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by appreciatorBus 3mo ago
There is nothing inherently ethical about co-op owned organizations nor anything inherently unethical about privately owned organizations. The party vanguard of the worker co-op is exactly as capable of selfish or abusive behaviour as the p
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by appreciatorBus 3mo ago
Use of the word "workers" as class implies precarity and vulnerability, making it a useful category to organize around politically, regardless of whether your political ideas are good for such workers or anyone else. But this dist
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by appreciatorBus 3mo ago
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by appreciatorBus 3mo ago
I think all of this hinges on whether or not you think it was a protest. If they had been peacefully sitting outside the facility holding signs, I think you'd have a case that the sentencing is insane. But if they were actively plann
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by appreciatorBus 3mo ago
> you need to pair it with some kind of demand data for it to actually tell you anything. Again, this is entirely dependant on who is consuming the statistic and for what purpose. For some use cases, yes demand data will be quite crucial
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by appreciatorBus 3mo ago
But relative usefulness is entirely subjective, making it a meaningless unit. Depending on your use case you may need 256 GB or 0.5 GB. The audience who would benefit from hypothetical $/usefulness would be people who don’t know what
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by appreciatorBus 3mo ago
A couple of well researched examples https://www.tracingwoodgrains.com/p/how-wikipedia-whitewashe... https://archive.ph/ZqHRu To be clear, I'm sure anyone who wants to can dig up examples of other
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by appreciatorBus 3mo ago
Liberal, yes. Progressive/left, no.
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by appreciatorBus 4mo ago
People like dumb shit all the time if they think they are scoring points for their team. The concept of backlash implies that a change in opinion but I suspect those 187k likers would have liked just about anything you care to post that wa
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by appreciatorBus 4mo ago
Yeah, I have noticed this as well. When I’m trying to solve a difficult problem, it seems that way more ideas arrive to me unprompted when I take a break from heavy listening.
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by appreciatorBus 4mo ago
This is silly. An argument about whether or not to deploy differential privacy on large statistical databases has no bearing whatsoever on whether or not you give your address to have a package delivered. If you want the package delivered,
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by appreciatorBus 4mo ago
> Differential privacy makes this trade-off explicit, and thus impossible to ignore. I think he has it backwards here. Techniques like differential privacy hide the fact that a trade-off exists, except for a small cadre of experts who li
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by appreciatorBus 4mo ago
Then maybe the data shouldn’t be collected in the first place?
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by appreciatorBus 4mo ago
Sure, it’s impossible to misconstrue that the statue of that size has or had value to someone. But that still doesn’t mean it will have value to you. Someone who’s never seen it before, who has no exposure to the cultures that produced it o
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by appreciatorBus 4mo ago
We should abolish zoning so that people can live closer to work.
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by appreciatorBus 4mo ago
Yes but that predates AI & projects rejecting pull requests, so I would argue this is a separate unrelated phenomenon. If anything, the fact that despite accepting PRs, most projects have little new blood, means that PRs were rarely a
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by appreciatorBus 4mo ago
Exactly. Median income in the US like 50k. For the HN folk (including me) who make more than that, I'm very happy for you, but please stop pretending you are part of the downtrodden, oppressed proletariat. Be happy for your lot in l
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by appreciatorBus 4mo ago
Individuals making 3x the national median income are not "workers" by any definition. They are a part of the elite, top 10% of society. They will survive!
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by appreciatorBus 4mo ago
How is being asked to show up and clock in making things worse?
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by appreciatorBus 4mo ago
> Ressentiment: A chronic, festering state of mind. It is a lasting mental attitude where the suppressed emotions of envy and spite continually replay in the mind, leading to a general, cynical worldview. lol not even close. I have a po
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by appreciatorBus 4mo ago
> how a normal person can become a maintainer though. Is the goal to produce high-quality software, or is the goal to produce an apprenticeship scheme for developers who are interested in the project but not so interested that they are w
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by appreciatorBus 4mo ago
Yes. Open source existed and thrived before GitHub, before git, and before anyone had ever used the words “pull request“. It was different, to be sure, but it was not worse. We are living through a transition, but people do that all the t
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by appreciatorBus 4mo ago
Same as it ever was... In the 1700's, "executive" referred to a person or group holding supreme legal power In the 1900's, "executive" described high ranking business people. In the 2000's, a junior sales
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by appreciatorBus 4mo ago
It’s much more fundamental than that. A better example would be how many axles a road vehicle can have to be considered a road vehicle. You might reasonably conclude that the number starts at one and essentially goes to infinity and you’d b
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by appreciatorBus 4mo ago
> makes their small minds feel funny. Because they want to pretend that the world can be categorized into simple boxes that alleviate their anxiety, and gives them a sense of control. Ah the classics! “Everyone who disagrees with me is s
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by appreciatorBus 4mo ago
> which are really just two “blessed” combinations of the above characteristics. Nope. Not what I said at all. Nothing I said in any way related to the idea that some combinations were “blessed”. Merely that there are two pathways. Indi
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by appreciatorBus 4mo ago
You didn’t read the article. There are two developmental pathways for sexual reproduction: - one produces small mobile gametes - one produces large immobile gametes There can be plenty of variation in how an individual organism in different
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by appreciatorBus 4mo ago
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10508-025-03348-3
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by appreciatorBus 4mo ago
Could oversight like this lead to politics overriding science? Sure, of course. But to even ask the question presumes that politics isn’t already overriding science within the academy, just from a different direction.
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by appreciatorBus 4mo ago
That assumes there is no value whatsoever in doing your own chores. If you want to value time w/friends & family over chores, fair enough, but doing chores is definitely a better & more valuable use of time than zoning out tik

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