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by daenz 4y ago
>north of a dozen "good guys with guns" didn't do jack-shit. The "good guys with guns" clearly had no investment in a positive outcome, unlike the parents who were fighting the police to save their kids. A "
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by daenz 4y ago
>Why aren't [non-lethal weapons] ever suggested They are suggested. Many people carry mace/pepper spray. Tasers are finicky and require a fortunate prong placement in the attacker, and the attacker to not be wearing thick cloth
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by daenz 4y ago
>anybody who is serious about gun control This sounds like a "no true scotsman" fallacy. If your definition of someone who is not serious includes people who say "rely on police to help", then it is circular logic.
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by daenz 4y ago
Reminds me of the Star Trek TNG episode where Captain Piccard defends Data's sentience by asking the counterparty to define sentience. Spoiler: it touches on the idea that a human being—held to the same definition of "sentience&qu
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by daenz 4y ago
What is stopping them right now?
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by daenz 4y ago
The article makes 2 main points: 1) that this lawsuit will cause companies to take WFH away. and 2) It's extremely difficult to bill things like fractional electricity and internet usage. The first is a flimsy premise because companies
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by daenz 4y ago
As we get closer to provable AGI, I imagine we'll see more and more of these types of stories, of people speaking out and listeners being uncertain of the claims. Reminds me of the Flesh Fair scene from AI[0] 0. https://www.
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by daenz 4y ago
I haven't seen a single comment in this thread that alluded to "I am against any/all vaccinations", which is why "anti-vax" is a bad faith term.
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by daenz 4y ago
>My biggest fear is the city either has to slash spending on, say, police I don't want this to turn into an ideological battle, but my understanding was that in SF, that is not an unpopular stance. Is this not the case?
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by daenz 4y ago
In your eyes, what would constitute as evidence, and how would it manifest in the world?
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by daenz 4y ago
"anti-vax" is a bad faith phrase that is intended to suggest that a person is against a vast range of science based medicine.
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by daenz 4y ago
It seems like Google really underestimates the experience of lag. It's a deal breaker for many gamers. Yes, this is a super impressive demo, but having your screen glitch and lag frequently is infuriating enough to quit.
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by daenz 4y ago
>On a more positive note: is there something that detects or warns against hostile tone to help write in a friendly and non-hostile way? :) Similar idea for public figures: ML that can detect phrases that can be taken out of context easi
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by daenz 4y ago
If history is a guide, then you are correct. But I believe complexity is fractal (I think we all know this: "turtles all the way down..."), and that you can structure and manage complexity with recursive rules, so that you only se
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by daenz 4y ago
This is a problem I want to focus my life solving. I believe that software engineering can be made so simple and clear that it can be wielded by an extremely small team of engineers. I believe that there are finite and fundamental classes
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by daenz 4y ago
"secret ToS-violation" not "secret-ToS violation." got it, yours makes more sense :)
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by daenz 4y ago
Imo, 99% of the time, ergonomics should take precedence over power. Power can always be added later with clever hacks, without ruining an ergonomic interface. But adding ergonomics to power is a much more broken process.
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by daenz 4y ago
>secret TOS violation Given the source (a comedian), this part sounds like hyperbole, not evidence of an actual "secret TOS"
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by daenz 4y ago
Coming to a coding interview near you!
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by daenz 4y ago
Now try to define "affected" and that's where the war will be fought.
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by daenz 4y ago
Huh, the DoJ article didn't make it clear that they were using existing identities for the padded votes, only that they were incrementing tallies. From the way it is written, it sounds like they don't need any existing identities
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by daenz 4y ago
That's a fair point. Though I would argue that improving controls around voters make it easier to detect election fraud. If you can tie each vote to a real person, it becomes very difficult to add an arbitrary number of anonymous votes
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by daenz 4y ago
I don't see that this particular incident is proof of incidents elsewhere either. However, pretending that this person is the only person to figure out how to do this is extremely naive. Especially with how long it took to catch him. I
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by daenz 4y ago
So all this time, "election fraud" is entirely plausible but we've been building a strawman around "voter fraud" and saying that it doesn't happen? What level of bad faith debating is this?
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by daenz 4y ago
They make it sound so simple: Bribe the Judge of Elections who oversees everything. Dilute the vote tallies by using the voting machines to increment the votes for specific candidates. Certify that the fake results are correct. Lie if anybo
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by daenz 4y ago
I dug up the study, in case anyone is interested https://cdn.vanderbilt.edu/vu-news/files/20190417222934/Gris... What's interesting that is not mentioned is page 15: a black student with a black teacher
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Copycat Suicide(en.wikipedia.org)
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by daenz 4y ago
Former Senior SRE here. Was doing everything: working with engineering teams to build a microservice authoring framework. Putting out fires and responding to outages. Adding monitoring/metrics/logging to all the things. Building p
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by daenz 4y ago
Not sure where the "again" is coming from. I'm not the same person. >Most people knows a significant amount of engagement is bots No, I don't think most people know that. They know there are bots, and they suspec
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by daenz 4y ago
>It refers to 5% of monthly active users who are shown ads. This may come across as pedantic, but I'm genuinely asking: can a bot be "shown" ads? If a bot never loads the js or html that serves the ad, was it "shown&q

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