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by cowpig 6y ago
> The IP you are accessing the site with (101.032.239.020) has been blocked because it has triggered one of our security measures. Please see the reason below: > Block reason: This IP was identified as infiltrated and is being used by
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by cowpig 6y ago
> and no, internal forum posts do not count I don't understand this statement. In my mind, internal forum posts as among the most revealing forms of evidence about the culture of an organization.
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by cowpig 6y ago
Oh my god this is a real thing... https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/07/australian-pm-calls-en...
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by cowpig 6y ago
Both of the passages you quoted read as coherent and even convincing. Sure, terms like "epistemic" or "unconscientiousness" may be a bit unfamiliar, but they have specific meanings that are clear in the passage, and are
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by cowpig 6y ago
This title is misleading. The article doesn't really go into how the "problem was solved," and despite the title's implication, there's zero analysis of how the lessons from the past might help us today. It just sta
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by cowpig 6y ago
Global warming is going to be disruptive on the scale of COVID (probably worse), and it's going to happen during our lifetimes.
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This scam sounds frighteningly sophisticated. I really feel bad for people who get caught up in things like this. To get strung along for over a year, throwing away that much time and energy, must feel devastating.
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by cowpig 6y ago
What a strange reaction to this story.
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by cowpig 6y ago
I actually think Zulip is an exception to this, because its Stream>Topic hierarchy encourages organized conversations. At my org, we consider Zulip to be an archive of sorts, and make an effort (a small one, because Zulip's UX makes
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by cowpig 6y ago
> Mass communication seems to be the culprit. I would change that to: Irresponsible use of mass communication. The tool is no more to blame than the duffel bag in a burglary. Mass communication is a powerful tool with many uses, both ben
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by cowpig 6y ago
An anecdote in support of this: My fiancee is a doctor in charge of a covid ward at our hospital, and at one point this year I heard about some studies re:vitamin D on radiolab and told her about it. She found it interesting, but told me sh
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by cowpig 6y ago
Well I don't measure success in market cap, and despite my initial excitement about the crypto space, I almost universally see it as a tool for fraud, speculation, money laundering, and corruption. I see very few cases where bitcoin ha
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by cowpig 6y ago
I think it would be naive to take anything Facebook says at face value, given their history (one example of many is their claiming that they could not match whatsapp accounts with Fb accounts and then later requiring it). I just see a compa
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by cowpig 6y ago
My guess is that Facebook has been hedging their bets and now that Democrats have taken control are going to change their policy in an effort to reduce the perceived need for regulation.
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by cowpig 6y ago
Is your cynicism based on evidence specific to this event? Because this kind of cynicism is self-fulfilling: if you don't believe anything good ever happens, then nothing ever will. So I feel it's important to actively avoid defau
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by cowpig 6y ago
I've honestly never understood why anyone would advocate for anything other than a socialized health system. Consumers cannot exit the market for health services. So we will never get the benefits of a free-market economy. A "free
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by cowpig 6y ago
I don't think this was anything like that, though. The story that they were investigating was completely plausible because it painted a very realistic picture of things that were happening in Syria at the time. I suppose the one part o
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by cowpig 6y ago
But the reporter believed it was most likely that part of the story was true. There was corroboration from sources in US and Canadian intelligence saying they believed he was a member of ISIS, and the photo he had on his phone that was take
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by cowpig 6y ago
Did you listen to the podcast? Because I can't relate at all to this reaction, given nuanced take of the original series. The story is very much the story of an investigation, and it's made pretty clear that the central character&
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by cowpig 6y ago
It doesn't; it requires you buy into the economics of monopoly. Your neighbor doesn't want your cow to die, it's the megacowcorp trying to charge four times the equilibrium price for milk.
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by cowpig 6y ago
I don't think you can compress the issue down to a "government" vs "corporation" binary. There are some powerful benefits of free markets over command economies, such as decentralized self-organization, tendency tow
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by cowpig 6y ago
There aren't any legal issues with this either. He's not selling the cheese, he's explaining how to make it. That's fair use, and the recipe for Grana Padano is public (defined in the law).
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by cowpig 6y ago
Except he's not selling cheese, he's explaining how to make it. Which is fair use, and so they don't have anything resembling a case.
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by cowpig 6y ago
This is plainly incorrect. It's called "Predatory Pricing"[1] and it's illegal. [1] https://www.investopedia.com/terms/p/predatory-pricing.asp
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by cowpig 6y ago
> if you're actually dealing with a genuine person or group who you've genuinely wronged then a real apology is warranted A pitfall of this mentality, at least in my experience, is that people I hurt are usually much better jud
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by cowpig 6y ago
I understand #2 and #3 (and #9) to be features, not bugs. The lack of national standards or national election management body create a system that's especially resilient, because the decentralized, diverse system can handle many failur
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by cowpig 6y ago
A solution to a lot of these problems that I quite like is "birdnesting," where the child(ren) keep the home they live in, and the divorcing parents take turns moving in. That seems to be clearly best for the child (removes the in
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by cowpig 6y ago
I don't have a source for this, but I grew up in NJ and now live in Montreal, and I am pretty sure the local corruption here is worse than where I grew up (where three of the four mayors of my hometown served time in jail after their t
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by cowpig 6y ago
My interpretation is that google is afraid of products being separated into separate companies as a result of antitrust litigation and so is trying to use their branding to support their case that these totally separate services are insepar
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by cowpig 6y ago
... the story says they forged FBI documents. Surely that's a crime?

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