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by Retra 7y ago
>f your goal is to hire the best employees regardless of political leanings, then maintaining an apolitical workplace is a good choice. My point is that your goals do not trump everyone else's goals just because they're reasona
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by Retra 7y ago
Political problems are generally solved by organizing, evaluating, and disseminating information. All of which are technical problems. In fact that's how all problems are solved, and every problem can be political under the right circu
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by Retra 7y ago
Political problems are mostly communication problems, and communication is tech.
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by Retra 7y ago
No, I'm generalizing over both using an analogy. If I believe in something you consider bad, I will be gleeful that you defend my right to say it as I consistently refuse to defend yours. I will be thoroughly satisfied that you've
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by Retra 7y ago
Out of context, "it's ok to be white" is not a disagreement with the phrase "it is not ok to be white", it is a disagreement with the phrase "it is ok to be non-white." The overwhelming majority of people
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by Retra 7y ago
Correct. A slave on a plantation should simply do their job. It is never appropriate to espouse political opinions in a place of business. The promotion of business interests trumps any humanistic interests, which have their set places and
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by Retra 7y ago
Even so... Setting traps and then trying to blame others for falling into them? Does that sound like the behavior of a trustworthy and admirable person?
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by Retra 7y ago
No computer runs without human input. My computer isn't firing people right now. Why? Because I didn't set it up to do so.
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by Retra 7y ago
The best way to get rid of bad ideas is to not give a megaphone to the people who want to spread them. The fundamental fallacy you're making is that you're conflating the act of judgement with the act of sentencing. What a fine wo
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by Retra 7y ago
They had six government, now they want seven government. It's always good to have spare government in case one of them breaks.
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by Retra 7y ago
There doesn't need to be any rule, because computers simply don't make decisions that have legal relevance. Nothing a computer does is legally binding; things humans do using computers may be. Computers only facilitate things th
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by Retra 7y ago
Those people wouldn't have learned how the internet works regardless. It's simply not something most people care to understand.
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by Retra 7y ago
Computers don't need standing, they act on their controllers' behalf.
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by Retra 7y ago
Any behavior which is not illegal is tacitly acceptable. That's pretty much the basic tenant of a liberal society.
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by Retra 7y ago
You are free to leave until they detain you.
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by Retra 7y ago
It's probably more the behavior things. Keyboard shortcuts, focus behaviors, menu placement, file dialogs, etc. Settings panels in MacOs should take effect immediately, while in windows you have to click ok/apply... inconsistencie
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by Retra 7y ago
Theseus' ship is not a problem for materialistic explanations of anything; it's a problem for anybody who thinks the nature of a thing is governed by the words used to describe it. The fact that you would continue to call a ship t
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by Retra 7y ago
Computers "imagine" things all the time. The fact that we do not use the word "imagine" to describe it is immaterial. Words to not dictate the behavior.
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by Retra 7y ago
Low entropy systems are likely to transition into high entropy systems, and the reverse is unlikely to occur. It is largely a statistical argument; low entropy states are by definition less likely to occur by chance than high entropy states
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by Retra 7y ago
As opposed to what? Most proprietary tools don't have good documentation either. And then you may not even be able to look at the code to see what it does.
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by Retra 7y ago
You can't ask individuals to make that decision; they'll just be replaced with ones who are willing. Leadership needs to agree with you. You can't ask people to work at a place while undermining their companies' business
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by Retra 7y ago
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%22charge+for+the+privelege%22&ia=... It's just an expression.
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by Retra 7y ago
Isn't that just confirmation bias though? If you hadn't made those decisions you just as likely could have met someone else some other way, married them and been just as happy or successful.
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by Retra 7y ago
That depends on your expectations.
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by Retra 7y ago
I would take a folding phone in exchange for a mechanical keyboard, but most phones have neither, and I think they're worse for it.
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by Retra 7y ago
You're confusing a tensor with its representation. Tensors are objects which must obey a certain set of rules. (Which rules depends on whether you're talking to a mathematician or a physicist.)
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by Retra 7y ago
There's no point in taking a stand if it means relinquishing responsibility. You'd rather have weapons in the hands of pacifists than warmongers, but that won't happen if pacifists "conscientiously object" and throw
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by Retra 7y ago
If you're skilled and practiced enough to be a world-class talent in your field, it is highly unlikely that you don't work in that field as a professional.
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by Retra 7y ago
There's no reason to think the human brain learns things using purely statistical methods, and then turn around and try to argue that evolution cannot encode the same information into the structure of a baby using those exact same meth
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by Retra 7y ago
Putting together an accurate picture of the state of the world is not contradictory with liberalism.

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