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by Siira 6y ago
https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/
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by Siira 6y ago
Indeed, we already have a form of this in PhDs. They teach people more advanced skills, but they are exploitative and gatewalled.
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Perhaps their success rate has gone down, but their absolute successes have grown enough for them to accept it. Perhaps they should add some more expensive tiers for better student support.
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by Siira 6y ago
Speak in facts, not vague political jargon. The vaccines were developed quickly, then delayed for months for testing purposes, and they have finally been declared effective (all of them, as far as I’ve heard). So it is a fact that if people
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by Siira 6y ago
You need to find opposing views that are just on the edge of your current comfort zone, I think. Of course, the whole exercise of having an open mind doesn’t reward one that much, as having a sound worldview has diminishing returns.
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(Just a reminder that scaling is very important. A lot of people have problems procuring food, probably most people, actually. Solutions that work for rich people are just skipping the problem entirely.)
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This isn't a good answer in the world of big tech and weak anti-trust.
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by Siira 6y ago
Android is already pretty open and the world has not ended.
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How are gaming consoles good though? They are just normal PCs that are sold cheaper because you can only run authorized software on them, no?
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by Siira 6y ago
"Privacy" is a set of tradeoffs that different people/companies make differently. People who care about Apple's privacy choices can stick to their store, and forgo apps that aren't there. (Besides, Apple gives Chine
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by Siira 6y ago
I don't understand why you should get all you want. Your demands are unreasonable. And the fragmentation has already happened anyway; Most lucrative services are mostly web-only, including Amazon and new cloud gaming services.
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by Siira 6y ago
You know what is really idiot proof? Cheap Nokia phones. They work very well for people not well-versed in technology. You can even buy a separate digital camera with the money saved.
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by Siira 6y ago
Perhaps this shows that the fire code was not the best example of assessing upsides versus downsides.
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From my experience, the capabilities IDEs and unix tools offer are mostly orthogonal. Also, your arguments against consistent UX has the solution of just writing a simple wrapper around the offending tool (or using newer ones, e.g., ripgrep
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GUIs are also fundamentally more expressive for some types of work, e.g., Photoshop.
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They are local maxima for normal people. No reason to believe better global maxima don’t exist, or that they can’t be improved to work better for more people (e.g., better accessibility features).
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So ... knowledge wasn’t power after all?
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They don’t get “irrational”, they just lie. Most lies happen semi-subconsciously.
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I don’t think Facebook is at fault for being smart and buying promising fledgling companies. What is needed is to make the big networks interoperable, probably by offering an API like Telegram does. The API could be priced according to usag
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Well, the M1 is spectacular, so the algorithms are working correctly.
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by Siira 6y ago
Anticheats are anti-consumer; They restrict what you can do on your own machine. It's better not to have these games.
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by Siira 6y ago
This claim is resting upon flimsy metaphors only. Of course, tautologically, each new wave of tech has some differences in demographics, and old people are slow to learn new paradigms, and generations differ, BUT ultimately we have no idea
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by Siira 6y ago
Apple doesn’t lawfully sell in Iran; Its products are still ubiquitous in the upper middle class.
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by Siira 6y ago
“Voting” for pre-selected candidates in rigged elections without a way to hold the elected accountable to their promises, basically means the citizens have zero means but strikes/violent protests. (This is true in most non-Western “dem
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by Siira 6y ago
VSCode is also a lot weaker in general text editing and extensibility, and doesn’t have a TUI. (I use both extensively.)
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by Siira 6y ago
“Investment into education” translates into stupid politicians dumping more money into the status quo with no indication that this will better their own metrics (which are mostly irrelevant in the first place as they don’t teach any useful
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High IQ people probably still reacted better to covid on average .
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I have not seen much new evidence seen the super-early SSC mask review, which concluded that the masks probably help a tiny bit and are worth wearing but not game-changing. So the authorities did flip flop, and I suspect it’s because they n
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by Siira 6y ago
Most of the people I know here (in Iran, no AirBnB clone yet) rent personal houses when they travel. Some people (including myself) have enough money (and an aversion to risk) that we prefer hotels, but the vast majority don’t need what ext
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by Siira 6y ago
I find all your reasons are either fluff, or just saying that small businesses are good for their owners. Economic efficiency is net positive, and people who aren’t small business owners benefit a lot from online, efficient shopping. If som

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