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by chroma 7y ago
How could they know who did it? It could be any one of their neighbors, and most lots have 5 adjacent lots. In a place I used to live, there was a rooster that would constantly crow. Someone killed it. I wasn't involved but I'm ce
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by chroma 7y ago
I wish I could afford to live close to work, but being in the vicinity of Salesforce Tower is pretty goddamn expensive.
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by chroma 7y ago
I already mentioned it, but there is the concept of relative risk. There is also the concept of reference classes. Because of the way I drive and the vehicle I use, I am much less likely to die than the average bay area driver. Also, the nu
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by chroma 7y ago
It's very frustrating to discuss this topic with you because you keep editing your comments after I've replied to them. This makes it appear as though I've ignored points you made, when in fact they simply weren't in the
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by chroma 7y ago
None of which are things I've encountered while driving. I bet if you ran the stats, you would be far more likely to be a victim of crime on bart than while driving in the bay area. There's a reason all of the women at my workplac
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by chroma 7y ago
Taking public transportation in the bay area is incredibly stressful. I've had people try to fight me. I've had people threaten to stab me. I've had people smoke meth on the same car as me. Hell, last year one of my friends w
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by chroma 7y ago
That's a different question. None of the stories about Stallman are from coworkers. They are from people who shared meals with him, people who attended talks he gave, or people who went to his office. In his position at MIT, Stallman d
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by chroma 7y ago
The "hot ladies" photo was by someone who vandalized his sign and took a picture. He didn't do that. I looked around quite a bit, but I could not find a single instance of abusive behavior. No unwanted touching, no abuse of p
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by chroma 7y ago
So by that logic, if there was a group of mostly autistic/aspie men and they felt unsafe around one neurotypical woman, she should be the one to lose her position at a university, lose her position at a nonprofit that she founded, an
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by chroma 7y ago
My issue with "right to be forgotten" is with the principle, not the implementation. It violates not only freedom of speech, but freedom of private communication. Let's look at what it's really involved with: I send an e
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by chroma 7y ago
I'm sorry I misunderstood you. > I object to data about me or my use of my machines being collected without my permission at all. Past that, I object to it being shared with others. What it's used for is beside the point. What
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by chroma 7y ago
OK so if I understand you, you are worried that companies are collecting data on people and then using that data to give them more personalized ads. These ads may convince people to buy or do things that they otherwise wouldn't. It&#x2
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by chroma 7y ago
It's absurdly easy to get around these laws. For example: I had a motherboard shipped from China a few months ago. The shipper lied on manifest and claimed he was sending the motherboard back to me after repairing it. Neither the US go
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by chroma 7y ago
I don't understand this mentality. If someone is fine giving a company some information, and the company uses that to give them a better product, where is the harm? And what right do you have to stop those two parties from voluntarily
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by chroma 7y ago
> I yell fire in a crowded theatre, that’s ok it wasn’t my intent to cause panic. The "fire in a crowded theater" analogy was coined by justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. in Schenck v. United States.[1] Holmes used that analog
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by chroma 7y ago
People who said Damore got the science correct include Peter Singer[1], Scott Alexander[2], and Steven Pinker[3]. 1. https://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/google-wrong-article-1.3... 2. https://slatestarcodex.
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by chroma 7y ago
> How do you fell about James Damore? That was definitely a witch hunt. He worked hard to give advice that he thought would be useful for improving diversity at Google. Nothing he said was outside of the scientific consensus, yet he wa
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by chroma 7y ago
I think it's worse than that. IIRC, he discussed it on a private mailing list and someone leaked his emails.
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by chroma 7y ago
I don't understand what you're getting at. Do you think I want union organizers to be fired from their jobs or murdered? I was simply pointing out that your argument is a cheap dig that could also be applied to pot smokers and MLK
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by chroma 7y ago
How does that question apply to Minsky?
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by chroma 7y ago
I don't think that analogy is better. The Minsky allegation is said to have happened in March of 2001. That was years before Epstein was investigated, let alone charged or convicted of anything.
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by chroma 7y ago
I disagree with RMS on many topics, but I don't get the outrage at him. He explained how Minsky was likely not guilty of sexual assault. To use an analogy: If I have a sanctioned boxing match with someone, and it is later discovered th
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by chroma 7y ago
You are smuggling a connotation in with your denotation. When most people think of "crime", they think of robbery, assault, and other violent acts. They don't think of disregarding various business laws or (to use an example
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by chroma 7y ago
This is a straw man. A government can try to stop theft and violent crime without building regulatory moats around incumbent companies. Though in many places governments aren't great at preventing theft and violence. That's why ev
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by chroma 7y ago
Why not? Unlike governments, private companies can't coerce me to use their currency. If I think their currency is garbage, I'm totally free to not use it and to convert any Libra I receive into USD. That's not at all true fo
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by chroma 7y ago
The only person in the movie who met Honnold before he started free soloing was his mother, and she seems fine with him doing it. Everyone else knew what they were signing up for. If anything, they're the selfish ones because they wa
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by chroma 7y ago
> what does it mean that I love thinking about ways of gaming systems like this? That you might be a good security researcher? From https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2008/03/the_security_... : &gt
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by chroma 7y ago
Yes, sometimes there are corrupt judges. Note that the article doesn't say whether the owners of the detention centers approached the judges or whether the judges approached them. Both sides had to be evil (and know the other side was
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by chroma 7y ago
If you look at my comments throughout this thread, you'll see that I am aware of the potential for incentives to have undesirable higher-order effects. Many people in this thread have suggested certain concrete undesirable consequences
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by chroma 7y ago
Are you suggesting that the private prisons would murder convicts soon after they're released? That's uhh... that's just a little bit illegal and people who commit murder tend to get caught and imprisoned for a very long time

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