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by afthonos 7y ago
That makes absolutely no sense. An ex post facto law is a law that criminalizes behavior after the fact. No one is saying the mergers were criminal, nor is breaking up the companies intended to be a legal punishment.
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Gestures like this, sometimes even coupled withe genuine action, are what businesses do to avoid those explicit constraints being created. "Look, we're being reasonable, no need to force us to."
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by afthonos 7y ago
Disclosure: I work at Google, and in absolutely no way do I speak for anyone other than myself. Your situation is awful. In fact, it's so bad that no one should ever have to be in it, and you're absolutely right that ours is eons
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by afthonos 7y ago
> Which rules of the positive are you talking about? Your rules? My rules? Trump's rules? Hitler's rules? Confucius' rules? Jesus' rules? Mohammed's rules? I'm talking about the ones that explain how to th
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> Just consider: A physics course in Nazi Germany or Communist Russia would likely teach the same thing as a physics course in Stanford. An ethics course absolutely would not. Consider why and what that means. Deutsche Physik rejected
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by afthonos 7y ago
While the Trump government has taken things to extremes for our time, the US government has a long and storied history of genocide [1], forced relocations [2], mass deportations of citizens [3], and internment [4] that doesn't get wa
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by afthonos 7y ago
Your level of trust in the US government is unfortunately vastly unwarranted. Hundreds if not thousands of children will never see their parents again as a result of the US government policies; this has been widely publicized. Do you think
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by afthonos 7y ago
Thanks for calling me out on the cherry picking. It was unserious of me to do that. I started out convinced I’m right. You haven’t changed my mind, but I need to look up some info to have a firmer grasp of consequences. Informally, hate spe
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by afthonos 7y ago
That's because "public safety" was the tool they had at their disposal. Unless you think their claims that public safety was threatened were credible, what makes you think that when they can use "hate speech" AND &q
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I am saying that the majority will brand minority speech “hate speech” and use it as a bludgeon.
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Consider that every limitation to the first amendment ever allowed by SCOTUS was the government limiting the speech of a minority, and never the speech of a popular majority to protect a vulnerable minority, and then what you advocate for b
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> This isn't a weakness in Bayes' rule, it's a weakness in your experimental protocol. You're supposed to pick the prior before doing the experiment and seeing the data. Sure, if the goal is to get to something true
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All of this is true. I was writing to mainly illustrate that Bayesian analysis is still open to abuse—though as the sibling commenter says, it's hopefully clearer when it's being abused.
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It becomes part of your experimental design. Just like people can quibble with your setup, with your questions, with your procedures, they can quibble with your priors. The difference is that it's out there, explicit. Note that a big w
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by afthonos 7y ago
I’ve always seen that hyphenated: “rabbit-chasing dog”.
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First, the Roman thing was simply an illustration that relationship societies are not a Turkish thing; the roots of them are ancient. That far back, I suspect most societies were relationship-based, very much including Greek society befor
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by afthonos 7y ago
It didn’t help as the rest of Europe moved to the bureaucratic model, but the relationship model was an essential part of Roman rule (the advances of Roman law notwithstanding, patronage was explicit), so the roots I think are deeper.
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I am Greek, but have never lived in Greece. My understanding of the situation is exactly this in terms of what happens, but very different in terms of what the causes are. Basically, Greek society is not a Western bureaucratic society; for
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by afthonos 7y ago
That’s an impressively difficult number, but I wonder where you got it from? What is a “time”? A second in dangerous conditions? A trip? How do you get a hundred million iterations of anything at human driving scale?
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Overuse happens precisely because they are so good at what they do. Moreover, at a first approximation, overuse results simply in a return to a previous state of no good defense against newly-resistant bugs. So in the worst case scenario, a
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by afthonos 7y ago
Should be context dependent. New parents benefit a lot from their own elder family members giving them advice on the basics; in an environment with less information (i.e. no internet), the advantage vs. people with no parents or family to h
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by afthonos 7y ago
And the consequences for making the wrong decisions are…? I’ve been giving this idle thought recently—it feels like what we have worldwide right now is a scaling problem. Forms of government that worked great for small countries are not nec
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by afthonos 7y ago
I do not have the technical know-how to evaluate their claim that the video is unedited, nor have they earned the right to my time to validate it if I did. If the video is egregious enough, people with less mistrust than me will do the legw
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by afthonos 7y ago
I can’t address the root point in public. You’ll have to take my word for it that I didn’t know what the point was at all when I wrote about sources (though of course, being sentient, I had an idea of the kind of point it would be). My atti
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by afthonos 7y ago
This isn’t about Google. I reject Project Veritas as a source of evidence . I take no public position on Google, not least because I work there and don’t speak for them. This isn’t a demand for rigor, isolated or otherwise, because I genui
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by afthonos 7y ago
Years ago, Bill Kristol accused the lawyers representing Guantanamo Bay detainees of being anti-American for doing so. Up until that point, Bill Kristol has been a pundit I read semi-regularly as a reasonable voice I disagreed with. From th
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by afthonos 7y ago
> That is 80m2. I grew up in a 75m2 apartment (810sf) with my parents and two brothers. I guess that "cramped" is a matter of perspective. :) Also a matter of layout. The expected amenities in US apartments live little room for
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Agreed. I think the background you shared shows one of the big problems in design: it's always easy to see the tsunami markers after the fact and say "the information was there all along". It's a lot harder to pick t
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I refrain from using “simply” or “just” unless I am the person expected to design or fix the problem. Ahead of time. Saying after a disaster caused by the most powerful earthquake ever recorded in Japan[0] that the solution was “simply” to
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by afthonos 7y ago
Indeed. The problem of extending life has both scientific and social dimensions. We are currently working on the scientific aspect, but, in at least in the US, failing at the social one.

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