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by asciident 5y ago
Yes, your comment is the only one across the two threads which understands the nuance of the definition of human subjects research. This work is not "about" human subjects, and even the word "about" is interpreted a cert
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by asciident 5y ago
I'm pretty sure everyone except journalists have already moved on to using GAFAM.
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by asciident 6y ago
I know someone who was denied a job as a luggage handler at an airline due to a failed background check (though not a credit check). But I think the credit checks may matter more for people hired in positions of power, where being in debt i
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by asciident 6y ago
I strongly disagree. Bad credit (sometimes even wrongly attributed) can block you from jobs, mobile plans, bank accounts, credit/debit cards, renting, etc. I'd rather be blocked from Facebook than be told I can't rent an apar
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by asciident 6y ago
That's a naive view of credit bureaus. There are value judgments in there throughout the stack. You can't get a job because you didn't pay off a medical debt. You can't get a mortgage because you don't have the righ
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by asciident 6y ago
Like the credit bureaus? Seems like they've been doing this for decades already.
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by asciident 6y ago
All it takes is your company execs or lawyers to be afraid of a stern letter, and ask you to cancel your project. If you're violating their robots.txt, you're probably violating their terms of service that's hidden somewhere.
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by asciident 6y ago
This is not true. Maintenance is necessary for dirt lots in downtowns. I own a few parcels in the middle of dense cities. You have to deal with soil erosion, animals digging up soil which blows away, problems with trees (due to storms, pest
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by asciident 6y ago
There is if you are doing it for work. For example, your company could get sued if you are found using that data and ignoring the ToS. If you are a public figure, you could get your name tarnished as doing something unethical or the media m
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by asciident 6y ago
People have been saying this for decades. Both the idea that the academic publishing model is about to die (due to too many papers, low quality, broken peer review, etc.), and that we need to focus on reproducibility. These ideas itself are
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by asciident 6y ago
Computer science theory papers are alphabetical as well.
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by asciident 6y ago
Cool of you to do this, though I wonder if this will be more of a measure of community size. Smaller niche topic communities probably behave more like citation rings (you'd cite everyone else in the community frequently). It also seems
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by asciident 6y ago
Does anyone have a mirror? The link is down. Nothing against the OP, but I don't know how in 2021, websites can't handle a few dozen visitors at once. Even a $5 digital ocean machine can handle thousands simultaneously without goi
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by asciident 6y ago
Simplifying the tax code will require removing special exemptions for certain interest groups. This is often rephrased as "raising the taxes on [group]" which gets a lot of pushback. For example, raising the taxes on teachers, nat
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by asciident 6y ago
Unfortunately when I loaded it it had a major screen repaint about half a second during load. It would be more minimal if it didn't have that.
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by asciident 6y ago
It's not black or white. You can have discussions with friends and family, in anonymous forums, in low-stakes social situations. Not at the workplace with sensitive colleagues, or in public on social media.
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by asciident 6y ago
Is this mindset similar to the "Pence rule" of "never dine alone with a woman"? It seems like this could carry over to topics about race or politics. Basically, avoid potentially problematic situations that can be misint
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by asciident 6y ago
Frauds, scams, and other forms of dishonesty have exploded. From phone scams, to unemployment fraud, and marketplace scams, to retail cheats. Many people are thinking with an adversarial and self-optimizing mindset. I think based on this tr
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by asciident 6y ago
And California's 11 billion is probably just a fraction of all the unemployment fraud across all the states as this has been a rampant problem. Then add on to that the small business loan fraud, and we're easily at 100+ billion le
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by asciident 6y ago
This is very believable, because information in prison spreads instantly and everyone knows what everyone else is doing. One inmate figures out a way to make money, and sells this information for other favors, and soon it becomes "vira
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by asciident 6y ago
Speaking of fast, that web page loaded instantaneously for me. Gives me confidence in the product, despite being technically unrelated.
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by asciident 6y ago
So I find NextDoor to simply have a different culture. If they saw the comments on Hacker News or Reddit, they would probably similarly call it toxic and that its users assumes the worst of others. When I read NextDoor posts, I put on my Ne
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by asciident 6y ago
You are my software twin. I'm using Winamp 2.95 this very moment, and Spacemonger 1.0 which still works fantastically. Both have slight crashes in rare edge cases now but perfectly usable day-to-day. You wouldn't perchance also be
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by asciident 6y ago
Isn't the premise already a problem? Even the mainstream conservative views did not result in retribution. Yet extremist liberal views would never be considered for retribution.
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by asciident 6y ago
This looks great, plain-text is underrated. Do you use this yourself, and for how long? Your format looks like a slightly more strict version of this one here: https://jeffhuang.com/productivity_text_file/
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by asciident 6y ago
This is an ironic contrast as it appears next to the link on Hacker News about the 20-year anniversary of VideoLAN. A volunteer non-profit project versus a commercial subscription-based project from one of the richest companies.
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by asciident 6y ago
Software that lasts over 10 years should be celebrated. Software that is still just as relevant after 20 years is extraordinary. If VideoLAN were a startup, it'd be a unicorn. VLC (and ffmpeg) are nearly singlehandedly keeping the worl
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by asciident 6y ago
That seems a bit unfair to jump to thinking about bots, as he noted he had a lot of engaged visitors that commented and sent him emails. While the marketplace is more crowded, the number of markets has shrink. To continue your analogy, each
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by asciident 6y ago
Keep in mind android they bought, then the leader of that project "resigned" for sexual harassment. So it's continuing but I doubt it'll be more than incremental improvements, as we've seen in the past 5 versions. B
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by asciident 6y ago
A lot of the money went to gangs in foreign countries. There were some stories of immoral rich people like the rapper who got over a million dollars and boasted about it, but I imagine most were dishonest poor people. The problem is this re

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