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by elmomle 5y ago
Makes sense, though I think the same reasoning is often used to excuse obviously inefficient habits. Spending a week to learn to competently use a computer would likely save most people much more than a week over the following ten or even
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by elmomle 5y ago
1.5C = 2.7F. It's a large amount to change by when you're talking about global average temperature.
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by elmomle 5y ago
I wish the recent history of Palestine were different too, but it seems unkind to use language that implicitly blames Palestinians as a people--or the factions that now hold power--for these issues. Literally any people on Earth would prob
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by elmomle 5y ago
From what I've seen, multitasking tends to inversely correlate with how secure a person feels in their life. Multitasking seems to be driven (for me and those I've spoken to) by a sense that one needs to "catch up" or &
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by elmomle 6y ago
Yeah, the underlying concern is about the propagation of "alternative stories", which tend to spread because of well-documented behavioral feedback loops with such stories in social media ("controversial" takes get more
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by elmomle 6y ago
They won't have trouble recruiting low and mid level AI engineers, simply because the pool is large. But the pool of highly experienced engineers and leaders in the space is much smaller, and even a moderate reduction in interest ther
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by elmomle 6y ago
What was the bad behavior on Gebru's part, as you see it?
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by elmomle 6y ago
https://silvermistrecovery.com/blog/2018/09/2019-guide-the-l... It isn't a 1:1 causal link--virtually nothing is. But there's very strong evidence that unprocessed trauma is one of the core drivers
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by elmomle 6y ago
Agree with exploitation mentality, disagree with "everybody getting their fair share" being the core. That exploitation/financialization mentality really hit its stride with Reagan, though both parties eventually vied to see
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by elmomle 6y ago
Legalization is one key part; destigmatization is the other. Those who understand addiction, either first-hand or through research, understand that the root problem is not the drug/habit; the drug/habit tends to be the addict&#x27
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by elmomle 6y ago
And yet it's apparent that many, perhaps the majority, of parents fail to do a decent job of that. If most of society will exercise minimal discernment in media consumption (and in their children's media consumption), at some poi
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by elmomle 6y ago
Agreed, the city has made a lot of progress. I was indeed thinking of its planning for most of the 20th century!
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by elmomle 6y ago
When it comes to transportation infrastructure, you certainly don't want to plan the future based on apparent present demand. Los Angeles vs Copenhagen is a great comparison of the results of continually building for what people seem
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by elmomle 6y ago
I think the argument is that if companies feared consequences from an engaged government that actively protected its private citizens' rights, this specific issue would not exist (since the company's continued functioning could th
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by elmomle 6y ago
One might say, rather, that government is the apotheosis of politics. Much politics goes on without touching government, but a well-functioning government is the ultimate arbiter of disputes within a region, and is therefore the obvious fi
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by elmomle 6y ago
But were you specifically being the manager's patsy, training other workers and inducting you into a psychological culture of aligning with the manager?
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by elmomle 6y ago
"Inspired by". And yeah, the conditions are far less extreme, but the dynamics of using prisoner's dilemma to reinforce order in the warehouse is deeply cruel, psychologically. Please don't argue that.
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by elmomle 6y ago
Wow, does that ever sound inspired by the Kapo system in Nazi camps. (edit: It was wrong of me to evoke Nazism due to its emotional connotations. I was reminded of the psychological systems of coercion that have been used all through hist
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by elmomle 6y ago
To be clear, Amazon REQUIRES workers to attend its "information sessions" while at work. Union organizers have no comparable power. To say that it's fair because the time is paid for is just whistling Dixie--Amazon is using
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by elmomle 6y ago
It's pretty clear that that "worship" here refers to where we practice focusing our heart's yearnings, not to a set of religious rites. Synonyms of this meaning of "worship" include "revere" and &quo
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by elmomle 6y ago
I'm sure many good justifications can be made for this, or for (e.g.) the Taft-Hartley act, but at the end of the day, there is no arguing that the last 75 years of US federal policy decisively kneecapped unions, and we are by no means
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by elmomle 6y ago
Thanks for sharing that!!
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by elmomle 6y ago
Thanks--this is most helpful! :)
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by elmomle 6y ago
Ah, yes that was rather Anglocentric of me, apologies. And that's a lousy situation--any idea why that's the case?
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by elmomle 6y ago
That's ostensibly for the translator (of course it's more for the publisher). You can get (typically Edwardian-era or earlier) public domain translations, or the original Latin, for free in lots of places.
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by elmomle 6y ago
I have found undefined notation to be the bane of my existence when trying to teach myself a field of math. How do you Google mathematical notation? It can be a giant and opaque barrier to deepening one's knowledge when studying the
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by elmomle 6y ago
Bingo. I'm horrified at the tax on everybody's time to that this has come to be.
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by elmomle 6y ago
There's certainly evidence of quantum biological machinery--it is believed to be behind the efficiency of photosynthesis, for example: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/05/180521131756.h... And
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by elmomle 6y ago
I imagine that it's speculation but it's reasonable speculation, since maximizing profits is pretty much the sole goal of a publicly traded corporation at the end of the day.
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by elmomle 6y ago
A variant of this is responsible for the rise of oligarchy during de-Sovietization in Russia. Citizens were given shares of state companies, but people's basic needs weren't met. This resulted in most shares being sold to whomev

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