aaron-lebo

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by aaron-lebo 8y ago
The article says as much, but this is a hard problem with no great solutions. Some of the places that traffic in Jones kind of craziness are the conspiracy and greatawakening subreddits. The former is absurdly abused by the mods while Holoc
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by aaron-lebo 8y ago
What you're saying is if there's a chance that someone is reformed, they should be given that chance. But the other possibility is that they aren't. If you're wrong on the first and keep them in longer than they need to
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by aaron-lebo 8y ago
It's been that way for a long, long time, but it's only useful for cheap products (the labor is inconsistent for obvious reasons) and is stuff that may eventually be automated. Thankfully there's a real limit for abuse. It sh
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by aaron-lebo 8y ago
This is easy to observe in judicial elections where said judges get tough prior to elections. But there's more to it than that. The US system doesn't rehabilitate prisoners well, so letting a person who was committing armed robber
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by aaron-lebo 8y ago
How is it moral to make money off of selling shoddy products and services to people and not actually holding up your end of the deal? But that happens all the time. It's the way of business for many companies. Coinbase takes money from
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by aaron-lebo 8y ago
The real issue is that the "true" confidence levels in the social sciences are nowhere near that. We can hack together models and fit them to make an argument look compelling, but most of the stuff we "know" to be object
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by aaron-lebo 8y ago
Thanks, I did come across the Huffington Post link but the title itself wasn't obviously about Namibia so I missed it. I appreciate you breaking this down. I've published nothing but I've worked with those who have and I&#x27
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by aaron-lebo 8y ago
It's not the research itself that is lazy, it's the way results with very limited scope are used by people to push an agenda. I guarantee you the authors are aware of the limits of their research. They aren't the ones making
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by aaron-lebo 8y ago
Yes, this is unfortunately pretty lazy research used to push an agenda. Related to that, the main claim: the 40% reduction in crime (no link, why?) is in Namibia. Is there anything about Namibia which makes it different from a developed eco
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by aaron-lebo 8y ago
Is it too much to ask for evidence for any of these claims? More than "trust me"?
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by aaron-lebo 8y ago
Yeah, after watching this dynamic repeatedly over various projects, I've come to the conclusion that federation is a feature, not the feature. Mastodon is not the first federated network by a long shot: StatusNet kicked this all off
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by aaron-lebo 8y ago
This is inaccurate. Churchill if anything was underrated by history. The Gallipoli disaster occurred not because of his plans (which was a quick naval attack up the straits, which the British were on the verge of doing and the Turks later a
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by aaron-lebo 8y ago
I'm just making to clear that though racism and Confederate flags are the first two comments in a thread about a state, that's not representative of the state as a whole, regardless of their unfortunate experience. Not to downplay
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by aaron-lebo 8y ago
Does that not fall under "immediately dismissing others experiences"? The thing is, many of us are very aware of that past and will do anything to change it. But also consider that some of it isn't even our fault (my Dad came
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by aaron-lebo 8y ago
The problem is, people can make claims of racism, but you can't counter them or say they are exaggerated, so people think you live in some podunk racist state that's 100 years out of date and for the vast majority of people it&#x2
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by aaron-lebo 8y ago
They lost 66 million as recently as 2016. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13188574
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by aaron-lebo 8y ago
Mithril is similarly small and very easy to get started.
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by aaron-lebo 8y ago
They really shouldn't. Modern browsers have lots of the selector magic built-in, and frameworks that are very, very small can handle the rest without the spaghetti.
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by aaron-lebo 8y ago
The difference is that the backend model has been around for 20 years if not more. You're locating lots of old-ish and stable libraries because that's when that stuff was made. Maybe you don't remember the days of Zope, Subwa
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by aaron-lebo 8y ago
Thanks for the detailed response. I did not mean to oversimplify things, but your post is good stuff.
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by aaron-lebo 8y ago
The Ottomans also liked to take Circassian slaves (whom were known for their beauty) and would end up in the harem. It's why the last emperors looked as they did. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mehmed_V
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by aaron-lebo 8y ago
The Ottomans (and Turks by extension) are absolutely fascinating. Consider that from the time of the Roman Empire until the fall of Constantinople in 1453, the Byzantines considered themselves Roman. The Turks considered themselves successo
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by aaron-lebo 8y ago
I had a more drawn out response but I realized that I was discussing things that I may not understand. Honest question: if this person was claiming they were of the robot gender and that they wanted inclusion, would you deny that they were
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by aaron-lebo 8y ago
I think what the poster is getting at is it's indistinguishable from discussion around gender. It's uncharitable to call that delusion or mental illness, but they're not really that different. That's what the "you a
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by aaron-lebo 8y ago
What aspect of the study makes you believe they are relying on popularity? They are mostly relying on a very limited set of approved sources (which could be criticized), but their approach seems pretty straightforward. You've gotta hav
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by aaron-lebo 8y ago
You don't have to go public and you don't have to always go for short term profit (Bezos didn't, for a long time). This is just how the game is played because that's how it has always been played. It's not very imag
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by aaron-lebo 8y ago
It's the nature of those companies, but there's nothing that says capitalism requires that.
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by aaron-lebo 8y ago
Of course, and that's what I'm saying. We, as consumers and employees of these companies should have a higher standard than "they did it, too".
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by aaron-lebo 8y ago
No matter what shine Microsoft or Gates have since put on their actions, this should never be forgotten. This was a person and company so greedy that billions upon billions weren't enough, complete control was necessary. Has Gates eve
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by aaron-lebo 8y ago
Yes, a stroke was part of "not having control". The foolishness of violence is assuming you can put it back in the bottle. That's part of the argument.

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