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by acituan 6y ago
As other comments mention protracted WFH reveals and expands many inequities; - A good chunk of the FAANG workers are young immigrants, which means they cannot move back to their parents’. Whereas most of their American counterparts can do
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by acituan 6y ago
Not only the scale but also the multi-agent nature of the problem makes it hard to predict. As an example, humans killing each other is an ancient problem. But humans killing each other at scale with nuclear weapons is a much different prob
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by acituan 6y ago
> May I translate: They saw improvements in things they could easily measure. They hope this translate into improved cognitive ability. But it actually didn't. But they still hope it'll do that later. I find your translation mi
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by acituan 6y ago
That solves the anonymity requirement part and I agree. But even if we made sure all account holders are humans, still we don’t have a way to test if the content was truly written by the account holder or created by a bot. Manual human labo
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by acituan 6y ago
> The thing is, there is no reliable way to prevent these errors, which means in general it is better to not interfere. That is not a forgone conclusion. It is only better not to intervene if the expected cost of intervention is higher t
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by acituan 6y ago
> But governments usually err on the over-interventionist side. When you look at the world you can’t help but notice this pattern, it is really that obvious. There can be 3 classes of errors with interventions; 1) intervening when it is
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by acituan 6y ago
> There is no "what society values" at work here, only supply and demand That sounds as if supply and demand were laws of nature like gravity or speed of light. They are nothing but forces we create (i.e. purely anthropogenic),
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by acituan 6y ago
There's another ship. It has captain, crew, destination and a course set. Turns out the destination sucks, but it is too late once they arrive. There is another ship that comes across some depressive and anxiety provoking spots on the
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by acituan 6y ago
Sorry to hear that. Could it be related to pandemic closing down places you usually go, people you see etc?
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by acituan 6y ago
> Could anyone have honestly foreseen the pandemic and its ensuing upheavals? Absolutely. Previous WHO classification has a "Phase 4: Sustained community-level outbreaks -> Medium to high probability of pandemic" designation
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by acituan 6y ago
> doing it on mommy and daddy's dime is a fairly selfish pursuit. This is a value judgment specific to the US (and maybe bunch of other countries in the anglosphere). Places in the Mediterranean like Italy and Greece are notably dif
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by acituan 6y ago
> my point is the original claim of "journalism is not our fact gathering process" is just wrong. Allow me to reword; facts are necessary but not at all sufficient to constitute journalism, nor journalism can claim monopoly on
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by acituan 6y ago
Absolutely what your neighbor did is crucial, but it is not a waterfall process. The problem space of "gathering facts" is virtually infinite, means relevance decisions has to start while deciding on what to gather more facts on
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> They have 1,600 journalists last year that were sent to 150 countries ... to gather facts around the world Journalism is not our fact gathering apparatus. It is our sense making and relevance deciding apparatus based on those fact
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by acituan 6y ago
You've equivocated anxiety with anxiety disorders and dismissed the suggestions on improving environmental factors. I posited even if a person presents with anxiety, fixing environmental factors should be the first thing to consider. S
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by acituan 6y ago
> if you feel the need for more coffee in the afternoon, that’s a sign that your work habits and distractions need to change, not your physical energy level. Out of curiosity, why does this apply to the afternoon coffee and not the morni
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by acituan 6y ago
> Sleep problems are largely caused by anxiety, once treated it gives way to solid sleep. Surely you mean anxiety disorders , not anxiety itself. Anxiety is a part of healthy human psyche. In that, having anxiety in response to improper
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by acituan 6y ago
I want to play the devil's advocate so forgive the extra cynicism; > Even when we live in rather harsh conditions we can have a balanced diet We can have a balanced diet, but it is not the cheapest or most convenient; 40% of Ameri
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by acituan 6y ago
You are taking huge liberties in forming equivocations which mislead your conclusion. The tacit knowledge description only talks about the acquisition process of the knowledge, not that the knowledge itself is outside bounds of rationalit
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by acituan 6y ago
Speed of any car currently travelling on US public roads is public information , it is publicly observable, people have no expectation of privacy on this. Now imagine some technology made it possible to observe and mine this data en masse,
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by acituan 6y ago
> a) Atrophic to one's career Career growth after entry level rarely hinges on acquisition of technical knowledge. If anything, technical knowledge is the easiest to acquire which is why entry levels can claim it without much work e
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by acituan 6y ago
> Rather, we invented the distraction devices because modern life is so devoid of meaning and purpose that distraction is a survival adaptation. I'd argue it is the other way around. What we call "distraction" is simply su
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by acituan 6y ago
> Why should I subsidize bad drivers? You realize you still share the same roads with bad drivers, right? Insurance pool is the wrong level of abstraction to isolate bad driving. If anything, it puts our skin in the game to advocate for
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by acituan 6y ago
> I don't think twitter is not allowing de-escalation as much as they haven't figured out how to do it. I think what they are doing is perfectly in line with their mission statement. "Give everyone the power to create and
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by acituan 6y ago
Don't consider this a personal need but a game theoretic challenge. Those who pursue influence and visibility also end up shaping public perception, policy etc. Considering how much channels like twitter tend to amplify foolish ideas t
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Neutralizing Biased Text(github.com)
3 points by acituan 6y ago|3 comments
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From their github page; "This repo contains code for the paper, 'Automatically Neutralizing Subjective Bias in Text'. Concretely this means algorithms for; - Identifying biased words in sentences. - Neutralizing bias in sente
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> Twitter is just a means for people to communicate Human to human communication inherently includes a certain amount of noise per signal transmitted. Twitter or in general social media algorithms seem to amplify the noise more than the
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by acituan 6y ago
> Very long article that could be summarized in one phrase: do what customer needs, not what he asks for Indeed. The contradiction of recommending focusing on user needs and missing the reader need for a concise, well written article doe
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by acituan 6y ago
We all are the losers. That money is used in one of the least productive ways possible. Imagine all the other startups that had genuine productivity increasing, humanity enriching potential that was deprived of this fund due to investor inc

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