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by caconym_ 6y ago
I'm not reducing anyone to anything. Addressed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25695775
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by caconym_ 6y ago
Please read my comment again and see that I did not suggest any defense of Twitter's not banning people who are not Trump. Less of blinkers and more of blindfold, I guess. Why is this so hard for people?
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by caconym_ 6y ago
Lots of lies can't easily be proven false, but many can, as long as we agree on some really basic principles. For instance, if you tell me that two plus two equals five, I can count out two sets of two coins, then put them all together
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by caconym_ 6y ago
The point of the cougar analogy is not to dehumanize anybody. It is to demonstrate that sometimes problems exist ( problems as in configurations of reality that can be articulated as bad ), and that doing nothing is often not the solution
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by caconym_ 6y ago
> I see nothing done except “use tribalism to decide.” I disagree. You don't need tribalism, for instance, to see that somebody spreading lies and conspiracy theories in a transparent attempt to undermine confidence in our elections
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by caconym_ 6y ago
Earlier I saw a report that one of the others died because he shocked himself with a Taser while trying to pull a piece of artwork off a wall. Is that not true? Otherwise I’m not sure how this is relevant to my comment, since I explicitly c
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by caconym_ 6y ago
I can read quite clearly between the lines of your comment, but I’m still having trouble finding where in my comment I said that users calling for violence on social media should be exempt from sanctions if they’re left-leaning.
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by caconym_ 6y ago
I’m not talking about government suppression of speech. I’m talking about society itself rejecting a certain kind of speech, by the actions of private citizens and organizations, and generally having an awareness of the fact that two sides
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by caconym_ 6y ago
What is “the other route”? They are being deplatformed because their speech is violent and damaging—in many cases it’s literal incitement to violence. Their legal cases are being rejected because they have no legal merit. The mainstream med
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by caconym_ 6y ago
I think a useful yardstick is how many people died. IIRC a sum of around 25 deaths was attributed to all of the "BLM protests" last year, and I don't recall any police deaths that weren't eventually attributed to right-w
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by caconym_ 6y ago
For me, at least, there’s a big difference between having the knowledge of how to approach these problems and having the practice fresh enough in my mind to solve them quickly under pressure. The latter is what the month (or whatever) is
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by caconym_ 6y ago
On the other hand, there are probably many more instances of jaywalking than police encounters, so the statement you quoted may still be correct. At 36x, I'd guess that's more likely than not—I've been stopped on foot by the
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by caconym_ 6y ago
A shift in thinking toward cars not being kings of the road rightfully able to plow through any and all obstacles with impunity will make all road users safer. Removal of a tool police use to disproportionately stop and harass poor and&#x2F
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by caconym_ 6y ago
> You could have made similar arguments after every air crash that was caused by a design flaw. I'm not really convinced this is true. For instance, in the classic case of de Havilland Comets brought down by square windows, I think
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by caconym_ 6y ago
Humans are surprisingly bad at understanding that some solutions have to be maintained to keep the problem(s) they addressed from coming back. I get it in the case of organizational rot but sometimes it can be staring people in the face and
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by caconym_ 6y ago
This "perfectly safe airplane" has been grounded for almost two years after two crashes killed 346 people. The root cause of these crashes is a mind-bogglingly irresponsible bit of design that can be linked directly to decision
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by caconym_ 6y ago
You can write whatever you want. Face velvet church daisy red. Person man woman camera television. Look mom, no hands! Your comment was just pointless, unfair criticism. You start by pointing out that there exists a cheaper product that i
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by caconym_ 6y ago
Well, if the comment wanted to make some insightful points about Apple’s speculative ability to compete with the incumbents in the market, it should have done that. It didn’t, though, and that’s why I responded to it with the words I did. I
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by caconym_ 6y ago
The comment said this: > I doubt it's studio quality but I also doubt that of apple's offering (or the need for such quality). Seems to me that the doubt is on charging $550 for mediocre sound or on whether better sound actua
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by caconym_ 6y ago
> Well, Apple has had obvious flops over the years, specifically because the price didn't match the features. The HomePod, for instance. I would not argue with this and in fact I specifically addressed the does-the-market-actually-e
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by caconym_ 6y ago
So you’re stating the obvious, that there’s a cheaper product out there that’s inferior to what Apple claims of their new headphones, and also opining that Apple is probably overstating the sound quality of their new headphones ... and that
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by caconym_ 6y ago
Getting browser-fingerprinted is technically the user’s fault in the same way it’s technically my fault if I die in a car crash because of some mechanical defect that I could have detected if I’d just made a habit of regularly dismantling
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by caconym_ 6y ago
My understanding is that the master encryption key does not exist on the device in non-volatile storage, but rather is computed by combining a secret key (I guess you could call this a “salt”) stored in the secure enclave with the user’s pa
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by caconym_ 6y ago
At or below around $1k, price is a decent proxy for sound quality in headphones if you stay away from the trashy consumer stuff e.g. Beats, Raycons. Audiophile snake oil crap (e.g. ionic crystal cable risers, brass pyramids, $10k USB cables
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by caconym_ 6y ago
There's a big difference between raising honest, thoughtful points about social justice issues (even forcefully), and using those same issues (superficially) as a cudgel to marginalize your enemies and increase your own social power (a
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by caconym_ 6y ago
I think the point here is that if $BIGCORP makes some unpopular compensation change that affects many employees (e.g. reducing the weighting of performance in the pay formula, reducing base pay relative to RSUs, etc.), a union would give em
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by caconym_ 6y ago
Consider two models of car. One was sold in large numbers in the early 90s and has proven exceptionally reliable, but obviously it's built to early 90s safety standards, and has been involved in a huge number of fatal accidents with va
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by caconym_ 6y ago
It's possible I don't understand your point, but it seems fairly obvious to me that doing a little bit of a thing doesn't mean you can't benefit immensely from doing more of it. Hungry? Eat a cracker and you may be less
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by caconym_ 6y ago
I don't mean to imply that it's not predictable—I just think it's relevant to note that it's completely unaccountable. You get a number, and that's your number. Nor do I mean to imply that it's awful, or worse
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by caconym_ 6y ago
Those high salaries aren't the result of individual negotiations, though. FAANMG+ companies pay very well, but salaries for the vast majority of engineers are determined by black box formulas, and in cases where blocs of employees thin

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