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by cirgue 9y ago
> And even civilian casualties don't matter much when you're fighting "evil" (e.g. Dresden, Hiroshima, modern Middle East, etc). Are you implying that these events are not extremely controversial because of their ci
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by cirgue 9y ago
> We’ve proven that this public/private partnership is basically the most effective growth engine we’ve got. No one has proven this. There is plenty of evidence pointing to the opposite conclusion. > It’s completely irrational an
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by cirgue 9y ago
> but their search engine is extremely useful In some ways yes, but google's search and advertising monetization algorithms have a direct impact on the success of anything that depends on search ranking or ad monetization.
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by cirgue 9y ago
This is unfortunate, because Foucault and Baudrillard are both really entertaining once you get the hang of their writing style, especially compared to other philosophers.
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by cirgue 9y ago
I don't think it is about the people you're hurting (or more accurately, asserting superiority over), but the fact that you (or Tolstoy) are not one of them. The object of the schaudenfreud isn't the Java dev or Shakespeare f
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by cirgue 9y ago
This article and this comment thread are prime examples of why the tech industry needs social science and humanities. There are literally centuries of human though and decades of experimentation that addresses this problem, and the constant
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by cirgue 9y ago
No, but this community is expressly designed to address a problem and it's cool to hear creators talk about the why of their work.
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by cirgue 9y ago
> so long as it stays within the rules of the game, which is to say, engages in open and free competition without deception or fraud." This is also an enormous caveat. The type of fiduciary responsibility espoused by Friedman seems
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by cirgue 9y ago
This was a huge disappointment for me. Boatertalk was an awesome community, and was one of the main enablers for me to not be on facebook. Sad day.
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by cirgue 9y ago
> Sounds like you have a community that you want to exist, and that you have a vision for I do, that's why I asked the question.
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by cirgue 9y ago
What problem is this intended to solve that isn't solved by moderation policies and forum culture? I ask because I think this is a cool project, but there is also the inescapable fact that at some point men and women will have to work
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by cirgue 9y ago
Subscription incentives only work in the favor of users with viable competition and low switching cost. Neither condition exists right now for businesses or the overwhelming majority of home users.
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by cirgue 9y ago
I have only ever heard 'steep learning curve' used to indicate that learning efforts have very small returns initially (think about 'how much you know' on the Y and 'competency' on the X)
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by cirgue 9y ago
Whatever your position on UFOs, this guy is a publicity crank. He gave an interview with NPR where he implied that quantum teleportation was an instantaneous form of communication and seems to conflate the idea of unidentified flying object
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by cirgue 9y ago
Would that all of us could be Liam Neeson.
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by cirgue 9y ago
This seems like an excellent asset to insure. You're guaranteed profit unless the entire underlying market collapses!
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by cirgue 9y ago
> Then you can probably stand to be called a name or two. Especially when you're also proposing allowing whole groups of people to be disparaged in the name of progress. I don't really know what to make of your interpretation o
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by cirgue 9y ago
Saying "you are unethical for doing this research" is very different from saying "I think there are serious problems with extending human life". One is a legitimate criticism and is vital to public debate. The other is n
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by cirgue 9y ago
> catch-22 where smug criticisms will be levied, regardless of conscientiousness. This is 90% of online discourse: most people have absolutely nothing to contribute except smug criticism. Trying to satisfy popular opinion online optimize
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by cirgue 9y ago
Methodologies are like any other pattern of human social behavior: if they're not structured in such a way that individual actors have a reason to buy into them, then they don't work, no matter how great it could be if everyone ju
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by cirgue 9y ago
It's easy to feel contempt for a generation who's response to a generation-defining economic collapse was as toothless and misguided as Occupy Wall Street. It's absurd to draw that equivalency, but good, bad, or indifferent,
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by cirgue 9y ago
We do not yet have chatbots. What we do have are publicly-facing undocumented nondeterministic command line interfaces which expect the user to guess the right commands. This interface further insults the user by pretending to be a person.
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by cirgue 9y ago
Take Fukuyama several grains of salt: he also gave us the thesis that liberal democracy constituted a final resolution of the problem of government, and that history as we understand it has ended.
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by cirgue 9y ago
> I think we need to talk about how a huge portion of the US misunderstands "tax brackets" I know engineers that are guilty of the misunderstanding you describe. How does anyone graduate from a university in the United States w
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by cirgue 9y ago
Linking to SCP is almost as bad for productivity as linking to tv tropes.
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by cirgue 9y ago
People also thought the same thing with television, and they were largely right about television. They were also right about some forms of print media: next time you go to the grocery store, look at the celebrity gossip magazines in the che
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by cirgue 9y ago
Another point of view is that this makes sports a great example: we believe the 'hot-hand' phenomenon intuitively, but the statistics tell a complicated and seemingly contradictory story.
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by cirgue 9y ago
Where can I buy a MiG-29 for that price?
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by cirgue 9y ago
> letter writing Especially this: letters get way more notice than phone calls or online petitions. Many representatives actually read their letters. Phone calls typically get filtered through staff, and they generally don't communi
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by cirgue 9y ago
> The problem here is that intuition (gut feeling) is best trained... You have had an entire lifetime of trial and feedback in understanding the character, talents, and ambitions of other people. If you don't have that, or if you ca

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