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by domador 8y ago
Actually, there is something to be said for the "scoop and run" method of getting an injured person to a hospital. It's a conclusion that surprised me, but I've come across it in several sources. https://www.
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by domador 8y ago
Though these kinds of moral puzzles are interesting, I think that ultimately, they seek solutions to the wrong problem. The questions they ask assume the existence of an advanced AI that can resolve a lethal situation in a (presumably) les
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by domador 8y ago
To me that problem had a simple answer: active harm is worse than negligence. To kill someone is a worse action that to let someone die, regardless of the numbers of people involved.
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by domador 8y ago
I don't think there's a problem with fictional works' authors being unknown or anonymous. The problem lies in nonfiction works that seek to directly convey any kind of knowledge or wisdom that is difficult to judge and evalu
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I Served in Congress Longer Than Anyone. Here’s How to Fix It(theatlantic.com)
4 points by domador 8y ago|0 comments
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by domador 8y ago
> ALL the voters whose 1st choice loses in the final round never get any of their other preferences counted and they lose their 1st choice. They get NOTHING, no say, totally screwed. They could be as much as 49% of voters. Now, WITHIN IR
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by domador 8y ago
Ah, such a simple oversight on my part! Thanks for illustrating why the two systems are equivalent.
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by domador 8y ago
Maybe IRV got an early start as a poster child of alternative voting systems, thus it's popularity. In any case, I would argue along with other commenters that IRV's run-offs would probably be far easier to understand for the gene
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by domador 8y ago
Personally, I hate the bucket-list-as-a-checklist idea, and have found the idea of visiting places and seeing things to feel pretty hollow to me, regardless of whether the sites are well known or not. Except for beautiful parts of nature an
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by domador 8y ago
A question would be whether the replacement forms a valid analogous statement, one which reveals unrecognized hypocrisy. In this case, it's a partially successful analogy. Both mass tourist and immigrants travel to foreign lands, but
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by domador 8y ago
Are you black, jtbayly? If not, are there other reasons why the people in the (presumably white) majority (unjustly) profile you and pay wary attention to you? (If I may ask, of course.)
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by domador 8y ago
> "we're experiencing a reverse brain-drain" Are you Canadian? Is that what you mean by "we". (I'm just trying to understand the comment.)
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by domador 8y ago
Sounds like engineers (and people in general) are good at optimizing locally (achieving what's good for me) and stink at optimizing globally (achieving what's good for everyone in society).
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by domador 8y ago
The Internet Archive is a non-profit which in and of itself provides it with freedom to pursue unselfish ends. As long as decent people remain at the helm, the only acceptable options for it and similar non-profits at critical times would
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by domador 8y ago
Sounds like another outrageous case of digital sharecropping, where the value of the service was primarily provided by the users and the community they formed, yet such value was not respected, and people's work--a cherished part of th
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by domador 8y ago
Why are we so fixated on ranking people, and strictly on a linear scale? As soon as you're measuring performance on more than one dimension, it becomes very hard to rank people. Multivariate competitions, for that matter, are more in
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by domador 8y ago
If you live in a wealthy country, you probably "lost" more money writing that comment than what you paid for WhatsApp, even paying twice.
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by domador 9y ago
Does this mean that Apple will never improve its products based on user-generated feedback?
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Apple's Unsolicited Idea Submission Policy(apple.com)
1 points by domador 9y ago|3 comments
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by domador 9y ago
If people are awake, sure. However, when flying, sleeping seems like a more basic need than eating, and one that should get higher priority. I think if someone is sleeping when they hand out the food, they should not be woken up in order
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by domador 9y ago
It sounds appealing, but I wonder if in practice range voting tends to collapse into first-past-the-post, with people voting tactically to maximize the chances of a popular candidate winning (instead of voting for the candidate they most pr
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by domador 9y ago
"...the majority of programmers are not developers." Could someone please explain the difference between the two terms? I've always used them synonymously.
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by domador 9y ago
They're still different, the two schemes. In the case of a traditional password manager, an attacker would need to get your master password and the password datastore. In the case of datastores stored locally, rather than online, that&
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Bird or Frog? Freeman Dyson on the Two Types of Thinkers(medium.com)
1 points by domador 9y ago|0 comments
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by domador 9y ago
I'm not sure I understand the use case you mention. Is it in essence the idea of someone abusing an unlimited plan to back up more data that you'd reasonably expect them to? Can it be boiled down to Backblaze's cost of hard
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by domador 9y ago
Without some form of versioning, there's always the risk that the only backed-up copy of a file is a corrupted, useless version. This is the best summary of everything else I've said here.
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CrashPlan Discontinues Consumer Backups(tidbits.com)
2 points by domador 9y ago|0 comments
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by domador 9y ago
I just posted a long reply to your original message, without first seeing that you'd replied to this comment (made by someone else). If this is how the 30 day policy works, it is slightly more appealing than what I thought. However, i
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by domador 9y ago
Thanks for sharing that fascinating insider insight regarding non-zero-sum competition and advertising! This whole CrashPlan Home episode deepens my skepticism about services that claim to offer an unlimited amount of a physical resource (a
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by domador 9y ago
Dunning/Kruger, perhaps?

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