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by dandare 7y ago
> necessity to stay on topic Try a little exercise: ask a computer literate person not familiar with SE to find out what questions are on-topic on https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/
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by dandare 7y ago
If I could recommend something: the ability to share a specific fallacy to social media in response to a comment or tweet will bring you a lot of traffic. I would sometimes link to a subpage from https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com&
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by dandare 7y ago
This is super important. The west can not claim moral high ground if we torture people.
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by dandare 7y ago
the question was "why could it not", not "why it would end up enyway"
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by dandare 7y ago
> 1. Lying has always been considered a valid political tool. It isn't really clear how a government can operate without lying. Could you expand on this? Why could the government not operate without lying, except for extreme situati
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by dandare 7y ago
Surveillance capitalism is a misnomer, a knee jerk reaction. At a glance, online advertising generates somewhere between $83.0 billion in 2017 and $220.38 billion in 2019, the exact number does not matter because it pales in comparison with
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by dandare 7y ago
“If something cannot go on forever, it will stop.” [Herbert Stein] Every dollar we spend on interest is not spent on investment.
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by dandare 7y ago
First: >Gates is right, in a way: Economists don’t understand much about the macroeconomy. No one does. Any responsible economist is the first to admit that. Then: > Economists’ research has contributed to fewer people living in pover
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by dandare 7y ago
I still don't understand this whole "business model". Could someone ELI5 these three questions? 1) How exactly is this targeting information useful to advertisers? Do they pay for targeting in order to pay for fewer ads? 2) W
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by dandare 7y ago
From Vice.com: Early in the thread, Stallman insists that the “most plausible scenario” is that Epstein’s underage victims were “entirely willing” while being trafficked. Stallman goes on to argue about the definition of “sexual assault,” “
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by dandare 7y ago
This reminds me of Göbekli Tepe and the fact that it predates agriculture. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Göbekli_Tepe Yuval Noah Harari in A Brief History of Humankind argues that it the need to feed so many workers co
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by dandare 7y ago
Not just Intelligence agencies, if I remember correctly FBI used switched off phones to record mobsters. But I can't find the link now, hope it was not a hoax.
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by dandare 7y ago
The touch screen terminal in my Hiunday i40 is absolute crap. I wish the carmakers would open their APIs and leave a hole in the middle panel for whatever 3rd party table the user chooses.
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by dandare 7y ago
Please update this page with links to Spotify (or other streamable) playlists.
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by dandare 7y ago
The last time my work password expired and I had to increase the number at the end from 7 to 8, I asked our 6-figure-salary cybersecurity pro what is the point of password rotation when all it achieves is that regular users stick it on post
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by dandare 7y ago
Is this news? > Schandal already made public in 2018: (link: https://euobserver.com/justice/141919 ) euobserver.com/justice/141919 https://twitter.com/Ellen_Timmer/status/11547200
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by dandare 7y ago
> Real-world Example, Please! > Real-world example, please! > Real-world example, please! Would it be too much to ask for a REAL real-world example? Unless you are already an expert in both paradigms you (I) have no idea what is th
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by dandare 7y ago
On the contrary. Life diverges to occupy niches. You will find multiple examples of less efficient processes and body plans living in niches not far from more efficient ones. You can still find all 3 domains of life on earth (Archaea, Eukar
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by dandare 7y ago
This article is one huge strawman fallacy. How is monopolies or lobbying the fault of capitalism? If this was an assertion in a random blogpost, so be it, but I would expect more from Bloomberg.
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by dandare 7y ago
I would recommend this book to every young person just entering the workforce. Many companies are outright built on lies and many managers, C levels especially, are manipulative psychopaths. Don't sell your soul, don't lose your s
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by dandare 7y ago
Are you suggesting a passenger car runs its own Linux distro? What would be the reason, other than Not Built Here syndrome? (Or the goal to deceive regulators.) How many I/O devices/drivers does a pacemaker talk to? How many of th
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by dandare 7y ago
Writing everything 3 times: I believe this is not the case for a car or pacemaker. For the Boeing: 5M/3 = 1.3M lines of code. Still makes no sense. Obsolete languages: Old language (or Latin) does not bloat the size of your code astron
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by dandare 7y ago
As a web/game developer, one thing I never understood is the alleged complexity of these control systems. There is no image/voice recognition, no graphics engine, no rocket science. What are they even doing? Or is it all a big lie
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by dandare 7y ago
These kinds of checklists may work for a product like Airbnb but will hardly work for something like Twitter or Instagram where the entrepreneur is rewarded for fulfilling a need that never existed before.
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"IsCondoleezzaRiceStillDropboxBoardMember.com"?
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by dandare 7y ago
What you said is called the slippery slope fallacy. Just saying.
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I offer you a contra thought. We have unparalleled access to information, we have Wikipedia, free online courses, video documentaries, books, you name it. Yet 1/10 people believe the earth is flat, 1/5 does not understand that hom
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Ask HN: Should I report ESTA (esta.cbp.dhs.gov) security bug? How?
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by dandare 7y ago
And what if this happened to someone who is not famous with a large following?
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by dandare 7y ago
What is Uber's competitive advantage anyway? Subsidizing rides with Saudi money? The mobile app is pretty simple and competitors are popping up wherever you look. There is almost no cost to switch for the end user and all the taxi comp

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