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by baddox 6y ago
There’s nothing wrong with defining the 2D world such that knights can pass through intermediate pieces or can simply teleport to a new location.
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by baddox 6y ago
I don’t really want to get into arguments of the form “they think they want X but they actually want Y,” because if you’re willing to use that mode of argument then it’s completely irrelevant to you what people think or say they want, and y
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by baddox 6y ago
The trouble with your example of healthcare is that Americans for whatever reason overwhelmingly approve of the American system of private health insurance plans, and even if they didn’t, I don’t think many would make an association between
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by baddox 6y ago
True, but there are some things that we observe minds tending to value consistently.
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by baddox 6y ago
I agree with all those criticisms to some extent, but without some alternative I don't find the argument very useful, and I certainly don't find the original commenter's approach useful. It's like listing the many many e
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by baddox 6y ago
I'm sorry you don't view my interpretation as charitable, but I do think a charitable interpretation of your first comment is that you don't propose ways of fixing problems in the scientific community but rather broadly dismi
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by baddox 6y ago
Pretending that something which is unavoidably political is not political will not make that thing less political.
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by baddox 6y ago
I think it's more of an assumption required by models which say "democracy is a good idea that will work well." In other words, the typical civics class model goes something like "democracy is a good idea that will work
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by baddox 6y ago
> Personally, as a scientist, I am comforted that there are enough others out there who doubt the entire notion of a scientific establishment that the population should "trust" to make decisions without oversight. I'm not
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by baddox 6y ago
> So the way to get kids to like Math is by forcing them to learn... proofs? I mean, there are definitely issues with the whole "forcing them to learn" part, but assuming we're given the option to change the content of the
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by baddox 6y ago
There are external 5k displays on the market, including one that Apple has sold.
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by baddox 6y ago
You could also just hide a real key somewhere close to your place but not close enough to make it easy for someone to try it on doors until they find yours.
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by baddox 6y ago
"People still buy and Apple is wildly successful" is a pretty decent argument though.
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by baddox 6y ago
> Sure, but more would buy at lower prices. Well, sure, that's just the law of demand. If Apple's goal was simply to ship the most products as possible in the short term, they would sell them for a penny until they ran out of m
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by baddox 6y ago
I agree with your overall idea, but not your sentiment. I think that plenty of computer nerds use Macs. It's still a popular platform for software developers and computer enthusiasts. There's no need for gatekeeping between "
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by baddox 6y ago
I used to build gaming PCs for myself and friends, salvage laptops from parts picked up at auction, etc. But I'm no longer interested in doing that. I'd much rather just buy the computer I need and not fuss with it. I think both o
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by baddox 6y ago
Perhaps I would be more comfortable hiring engineers I was friends with, or even worse, engineers with similar experiences and backgrounds to me. But hopefully I would deliberately try to recognize and adjust for those tendencies, and I cer
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by baddox 6y ago
“Fortune” means “luck.” The whole point of advocating against arbitrary causes for salary differences is that one’s livelihood shouldn’t depend on luck.
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by baddox 6y ago
> Someone who has trouble negotiating in professional circles is going to have issues far beyond the workplace, if nothing else they're going to get repeatably screwed buying a car, and they should work on that. How is that relevant
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by baddox 6y ago
I feel like you'd lose most of the advantage of a voice interface if you had to learn a new (and presumably difficult) high-bandwidth vocal signal language. It might still be useful for some niche scenarios where it's very importa
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by baddox 6y ago
Or, pay ransoms secretly, which is of course what companies would do.
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by baddox 6y ago
It’s really remarkable for one’s takeaway from the Nazis to be that accusations of racism might be false.
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by baddox 6y ago
> many conservatives were once liberals, while the reverse is typically not true. Is there any data to support that claim? It’s the opposite of my own personal anecdata.
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by baddox 6y ago
Isn’t it already a felony to attack computer systems and hold data for ransom? That doesn’t seem to be working flawlessly.
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by baddox 6y ago
Right. So the point is really “the winners win.”
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by baddox 6y ago
> it's always struck me as unfair that Western social media companies are banned in China, while Chinese ones have been able to compete Worldwide. It’s weird to point out this double standard but then apparently take the side of bo
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by baddox 6y ago
There are people with much more “intolerant” (restrictive) diets than halal and kosher, and yet, those don’t “win.” This is an extremely simplistic explanation with, I suspect, very little predictive power.
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by baddox 6y ago
> They should be trying and failing quickly at a number of things, big things, including the small items you raised. That seems very antithetical to Apple's fundamental approach to product design. Sure, they have some first-generati
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by baddox 6y ago
How do you distinguish between "mentioning your values in your marketing" and "your values are merely marketing"? Apple's stated value of customer privacy is pretty difficult to explain as "merely marketing.&qu
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by baddox 6y ago
Those certainly aren't mutually exclusive ideas.

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