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by bsanr2 6y ago
The issue isn't that they don't have a different rationale, it's the particulars of what that rationale is built on. "State dependence" alleviates suffering when implemented in earnest, "self-empowerment"
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I fought my last employer to go from $17/hr to $18/hr starting, and they wouldn't budge. I'm 30, I have a degree, I had 2 years at the company (transferring to a different division) and another 4 years experience in a si
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You state that "unless" as if it weren't generally the common state of "competitor with more bugs." No, users pick a finished product.
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This, but also remember that we're living through a transition from SAAP to SAAS, where the "service" is actually data extraction for advertisers. For that, software must be minimally useful to a user, but the true aim of UX
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No, subscriptions introduce the perverse incentive to release unfinished products and slowly drip-feed fixes. Having to test extensively before a one-and-only release may not drive nearly as much revenue, nor provide a running deliverable s
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In a surprise move, the guy - who has a platform large enough to have his year-old blog post hit the front page of HN - preaching about the utility of not living paycheck-to-paycheck is speaking mostly to a wealthy minority. /s
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One has to wonder if they were fighting over the Rose Bird. You didn't hear any rock music, did you?
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Personal property/human remains stolen/destroyed to prep for TechCrunch Disrupt(twitter.com)
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https://coolguy.website/writing/the-future-will-be-technical... This may or may not be related, because I'm finding it difficult to parse your comment.
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The problem is people trying to draw conclusions from the bare facts that said bare facts do not support. That tends to be the aim of "bringing it up," and people are right to shame this anti-scientific behavior.
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I recently read that the prior estimations for Neanderthal ancestry are off because they used comparative models that assumed that certain populations had no Neanderthal DNA. Newer techniques seem to indicate that almost all modern humans a
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Your algorithm is trained on your racially disparate status quo and outputs racially disparate results. If your intent was race-neutral outputs, then you screwed up and the algorithm is implicitly racist. If your intent was outputs racially
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Melanin increases the relative specularity of skin so I'm jot sure what you mean by this.
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We can do so much better than this Racist algorithms, and faces that we miss
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Recently hit 4000, with ~2000 in a single window. One thing that I think helps is remembering that you (ostensibly) have a browser history. Rather than keeping every tab you might want to come back to, close the ones you expect to be unchan
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Unfortunately, anthropological "hierarchalism" driven by race-conscious notions of personhood has made these regular reminders necessary. We still haven't completely shed the unscientific caricatures of neanderthals that were
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This article downplays Latimer's contribution, presumably (and ironically) for the same political reasons it derides. Latimer's filament production patent made Edison's lightbulb viable as a mass-produced product. As with Shu
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We could do both. The GND and Freedom Dividend were both aimed at ameliorating major structural impediments to 1) infrastructure investment and renewal, and 2) grassroots-level innovation, respectively. Of course, since they're apparen
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Many plastics can't safely be reused.
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It's a dumb proposition to begin with. Why am I paying extra just so that these companies can implement these changes without dinging profits? Energy should be a loss-leader for society. It should lose money every year, and then we pay
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The victims of Western-backed dictators, American regime change campaigns, and the crushing poverty caused by austerity mandates, economic sanctions, and predatory international capital investment terms would like to have a word with you. A
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It was about extending capitalism (well, democracy morally and structurally enabling capitalistic integration of ME into the global market), and also an extension of Cold War jockeying, which was anti-communist (and arguably hysteria).
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USA is relevant because any discussion of HK democracy or capitalism places it along an axis between the virtues championed, globally, by China and the US. Otherwise, what discussion is there to have about a Chinese city that the Chinese ar
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But the same generation was in power when we launched our twenty-year War on Terror, and the comparisons to Vietnam that started popping up a decade and a half ago didn't manifest in any sort of wariness to move forward and keep movi
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I can't read that article, but as an addendum (or possible summary): Western European art pretty much had naturalistic and romantic representationlism down by the mid 19th century, but this turned out to be a poor platform for expressi
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That may be a case of simultaneous but unrelated discovery; audio sampling in hip-hop was an evolution of DJing techniques that helped to transition between or embellish songs, with beats or "get downs" being repeated to allow MCs
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It's a sore subject, particularly on HN, because it calls into question the meritocracy Americans want to believe they epitomize. Suffice it to say that, while the examples you relate were significant and infamous, such sabotage also m
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While I'm amenable to the thesis, the portion on Picasso is distractingly inaccurate in its portrayal of art history. Cubism wasn't so much swimming against the flow as it was riding the wave of non-representational art that the t
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*economically sabotaged
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Well, that's a preference, not an argument. I would prefer not to be held captive by the cultural inertia of former slaveholding and/or union-busting local government, and appreciate the assistance of far-flung compatriots in ridd

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