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by chillacy 6y ago
I'm sorry if I gave the impression that I'm using this to defend Prezi or something. The parent comment I originally responded to was about jobs they found morally objectionable and an Upton Sinclair quote. My reply was about how
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Much of macro economics is unlike physics not only in uncertainty, but more critically in lack of experimentation or falsifiability. https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2013/12/13/economics-scie... http:
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by chillacy 6y ago
> When it comes to understanding what really makes large tech firms dominant and predicting what judges will do, you aren’t getting the full picture. Maybe I’m just suggesting the site should be more modest and, in particular, be careful
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by chillacy 6y ago
Could very well be, I wasn't there so I can't say. I have seen good people do bad things out of negligence that later gets attributed to malice on the internet when it gets discussed. People always drift towards malicious intent b
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I was responding to the Upton Sinclair quote but I seem to have attracted some moral absolutists and now the conversation is steering philosophical. I agree that corporate lawyers are abhorrent ;)
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by chillacy 6y ago
Hmm maybe. I'm not evaluating my model of the world on its effect on society if made popular, only its proximity to reality and predictive power. I don't think understanding that beliefs are arbitrary and fighting for your beliefs
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by chillacy 6y ago
No, morals are relative, just that. We probably have similar morals as frequenters of a tech website site in English compared to hunter gatherers, so we can even have this discussion in the first place. I haven't been convinced that th
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by chillacy 6y ago
> take a stand This same thought process works for suicide bombers fighting for a theocracy as much as you or me. Consider that giving this advice to everyone on earth would just lead to more extremism in all directions. E.g. PETA sees m
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by chillacy 6y ago
Prezi is more a startup in "growth hacking" phase than a FAANG Also, people often have different and mutually exclusive ethical values from each other, there are plenty of defense contractors who believe they are the good guys, pr
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HN is associated with a startup incubator, and every startup I've seen has engaged in some measure of shady growth hacking. Once you start blurring the lines, you open yourself to stuff like this. That said though I can see how this sp
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The author says "isn't for everyone", not "is for no one". Your point about 911 call centers is true, but the principle is just that the work schedule needs to mesh with the job role itself. E.g. restaurants have to
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by chillacy 6y ago
I wish people stood up for night owls when I had to suffer the sleep schedules of the elderly or 9-5 schedule in public school.
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Measles is still out there, it has not been eliminated, there are cases in Africa and South America https://www.cdc.gov/globalhealth/measles/globalmeaslesoutbre... Yet we don’t really worry about it in the US: peo
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The US makes visitors get certain vaccinations before being able to visit https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/us-visas/immigrat... Assuming a vaccine comes out, Australia can make US visitors get
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There’s a Culture book about this: Matter by Ian Banks
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Nowadays yes. For most of history though (and still commonly today), causal explanations for plenty of things involved some flavor of the supernatural.
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I only vaguely recall the details but GDPR defines the concepts of Data Controllers, Data Subjects, and Data Processors, and has statements on rights for EU citizens.
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Assuming a competitive labor market where employees have multiple offers, why should a company not offer as much for someone who works remotely and adds the same amount of value?
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> It couldn't possibly make the connection that river and streams are bodies of water, because there is no association with reality. Yet if you asked it if rivers and streams are bodies of water it would probably say that they are.
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Buying a generator is as poor replacement for grid power as starting a WordPress blog. If you want to live an off grid life in the woods you might as well blog like it’s 2004.
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Quite a few of my friends in the city have purchased cars for the first time to avoid public transit and Uber.
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Many will use the period (.) as the thousands separator too.
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There exist more objective measurements of translation quality which if you take to be relevant, show that machine translation quality has gotten better between most languages. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evaluation_o
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English itself has already been heavily influence from its neighboring languages (something like 30% of words have french origin), if there are useful words in Mandarin it's taken quite a few of them as well (recently learned that &#x2
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I think you're hinting at the fact that all language acquisition ultimately boils down to vocab acquisition for the long tail to mastery. As for why people complain about vocab, it's probably because the dropout rate for language
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Unless they were useful, then in that case their associations suddenly didn't matter... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Paperclip
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I think potential for harm to others is probably more of a factor than truth for these types of bans, though if they ban flat earther groups then I will reconsider my statement.
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> Reed Cooper, a smug blond boy in a Sunday school tie and blazer combo who festoons all his social media with American flags, is already a visual argument for the return of corporal punishment. Inflammatory media pieces are probably par
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These companies are b2b and provide value to other businesses who would rather not become experts in say, how to manage cleaning staff, and rather focus on building widgets. In that regard the sales pitch is similar to how Microsoft can sel
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If you want to use the apple watch you must have an iphone, which somehow seems worse: https://www.imore.com/can-you-use-your-apple-watch-your-andr...

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