying here, but my comment was j
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No, that's silly and not at all the same thing as a prosecutor being accountable to the electorate as a whole. The entire point is that I don't trust one person, or a small group of people, to pick someone who is "unbiased&qu
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It means being able to participate in the conversation, understand what is being proposed, and make useful decisions in the moment.
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> I really don't understand how asking to see data and talk in facts, rather than opinions, is a bad thing? This take seems to be implying the "design process" is just a giant, strictly qualitative "appeal to authorit
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If prosecutors are going to be biased either way, I'd prefer a choice in those biases.
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No comment on whether the conclusion is merited, but the parallels are closer than you're saying. > Theranos's board members are a bunch of army generals with no technical experience. OpenAI's board includes Retired U.S. A
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by Hasu 2y ago
Where deviance is normalized, sure. If that dev didn't have to rely on 52 "weird tricks" and half-assed hacks just to keep their local environment running, they might care more about the quality of the product. But when every
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by Hasu 2y ago
> In the end, it's not the process you follow, it's the results that matter. I was nodding along with this post up until this last sentence. Yes, the results are what matter, but process is what drives the results. It is thus c
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> Congress keeps trying to privatize it, which would be a disaster and is wildly unpopular. Instead, they keep sabotaging it. > This is why it has bonkers pension requirements and constantly hemorrhages money. This is not true. The Po
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His first novel, Player Piano, is about a different, but related theme. It's about machines replacing human work, but it's not at all about the machines. It's about the people. It's about human dignity. Or, as Vonnegut s
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> Since we cannot make exact predictions it’s better to make methods as small as possible instead No, please don't. Separate your functions based on what they're doing, not an arbitrary line count. If it takes 50 lines to do wh
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Their methodology is literally, "We didn't like the results we got so we assumed they were wrong and ignored them." > Surprisingly, ABC News was rated Lean Right (1.18) in the July 2024 Blind Bias Survey. A total of 478 re
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> Perhaps the NYT isn't left-wing in a global context, and it is likely centrist in New York City, but it is definitely to the left of the median US voter. That isn't true at all. You're probably thinking of the NYT 20 yea
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It works fine on both Chrome and Firefox on my Android (Pixel 8). Maybe the developer doesn't have an iPhone?
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It is a common (but not universal[0]) practice in English writing to use either "he" or "she" as a pronoun for a person of unspecified gender to avoid the awkwardness of "they" or "one" or constructio
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> never reaching that crucial “aha moment” where they truly see the value in our product. > We’ve seen spikes in usage, but also some users creating “meaningless” demos, likely due to being overwhelmed by too many options. It's n
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by Hasu 2y ago
>I'm torn between thinking the oddest (or maybe weirdest) use of the word is Herbert's Dune - the weirding way - which I assume is a coinage Frank Herbert was just riffing on the original witchy definition. From the Dune glossa
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> Recall Western weapons are on Russian soil at this moment, likely with some number of Western boots as well, in the Kursk region. Recall that Russia invaded an independent democracy and is the belligerent party prosecuting an illegal w
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> Has it not already been shit for like 15 years? You could argue that it has been, but "being shit" and "enshittification" are different things. I don't think it's been shit. As a customer, Valve is one of
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> I think Valve's flat structure strategy has mildly failed and they should try something else. If all your failures are as "mild" as the "failure" of Valve's flat structure, you will have a very nice life.
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> science and technonology are for science fiction. There isn't one universally accepted definition of science fiction, but historically, the Hugo Awards have been broader than just stories about science and technology. Heinlein&#x2
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And they're always saying things like, "We should have unit tests" or "We should have an automated deployment pipeline" or "We should use version control" and they're SO MEAN to everyone who doesn&#x2
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> But why should that matter, and even if it does why would you draw the line there? Zelda etc. hardly demand a high skill level in terms of twitch FPS-like mechanics; whether you will win a given fight is determined far more by your cha
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Okay, I was wrong, but the rest of the article discusses it normally and not with the rhetoric of an aggrieved hillbilly.
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The article doesn't use the word "racist" or "racism", it says that a university enacted a policy of being more understanding about tardiness due to cultural differences. As someone who has never been in a meeting t
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> Life in a village was likely that same dynamic but for a person's whole life, not just high school One BIG difference between high school and ordinary life is that high school is filled with a bunch of adolescents who are forced t
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The (economic) purpose of Girls in Tech is to create more workers in software so that prices for labor will go down. Given the layoffs of 2022-ongoing, labor costs in tech are dropping enough that interested parties aren't incentivized
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A lot of things feel self-evident then turn out to be completely wrong. We don't understand the processes in the brain well enough to assert that they are doing computation. Or to assert that they aren't! > say the brain is non
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An "independent supreme court" historically means "independent from the executive", as prior to the formation of the United States government under the constitution, judiciaries were part of the executive. It does not me
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The shoes Roger Bannister broke the 4 minute mile in are NOTHING like modern running shoes, which were invented in the 1960s and only popularized in the 70s. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/sep/11&#x2

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