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by candu 8y ago
...like ConvertKit? That's who powers the form that collects emails here. Just wanted to point out that this question is decidedly not hypothetical. Many websites use third-party services to administer their mailing lists. Now, thi
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by candu 8y ago
Privacy Badger [1] blocks ConvertKit's email-gathering form for me. [1] https://www.eff.org/privacybadger
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Storing this data enables a wide range of easily-foreseeable negative consequences, and it sends a clear message that school administrations do not trust their students. In that light, we could very easily see the simple act of storing it
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by candu 8y ago
They provided a pretty clear example: actually talking to children is important to develop socialization and maturity (read: executive function). This is one area where machines absolutely cannot do the job anywhere near equally well - i.e
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As a cyclist, I cringe every time I see an Uber or Lyft sticker on a car now. These are amateur drivers doing a job that should require at least some professional training, and it shows: blocking bike lanes (and often traffic lanes too!),
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by candu 8y ago
This. Especially in more severe cases, attempting to deal with it yourself is dangerous. Think about it: depression often creates a lack of motivation and a feeling of not being in control. If you try something and it fails, then what? T
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...because tech isn't conceived, designed, or implemented in a vacuum, but rather as part of human society? There's a growing sense of a disconnect between "tech" (whatever we take that to mean) and, well, just about eve
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by candu 8y ago
The steady militarization of police forces, a general acceptance / normalization of gun usage in the United States, an internal culture that prioritizes solidarity over accountability, a complete and utter failure to train officers in
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xkcd, "Driving Cars": https://xkcd.com/1990/
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It's interesting to consider what happens to the sunbathers! In the article, sunbathers are treated as a passive, uniformly distributed part of this game-theoretic setup. If the sunbathers are active participants, however, the game ch
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by candu 8y ago
This reminds me of Hoffer's The True Believer - he makes similar observations about how fanatics of different / opposing stripes are much more similar to each other than to non-fanatics, and how fanaticism is often transferable
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by candu 8y ago
More accurately: the manager isn't, strictly speaking, being "distracted" - the meetings and other such "interruptions" are a core part of their job . This was something I never properly appreciated before becoming
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by candu 8y ago
The opposite would be the Dunning-Kruger effect: https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Dunning-Kruger_effect There's also the (closely related) illusory superiority effect (i.e. "everyone's an above average driv
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by candu 8y ago
To be honest, most of us working "cognitively difficult" programming jobs make far less mission-critical things than your average trade shop. Backend service goes down? Welp, a few million people can't tweet, or view cat pho
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by candu 8y ago
I really dislike this use of the term "disruptive / innovative" - it's almost a circular definition in this context, since it's effectively being used to mean "anything new that has a high chance of running a
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by candu 8y ago
Not necessarily a contradiction - GDPR could have many possible effects; it's too early to claim that these effects will disproportionately harm small companies. One possibility, of course, is that larger companies will have more resou
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by candu 9y ago
A cynical explanation here would be: those in charge wanted the appearance of having considered these changes without the headache / political risk of actually changing them.
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by candu 9y ago
Information presentation nit: did anyone else find those "mental model" diagrams really hard to parse? (Especially the first one.)
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by candu 9y ago
In the US, at least, this is possibly because a not-insignificant number of people have zero or even negative net assets: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wealth_in_the_United_States It's hard to comprehend something
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by candu 9y ago
Ah, fair. I was using it here as more of a general term for all berries caught under the umbrella of various health crazes (antioxidants, etc.), but forgot about this berry (which, as you say, is a lot of fun to play around with).
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by candu 9y ago
Well: "very little research has been done in people on the health effects of acai products." [1] In general, health supplements, miracle berries, etc. sit on dubious scientific ground: many have either not been extensively studied
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by candu 9y ago
There are several amazing suggestions in this thread already. I'll toss in vote N+1 for "How to Solve It" by Pólya: once you get past the hurdle of just understanding notation / language and some of the basic concepts, m
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by candu 9y ago
Agreed re: triangle method. At the very least, the triangle should be explored in the context of a unit circle. Otherwise, most students struggle with negative sin / cos / tan values ("how do the quadrants work again?"
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by candu 9y ago
This raises the age-old debate about what is good / right vs. what is legal, and how they are not usually the same thing. Without going full Godwin's Law here: history is full of cases where "following the laws" has led
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by candu 9y ago
The reverse is also (somewhat) true - this is at least part of the reason that governments effectively subsidize charitable donations, usually through some sort of tax exemption / deduction. It's a form of outsourcing aid.
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...and one obvious answer is: as one of the largest companies doing this, they benefit more than all of those other corporations. Also: from the jurisdiction's point of view, this is perhaps the only efficient way to allocate legal &#x
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We owe our vastly reduced infant mortality rates, and at least part of our increased life expectancy, to medicines that our ancestors could not have dreamed of producing. Used correctly, the same opioids killing Americans in record numbers
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That's the "reflexive" part: Americans often think of "freedom" in either an extremely simplistic way ("I can do whatever I want, whenever I want! Up yours, government! Instant gratification all the way! Fre
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by candu 9y ago
Hey, I'm with you on the "regurgitated thoughts are bad" front :) On the rest, we likely have common ground somewhere; so far, I've stated my position without any nuance, to make its broad outlines relatively clear. Let
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by candu 9y ago
In this sense, GP's references to "sanctuary cities" and "illegal immigrants" are also strategic: they betray an obvious bias towards one side of this debate. (This is leaving aside the barely coded racism - and, i

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