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by darawk 5y ago
I think it's reasonable to consider invasion of privacy a harm on its own. There was no invasion of privacy in this example.
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by darawk 5y ago
> There's lots of systemically horrible things that can happen if you're not careful about what you allow. Of course there are. But what specifically are the harms that are going to be caused by either this research or a landin
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by darawk 5y ago
> Says who? Me and common sense. I don't believe consent is relevant when there is no risk of harm to the subject. IRBs and the GDPR are overly aggressive on this point, probably as a reaction to real and important violations of pri
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by darawk 5y ago
> What about the risk to the reputation of anyone who approves these patches? This is a risk, but it's exposing vulnerabilities is always preferable to leaving them in place. > Or of intentinally buggy patches making it into the
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by darawk 5y ago
Sure, but so does every website that AB tests a landing page. Consent is only relevant when there is some risk to the subject (or something they value, like privacy, etc).
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by darawk 5y ago
This is probably because they don't mean the apology, they were forced to write it by their administrators. And to be honest, I kind of agree with them. I don't really see what they did here as particularly bad. They demonstrated
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by darawk 5y ago
Money is just a fungible unit of comparison for types of value, nothing more.
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by darawk 5y ago
Not to disagree with your underlying point, but I think it might be more constructive to frame the problem as a failure to internalize the costs, rather than a focus on money. Ultimately we do need a fungible way to compare solutions, and m
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by darawk 5y ago
> If sales are not sold at opening-market prices, what happens is that offer prices increase until they are attractive enough to be filled. This is literally exactly what happens in a direct listing. There is no obligation anywhere. Each
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by darawk 5y ago
They could issue new shares, but that would be even worse for the existing shareholders, because it would create selling pressure and dilute them.
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by darawk 5y ago
Sure in a theoretical world that doesn't exist you could have a DPO where nobody sells any shares. I'm not sure what relevance that has to our evaluation of the actual world that exists, though.
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by darawk 5y ago
The only people who own shares when the DPO happens are the insiders. The DPO cannot happen unless some of them choose to sell in that DPO.
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by darawk 5y ago
No...it's a direct listing. There are literally no shares on the market yet. He didn't dump a large amount, either. He sold a small fraction of his holdings, so that there would be shares to trade.
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by darawk 5y ago
It was a direct listing. If insiders didn't sell their shares, there wouldn't be any to trade. He sold a very small fraction of his overall holdings.
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by darawk 5y ago
> Here's also a preemptive "intention doesn't matter" because the first post I share covers that in the section "The Semantics of Intention", where it argues that the decisions have already been made in both
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by darawk 5y ago
We don't even understand the consequences of the laws we pass in plain English. The idea that news feed algorithms are going to be meaningfully interpretable by anyone is just not practical, even if those algorithms are relatively si
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by darawk 5y ago
The algorithm may be e.g. a DNN which is quite opaque, even if its inputs are revealed.
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by darawk 5y ago
Algorithm designers are human. You can hold them accountable.
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by darawk 6y ago
> Yes, but they own search ads and a large percentage of web ads (though the non-siloed web is becoming less and less relevant each year), and they do everything in their power to put people into their ad funnel. You can call any company
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by darawk 6y ago
People are very weirdly upset by the addition of a feature that they are under no obligation whatsoever to use. If you think cryptocurrency is stupid...just don't use it.
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by darawk 6y ago
> We have also observed that some phases remain stable without pressure at up to 300 K and for at least 7 days. 300K = 80F
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by darawk 6y ago
HFTs parse news like this the microsecond it comes out, so you wouldn't beat them. You might still be able to make some gains, but they'd be lower than trading ahead of time.
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by darawk 6y ago
That's my point, hence the parent's explanation doesn't make sense.
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by darawk 6y ago
What's the logic here? Why would the executive who made this decision get a promotion for this?
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by darawk 6y ago
You think that executives are forcing developers to come into the office so that they can play politics with their subordinates?
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by darawk 6y ago
I don't know, but I think it's reasonable to assume that their primary concern is productivity, and that at a company like Google, that concern will be analyzed in a data driven way. Perhaps they don't want to insult their de
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by darawk 6y ago
Have you considered the possibility that executives in charge of tens of thousands of developers might have some data you don't regarding its impacts on productivity in aggregate?
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by darawk 6y ago
I think a lot of these names are designed to be confused with real security firms, e.g. "Trend Macro".
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by darawk 6y ago
> Where did you get this from? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_German_cities_by_GDP > Germany is actually the only country in the EU where GDP per capita is higher when the capital is excluded. Munich is at
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by darawk 6y ago
It seems like we disagree about what it means to actually propose policy. > Capital is pretty pure critique of the then-status-quo Yep. > The Communist Manifesto has a fairly broad program The Communist Manifesto doesn't do much

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