JamisonM

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by JamisonM 7y ago
That 6 people pg obviously respects personally reviewed this and not enough of them said, "this is pretty lame and kinda dumb" to prevent him from publishing says something grim about his inner circle.
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by JamisonM 7y ago
I think that the healthiest part of the culture indicated by this story is that people are in fact willing to use company systems to raise serious issues about the design and safety of their products. That behaviour should be encouraged.
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by JamisonM 7y ago
It is not a question of proving a negative, punishment for hate speech is an affirmative thing that can happen.
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by JamisonM 7y ago
If you need even more concrete, then how's this: the civil rights movement could've easily been classified as "hate speech" and legally squashed because it was unpopular when it started. That is not a concrete example
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by JamisonM 7y ago
I am going to go out on a limb and guess that it is fairly obvious which political party in the United States takes regulatory issues seriously. I think you might be greatly surprised by how much influence you personally can have on politic
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by JamisonM 7y ago
Why would you imagine that? All the work involved in capturing the FDA demonstrates that the FDA is not a "mandatory BBB", if they really had no teeth there would be no need to devote all these resources to dupe/intimidate&#x
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by JamisonM 7y ago
tech culture has skewed so insanely towards the authoritarian left Have you worked at a tech job lately? This is just.. wow..
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by JamisonM 7y ago
Work isn't a debating society but it is part of larger society, if we all go to work building gas chambers without any willingness to discuss the political implications of having all these damn gas chambers around, well..
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by JamisonM 7y ago
I think that in Algeria and the UAE if you have spent the amount of money it takes to get a STEM education you don't divert into a different field even if the conditions are difficult, in the developed world the calculations are quite
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by JamisonM 7y ago
Agreed. Everyone should avoid silly arguments.
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by JamisonM 7y ago
That's literally a provably false assumption. The second they realize it's insecure (which will take exactly one raid), they'll switch to something else. It is trivial to prove that the second a criminal real
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by JamisonM 7y ago
> The Hacker culture from which everything we have today in tech arose. Which is the culture that Stallman arguably helped create. The culture whic h makes this site "Hacker" news, is one in which doing something interesting is
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by JamisonM 7y ago
> Either way, it's not a free lunch. Yes there is no free lunch, in particular for any country that is in a completely different circumstance than the country we are discussing.
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by JamisonM 7y ago
It is not the Trolley Problem because the literal question is "Is it okay for someone to murder a person if they saved more than one life before?" and that is not the Trolley Problem, that is the "letting someone off the hook
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by JamisonM 7y ago
It is not the Trolley Problem, you seem to misunderstand the issue. There is no binary choice here, it is not comparable.
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by JamisonM 7y ago
Yeah, don't borrow in someone else's currency is a pretty important point, the 10 year Danish Krone Bond is at a -0.48%. If you have to borrow in someone else's currency then you are absolutely /not/ the same positi
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by JamisonM 7y ago
IDK, the closest approximation of full employment we've seen since the second world war has been the product of low interest rates. Conversely fretting about debt in the way you describe, with a concern about the value of present inves
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by JamisonM 7y ago
Setting economic policy based on fighting 1970's inflation battles instead of accepting the evidence that the US economy is finally near or at full employment by sustaining a low interest rate environment contrary to evidence and exper
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by JamisonM 7y ago
I 100% guarantee you don't know that this would be the case. If the correct way is penalties then the correct course of action for the subcontractor would be to try to not get caught, there are penalties for union busting tactics alrea
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by JamisonM 7y ago
I doubt the unionizing HCL workers would appreciate the remedy that some people here are proposing. People are saying to terminate the contract with HCL. What? What good would that do? If there are no consequences for union
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by JamisonM 7y ago
The argument that the central banks couldn't fight inflation by raising rates is sort of undermined by the fact that central banks have raised rates in very recent history and there was no catastrophe, in 2011 the ECB raised rates 1&#x
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by JamisonM 7y ago
Because they identified the transition to green energy (grøn omstilling) as a strategic national goal almost 40 years ago and the policy is very popular. They can benefit from export revenue or make the moral choice to leave their reserves
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by JamisonM 7y ago
It strikes me that with an absurdly low debt-to-gdp ratio of 34% and negative interest rates maybe the Danish government should invest more money in their economy. Maybe leverage the market to build the enormous amount of green infrastructu
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by JamisonM 7y ago
Isn't the primary tool to fight inflation with an increase in interest rates? And if interest rates are negative doesn't that mean that there is lots of room to adjust them? It strikes me that the problem is that the tools to figh
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by JamisonM 8y ago
Wikileaks declining to publish this at a critical moment in time does seem telling. https://foreignpolicy.com/2017/08/17/wikileaks-turned-down-l...
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by JamisonM 8y ago
Shoving people who need other supports into housing won't help homelessness for the people that need those other supports, but creating more affordability for people who need less serious interventions or are simply priced out of the m
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by JamisonM 8y ago
Right, so the $2MM replacement cost will probably pay for itself in fairly short order just with the productivity improvements that will come from not having issues like this anymore. Staff time is really expensive!
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by JamisonM 8y ago
"If a pub or cafe had microphones on all the tables and a proprietor who knew the intimate details of every conversation that ever happened there I don’t think it would have a lot of customers." I agree but that wasn't the an
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by JamisonM 8y ago
But it is not like a phone company at all, it is a publicly accessible space not a point to point communication mechanism.
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by JamisonM 8y ago
I mean, if you owned a cafe or a pub where angry mobs were organizing their campaigns of terror on the local population I don't think it would be out of line to ask you to perhaps reconsider allowing the mob to meet on your premises. E

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