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by baddox 7y ago
I don't think that's true, precisely because the employee with a complaint can potentially increase their leverage significantly by educating and organizing other employees around the cause. Your analysis seems to assume that ther
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by baddox 7y ago
Consider what happens if everyone who has a moral complaint about their employer immediately quits rather than staying around and attempting to chase the complaint up the management hierarchy and/or educate and organize other employees
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by baddox 7y ago
> how? How do we know that employees provide more value than their compensation? Because Google makes profit.
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by baddox 7y ago
That's generally what people mean when they say "nondeterministic" in the context of computing. Yeah, in philosophy it generally means something like "the future is not completely determined by the past," but in com
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by baddox 7y ago
At least as of 10 years ago, national (USA) TV networks have a ton of commercials about investing and “wealth management” from massive financial institutions. It must be a massive market with plenty of uncommitted customers to claim.
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by baddox 7y ago
Surely whether it's "their most economically productive age" would depend heavily on how many children they have and how much parental leave they are allowed.
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by baddox 7y ago
Huh? Then how is anything “fake”? That counterfeit Rolex is a real physical object.
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by baddox 7y ago
> Adblockers like uBlock Origin hurt these sites by deriving them of revenue. Even if that's true, consider that perhaps the proliferation of adblockers like uBlock Origin might also help many many other people and businesses who
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by baddox 7y ago
How easy is it to immigrate to Finland and enjoy these advantages of Finnish society? If it’s easy, then I wonder why more people don’t do it. If it’s difficult, then it feels a little disingenuous to praise a society for privileging the pe
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by baddox 7y ago
That's just a matter of a specific language's syntax, type-checking, or linting. Pattern-matching in OCaml [0] will in most cases warn about non-exhaustive checks. It seems like TypeScript has something similar, although I haven&#
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by baddox 7y ago
> The system isn't AI based... It's currently based on static programming. This is why a development team would have to think of every possible scenario that could happen on roads to make self driving cars really work. I'm
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by baddox 7y ago
> It's not a normal thing for code that needs that record that wasn't found. In many popular programming languages, the way to check whether some value has a certain property is with an “if” statement. It would be very odd to r
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by baddox 7y ago
Seems like you’d need a language-aware diff algorithm that can parse the language then diff the AST.
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by baddox 7y ago
What is your argument? Those sound like two very different types of product development that I would expect to work very differently in nearly every conceivable way.
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by baddox 7y ago
But that system was designed (by humans) to give information and warnings to a human. Of course it would be a mistake to design a system like that and then remove the human.
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by baddox 7y ago
Complaining about how people vote is explicitly against the Hacker News guidelines. That’s likely why people downvote comments that are only complaining about downvotes.
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by baddox 7y ago
I think that’s a pretty appropriate use case for the word “want.”
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by baddox 7y ago
I’m not sure why any popular YouTuber would go to Netflix. I doubt it could ever make financial sense. The distribution must be so much lower on Netflix. I would be worried if any of my favorite YouTubers went to Netflix because I would be
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by baddox 7y ago
I don’t think that system was anything close to what would be described as an AI. Wasn’t it just a radar system intended to identify ICBMs?
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by baddox 7y ago
Humans very deliberately created nuclear weapons, with the intention of using them to kill enormous numbers of people, which they did. The fact that humans created something horrible and then used that thing fewer times than they could have
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by baddox 7y ago
Tens of millions of people were killed in Cold War violence. It was a huge disaster caused intentionally by “fellow humans.”
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by baddox 7y ago
I don't think that "sharing 99+% of definitions and values with us as a fellow human being" has really provided much protection against deliberate human-caused disasters. It's true that I wouldn't expect most people
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by baddox 7y ago
The ones that are too difficult to trace wouldn't, of course, be included among every lab exposure-related outbreak you've encountered.
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by baddox 7y ago
I’m not sure how it would hold you back. On the contrary, it should motivate you to seek further understanding of your thoughts. To me, it just doesn’t make sense definitionally to say you understand anything if you can not describe it in
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by baddox 7y ago
I think "re-election" generally refers specifically to an incumbent winning an election, rather than just any time someone wins more than one election.
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by baddox 7y ago
Okay, change "state senators are probably making quite a bit of money off this housing shortage" to "state senators are probably being awarded with a lot of power by supporting this housing shortage." Decision-making on
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by baddox 7y ago
You seem to imply that the program is distributing resources more equitably or fairly (according to some definition) than their initial distribution. Can you explain that? The money is taken from tax-payers, and most of the jobs created in
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by baddox 7y ago
> Thoughts are so much richer than any language can possibly express. I'm not sure about that. Couldn't it just be that we sometimes don't understand our own thoughts? If you can't describe one of your thoughts with l
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by baddox 7y ago
I saw this viral tweet and I hoped that was more scientific information to read, because I'm a little confused. I don't see enough information here to even determine which type of person I am. Of course I've always heard of &
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by baddox 7y ago
I’ve lived in San Francisco for 9 years without a car. So it’s already possible, and there are likely many thousands of people doing it.

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