aaron-santos

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by aaron-santos 5y ago
Half the time this is a sarcastic way of saying that all legislative, and legal options are the on the table because popular opinion and market forces are unsuitable for forcing companies like Facebook to change.
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by aaron-santos 5y ago
Eager to see what a RESTful SOAP API would look like.
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by aaron-santos 5y ago
Yes. Currently holding multiple opinions on related topics.
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by aaron-santos 5y ago
Still out there. Just ask us about the Brooks Brothers riot[1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooks_Brothers_riot
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by aaron-santos 5y ago
This could be a good opportunity to dig into what statistical reasoning is and how it works. Having additional ways to examine and critique arguments is a powerful tool.
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by aaron-santos 5y ago
Thanks for responding. It's helpful to understand exactly the argument some people are making. Would it be fair to characterize your rebuttal as "Because I'm a counter example, the article's conclusions are wrong"?
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by aaron-santos 5y ago
Honest question, do you think you're about average in the population of those who are against mandatory vaccination?
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by aaron-santos 5y ago
Thank you for pointing this out. I read GP in earnest. Your comment helped me re-evaluate that.
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by aaron-santos 5y ago
We are incredibly creative and ingenious people. That's not "the best we can do". Why hope that a solution being discussed over on hundred years ago[1] will spontaneously start working? Identify who stands to benefit from tho
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by aaron-santos 5y ago
The violence of red text on a blue background made me understand how serious the CIA is on this topic.
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by aaron-santos 5y ago
One part idea? I've been told that "ideas are essentially worthless" for the 20 years I've been developing software. What changed?
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by aaron-santos 5y ago
It's pretty easy to farm karma here. Would double-edged downvotes incentivize more submission karma farming in order to spend it in downvotes?
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by aaron-santos 5y ago
This is HackerNews. Either the top comment will support TFA and replies will refute the top comment, or the top comment will refute TFA. I can't think of a major story where that wasn't the case. That's kinda the shtick here.
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by aaron-santos 5y ago
In agreement. Meritocracy seeks to purposefully confuse the idea that anyone can succeed with the idea that everyone can succeed. It's an individualizing ideology which short-circuits systems-level thinking. I'm immediately suspic
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by aaron-santos 5y ago
Sure, let's see how throwing some NaNs into the mix works out!
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by aaron-santos 5y ago
To understand the parent commenter's question (in a US-centric way) you have to examine the political-economic parallels, historical and contemporary, between the US and Nordic countries and decide whether the same structures and condi
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by aaron-santos 5y ago
What should Blazor and TeaVM do when existing code allows for isolate pairs? If they perform implicit conversions to utf-8 they have the option to either trap, or perform lossy conversion which has immense security and data integrity implic
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by aaron-santos 5y ago
If the argument is that low individual racism implies low systemic racism of the group then I very clearly mean yes it is a fallacy of composition. I want to disentangle the idea that a fallacious requires implies a judgement of the truth v
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by aaron-santos 5y ago
Greg Egan's novel Permutation City is an excellent read for those who wish to read scifi based on this very premise.
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by aaron-santos 5y ago
"Huge neural nets" as the parent suggested tend to have hardwired architectures but randomly distributed parameters. Whether or not that is analogous to the human brain is anyone's guess and probably more of a philosophical q
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by aaron-santos 5y ago
This would be a very good time to break out the systems-level thinking and apply it to racism in policing. In particular, the idea that if individual racism is low implies that racism is also low the composition of those individuals is a fa
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by aaron-santos 5y ago
I'm not sure why you would conflate a city-wide strike with a general strike. Maybe you could explain that part before I answer.
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by aaron-santos 5y ago
There is already a tool for that: a General Strike. It's easier to pull off too and brings governments to their knees in weeks if not days.
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by aaron-santos 5y ago
What the author fails to comprehend is the base has phase shifted into economies of network effects while the superstructure still views them as "just larger industrial scale". This contradiction will resolve itself eventually. Wh
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by aaron-santos 5y ago
My personal objection is that it purposely confuses things. It's worded in a way that connects declining with not being a team player. Obviously that's an intentional construction and to some people it makes perfect sense. It also
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by aaron-santos 5y ago
That's the heart of GP's critique. People are masking abusive and manipulative statements with the language of NVC. Here's a mild example: "Altcongnito, when I see you leave work and there are still tickets in the queue,
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by aaron-santos 5y ago
> But our financial constructs are so fundamental to daily life, it's hard to imagine what that would look like. We have politicians asking if we can change the orbit of the moon because changing the system which is creating these p
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by aaron-santos 5y ago
It isn't entirely separate either. Often increases in efficiency direct increases in consumption. This observation was made by the English economist William Stanley Jevons and is known as Jevons paradox[1]. More recently, the economist
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by aaron-santos 5y ago
If you use an an alt-CaaS you'll won't benefit from Infinidash integration, but then again you won't have the Infinidash configuration learning curve to deal with so it could still end up a net positive.
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by aaron-santos 5y ago
We're lucky that language diffusion works both ways. I've kept my eye on Carp[1] because it takes a cue from Rust and brings deterministic memory management & ownership into a Lisp. [1] https://github.com/carp-

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