IanDrake

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by IanDrake 7y ago
At best those examples are misleading. The article ignores the R&D which often happened at private institutions and cherry pics the first use or minor refinement that occurred at a government facility.
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by IanDrake 7y ago
Examples of prodects created by government run medical R&D?
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by IanDrake 7y ago
Yes, the real aim and motivation of traders is to earn money and respect. What else should it be? Why pick on traders? I know a lot of developers making well into six figures. I hear them talking about getting 3 new graphics cards for th
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by IanDrake 7y ago
Just an option: learn to like your job. You can try to turn the mundane into micro challenges. Can you build a script to automate those TPS reports? Whatever your task, how can you make it more interesting? Take the final product from an
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by IanDrake 7y ago
At some point Netflix got woke and for me that killed it. Most Netflix originals prioritized a political message first and entertainment a distant second. I don't need to get my values from entertainers, of all people.
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Exactly, we really just need to change one tax policy to make this happen. It doesn't get much easier than that.
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by IanDrake 7y ago
At best this is a bandaid and not a cure. To treat the problem, you have to go straight to the root. And that problem is: The cost of free is too damn high. Most people in the US don't pay for their medical care or their medical insura
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by IanDrake 8y ago
>Their results must be very accurate and unbiased That is the assumption that scares me. The algorithm encodes the bias and applies it in every case. This feature will only save you from a shifting bias.
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by IanDrake 8y ago
Ditto. I make much more as a contractor than any FTEs I’ve worked with. This has bitten me a few times.
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by IanDrake 8y ago
What would be your platform?
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by IanDrake 8y ago
Good for Microsoft for drawing the correct line in the sand. Calls to violence are not protected speech. The Alex Jones censorship is another matter. His stuff is pretty crazy, but not worthy of being taken down. Louis Farrakhan says lots
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by IanDrake 8y ago
I wonder how many piping plovers these will kill.
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by IanDrake 8y ago
You didn’t argue that the press is free, that speech is free, that the right to defend yourself exists. You argued that the restrictions on press are justified, said nothing about free speech, and that you hopefully don’t need to defend you
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by IanDrake 8y ago
I don’t think these social norms are as settled as you might think. The fallout of these new norms has yet to come, but it is coming. By fallout, I mean women are starting to realize that men identifying as women isn’t in their best interes
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by IanDrake 8y ago
It is good faith. Words are a social construct. We as a society have constructed them to categorize the world around us, to describe things and actions. When you say race is a social construct because we may visually ascribe a person wrongl
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by IanDrake 8y ago
No. Is all you have an appeal to authority argument? What about what I said is nonsense? Are you saying that you have freedom of speech while a 19yr old posting lyrics from a rap song on her private Instagram page is censured and fined for
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by IanDrake 8y ago
There seems to be an assault on freedom of the press, freedom of speech, and the right to self defense (life). Freedom of the press: The Tommy Robinson episode which is the first time I had heard of the broad government ability to ban news
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by IanDrake 8y ago
1994 - mostly blue. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_party_strength_in_...
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by IanDrake 8y ago
Your bias is showing. How is it not political when someone else says a man surgically inverting his penis into his body cavity magically becomes a woman? But when I point out that the man still has the wrong chromosomes to be a woman, it’s
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by IanDrake 8y ago
Words are a social construct...so I’m not sure what your point is? Everything is a social construct then.
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by IanDrake 8y ago
Yes, examples are exactly what I was asking for.
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by IanDrake 8y ago
Is this what you’re advocating? Police get to optionally, at their discretion, set bail? That seems ripe for abuse. At this point in history, I would NEVER look to the UK as a model for anything state related. It barely qualifies as a weste
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by IanDrake 8y ago
Having a sex change doesn’t turn a man into a woman. There is no basis in science for that. If that were true, I could paint a tennis ball orange and eat it like a fruit. Race is not a “social construct”. If that were true, I wouldn’t be
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by IanDrake 8y ago
I wouldn’t consider wealth to be immutable, but I think your example is clear, so let’s roll it forward. So you would rather see bail set at a percentage of net worth? That would make things equal?
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by IanDrake 8y ago
I would say the latter. People have escaped their upbringing, culture, and socioeconomic position. I’m not saying it’s easy, but it’s not immutable either. But I’ve never seen a woman become a man or a white person become a POC. So that’s p
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by IanDrake 8y ago
You didn’t answer the question at all. I think that says more than your comment.
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by IanDrake 8y ago
For the sake of argument, can you name a current law that treats people unequally by some immutable quality of the individual?
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by IanDrake 8y ago
Why are you so sure a conservative mindset wouldn’t be more helpful? In practice, it was liberals who enacted heavy sentences on crack usage. California, an extremely liberal state, voted in a 72% majority referendum for the three strikes p
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by IanDrake 8y ago
Funny, I’m also from MA and when I read the article title I thought, “yeah bail is broken, we’re letting too many repeat offenders out on bail”. Yet, the article has the opposite view. Somewhere along the road our society has flipped and no
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by IanDrake 8y ago
Is it not moral to have an economic system where transactions are mutually agreed upon? Can you name a more moral economic system than that?

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