alien_at_work

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by alien_at_work 9y ago
The father's mother is exactly the same (i.e. helicoptor) so there could have been some trauma but it's probably multiple generations in the past.
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by alien_at_work 9y ago
I'll change my lifestyle: to something that is more convenient, not less. If you want to go against cars, increase telecomuting, don't force even more people to a bloody train station.
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by alien_at_work 9y ago
No, anyone that is part of your tribe will echo your sentiments but if you ever actually listen to Haidt speak it's clear in 5 minutes that everything you said is a lie.
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by alien_at_work 9y ago
I'm having trouble seeing your argument for all the straw people. I don't care what you believe, I watched her walk down my steps one step at a time, both feet stable on that step before taking the next one. Why? Because her wh
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by alien_at_work 9y ago
I couldn't find a direct link to the scientific studies but the second link mentions one of the scientists and talks about their findings. You can say what you like about Jonathan Haidt but he's a credited psychologist who's
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by alien_at_work 9y ago
That's not bold, that's meek. Self driving cars are the bold. Public transport means travelling to somewhere I don't want to go, so I can be taken somewhere else I don't want to go but is closer to where I do want to g
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by alien_at_work 9y ago
Absolutely agree. And I admit that I display a bit of helicoptor myself when moving cars are within a distance reachable by my youngest.
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by alien_at_work 9y ago
If you're talking about trigger warnings, this is the crux of the so called "SJW" movement: it's a bunch of emotion from ignorant people. Actual studies show that trigger warnings are actually more damaging than not h
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by alien_at_work 9y ago
Being careful is fine and understandable but over-protective "helicoptor" parenting is bad for the kids: it destroys their self confidence. I know a helicoptor family where their youngest daughter couldn't properly walk down
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by alien_at_work 9y ago
That's exactly my point: you cannot abstract away details of pipeline size. You must know this to get the best performance out of your structures and algorithms. There is no way for a compiler/optimizer to look at your contain
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by alien_at_work 9y ago
>It's not fraud, it's a victimless crime, Wow, I've always considered american libertarianism a mental disease but this really takes the cake. So you have someone standing there saying "Hey, want to buy these stock?
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by alien_at_work 9y ago
Never under estimate how stupid greed can make you [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Coughlin_(Walmart_executiv...
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by alien_at_work 9y ago
>keeping the shares when you know they are going down is irrational too. Which is why we have insider trading laws: to make it rational again. "I know this insider information that means my shares will be worthless tomorrow when eve
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by alien_at_work 9y ago
>restore those stalls and inefficiencies as the way things are when you don't use those strange data structures, right No, a stall is only a thing because branch prediction exists. Get rid of it and I can go back to not caring abou
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by alien_at_work 9y ago
Again: we've always known that desktop apps were risky and could do anything to our computer (and for years, a lot of "free" windows software installed malware and viruses). We were always told that JavaScript is "sandb
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by alien_at_work 9y ago
I feel the opposite. I'd like nothing better than this to be the end of branch prediciton. I can think of no other technology that's been so deterimental to high level languages than branch prediction. How many elegant, beutifu
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by alien_at_work 9y ago
Nonsense. Bad tools are bad tools as evidenced by the fact that literally no one can use properly at scale. Evangelists of bad technologies always like to trott out the nonsense about "a good carpenter never blames their tools"..
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by alien_at_work 9y ago
>Plenty of harmful things are done with C and C++ but no one is saying we should deactivate native apps written in unsafe languages, That's not remotely a valid comparison. If I run a native app, I had to get that app somehow and i
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by alien_at_work 9y ago
>If birth order effects were so very visible and so very strong, why haven't we noticed them before? I'm not sure where you're from but everyone I know (including a psychologist) sees birth order effects as very real with
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by alien_at_work 9y ago
>The Enlightenment didn’t envision ML-assisted data-guided state-actor-resourced propaganda efforts. So the solution is to fight those things (with e.g. laws and education), not bring back taboos. How many times must we re-learn the les
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by alien_at_work 9y ago
>- Vendor lock-in: although I try to minimise this and have a clear picture of where the lock-in lies, it is very much present. I feel like this is the most overstated draw back in cloud computing by far. I don't know how most peop
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by alien_at_work 9y ago
I thought trades past a certain size had to be disclosed? But yes, this is probably the reason: I simply wouldn't be able to know until long after the fact.
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by alien_at_work 9y ago
I've often wondered about starting a fund where I simply follow any trades certain congress members are making. That's not insider info at that point, right? I guess this strategy can't work for some reason (or others would
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by alien_at_work 9y ago
>But they're absolutely not. Fine. I was going for "things society generally accepts to be evil". >there is no objective base on which to call someone unethical. If you want to get this technical but I'm obviously
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by alien_at_work 9y ago
> If, on the other hand, you just mean 'killing' I don't, I was going for "things everyone, pretty much everywhere, accept as evil". >but it's ridiculous to describe 'people criticizing me on the Int
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by alien_at_work 9y ago
Again, you're preseenting assumptions. We don't know that things will still work that way if people lived radically longer. You certainly don't know that well enough to shun people who try to find out.
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by alien_at_work 9y ago
People in this very thread are saying anyone who works on such technologies are inherently unethical people . Do you not see how this kind of labelling is dangerous and distructive to debate?
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by alien_at_work 9y ago
And yet here we're discussing an idea for which you personally believe that someone or some group will be harmed but it is not certain, some of us would say it's not even likely. Some of us would even say it would be a great be
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by alien_at_work 9y ago
>Extending life expectancy will increase human population [citation needed] >harm our environment [citation needed] >individuals working towards extending life expectancy are hurting future generations [citation needed] We don&#x27
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by alien_at_work 9y ago
But can't you see the difference here? There is no argument that dumping mercury in a river is good for society, the environment or anything else. It's only "good" for this companies profits and even the real value the

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