angelzen

54 ms·

511.
by angelzen 5y ago
While HN would kindly steer us towards polite curious conversation, the range of topics themselves is wide open. I have yet to see a site-wide blanket ban on, for example, adblockers. It is a contentious topic in the industry, there are ent
512.
by angelzen 5y ago
London, circa 1830. Nobody is saying you have to work 70 hours weeks in a cotton factory. You can grow your own cotton, feel free to process it any way you want! As long as the attention market concentrates in the hands of a handful of mega
513.
by angelzen 5y ago
Who is the arbiter of good / bad speech? What is the process through society figures out what speech is good and what speech is bad?
514.
by angelzen 5y ago
Not only that human moderators are better than ML moderators, but we probably want human moderators enmeshed in the community. Having Filipinos moderate the speech of Arizonians is not going to work very well.
515.
by angelzen 5y ago
> What will be the next frontier they take on a their responsibility to curate? Social Justice. Your very existence as part of society affects others, therefore anything that you say or think must conform to the standards of Social Justi
516.
by angelzen 5y ago
Complaints about HN editorial policy are not encouraged on HN. You do raise an interesting point though. Historically, the production & distribution of content intended for mass consumption was expensive, often requiring entire teams to
517.
by angelzen 5y ago
"Youtube censors antivax content" is a true statement. It is not state censorship, but censorship nonetheless. Good thing / bad thing, for Youtube / for society at large, short term / long term, we can argue that. B
518.
by angelzen 5y ago
Your argument is that censorship is good in certain situations. That is true, especially in the beginning. The reason why censorship is a four letter word is scope creep. There are little reasons to believe that Youtube is somehow immune to
519.
by angelzen 5y ago
It's not the rent per se, it's the scale. FB/G outcompeted traditional media by having lower margins, compensated by scale. Alas, turns out healthy social systems are sustained through better information nutrition than mass
520.
by angelzen 5y ago
Your conscience is judging you. Your family is judging you. Your employer is judging you. Your neighbors are judging you. Your customers are judging you. We are social entities with a judgment organ: the brain. Good luck rationalizing that
521.
by angelzen 5y ago
If only humans could somehow thrive outside tribal identity groups. If only atomized unbounded skepticism turned cynicism were a long term solution.
522.
by angelzen 5y ago
Religions that we observe today are systems of beliefs with a shelf life measured in millenia. Modern cults tend to implode within a few short decades, if that.
523.
by angelzen 5y ago
Thanks! I skimmed the article and it seemed to make the somewhat bizarre claim that the disease is correlated with the fires. On a more careful reading they were setting up the fire argument and I missed the punch line. I can't stand t
524.
by angelzen 5y ago
I suspect the #1 reason for wild covid misinformation is clickbait. Fear sells.
525.
by angelzen 5y ago
Why not both?
526.
by angelzen 5y ago
> The Lockdown Code of Ethics: > 1. Human life has an unbounded value that places it above all other ethical concerns. Life is sacred. It cannot be part of any cost-benefit transaction. The fact of living trumps quality of life, f
527.
by angelzen 5y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mochovce_Nuclear_Power_Plant > power plant consisting of four VVER 440/V-213 pressurized water reactors [Russian] > Construction of Units 3 and 4 restarted in November 2008. The
528.
by angelzen 5y ago
Prediction is the fundamental function of ubiqutous neural systems. Self-awareness is simply prediction turned onto oneself.
529.
by angelzen 5y ago
I am hypothesizing that the answer to the spike in murder is multivariate, with the largest two components being 'defund the police' and lockdowns. You seem determined to ignore that the City Council did embrace 'defund the p
530.
by angelzen 5y ago
A fairly balanced account, if a bit dated (July), if you are further interested: https://ayjchan.medium.com/a-response-to-the-origins-of-sars...
531.
by angelzen 5y ago
The OA has a well sourced section that indicates that you can leave, you just may not be able to come back. > Currently, more than 38,000 Australians are stranded overseas and nobody can leave the country unless you have a rarely granted
532.
by angelzen 5y ago
The casualness. Construction industry was allowed to work. Turns out the right to work is predicated on the state of the ultimate gauge of human worth, covid-cases-per-million. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_w
533.
by angelzen 5y ago
Characters in Doom will soon discover that they have no plausible gradual explanation for the mind that controls the player. No matter how many fMRI scans of the player head they take, there is no signal.
534.
by angelzen 5y ago
I am more than happy to trust a scientist that clearly explains his work and thought process. I am wary of scientists that only have conclusions and hide behind jargon and "it's too complicated to explain to rubes, they'll ne
535.
by angelzen 5y ago
The Internet has trained us to take out-of-context citations to an art form. People scan the text looking for matches to their pre-existing convictions and largely ignore everything else.
536.
by angelzen 5y ago
Planes are simple, they almost always land. Medicine is complex, the track record is inherently muddier. That's why generally it's a good idea to get several independent opinions, for example about an expensive irreversible proced
537.
by angelzen 5y ago
Are there any other factors in grant funding other than politics? Scientific value and competency come to my naive mind. Perish the thought. There is a world of difference between 'sadly, there is a degree of corruption in the system&#
538.
by angelzen 5y ago
Rachel Thomas: "Medicine is Political". This is a very dangerous slogan that blurs the lines between descriptive and prescriptive. Naked politics is dysfunctional, to say nothing of partisan politics, which is basically the kiss o
539.
by angelzen 5y ago
We don't know. That's the point. Very strange that the science establishment is adamant that they do know, specifically they do know it was zoonotic, even if they also admit they have no scientific evidence for such statements
540.
by angelzen 5y ago
Everywhere?

More ›