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by acituan 6y ago
> Shouldn't engineers who design social media algorithms have some basic knowledge of social dynamics and psychology? Firstly, let’s not reduce decision making to something only software engineers do because typically product manage
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by acituan 6y ago
> Software engineers at facebook, on the other hand, are likely not aware of the full impact of their work I feel like this is coming from a naive socially illiterate nerd stereotype. They are smart people, they might as well know much m
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by acituan 6y ago
> To even take an educated risk, there would need to be a model of that risk. I consider the move from "my cat is completely isolated indoors" to "there are still vectors of transmission" an improvement of that model.
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by acituan 6y ago
> If anything, it’s the humans in the household that could benefit from preventative de-worming If you have a habit of nibbling on the bugs and the flies that wander into your house like cats do, I think indeed you could benefit from dew
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by acituan 6y ago
OP said > A cat that no longer goes outside and occupants that don’t interact with other cats basically means the cat is under total isolation. Which is not entirely true. Even indoor cats can get worms, and periodic deworming is part of
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by acituan 6y ago
Periodic deworming, if you are to use prescription dewormer or get it in the form of a shot, will require vet visits.
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by acituan 6y ago
Mosquitos, snails, slugs and fleas can absolutely carry worms to your cat. You can carry fleas on your clothing for example if you pet an infected animal on the street.
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by acituan 6y ago
> When I said "all" I was clearly talking about people I know, not everbody everywhere. Specifically people that I know. That wasn’t clear to me at all. This is an important distinction because tastes of people we socialize wit
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by acituan 6y ago
Which doesn’t follow because people who attend to local sporting events don’t only do that in a city, and the increase in question is upon the baseline mortality of a city. So turns out cities have a lot of headroom to increase flu mortalit
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by acituan 6y ago
You are strawmanning OPs argument by giving those examples as if that’s what they said. OP seems to criticize the ethos of Media Lab as professed, not any particular products. Not only that, you criticize their form and dismiss them as inac
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by acituan 6y ago
> It suggests that if someone is determined to use psychedelics to self-medicate their depression, you should not try to stop them. That is precisely the bias and weakness of this study. Self-medication is almost always a red flag; why n
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by acituan 6y ago
Note that this study is not a controlled trial. It is measuring 358 people who already were going to use psychedelics , before and after their use. What is severely missing is any report on incidence of adverse reactions , especially sinc
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by acituan 6y ago
> But I'd like to think such observation is more of a complacent justification for the status quo. I don't think people who are merely responding to the game and people who would want the game to be sustained are exactly the sa
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by acituan 6y ago
> I believe the fundamental problem is that our education system as it exists today has immense scalability problems: it's built upon the idea of creating scarcity around qualifications and putting people against each other. I’m not
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by acituan 6y ago
FWIW, I find "in year XXXX" arguments equally frustrating. It is an entitled, condescending perspective that automatically dismisses the counter-point as a "thing of the past" and "regressive" without adding an
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by acituan 6y ago
That is a fair point. But wouldn't an intrinsic motivation for group conformity be a competitive advantage here, instead of being coerced or convinced for it? For example ants must have high intrinsic motivation for following the group
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by acituan 6y ago
> People almost never commit suicide for "leaving more resources to the tribe". They do because they are complex persons living in a complex environment that is radically different from the savannahs for which our genes evolved
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by acituan 6y ago
Certainly our environment changes very fast but assuming all adaptation has to happen in the genetic space is fallacious. Humans are already the most generalist species ever existed; even at the most basic level we can live in environments
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by acituan 6y ago
For the case of suicide there is a potential mechanism in which there is a benefit for genes to pass. We can imagine a hardship scenario in which removal of oneself leaves more resources to the remainder of one’s group, which is likely
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by acituan 6y ago
> for nearly every kid there is intrinsic motivations you can find I think this can be generalized to all humans. It would be near impossible for a true lack of intrinsic motivation to have made it through evolutionary selection. Like yo
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by acituan 6y ago
> This is a beautiful implementation of a tactic to shift a conversation. Or it is merely contextualizing the debate around what should and should not be considered a public utility by contrasting the case of Google with others. This in
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by acituan 6y ago
> True. Has anybody claimed the opposite? The only thing market ensures is that both sides agree with transaction. Which is the best you can get. I think you've just claimed it again? > I specifically ask why would it matter if
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by acituan 6y ago
> This is demonstrably wrong, and I and others have already provided examples, which you've ignored. I don't know what exactly you consider to be an example to demonstrate your point, but I must have missed it because I haven&#
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by acituan 6y ago
> It's a market transaction - if both the seller and the buyer are satisfied with the price then the deal goes through at that price. There is no magical essence to markets that justifies any agreed pricing point as the best price
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by acituan 6y ago
> It is cost prohibitive to spin off anything because it has to be ported to a completely foreign platform. Completely foreign platform is moving the goalposts here. I said in my original response that everything Reader depended on is
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by acituan 6y ago
We are splitting hairs. Most of both what you say and I say is true and the point still stands. I never claimed cross platform porting is trivial, and that is not the point of this exercise. The OP believes in a secret sauce in Google'
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by acituan 6y ago
> Pretty much every aspect you listed is dependent on a custom Google-internal service, and would have to be rewritten. Except those as OP states have both open source versions and SaaS versions available and they don't need to be w
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by acituan 6y ago
> server (k8s), container (docker), RPC protocol (GRPC), user auth/ACLs, etc. ... At that point, you're rewriting the entire system You are not writing any of those systems, you're merely writing the glue code between your
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by acituan 6y ago
Monorepo doesn’t mean a monolith , it is about code repositories, not about the extent of software reuse. You could convert the entirety of open source code into a monorepo too, but it wouldn’t mean they magically reuse each other. > al
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by acituan 6y ago
> The Google software stack is custom end-to-end, down to a customized Linux kernel and a customized C++ compiler. Are you really suggesting that the existence of an RSS aggregator hinges on custom linux kernels and C++ compilers? >

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