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by brenschluss 6y ago
This is a stylistic/typeface difference between sans-serif and serif text. Some people do write like that, most people don't.
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by brenschluss 6y ago
A large mistake this article makes is assuming that knowledge is forking, like a tree. Instead, knowledge is a graph. Or even a map.
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by brenschluss 6y ago
You should tell this to your therapist and see what happens. To me I've learned a lot following this line of thought. For you, it sounds like you think that the therapist "might just be doing it because I'm paying them",
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by brenschluss 6y ago
Same reason why Google censored itself for China in 2006. Did people think Google was a 'Chinese company'? Note that this was before Google set up a presence in China. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technolog
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by brenschluss 6y ago
The thing is, it’s things like this that would actively hinder racism from going away - actively concealing black CEOs to VC firms would continue to have destructive consequences.
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by brenschluss 6y ago
Etymology matters if enough people think it matters. Language has meaning that is social, and if enough people dislike a meaning or see a word a different way, that word will change its meaning. So right now we are watching words change mea
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by brenschluss 6y ago
https://twitter.com/tobie/status/1270290278029631489?s=21
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by brenschluss 6y ago
This tweet seems to have researched otherwise - that master/slave originated from bit keeper: https://twitter.com/tobie/status/1270290278029631489?s=21
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by brenschluss 7y ago
I’m a fan of some self-help books. However, a major aspect that this article misses is that self-help is not a purely mental & cognitive activity. In my experience, the best books are pathways to action - they are like recipe cookbooks,
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by brenschluss 7y ago
Seems like a pretty thin article that doesn’t contextualize the push for manufacturing that has been going on in NYC for the past 5 years, through orgs and networks like NYCEDC or Futureworks, etc.
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by brenschluss 7y ago
I understand what you are saying, but I disagree. Society isn't a machine, it's a cultural-social-economic ecosystem that ebbs and flows according to emotions, beliefs, desires, imaginations, as well as 'facts'.
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by brenschluss 7y ago
Evidence of paper ballots being tampered with, in my opinion, is a very useful/good thing. It means it’s possible to get caught. As I’ve mentioned in a previous comment: This is survivorship bias. Instead: 1. Assume that there are enou
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by brenschluss 7y ago
Casual racism amirite?
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by brenschluss 7y ago
Have you thought about the potential harmful side effects this might cause, and what are your thoughts/strategies on it? ‘Controlling the environment to make things better’ has a spotty history (DDT, Monsanto, etc), and I would evaluat
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by brenschluss 7y ago
As someone who is on NYC Mesh - it’s amazing. I can’t explain the feeling you can get of pointing an antenna at a distant building and getting a ping. So great!
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by brenschluss 7y ago
Imagine a police officer automatically IDing someone, automatically pulling up their past criminal history, and actively changing their attitude towards how they treat them. This would make police treat people with prior records worse, and
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by brenschluss 7y ago
It seems pretty rational and interesting to me that a persistent bias in the gender or research bias continues and amplifies a persistent bias in whom drugs are best serving. Do you have an “anti-gender” agenda where you wish that gender is
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by brenschluss 7y ago
> There's no objective answer Yes, absolutely > and in the end, you end up saying "these people here are more important than those people there". Which is fine of course, I just prefer that to be clear and not pretend l
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by brenschluss 7y ago
Nope. Saying "removing a person who hurts other people is a form of hurt" is a form of semantic wordplay that hinges around two different social actions that _could_ be described with the same word, "hurt". If you zoom
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by brenschluss 7y ago
Assholery can be relative, but this argument is still true. I.E. you could say, “my website is full of people, who I think are assholes, but I don’t know what to do!” and this could be a problem. In addition, I find that “people who don’t c
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by brenschluss 7y ago
NY has a robust public transportation system. SF does not. Commuting via car, parking, etc creates a floor on who can participate in SF’s economy.
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by brenschluss 7y ago
> The driver is already responsible for not running people down, including deaf people and people listening to music I know! If only the driver wasn’t responsible, society would be so much better!
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by brenschluss 8y ago
> Builders can construct a house, then add a garage, go work on another house, then return and add a guest bedroom, then remodel the kitchen, all with relatively minimal pausing or switching cost. Have you worked with contractors? This i
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by brenschluss 8y ago
The attitude around climate change would suggest the opposite.
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by brenschluss 8y ago
Society is changing. You don't have to. People will judge you for what you say, the same way that you judge others for what they say. What it seems here is that, while you judge others, you demand for the right to not be judged by othe
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by brenschluss 8y ago
Why are you so offended about other people being offended? Why not just say, “this must be a big issue to them”? Why do you feel the need to prove that these things don’t offend you, and that thus they shouldn’t offend others?
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by brenschluss 8y ago
(check the article tags)
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by brenschluss 8y ago
> Generally from those who have decided that their job is to find ways to be offended by everything. You know, I never understood why people trot this idea out so often. It's so irrational. If people were rational, they would say &q
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by brenschluss 8y ago
This is survivorship bias. Instead: 1. Assume that there are enough high-powered actors to want to rig an election 2. Note that confirmed case of a rigged election happens through paper absentee ballots 3. Note that there are very few known
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by brenschluss 8y ago
If removing the app has 0 effect, then having the app has 0 effect also, so might as well remove it, no?

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