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by crusso 6y ago
My POV is from American politics where the left is in lockstep with the censorship going on at Google, Facebook, and Twitter. This very story is about how Joe Biden is being protected by those tech giants. Those tech giants also are the o
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by crusso 6y ago
We're in a power transition where the Left is now in control of major societal levers: Academia, Hollywood, sports entertainment, the mainstream news media, large government bureaucracies, and big tech. Once the loudest champions of fr
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by crusso 6y ago
Do you think we should filter out astroturfers and Russian bots? I don't think that anyone is complaining about the filtering of deliberate fraud from outside influences. What people are complaining about are the obvious biases exhi
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by crusso 6y ago
That's a poor analogy. We're not talking about a service that is trying to help users achieve clearly definable goals like eliminating fraud with their customers' consent. No one is claiming that Amazon customers object to
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by crusso 6y ago
I think it's naive to say that laissez faire speech is going to solve all issues The arguments for free speech are fundamentally the same arguments for democracy itself. If people can't decide the value of information, why again
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by crusso 6y ago
I personally think that this is now a war for democracy In this war for democracy, which side of the war do you think wants everyone to be able to access any information and which side do you think wants to control the flow of information
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by crusso 6y ago
The whole point of Maslow's triangle is that first, people meet their basic needs before moving higher up in the triangle. So how are you escaping the triangle when you stipulate "once you have your basic needs met"
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by crusso 6y ago
He has called fascists good people. He has called Mexican immigrants rapists I'm not a fan of Trump's personality, but on HN, can't we be intellectually honest about politics? The statements above are not in fact what he sa
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by crusso 6y ago
That's a ridiculous amount of hair splitting. The normalization of diplomatic relations between Israel and major powers in the Middle East is a huge win for anyone who cares about peace. It's astounding to me that people hate Tru
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by crusso 6y ago
There's no escaping Maslow's Triangle.
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by crusso 6y ago
I'm really tired of people who claim the result of a psychological study is "obvious". Personally, I don't get too wound up on people's opinions on psychological studies. They're fun little conversation fill
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by crusso 6y ago
This effect is obvious for anyone who navigated before and after the age of personal GPS. When you engage in the decision-making process, you learn. When you rely on something to make choices for you, you don't learn.
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by crusso 6y ago
I love this idea. I've been using Elixir for years, on and off. The syntax is approachable, the actor model is solid and easy to reason about with many threads running. The Phoenix ecosystem is fantastic to work with, particularly no
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by crusso 6y ago
From the page: ~0.5s startup times or better on our computers
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by crusso 6y ago
I've just spent the last few hours going through some FreeCAD tutorials. I love it. This is so much fun. I've been hesitating to get a 3D printer because I haven't touched CAD since college... but I could definitely get in
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by crusso 6y ago
"The food pyramid was never backed by any high quality evidence" And yet medical organizations backed government efforts to force it upon our society. "Calories in calories out is 100% valid for weight loss" "A calo
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by crusso 6y ago
"bullshit", "quackery", ""healers" and witches" Is all that really necessary? When it comes to human health, the unknowns are legion. Medical science is in its infancy, but too many act as though it&
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by crusso 6y ago
I found my first fast to not be representative of later fasts. You get more accustomed to not eating after you repeat the practice. You become conscious of how often you wander into the kitchen and stick your nose in the refrigerator and
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by crusso 6y ago
I'll normally use street view to familiarize myself with an area when I'm heading there for the first time, especially for something like a vacation. It can be useful to see where your hotel (or a potential hotel) might be locate
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by crusso 6y ago
Observational error is always a good speculation. It seems to be at the heart of most of these "impossible physics" stories. Remember not long ago when neutrinos were thought to have been observed moving faster than the speed of
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by crusso 6y ago
Justified skepticism is not hate.
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by crusso 6y ago
"for at least a decade" I remember the rumor that Apple was going to get into search back when altavista was a thing.
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by crusso 6y ago
Yeah, but they serve as a pretty good counter-balance to the over-zealous city council members who prefer to take on expensive pet projects rather than to competently manage existing infrastructure. It happens at all levels of government.
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by crusso 6y ago
My thought on the pricing as well. Every drug user knows that you never talk about price because the "first hits are free".
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by crusso 6y ago
It's still set up, but the office is mostly closed so it's not very helpful.
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by crusso 6y ago
I've noticed that with my skype-to-the-office setup where I leave it on, the resource use (mostly bandwidth) bugs me in the back of my mind. That makes the experience a little uncomfortable as an always-on thing. I'd definitely li
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by crusso 6y ago
This is a great idea for a product. I have worked remotely for the past ten years and not having easy interactions with team members has always been a problem. Lately, I've had a laptop in my office's cube with Skype and VNC set
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by crusso 6y ago
"information cannot be free" You're talking about an electorate that has been shown the abuses of its data by Google, Facebook, and others time and again and couldn't care less.
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by crusso 6y ago
If you're interested in using Elixir, jump right into Phoenix with LiveView. It is fantastic for prototyping new tools. Once you learn the basics of LiveView, it's ridiculously easy to create the web UI that interacts with your
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by crusso 6y ago
Do people jaded by years of experience fill out as many surveys?

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