Phileosopher

14 ms·

31.
by Phileosopher 3y ago
This heavily contributes to what I've heard as the Adversity Paradox: we don't like adversity, but find meaning in the overcoming of it. Unfortunately, from my own experience, my feelings of inadequacy and unease about what I can&
32.
by Phileosopher 3y ago
Thank you, that's what I needed. I regularly update content to a list on Big Tech's unique perturbations[0], but I need to remember Hanlon's Razor. That harbinger of hardship is also why I've been dialing back my career
33.
by Phileosopher 3y ago
I was able to find someone else called Accu Web Hosting, which is the same longstanding-but-boring experience that'll keep me going. Also, look into nearlyfreespeech.net. I believe it's understated in HN, and has a business model
34.
Ask HN: Am I Getting Paranoid?
11 points by Phileosopher 3y ago|11 comments
35.
by Phileosopher 3y ago
Generally, SEO is an opaque algorithm designed to prioritize content that is most likely to add meaning to users (therefore increasing their own importance) or advance an agenda (therefore benefiting the organization). Unfortunately, the in
36.
Eigenfactor: Index of Open Access Fees(eigenfactor.org)
1 points by Phileosopher 3y ago|0 comments
37.
by Phileosopher 3y ago
AI has magnified the use cases, though. Before, Big Data was an advertising machine meant to tokenize and market to every living being on the planet. Now, machine learning can create "averaged" behavior of just about anything, giv
38.
by Phileosopher 3y ago
I'm not convinced those are legitimate problems, since we're great at detecting future problems but terrible at imagining future solutions. In the late 19th century for example, people were afraid NYC would cease to function bec
39.
by Phileosopher 3y ago
You're definitely on the right track. Over here in Iowa, the dumb labor I've seen has almost exclusively moved to factories, with the full-automation tractors spacing out planting according to prior moisture and soil composition t
40.
by Phileosopher 3y ago
> precautionary principle Thank you, wasn't sure what it was called but have witnessed it quite a bit. I don't have the sources, but we have hydrocarbon-consuming bacteria that eat oil and plastic (and have effectively cleaned
41.
by Phileosopher 3y ago
Full disclaimer: I'm an industry amateur, went with the WWOOF program for 6 months, have kicked around what it'd take to make a living in agribusiness, and live in Iowa where the farm reports are on the level of celebrity gossip.
42.
by Phileosopher 3y ago
You have the right to believe in the climatologists' consensus, but I'm not convinced. I still haven't heard any sensible answers to the common-sense claims I've heard about how water is a better indicator of climate cha
43.
by Phileosopher 3y ago
Honest question: are there any aspects of climate science that aren't political these days? I'd certainly love to see climate discussions that openly talk about facts, but it always seems to wind down to the Horrific Apocalypse
44.
by Phileosopher 3y ago
Great question! I have my own essay that tries to summarize it[1], but the entire idea of insurance is to work with pure risk: - Speculative risk is when you might gain from big events (e.g., VC) - Pure risk is when you will only lose from
45.
by Phileosopher 3y ago
You're probably right. From my vantage point (in an independent agent insurance office right now), the easiest way to shrink UW is to make it ALL run by independent workers (e.g., agents). The irony of this, though, is that the quality
46.
by Phileosopher 3y ago
You'd think, but GDPR has done little to nothing to advance a privacy-focused constitutional amendment. The USA's legal system is, plainly, only driven by the interests of the groups willing to pay the insanely high legal fees to
47.
1,609 scientists have signed a petition saying there is no climate emergency(clintel.org)
5 points by Phileosopher 3y ago|16 comments
48.
Italian study finds Gab's speech policy has more open discussion than Facebook(ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
4 points by Phileosopher 3y ago|0 comments
49.
by Phileosopher 3y ago
That depends. "Innocent until proven guilty" is the framework of most Western law. This creates more burden on the prosecution (i.e., the police), and creates a law enforcement environment that biases as "guilty until proven
50.
by Phileosopher 3y ago
I share that sentiment. One important reality, though, is that "forced" is a sticky word here. Anyone sufficiently anti-FAANG and tech-savvy enough will find a workaround, so the constraints are far less than most dominant forces
51.
by Phileosopher 3y ago
What's your definition of "bigot"?
52.
by Phileosopher 3y ago
To put it bluntly, men are dumber. They're wired for task-to-task thinking, and their purposes are heavily motivated by challenges. Women, by contrast, are wired for safety, which is a far more holistic approach to purpose because they
53.
The UN is looking to merge digital ID across “legal frameworks”(uneca.org)
2 points by Phileosopher 3y ago|0 comments
54.
by Phileosopher 3y ago
Can someone explain to me the context for the other side of this? I've always wondered what the good-faith argument for more tracking is.
55.
Tell HN: Deletionpedia has been deleted since February
6 points by Phileosopher 3y ago|1 comments
56.
by Phileosopher 3y ago
If only Settlers of Catan had been around for longer, maybe our property planners wouldn't be in this mess.
57.
by Phileosopher 3y ago
I'm not so certain about that. In the world of securities, civil lawsuits are a profit-making scheme. I'm not an expert on it, so I'm wondering: as it stands, can an SEC court indicate that Amazon made a material change to th
58.
Congress will pass a bill to keep AM radio in cars(apnews.com)
4 points by Phileosopher 3y ago|0 comments
59.
The car market is in trouble(youtube.com)
2 points by Phileosopher 3y ago|0 comments
60.
by Phileosopher 3y ago
Who, exactly, is responsible for the FBI, CIA, NSA, et al. if they over-reach? We tend to believe there's an implicit checks-and-balances system in place, but the most dramatic historical time time a government official wanted to defun

More ›