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by colemannugent 8y ago
I think about this a lot: If someone arrived at at conclusion through irrational means, what makes you think that a rational argument would change their mind? I'm convinced that rational thinking is often so unhelpful for survival that
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by colemannugent 8y ago
> I can run 1 mile much faster than I can run 3 miles. This ignores the fact that employers don't pay you for how fast you run, but actually by how far you run in a day. Only the employee cares about how fast they can run.
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by colemannugent 8y ago
> ...the average employee is only productive for 2-3 hours per day This sounds true to me, so let's assume that it is. If the average employee was unproductive for most of their day it stands to reason that employers would have a g
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by colemannugent 8y ago
> Work is not divided into even units completed at a constant linear rate over the course of the day You are correct, work is not distributed evenly throughout the day. But this doesn't matter to the employer. Your employer could c
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by colemannugent 8y ago
> I don't find it incredible that giving employees an extra day for their non-work duties/joys might increase their efficiency 20%. Note that the employees must improve their efficiency by more than 25% for this to benefit the
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by colemannugent 8y ago
It's probably not a full 20% loss, but I think your point still stands. To expand a bit: It seems to me that the only way they could work a day less and not affect the companies productivity is if those employees did nothing during tha
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by colemannugent 8y ago
Why not a million dollar cap? Surely that would be more effective.
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by colemannugent 8y ago
The worry about this being a new avenue for "ghost-guns" is absurd. All you need for a gun is some metal pipe from a hardware store. These "downloadable guns" would be about as effective. Plus it's perfectly legal t
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by colemannugent 8y ago
If anyone from this project is reading this: please just contribute to the upstream projects your are building off of. > We build desirable, open source, privacy-enabled smartphone operating systems. No, the LineageOS team builds them,
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by colemannugent 8y ago
> ...that’s what we have today. I agree with everything you said except for this part. We certainly don't have equality of opportunity today. Maybe in small microcosms of the first world countries, but there is a lot more work that
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by colemannugent 8y ago
There are plenty of people who are pro-life, against capital punishment, and for a reliable social safety net. The two American political parties exist only paper; I've never met someone who agreed with 100% of their parties platform.
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by colemannugent 8y ago
> A case can be made that "sovereign countries" are imaginary constructs that should be abolished An exceedingly weak case can be made. It makes for a fun thought experiment but it falls apart really quickly. Say someone did m
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by colemannugent 8y ago
> ...crossing an imaginary line... But it's not an imaginary line, it's a line that two democratic countries agreed to create to separate them. She inadvertently crossed one of the most important lines that exists , a line th
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by colemannugent 8y ago
> The reason that social science can't model (aka overfit) many phenomena, is that it involves strictly nonlinear data where cultures and humans are involved. Right, they currently can't accurately model the phenomena and thus
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by colemannugent 8y ago
Little things like this build more trust with me than all the carefully written press release blogs ever could.
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by colemannugent 8y ago
It's sociology, they can't tell you the reason why because they don't know. Instead they rely on people wanting it to be true, so they build a "common sense" argument that lacks evidence. When these people push for
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by colemannugent 8y ago
This is how I see things playing out as well. GitHub starting to behave like the MS Office suite is something straight out of a nightmare. I hope so much that we are wrong.
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by colemannugent 8y ago
Another reason to train yourself to always think before you execute code you found on a site. Too many of us are so used to git clone 'ing a repo and building the software with make or its descendants that we overlook the security c
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by colemannugent 8y ago
> how can the market exploitation of civic, social, and leisure spaces possibly be averted What? The ominous "market" isn't forcing its way into any of these spaces. You let it in . You bought that game with micro-transa
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by colemannugent 8y ago
Basically. This time they've added the word "digital" before it, as if that somehow changes the market forces that drive the economy.
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by colemannugent 8y ago
Honestly, I can't tell if this is satire just from reading the article. Had to google the CVE number to find out that it's just a incredibly unprofessional "named CVE" announcement page, or as I like to call them "I
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by colemannugent 8y ago
I like the pricing model, but why couldn't this just be an upgrade to Google Drive? On second thought, why couldn't this be a $9.99 a month bundle of YouTube Red, 1TB Google Drive, Google Play Music, some Google Voice credits, and
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by colemannugent 8y ago
Yeah, whoever thought that adding the attack/bug surface of a browser to the email client should be publicly shamed. I assume that aerc like mutt is not affected by this "vulnerability"?
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by colemannugent 8y ago
Yeah, I was kinda wary since if TechCrunch picked it up it's probably been in the wild for months. But you're right, there's nothing new about this other than this being the first time TechCrunch has seen this.
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by colemannugent 8y ago
Link to the blog detailing the attack: https://breakdev.org/evilginx-advanced-phishing-with-two-fac... Looks more like an extended spoofing attack rather than an exploit.
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by colemannugent 8y ago
>Acorns built a product that people love. I'm sure they'll love it right up until it gets scrapped. Businesses can't run on love alone. Startups need growth to survive, as soon as this product gets big enough to interest t
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by colemannugent 8y ago
> Acorns is a financial-technology firm that allows customers with balances as small as $5 to invest in groups of funds based on their risk tolerance. Users link their debit- or credit-card accounts to Acorns, and the firm rounds up the
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by colemannugent 8y ago
"A strange game. The only winning move is not to file"
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by colemannugent 8y ago
Can anyone explain why the government wouldn't just mandate that they be given all the keys from the start? Why would they put up with Apple as a middleman who could potentially refuse their requests? Also, this key escrow scheme is ne
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by colemannugent 8y ago
Slightly related to the article: Does anyone else feel like the general public's inability to extract information from statistics is a huge problem? I think that any sort of "standardized" education should include at least a

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