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by adamsea 6y ago
Yeah a newspaper article is not the same as a covert social media influence campaign :/. It's not an apples-to-apples comparison.
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by adamsea 6y ago
It's also _dramatically_ easier for _all_ citizens to _get_ ID's in those countries. I also bet a lot of those countries have voting holidays. You're not making an apples-to-apples comparison.
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by adamsea 6y ago
> some of the very same people pushing for national id flip out if you suggest voter registration require proof of eligibility. Those are two very different situations - just because both share the element of identification doesn't
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by adamsea 6y ago
The cat is already out of the bag, imho, if nothing else via ways of tracking phones, stuff online, social media, etc. Realistically unless we become a society of digital luddites that isn't gonna, change, so I see the question as more
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by adamsea 6y ago
It's not like they have any context or history of gross, concerted efforts at manipulating public opinion through Facebook and/or a lack of social responsibility to draw upon. /s
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by adamsea 6y ago
There’s more than one way to skin a cat. And the jury’s still out on Apple.
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by adamsea 6y ago
The book "Coders At Work: Reflections on the Craft of Programming". It is not a technical book. It'll be as good as anything : ). "Peter Seibel interviews 15 of the most interesting computer programmers alive today in Co
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by adamsea 6y ago
It’s easier to hire javascript developers, no? Even if it’s not the most efficient.
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by adamsea 6y ago
"Talent" is not always a there-or-not quality. IMHO it depends what we're talking about, and to what degree. Math genius, NBA player, obviously yeah you need some degree of inborn talent plus a crazy intense environment (for
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by adamsea 6y ago
I can't resist: "you can't judge a book by its cover" ;)
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by adamsea 7y ago
I've been curious - what does onsite mean with shelter-in-place and general uncertainty around how safe it will even be to take public transportation, gather in offices, etc, once shelter-in-place is lifted?
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by adamsea 7y ago
Yes but the point of that post is that the hiring manager is looking for a candidate who places honesty first, and that said honesty is also a signal for placing the needs of the team / org first (to a degree, obviously). "One han
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by adamsea 7y ago
If you were a member of the media and the President of the United States - of any party - suggested people try injecting bleach as a cure (for anything), what would you do? What would you say about other politicians who implicitly supported
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by adamsea 7y ago
Oregon !== South Central
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by adamsea 7y ago
I’m making a point, not quoting the man.
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by adamsea 7y ago
His daughter: “”I can also, strangely enough, tolerate vodka and bourbon.” The idea that alcohol, one of the most well-documented toxic substances, is among the few things that Peterson’s body will tolerate may be illuminating. It implies t
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by adamsea 7y ago
For context, this is the _entirety_ of the portion of the article which critiques Feynman's behavior towards women. It's not even 1/5 of the article. "In high school, though Feynman excelled in academics, he began to fos
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by adamsea 7y ago
Dunno about Jordan Peterson. Some of his advice may be OK but he's also profoundly weird / not very self-reflective .... only eats meat? Meat cures all? IMHO the Socratic Dialogues, as basically the foundational text of all Wester
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by adamsea 7y ago
IMHO we are not only discussing luck but also our imperfect and fallible nature as people. All you say is excellent advice, but -- sometimes you get the bear, sometimes the bear gets you.
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by adamsea 7y ago
Two heads are better than one! ;)
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by adamsea 7y ago
I think the words we're looking for here are "accountability, responsibility, leadership" ;) :/ :| :(
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by adamsea 7y ago
What if the opposite is true?
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by adamsea 7y ago
I think it's telling that in this conversation so far the one thing not mentioned has been the I-word: Ideology. Though there has been a bit of the C-word: Class. Talking about what's best for the country is _by_its_very_nature_ s
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by adamsea 7y ago
Yes and no? Plenty of parents in the U.S. with children don't seem to care about the environment.
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by adamsea 7y ago
> Make things illegal, and they don't happen. Well, as you said yourself, Uber happened. Why? Because it's investors saw a chance to make a huge profit, and so they _wanted_ to invest in that army of lobbyists. However those sa
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by adamsea 7y ago
Yes and no. I agree there's more to politics than money, but, I think it is fair to say that, whatever legitimate reasons many Democratic Party voters may have had for not voting for Sanders, there is a general media and institutional
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by adamsea 7y ago
Isn't Uber kind of the opposite kind of building the OP refers to? Uber externalizes so many costs to its drivers. It relies on someone else's healthcare system to care for its drivers. Someone else to pay to maintain the cars. So
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by adamsea 7y ago
There's lies, damned lies, and statistics. Presenting merely data or information is insufficient. The responsibility is to present useful, contextualized information to the public - knowledge.
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by adamsea 7y ago
IMHO we don't even need to do that, I'd bet 50% of nefarious behavior could be caught by googling for information about companies which Senators buy or sell, and seeing if there's news which would indicate they took advantage
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by adamsea 7y ago
A group of elites/privilege/whatever competing within a specific domain. Even if you lose, you're still in the group and get certain privileges. Keeping the wealth in the group is key. I'm not a Bernie Bro, but he's

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