cowpig

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by cowpig 8y ago
> Sadly, maturity and nuance were killed and buried years ago. irony
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by cowpig 8y ago
Slippery Slopes are a slippery slope. If you reason about everything in extremes, how can any solution ever be acceptable? The worst case for all real-world solutions are always bad.
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by cowpig 8y ago
..unless there is a woman on the board?
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by cowpig 8y ago
> “There have been numerous objections to this bill, and serious legal concerns have been raised,” Brown said. “I don’t minimize the potential flaws that indeed may prove fatal to its ultimate implementation. Nevertheless, recent events
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by cowpig 8y ago
> Within months of its arrival in the Bay Area, Imperfect Produce fliers were showing up on our car windows, its outreach coordinators were pitching at community meetings, its Facebook advertisements popped up daily in our feeds, and it
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by cowpig 8y ago
Beyond the first paragraph which just states that their food would otherwise end up as trash, they don't actually reply to any of the claims in the parent article. The evidence they provide is broad macro-level statistics about how muc
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by cowpig 8y ago
Everything is dust in the end..
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by cowpig 8y ago
There is such a thing as business ethics. Facebook's complete disregard for them should not be the norm, even if it, sadly, might be more often than not.
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by cowpig 8y ago
I just want to thank you for doing this work. Real-world problems are so much messier and more frustrating than the clean abstractions many of us choose to work with. But this is really meaningful work that should have concrete social benef
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by cowpig 8y ago
What alternative do you propose?
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by cowpig 8y ago
I'd say it very much detracts from the experience... to the point where I can't be bothered to mess with any of the what look like beautiful presentations of data
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by cowpig 8y ago
That sounds like a business idea that, if successful, quickly renders itself irrelevant unfortunately
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by cowpig 8y ago
> since that's what matters I think the societal consequences are "what matters" The technical details _literally_ don't matter without societal consequences
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by cowpig 8y ago
I honestly don't understand why it's so contentious, despite reading the lwn.net article about it[1]. It just looks like some syntactic sugar to me, and I've been in the position where not having that sugar has felt awkward m
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by cowpig 8y ago
I honestly don't understand why sites do this. Can someone explain it to me?
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by cowpig 8y ago
The typing, encapsulation, and packaging issues are features of the language which have benefits and tradeoffs. The author of the article seems to balk at them because they aren't what he is used to. Re: typing in particular, gradual t
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by cowpig 8y ago
This is a good question, and I'm afraid of the answer
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by cowpig 8y ago
The author also wrongly asserts that this metaphor is supposed to illuminate the incompleteness theorem when really it's just teasing some ideas that he explains in more detail later in the book.
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by cowpig 8y ago
Institutional sexism is a problem. Also, the way this article describes the situation made me think there's probably other things at play too. So I searched youtube for the two people in question speaking. Karen is a really, really bad
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by cowpig 8y ago
Would you mind linking to some information about what the proposal is, why it's bad, what the alternatives are, etc?
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by cowpig 8y ago
> Basically, this can be read as a complaint about how distorted the financial markets become when we rely on the Fed to protect us from recessions. I'm not sure how you get that from the quoted passage, nor from the article.
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by cowpig 8y ago
I have a background in both web development and data science, and have used several different visualization libraries in python, R (ggplot), and JS. It still takes me a crazy amount of time to get a simple chart or graph working in D3 if it
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by cowpig 8y ago
A silicon-valley YC startup is mostly cons: - cult-like obsession with working "hard" that amounts to pressuring people into burning themselves out - have to be around people who act like everything is great and they're killi
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by cowpig 8y ago
> DeepMind (+ other research organizations at Google) are among the biggest publishers of AI papers + open-source AI code. DeepMind is absolutely _not_ a big publisher of open-source AI code, and their papers tend to be very high-level a
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by cowpig 8y ago
He gets credit for not doing something extremely unethical that would have been quite risky, probably stupidly so (because it would bring him into the controversy)?
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by cowpig 8y ago
I would add 4. As a general rule, appealing to a standard isn't a sufficient rationale for making a change. (I think most of the swearing was about that)
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by cowpig 8y ago
Why isn't something like buying goods and services from a company you (or your brother) own with investor money illegal? Unless I'm missing a reason why that would be ok, that should be criminal? And then I don't understand t
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by cowpig 8y ago
I'm glad that google's internal culture is healthy enough for this. I wonder how the internal conversations about affecting politics, issues of privacy, etc. look.. However, I really think it would be better if these debates happe
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by cowpig 8y ago
There's a difference between requiring an account to lurk and requiring one to post messages
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