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by dawg- 7y ago
I'm sorry that this is what you got from my comment, because it wasn't my intention. I was trying to say that the nuance in the article will be completely lost in the media. Even commenters in this thread who "believe in&quot
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of course, but I'm not sure those discoveries have been "put to work" with the intention and mass organization in the same way climate science has been. I think with climate science we are trying to organize scientific knowle
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True, I wasn't trying to say the DNC is evil or that real people don't support "establishment" candidates - of course they do. Just saying that whoever the DNC throws their weight behind will get a really big boost. And
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Part of the problem in Western countries is that we seem to struggle with the language around smartphone addiction. We all know at some level that compulsive use of mobile internet is a widespread problem for a lot of people. But, for start
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I never formally studied CS, but I can strongly recommend Code by Charles Petzold. If you want to learn how a computer does what it does at the absolute lowest levels, it's a great starting point. It's all written in laymans terms
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He worked in D.C. think tanks and as a consultant for McKinsey before becoming a mayor. He was always going to be an "establishment" candidate. He was always "young Joe Biden". People just expected him to be more progres
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Behind each level of abstraction lurks a programmer ready to drive a stake in the heart of your vampire. Who writes the algorithms? Again, you default to magic. I say engineers. Besides, algorithms are constantly being tweaked to get the ou
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by dawg- 7y ago
Actually, that's not what I said.
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This brings up the same core issue as all official diversity initiatives: as soon as you talk about it, you destroy it. When you make diversity a focus and celebrate yourself for being diverse, then the spirit of diversity is ruined. It&#x2
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Interesting. It's unfortunate that this will be used as ammunition for climate skeptics. It seems that ice cliffs are very different than ice sheets - the things currently melting. Ice cliffs were previously supposed to account for up
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by dawg- 7y ago
This is an interesting and creative fantasy but I don't really see how it reflects reality. Unless you think smartphones are powered by esoteric magic and forget that humans build and design every single little function of them, down t
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Similarly, in the words of Beto O'Rourke after he proposed mandatory firearm confiscation during a recent debate: "Americans will follow the law."
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The list is written "out of a respect for the less-heralded cultural underpinnings" of America, but it includes books by Cormac McCarthy, Toni Morrison, Kurt Vonnegut, Saul Bellow...great authors and great books but hardly "l
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I think a digital democracy has the potential to be more direct and less representative. Ancient Athens was a direct democracy, where citizens would vote almost every day on a huge range of issues. Representative democracies take citizens o
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by dawg- 7y ago
Google also has relatively good tools for controlling your data with myactivity. I think they have always been ahead of facebook with stuff like this.
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If Assistant is that far ahead, then it's really funny because assistant is very disappointing. These companies are pushing voice onto the general public before it is ready to be actually useful. I got a free google home with something
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I set up the face unlock on my S9 and lasted about half a day before i was back to the fingerprint. Its just so much easier and more convenient in every way.
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I think Google is trying to do this with the new update to Assistant - the language model is only 500mb so it can all be processed on the local device. I saw in a blog post somewhere they are trying to get to where individual devices hold d
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by dawg- 7y ago
Hey, I work in nonprofit admin and have never encountered this issue. Your best bet is coming up with the $600 to file as a 501(c)3, because this issue with email is not going to be the last time you run into problems without it. Have you e
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by dawg- 7y ago
I love that you pulled that question out of my post because I hadn't even considered it. Definitely food for thought!
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Just beautiful. We have our Baudrillard and The Matrix and think we are so different, modern, cutting edge, living in a 21st century hyperreality. Rumi saw it 800 years ago!
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Here's an important thing from the article: >it's most likely to occur in mildly depressed people—those suffering from major depression, by contrast, are more likely to suffer from larger distortions in their thinking. I wonder
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I was flying to Germany from Atlanta earlier this year. I enter the international terminal, start waiting in the security line. As I get to the front there is this little screen with a camera on top and a TSA logo on it. There's a sign
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by dawg- 7y ago
Yes, Original, exactly! Original denotes something very powerful, a beginning which sets things off, which branches off into a bunch of other things that are only iterations of that first thing. You can draw a line through history from the
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Fair enough, I'm just glad you put forth the effort and then came to your own conclusions about what you read instead of thinking what everyone told you to think. Your observation that the Greeks didn't have "the" scient
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Beyond Good and Evil (1886) [pdf](holybooks.com)
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The scariest and most prescient part of 1984 turns out to have been the 2 Minutes' Hate. See: China on reddit last week.
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The whole practice of counting how many books you read is ridiculous. I recently read Don DeLillo's Underworld. It's 850 pages long and some sections can be kind of a slog. But it was one of the most satisfying books I've eve
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by dawg- 7y ago
Descartes wrote that reading great books is like having a conversation with the greatest minds who have ever lived - and even at that, hearing only the absolute best of their thinking. I think it's a matter of filters. On Twitter where
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They will get the hammer eventually. But I'm fine with how it has gone so far. Regulation goes in a cycle - someone finds a way to dominate a market with questionable behavior, then regulators crack down. Then it happens again and agai

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