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by LeonB 5y ago
Don’t let this study have any influence on you at all. It was funded by the meat industry and is a ridiculous meta analysis of studies that make no effort at all to separate cause from correlation. (I’m a meat eater - but junk science shoul
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by LeonB 5y ago
I did exactly the same and went to leave a comment saying as much and saw this. I hoped that the article itself would make at least some attempt to deal with the issue, but it does not. It’s a meta study (meta meat?) that includes a set of
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by LeonB 5y ago
“What am I to do” ? - Be considerate that people around you may have different abilities - Support movements that aim to make society less violent and police less aggressive I don’t see any mystery here.
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by LeonB 5y ago
The parent and the government ones are similar because the censored individual can’t easily switch government or switch parents. (And when the social media platform (google) owns not just the video site but also the search engine and the br
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by LeonB 5y ago
A Python presenter at a Java conference making fun of Java would be “punching up” - and if I was a Java programmer in the audience I might feel some camaraderie over it as you described. Others might think “oooh that’s brave!” But the sit
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by LeonB 5y ago
Given the (estimated) number of scientists in the world and their general propensity to sign on to something… is 800 scientists a significant amount?
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by LeonB 5y ago
I think you’re missing the point of the explanation, the figures are examples.
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by LeonB 5y ago
Not giving equity to employees is fine by me - but it can certainly be “questioned” from a moral standpoint. (Though I think you mean “morally questionable” as euphemism for “morally wrong”) Selling to Intuit is not fine by me - and i consi
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by LeonB 5y ago
Software constantly uses dark patterns and even “well-behaved” software asks questions with answers like “yes” (large writing) and “maybe later” as the only no option. It’s completely normalised.
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by LeonB 5y ago
We do the same in Windows App Store too. … except it’s unlikely to be the easiest way to get the apps you love and not effective as a means of discovering new apps, plus and because of that they haven’t succeeded at attracting developers to
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by LeonB 5y ago
If IE was the only browser allowed on Windows, we could write articles about how native apps on desktop are just so much better than all web-based applications, and I guess it’s just the way things are.
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by LeonB 5y ago
Re “without firing a shot” - the US fought several proxy wars as part of the “Cold” War and fired a lot of shots.
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by LeonB 5y ago
It helps to onion-route the string through many other people’s hands before retrieving it.
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by LeonB 5y ago
We “process” maybe 100 times more text than we used - but to do that we scan for patterns and ignore without reading most of it. (Partly due to the prevalence of advertising as well, of which we prefer to read 0%)
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by LeonB 5y ago
I was wondering if someone would mention Chandler and indeed - two mentions. Interesting chapter (blind-alley?) of history, with a lesson in there somewhere.
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by LeonB 5y ago
“It’s said” — by whom?
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by LeonB 5y ago
I believe Microsoft’s move toward Linux is to make Azure competitive. Azure is a “bet the farm” strategy for Microsoft (and has been since before it launched) - they’ll do anything they need to do to make it work. (And so far it’s been a pr
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by LeonB 5y ago
rijksroll is right there! (The .com is available) (Nice work though :))
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by LeonB 5y ago
Codex is never gonna let you down.
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by LeonB 5y ago
One obvious thing: Major US political parties should insist that prospective presidential candidates disclose their tax returns.
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by LeonB 5y ago
Dropbox fails to sync some files that have valid names in Windows. Unicode is hard.
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by LeonB 5y ago
You didn’t address anything here.
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by LeonB 5y ago
Taxing the ultra-wealthy is possible, and they still get to be ultra-wealthy afterward. We already do it, the discussion is only “how much?” and what to do with the money. That’s a tractable problem. (Incidentally - the rich have been winni
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by LeonB 5y ago
> There is no way that Jeff Bezos owning Amazon shares makes me worse off. They use their market dominance to reduce the income of authors resulting in less choice and lower quality books for you to read, while increasing the price of av
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by LeonB 5y ago
I’m surprised that people continue to share that graphic with a straight face. If “rent-seeking” contributes to people becoming wealthy then the two notions don’t remain orthogonal. The chances of finding more rent seeker among the wealthy
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by LeonB 5y ago
I had those problems several times within the last few years - having to aggregate and detect various signals from billions of data points - and keep the system flexible enough that different business people could “try out” various ideas an
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by LeonB 5y ago
I saw about this on a TV show - long ago. I have no idea what the show was but I remember the bike and the idea very clearly.
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by LeonB 5y ago
Yes - a person who has been drinking and who is being shouted at by officers, reaches down, probably to pull up their pants, and it is interpreted as a life threatening act to those officers. (And a jury goes on to uphold the reasonablene
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by LeonB 5y ago
Here in Australia, the English colonialists established many policing units composed of aboriginals from one area (nation) who would then be responsible for hunting down and massacring the aboriginals in another area (nation). The instituti
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by LeonB 5y ago
What I'm intending to say, quite badly as it appears, is that even if someone in crisis appears to be "violent" -- or if a person threatening suicide can be interpreted as threatening "violence" -- that is no reas

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