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by bigfudge 4y ago
But fairness without morality is just a nonsense. It’s an equilibrium. fairness requires some moral perspective.
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by bigfudge 4y ago
To be clear… just creating this kind of wealth imbalance in society is itself a form of harm.
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by bigfudge 4y ago
Because firms doing this has negative externalities - to be able to do this they are always going to be exploiting other workers or consumers, or competing in ways which harm society as a whole.
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by bigfudge 4y ago
We set the context in which these forms can operate though. We can decide that forms who pay >10m in comp to individuals are by definition not contributing to social well-being… they must be exploiting some assymetry, rent seeking etc. W
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by bigfudge 4y ago
This work has been done and suppressed by the companies themselves (see multiple whistleblowers). Nobody else is in a position to access the data to do the studies.
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by bigfudge 4y ago
There are plenty of talented programmers here who value prose as a means to communicate clearly. Your post failed to do that, and your sarcasm and insults to the intelligence and motives of other commenters are against the spirit of this pl
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by bigfudge 4y ago
The thing about nimbyism in this case is that confortable commentators on hackernews are vanishingly unlikely ever to have to live near one. This is a poor people problem.
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by bigfudge 4y ago
https://dokku.com/docs/processes/process-management/
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by bigfudge 4y ago
It’s still single machine l, but afaik you can run multiple dynos, and can certainly let run multiple apps and separate web/worker dynos.
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by bigfudge 4y ago
I don’t think apple can charge higher prices because they’re first. If anything it’s because they are consistently good. Or just consistent.
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by bigfudge 4y ago
This is already a much bigger problem than this leak. Selective enforcement of drug laws is rife in the us. Are you also concerned about that?
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by bigfudge 4y ago
Before people get too excited... I've examined a number of phds on this topic as a relative outsider to the field and have been pretty unimpressed by the claims of env-psych on green/bluespace. The methods used to unpack confoundi
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by bigfudge 4y ago
Right, but selecting for in the present tense (ie past 30 years) is going to have a negligible impact on population statistics. Also, ruling out that kind of confounding -is- hard… as mostly practiced any measurement error in confounders re
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by bigfudge 4y ago
The difference here is that height is also correlated with nutrition and by proxy social class. Whatever that study says, eradicating that type of confounding from statistical associations is hard/impossible.
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by bigfudge 4y ago
Is that really why humans are getting taller? Most increase in height has happened in the last 70 years and linked to increases in nutrition. Selective pressure seems implausible as an explanation for any measurable increases in height in h
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by bigfudge 4y ago
No, pewdiepie was banned for five minutes for saying he was going to join isis. He’s still on the site but doesn’t tweet. https://mobile.twitter.com/pewdiepie Hate speech doesn’t need legal protection as a term to be agains
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by bigfudge 4y ago
I can see why this has been downvoted, but I didn’t mean to sound like a luddite. I really just think there is a lot of low quality research, especially in the social sciences, done primarily to keep an publishing schedule up for pressured
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by bigfudge 4y ago
I still think there could be lots of interest, even without the data. In fact some of the most interesting parts would be the algorithm in the broadest sense — how tech interacts with company policy and SOP. For one small example, what asp
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by bigfudge 4y ago
It’s lazy shorthand for “belatedly apply their policies against hate speech to prominent politicians”.
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by bigfudge 4y ago
Scientific knowledge is written down and freely available but I still don’t understand most of it. I think a public algorithm would increase SEO business if anything because it would get more effective once the bullshit was debunked.
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by bigfudge 5y ago
We should really just do (and certainly publish) less research.
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by bigfudge 5y ago
I think this is a great idea, but in my experience there are surprisingly few such experts available. In practice, most statisticians not doing active methods research (I'm thinking of 'trial statisticians' mostly here, in CT
623.
by bigfudge 5y ago
I think commercial operations like Huel and similar supplements will definitely be thought of like that. It just seems crazy, having watched the evolution of "scientific" diet advice over the past 70 years, to now think it's
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by bigfudge 5y ago
Exactly. Plus this article made me quite nostalgic for the days of having only one child… it’s fun doing chores with toddlers provided you don’t really need them done and nobody else wants your attention!
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by bigfudge 5y ago
No, there's not enough data to be sure either way, but given that some/most people experience absolutely no lingering symptoms the simplest explanation is that even mild disease cases damage in some people. EDIT: to be clear. We h
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by bigfudge 5y ago
USSR's borders were not changed by external powers. And England? Do you mean the end of Empire? I'm not sure on the dates but it mostly predates nuclear deterrence.
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by bigfudge 5y ago
Is that for third party only though? Perhaps also confounded by higher-prices of cars in cities vs rural areas when you do crash into something = higher costs.
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by bigfudge 5y ago
Which county holding nuclear weapons has had its borders changed?
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by bigfudge 5y ago
If you’re going to claim there’s a factual problem here it would be helpful to point to the correct figures and make clear the change in inference we need to make. As it is, this just sounds like a cheap political jibe.
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by bigfudge 5y ago
That presumably ignores the fact that other industries would adapt to respond to energy that was essentially free for even shorter periods. The economics of heavy industries might change if the energy input was free for 3 hours a day (e.g.

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