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by ewzimm 6y ago
Most probably already get some news from NBC, but I think the implication is that some journalists are also activists and don’t consider attempts to demonetize other journalists to be unethical if their views don’t align. Of course, now the
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by ewzimm 6y ago
According to The Federalist, it was actually NBC that got them defunded to remove competition. https://thefederalist.com/2020/06/16/federalist-co-founder-s...
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People follow that trend differently. Strong believers in free will tend to be especially against collective responsibility or guilt. I also don't believe there's any evidence that ethical systems or religions that traditionally d
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by ewzimm 6y ago
I appreciate what you're saying, but I think you might be mixing modalities. Considering that free will may be a pleasant deception doesn't necessarily lead to blaming externalities instead of changing a bad situation. The concept
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by ewzimm 7y ago
Intent understood! It's a classic turning point in Internet history, and I think the massive rise in traffic to 400,000 queries per day is the perfect example of how much bigger things are today and how all those old paradigms are even
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by ewzimm 7y ago
September 1993 Internet use shows the silliness of the idea of the death of the old Internet. In 1993, "...the World Wide Web, has seen the number of daily queries explode from almost 100,000 requests in June to almost 400,000 in Octob
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by ewzimm 7y ago
As might be expected, the source quoted in the article is someone who has worked as a lobbyist for meat and eggs. They seem to be especially active lately. While true that organ meat is especially high in choline, even many meat eaters avoi
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by ewzimm 7y ago
Thanks for the alert to the paywall and the comments. I had originally read it on Nature and included the reference provided on the article. The lack of consistency in results is definitely an issue, and it's true that it may be turn o
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by ewzimm 7y ago
Alternative link for second reference with no paywall: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-35486-1
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It's true that we don't have the full picture. Nothing is certain yet, but the most likely health effects will be indirect. Two areas of concern are effects on insect populations, which are already in collapse, and effects on bact
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by ewzimm 7y ago
In my opinion, this is a good kind of hate, and any genuine activity of the type you're talking about has grown from it, not just in the last few decades but for millenia. Groups pressure us to feel comfortable with their version of re
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by ewzimm 7y ago
Thanks for pointing this out. The quoted statement is only true if "benefit" is restricted to meaning "financial benefit." In whatever people do, not just in software, most of the financial benefit goes to profit-making
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I agree with all these solutions, and I don't mean to imply that this is an unsurpassable problem, only that our existing security measures for infrastructure are already falling behind as we increasingly rely on them, and these compou
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by ewzimm 7y ago
I hope that would be the case, but there are other ways to attack infrastructure. Besides physical security vulnerabilities, we have a lot of critical infrastructure that's Internet-connected and running software with known vulnerabili
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by ewzimm 7y ago
I agree that it seems like a massive wasted opportunity, but the most compelling argument I've heard against nuclear power is that it creates a vulnerability. If a nuclear power plant in New York City had been successfully attacked 18
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by ewzimm 7y ago
In every conversation I've seen, this accurate fact has been the primary counterpoint to the idea that a plant-based diet is more sustainable, but what percent of the world population lives a nomadic lifestyle in the arctic steppes? I
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by ewzimm 7y ago
The author's primary complaint about Joe Rogan and his followers is that they show a lack of empathy by having too much compassion and seeing value in people who don't deserve it. Defining empathy as a the absence of compassion fo
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by ewzimm 7y ago
A few projects are available to do this. The most advanced one is probably Mycroft, which is usually run with an external account but can be completely self-hosted. https://mycroft.ai
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by ewzimm 7y ago
This idea represents the best possible compromise to the situation outlined here. I think we should all be crypto hardliners in the sense that we refuse to allow laws against certain kinds of math, but at the same time, we may have to compr
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by ewzimm 7y ago
Personally, I don't see anything suspicious about Facebook's stated intentions. They benefit by having more potential customers with frictionless access to digital purchases. They don't need to control the currency if they co
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by ewzimm 8y ago
People in their formative years see technology so clearly. Each generation invents something that changes things in ways people wish they could relive. Past the change, you can’t see things the same.
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by ewzimm 8y ago
Just to be clear, I'm not asking anyone to support white nationalists. I think it's important to address problems with ideas like this directly and not make them into something they're not. If opponents of white nationalism a
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by ewzimm 8y ago
Nearly every group advocating white nationalism that I've seen, including both the lesser-known ones and people who get mainstream attention like Richard Spencer, talk about it in terms of what could be built up in a situation where ex
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by ewzimm 8y ago
Costs to taxpayers also go beyond their employee policies. Walmart was a leader in moving shopping centres outside city limits to avoid paying expensive taxes. By moving tax revenue from retail business away from cities, the tax burden on r
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by ewzimm 8y ago
The subject is analyzing prison's role in rehabilitation. If we consider prison a failure as a rehabilitation device, then maybe we should focus on rehabilitation before prison. This is a reasonable suggestion. However, if the reason t
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by ewzimm 8y ago
In many cases, the idea of rehabilitating people either before or after prison is nearly impossible. There are almost half a million people in the American prison system for drug offenses. If someone is released from prison for cannabis pos
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by ewzimm 8y ago
You're absolutely right that this is the way the article presents it, but I'm not so sure that it's a useful definition of luck. It really just seems to extend the definition of luck to include everything and makes the argume
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by ewzimm 8y ago
I used those two examples because they were the ones presented in the article, luck vs merit. But you're right that there are many more options for distribution. Whether people would prefer opportunities for success with merit without
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The argument that it is morally wrong seems to hinge on the argument that meritocracy promotes selfishness. However, I find the examples used to be problematic. It's shown that when people are led to believe that their success in a gam
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by ewzimm 8y ago
I strongly agree that there's nothing essentially sacred about the concept of net neutrality. If it can be proven that certain aspects of net neutrality coded into law are a net benefit for society, I'm for it, but I don't th

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