cyborgx7

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by cyborgx7 7y ago
Because of political bias. Just look at the introduction of the (fake) Nobel Prize for economics. It exists purely to legitimize a neoliberal economic ideology. Awarding Chomsky a Nobel Prize would undermine that goal.
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A "socialist social network" sounds appealing, but the words "meritocracy" and "gamification" are red flags to me. I think I'll stick with mastodon for now.
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Jesus Christ, this is disgusting.
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Nobody is against feeding the homeless in soup kitchens. And it's disingenuous to imply anyone said so. The problem is that this is usually all these rich people do. Often times actively working against the systematic changes that wo
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by cyborgx7 7y ago
Just signed up for it. It looks good, but I am seeing a bunch of clickbait. Already had to use the refund feature once. But the bigger problem is that I generally come to articles through social media or links from friends. Do I have to sea
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by cyborgx7 7y ago
Off-topic: This is an article I would consider spending 1-3 dollars to read. But the only option for me is to subscribe. Therefore I won't be reading it and they won't get my money. I know that on demand paying for articles hasn&#
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It's true though. Note that he says Linux and Apple fanboys. You can still like either while being realistic about their flaws and shortcommings. Also, learn to take a joke.
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by cyborgx7 7y ago
Not sure if this is a loading bug on my end, but if I zoom out, I'm seeing information for the UK, Ireland, India and nothing else. Zooming in anywhere else doesn't seem to reveal any more data. https://i.imgur.com&#x2F
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The second part was going to be my complaint as well, but your observation about the catch for the finger is even more important. I think there might be some kind of lesson here. Rotary dials might be a usability punchline right now, but th
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by cyborgx7 7y ago
This quote doesn't apply to this at all. That quote is making fun of centrists. You are applying it from a centrist perspective to a leftist argument about individual acts of charity not contributing to the solution of systematic issue
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by cyborgx7 7y ago
Trusting your privacy on the moral and ethical compass of every individual at giant corporations is incredibly foolish. If this is a wide-spread belief at Google, it only further erodes my trust in the company.
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My father lives in Berlin, and before his last move a few years ago he had one of these for his house key. Never knew they were so specific to Berlin.
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I heard people were moving away from doing stocks in London with Brexit looming. Is this no longer the case?
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>Basically, the market is ripe for a respectful dating site. But OKCupid started this way; and in the end they sold out. What makes you think you won't sell out when the money is right? Seems like it's a problem that can't
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by cyborgx7 7y ago
If you want to get rid of "fragmentation" to make linux "win", you get rid of a big part of what makes linux "winning" a desireable goal in the first place.
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Yes, a society organized around the profit motive is inhumane. That is the point I was making.
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My point is that the entire reason why people say we need the profit motive to motivate people, is because caring for other people is not enough to motivate their behavior.
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If people were driven because they care about other/all people rather than about their own material benefit, we wouldn't have designed a system based on the profit motive in the first place. Because it wouldn't have motivated
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by cyborgx7 7y ago
So he can start his own business, with no capital of their own, so at an inherent disadvantage, or sell their work under value to someone else. This world view only works if you only see people as atomized units and have no sense of a conce
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It's trivial to justify. Companies exist to maximize profit. You make more profit by paying your employees less. Also, plenty of people in my responses are denying that this is what profit is.
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The extra value generated from the combination of efforts is still generated by the workers who combined their effort to generate it. Why are the owners more deserving of that "extra value" than the workers?
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by cyborgx7 7y ago
>Tying the salary to the cost of living looks like a way to cheat a worker out of the value they generate. Where do you think profits come from? Profit is the difference between what you pay your workers and the value of their work.
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by cyborgx7 7y ago
>At 95% certainty, you have 19 people saying “yes” and 1 person saying “no.” >At 99% certainty, you have 99 people saying “yes” and 1 person saying “no.” The article was worth the read to me just for this part. I thought I had a prett
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by cyborgx7 7y ago
Great project. I don't think I've ever seen this visual of a representation of machine learning algorithm, specifically not a regression algorithm.
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But knowing 24 characters doesn't make you understand 100% of the words. Actually, it gives you 0%.
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I'm a hundred percent with you. I've seen the term "Zombie" to describe a company that is sustainable, providing a valuable service and paying their employees a lot on here. And noone was ever able to convince me why tha
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>I don't understand why it's okay for such an influential and powerful company to also control how 70% of users accesses the internet. It's not. This is an anti-trust case waiting to happen.
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>why did the government cut taxes What do you think?
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This project is only completed when you can recursively keep doing this forever, without it ever breaking.
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Hilarious. Props to author for not trying to give a reasonable looking motivation for this beyond "It would be funny". That's more than enough.

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