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by asabjorn 8y ago
As a survivor I can say sexual assault is terrible. Before we make any conclusion on the numbers, 88/384=22.9% of the female founders responded and 32.5% were given the chance to participate. Is the sample representative of the whole?
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by asabjorn 8y ago
There have for a few decades been a progressive activist sub-culture in the bay area, mostly springing out of berkeley social science departments, and they seem through brute force and bullying tactics to define what is "rightspeak&quo
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by asabjorn 8y ago
You are correct. It is very hard to be different in the wrong ways in the Bay Area, and the social sanctions against being different affect all aspects of your life including loosing friends and jobs. What is the wrong way of thinking is la
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by asabjorn 8y ago
False equivalence definition: "A common way for this fallacy to be perpetuated is one shared trait between two subjects is assumed to show equivalence, especially in order of magnitude, when equivalence is not necessarily the logical r
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by asabjorn 9y ago
I took one, and although it gives me a great advantage to be trained in research when exploring complex problems it feels like it took too many years that I could have spend on my passion for creating things.
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by asabjorn 9y ago
> Perhaps you're young and haven't known life without Facebook? It used to be that people just lost track of each other all the time. Sure, but now many seem to loose track of people they are sitting in the same room with and m
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by asabjorn 9y ago
> Despite the title of the article, it doesn't show that Facebook use makes people unhappy - merely that it is correlated with unhappiness. True. Correlation is not causation. However, my argument is that it doesn't seem to sol
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by asabjorn 9y ago
Uber is doing very well in Latin America and Canada, so yes. Also, if you compare Uber to companies like Facebook and Google it has a large market position where both of those don't and its expansion strategy resulted in a large share
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by asabjorn 9y ago
A moat is only useful if the project serves its purpose well. The question I ask myself is how a product that so demonstrably[1] makes people unhappier the more they use it can be sustainable. What problem does Facebook cure? The engagement
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by asabjorn 9y ago
He is not even mentioning Latin America which is one of Ubers biggest markets. Maybe because it doesn't fit the story?
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by asabjorn 9y ago
It might also mean that the hard work of the people creating interesting things has not yet been outweighed by other negative factors in its environment. The old school hacker culture is very contrarian to the current dominant SV viewpoint
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by asabjorn 9y ago
By inspecting the supporting evidence for some of his claims. If the argument is supported by solid references then there is reason to take his analysis seriously.
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by asabjorn 9y ago
It will definitely take time for Uber to earn trust back, and it is fair that you feel the way you do. Hopefully Uber will earn your and other people’s trust through us showing over time that we continue doing the right thing. My intention
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by asabjorn 9y ago
Uber has strong internal data access controls at this point, and any user data access need a ticket and a justification before accessing.
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by asabjorn 9y ago
Yes, I am watching that one as well with great interest. It will be interesting to see what evidence comes out of that around any pre-election efforts to manipulate the results.
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by asabjorn 9y ago
I give up. How did you get that from what I said? What I am talking about is process to bridge the problem of you saying your viewpoint is not getting across and how I’ve engaged in the same process. I am not saying I am right or you are wr
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by asabjorn 9y ago
> This shows me that you aren't actually reading what I'm writing. > What is my claim? Based on the above you don't seem to have any idea. After your comment on me not engaging in discussion and not understanding what y
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by asabjorn 9y ago
You never made a real connection as to why post ad spend means pre-election subterfuge, so your fact is not a fact. What you are stating is a theory you haven't proven at all, and all your subsequent arguments and defenses don't h
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by asabjorn 9y ago
I think you are missing the point of my comment; the burden of proof is on the entity claiming election meddling, and this indicated that core parts of the evidence need closer scrutiny and that the case is not as straightforward as NYT eta
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by asabjorn 9y ago
I am not sure I understand. How does someone using a different mechanism to spread disinformation post election indicate success of their pre election mechanisms for spreading disinformation? Both are problems and need fixing, but only pre
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by asabjorn 9y ago
I would agree with you if the conversation topic wasn’t specifically how Russia meddled with the pre election result. People discredit the vote of half of the US people in the belief they were partially fooled by Russia, and if that is not
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by asabjorn 9y ago
It seems much more problematic for a platform to control personal posts than to control abuse of advertising and promotion mechanisms. The narrative of NYT and much of the media has been that Russia manipulated the pre election by abusing a
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by asabjorn 9y ago
This seems like a very relevant piece of information. Why should anyone wish he didn’t say this if it is true? This seems to indicate that the election wasn’t compromised to the degree we thought.
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by asabjorn 9y ago
What is it about Scandinavia that you believe does not give equal opportunity and choice? Norway’s current and many of the previous prime ministers were female, there is generous social support for working parents, most women get a college
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by asabjorn 9y ago
> That full excerpt is an extremely ignorant representation of postmodernism, marxism, and Western culture, and the part I pointed to tops it off by saying he's completely justified in his ignorance. Lets handle one thing at a time.
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by asabjorn 9y ago
Personally I am a bit on the fence about his arguments as these are complex phenomena, but it is not obvious to me how this is sophistry. Why do you think this is an example of him using fallacious arguments with the intention of deceiving
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by asabjorn 9y ago
Which other views does he have that you think proves your point? Saying that I know something without saying what you believe I know is not helpful in assisting me in understanding what you are communicating.
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by asabjorn 9y ago
How is telling people to use their agency and take action to improve their own lives instead of complaining reactionary sophistry? Your criticism seems incredibly off-base.
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by asabjorn 9y ago
Do you have any data or facts to back up your argument that there is no zoning issues in central valley? Legislators seem to disagree with you and passed a bill to require relevant cities to zone for farmworker housing https://le
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by asabjorn 9y ago
You make an interesting point, According to this link https://steinhardt.nyu.edu/scmsAdmin/uploads/005/841/RTT_RPI... : * Large urban school districts are experiencing the greatest numerical decrease in B

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