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by acituan 6y ago
> That is illegal according to US law. Not always. If the local laws don't classify it legally as bribe you can pay it and even claim it on your taxes as cost of doing business.
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> but, in some countries, you report your bribes on taxes, they're so common. Can you give any examples of those countries? Countries with high amount of bribing tend to also be countries with large off-the-record economies, therefo
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by acituan 6y ago
The problem is with these studies which (probably due to lack of funding) measure such a gross metric in an age where there is such a variety of activities that take place over a screen. Screen time was initially a deliberate positive spi
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> I honestly think (for me, at least) the implied causation is the wrong way round here Your framing assumes that there has to be a clear, unidirectional arrow of causation. In reality, behaviors and moods are in tight reciprocity, affec
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Details to pay attention to; - It is not stated if the diets are isocaloric or hypocaloric; probably because it wasn't measured. Timing restrictions and calorie restrictions are two different stressors on the body, and all else being e
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Except the GPs initial framing was not honest to begin with: editors' dismissal is not based on the story being garbage ; details of this dismissal is contested and exactly the issue under discussion here. If GP couldn't resist a
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Citation needed. What is the differential improvement a CoC can provide over a good implementation without a CoC? Code of conducts are not codifying anything mysterious or disputed that a good common sense judgement cannot arrive. On the
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> But let's not pretend that Twitter and Facebook hold information monopolies with equivalent power to the government's ability to censor Agreed, their narrative shaping capabilities far exceed governments'. > As proof
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> even my non-tech acquaintances know about this scandal . Baudrillard talks about this regarding the Watergate scandal . The word scandal implies this is a one and done thing, you've seen the thing, and there is absolutely noth
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A game theoretic advantage, “we will only invest in our end product x which uses your y if you agree not supporting competitors for a period of time “ in which x is beneficial to the end user but not worth the cost/risk with competitio
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> Turns out, most people want prosperity and the only reason they actually want freedom is because they're afraid lack of freedom blocks their attempts at prosperity. Because we are exploring an infinite problem space, there is no a
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> Your whole position assumes that the other person has some kernel of truth to what they're saying. Exactly. They might have been fed garbage propositions that explain their garbage conclusions, but calling them insane, crazy, <
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> Beyond that, why does one company need to make multiple algorithms? Why do we need a law to enforce this? I meant they are enforced to open their content for licensing. The market we have today is for services that are actually a bund
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> "Truth is hard, let's go Postmodern!" isn't a valid conclusion. It's an escape hatch, a refusal to make a best effort and, when it's about something that matters, a horribly dangerous practice which essen
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> Except truth by definition is objective Except metaphysics of truth has been discussed for centuries and things are more complicated than that. Truth on matters most interesting to us is mostly transjective (neither objective nor subje
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> It warns that those in power now use the shield of "free speech" to push propaganda and lies in order to undermine truth and democracy and thereby attempt to preserve power. Except with new media no one can really push info
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> Facts and transparency are the intended pillars of the modern First Amendment I don’t think we can ascribe intentions that easily. Speech is also the way people process their emotions, clarify their thoughts, get into dialogue with o
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If it turns out monopolies of market-based high-throughput public communication channels put societies in a tailspin and render democratic processes highly vulnerable to information warfare, I don’t care whether we call it a public utility
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To think that your personal transactionality with Twitter, whether you pay for your SLAs or DMs etc, is what matters here is myopic at best. Because this soapbox found itself to be used at planet scale, 24/7 available and proven to b
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by acituan 6y ago
> Our EHR also automates administrative tasks such as collecting intake forms and getting reimbursement from insurance companies. Sounds good on paper but I am not sure if I would want processes that heavily collect psychometric data and
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It seems like the way author uses them, propaganda, censorship and surveillance are just versions of propagation, filtering and signal acquistion with a corrupt intent attributed. They are just basic elements of any information processing s
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> there is apparently some evidence that investing in nuclear energy causes countries to de-carbonise more slowly Please don’t ascribe causality without evidence. Even the authors admit upfront that this is a correlational study, wit
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That is just false equivalency. Timing and intent changes everything. If a feature was not purpose built but happened to be used more by a certain demographic, that is not a partisan move at all, but removing it right before a political eve
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> I want to applaud this, because it's clearly a good move. It’s not that clear to me that this is a net good move. Exposure to out-network content, depending on what is exposed, could be good for preventing echo chambers and confir
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> Why did the Japanese, unlike the Arabs, rise again after their fall? Because the ways Japan and Middle East were neo-colonized was different. After the bombs Japan wasn’t allowed to hold any army of significance and was enforced to hav
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> brain drain would not be as rampant if the countries themselves as a matter of policy emphasised investing in research. That is far from the only reason. If you check metrics on HDI indices, economic and social freedom indices and othe
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> You too, have every right to be cynical about his intentions and healing. On the contrary, I don't doubt much about their intentions or healing. But that alone isn't sufficient to absolve them from responsibility or scrutiny
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> And if a thousand people avoid harming themselves because of this approach and one still does, is that a failure? That’s why we have trials and regulations to assess this risk. Is 1000:1 a good ratio? I don’t know. But I know it is not
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You parsed the sentence wrong, I am talking about "feeling down", not "down here". The title of the advertising blog post is literally "I built an app to fix my depression" and goes on to the details of their s
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> A hobby can cure depression. A better diet can cure depression. More exercise can cure depression We are not talking about a mere feeling down here. Depression is a clinically defined term with specific criteria, and no nothing you can

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