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by abeppu 3y ago
yes but ... - wasn't the instability for banks also partly caused by the sharp changes in interest rates, and perhaps for that reason should have been predicted rather than just reacted to? - didn't we also learn that not only wer
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by abeppu 3y ago
Ok, so it's _broken_. As a system of recording stuff is it also ... incoherent? Slapping on a bandaid or giving someone tylenol are _services_. "Bitten by duck" is a _cause_, and different people bitten by ducks could need di
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by abeppu 3y ago
I think the issue isn't for the most part the kind of problem the code addresses, but the social context in which the code is used. Functional programs can allow for easier reasoning about programs or paths later, which can be useful w
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by abeppu 3y ago
> without royally botching the things that appeal to Tumblr users I feel like some form of active involvement from users and creators as stakeholders would be nice to see, shouldn't be that hard, and for some reason seems forever of
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by abeppu 3y ago
How does this actually work? I have never worked in a medical context and am ignorant of their internals so this is a genuine question. I _have_ been a patient going to a specialist appointment where the only doctor I saw was a resident, an
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by abeppu 3y ago
I'm actually confused about the healthcare situation -- is it actually getting more expensive relative to the benefits? I've heard so many times that a bunch of surgeries that used to have really long recovery times can now be don
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by abeppu 3y ago
Thanks for pointing this out -- I've heard some people back this claim, but I still find it confusing. In a graph in that wikipedia article, we see that from 1998-2018, average hourly earnings increased by less than 100%, but tuition i
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by abeppu 3y ago
I think there's also an issue that execs can create the appearance of being busy (and may indeed spend a ridiculous number of hours in meetings) but it can be hard to see if they're contributing anything valuable. I was at a start
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by abeppu 3y ago
> DuPont scientists then conducted tests on humans, asking a group of volunteers to smoke cigarettes laced with C8. This is definitely not my area, but ... was this a good experiment to do? I don't just mean from an ethical standpo
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by abeppu 3y ago
I cannot claim to understand the state of research ... But I think we _can't_ wait for the harms to be fully measured if we're to compensate those impacted. Suppose that drinking PFAS contaminated water decreased your life expecta
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by abeppu 3y ago
The follow-up to "we're never completely getting rid of single occupancy vehicles" should not be "let's put 0 occupancy vehicles on the road" which are not doing any useful transportation service, but are contr
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by abeppu 3y ago
I'm really unsympathetic to the idea that "we all need to row in the same direction" which just happens to be the direction that the monied interests want. When these companies actually make money, do you think they'll p
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by abeppu 3y ago
Do you think people living in the places that are disproportionately impacted, who are being used as a test course, and who don't receive benefit in exchange for inconveniences imposed have a reason to be upset? I think a small, non-de
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by abeppu 3y ago
Didn't people say that about Uber a decade ago? Somehow it didn't take. We were supposed to see higher vehicle utilisation and less need for car ownership in the sharing economy. Why should I believe it this time?
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by abeppu 3y ago
I think it varies a lot by neighborhood though. In some areas you see them a lot. Perhaps there are specific routes or locations that are considered high value as test cases? The density is high enough that as a pedestrian and casual observ
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by abeppu 3y ago
We make special lanes for cars with multiple passengers b/c we think driving alone contributes to congestion, emissions etc. Driving with 0 passengers might be best for the companies, but for the same reasons, is not in the public inte
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by abeppu 3y ago
I should be clear: I'm am not against all self-driving cars in the city. I'm against empty cars on the road, and when they cause issues, they should have to show that they're actually resolving them before more unsupervised o
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by abeppu 3y ago
Transit overall is down because of remote work and people moving. In specific incidents, failures of self driving cars in the way of transit vehicles, including on muni tracks, have caused delays. For people stuck inside those trains and bu
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by abeppu 3y ago
What does organic mean? Everything starts with a small group, and of course the first people to act will be labeled activists. Self-driving cars are not organic; they are organized by a tiny group of companies. I think the dumbest thing not
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by abeppu 3y ago
Sure! Maybe a couple wants an animated map that shows their geographic paths that finally cross and intertwine. Maybe they both love early 2000s music and they want their wedding site to look like a myspace page that plays their fav song. B
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by abeppu 3y ago
Blackmail is not about stealing or ransoming physical property, but rather about a threat to communicate damaging claims, true or fabricated; stop trying to change definitions. False allegations need not be used to induce arrest, but may be
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by abeppu 3y ago
I think this is part of it, but your framing assumes that people make the choice to not have kids first, and then use that to reach the choice to not "bother" with marriage. I think there are also economic factors pushing against
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by abeppu 3y ago
Suppose for the purposes of dialogue, I invent the word "fiolence" for coercive, non-consensual exercise of power against another, _other_ than the application of painful or destructive physical force towards a body. You can belie
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by abeppu 3y ago
Is literal physical force really the only kind of violence you can understand? Suppose you fly to Alaska to see the northern lights, in early winter. You make it to some remote town with low light pollution, and you have a reservation for y
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by abeppu 3y ago
I believe that people and businesses which offer services _to the public_ can and should be forced to serve everyone. No, you cannot have a whites-only lunch counter, taxi-cab, school, church or store, even if you're a white supremacis
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by abeppu 3y ago
I'm still really in disagreement that a web designer making a wedding site is creating _designs_ that in and of themselves are any kind of speech regarding anyone's rights. The client gives some pics they like, some copy for a sho
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by abeppu 3y ago
> 3 in 4 say that recent layoffs, and the future risk of AI replacing their roles, have negatively affected their health. I'm glad the execs also have this fear; it shouldn't just be ICs and contractors who are afraid. I think
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by abeppu 3y ago
Somewhere, a publisher is giggling as they change the constants in problems in an otherwise unchanged first semester physics book with an upcoming new edition. I think a lot of good books never pay their authors much, at least in proportion
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by abeppu 3y ago
- There are more than two biological sexes (intersex people exist, and there are multiple forms of being intersex). - The point of this whole field of study is to dissect gender on cultural terms. You're _begging the question_ when you
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by abeppu 3y ago
Note, original title which would not fit: Suspect charged in hate-motivated stabbing in Canada university gender issues class Relevant because: - the HN community has many connections to Waterloo which has produced many great software engin

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