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by existencebox 7y ago
A few discrete arguments. First, I don't think it's fair to 1. paint slippery slope paranoia in such a negative light, nor 2. paint all Americans who fear downward trends as being right wing gun nuts. Let's look at a conveni
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by existencebox 7y ago
I hit quite a wall of cognitive dissonence when I read their enumeration of a "middle future." Transparent? Human-time-focused? maintainable? Those properties aren't true of the present, nor have they been true for any lar
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by existencebox 7y ago
But the _really hard_ question, which never seems to be answered in a way people will agree on, is how one measures "performance." 6 months ago I rewrote the entire frontend of a product, generating thousands of LOC a month. 6 mon
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by existencebox 7y ago
I downvoted your initial post. I find it disingenous at best, and dangerous at worst, to suggest that increases in monitoring and govt. power are to thank for any trends in terrorist activity. (Not to mention factually incorrect, boston b
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by existencebox 7y ago
Am I the only one spooked by the fact that to opt out, you now need to have your passport with you? (and for _domestic travel_ no less) Given that the facial databases contain your data regardless, and the amount of in-airport surveillance
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by existencebox 7y ago
Quick question: Did you try/find any correlation with post time/seasonality? I recall that in previous examinations of HN/Reddit top/viral posts, there was some amount of signal along that dimension. (I notice someone
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by existencebox 7y ago
>the effects thus far have been basically nil This is quite factually untrue. [0] [1] [2] [3] To be clear, this is entirely as a rebuttal to your claim, not as any broader statement about international policy or outcomes. [0] https:&#x2
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by existencebox 7y ago
I helped build a POC of this precise idea at a university datacenter ~6-7 years ago. I broadly agree that it's not super scalable if you try to use it as "all up monitoring" but there were certain instances in which I found i
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by existencebox 7y ago
I was with your post up until the final sentence, which struck me as a worrying enough point that I had to comment. (re: minor design changes rather than self improvement.) The fact that the mentality has changed from "let's impro
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by existencebox 7y ago
I believe this is the thread/article in question. [0] (sorry for the low-content post, just recalled a fragment of the title and figured I could help.) [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19524325
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by existencebox 7y ago
1. I might have when I was initially going through a ream of behaviorists, but I'd be lying if I said I recalled, this was around/after 3rd grade. 2. In large part, reminders. Notes, lists, alarms (calendar/phone alarms for
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by existencebox 7y ago
> People with ADHD need medication to function at a baseline normal level. This statement is so out of line I had to chime in. I was diagnosed with ADHD as a child. I was medicated for a few years, before I stopped taking the pills wit
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by existencebox 7y ago
As a hobby, I'm actually tracking precisely this sort of question, as well as similar social-structural considerations like "can you create generic models for rampup and dropoff of notable event discussion proliferation/viral
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by existencebox 7y ago
So while I concur with your thesis, that events like this can motivate fundamental changes in the structure of a society and its values, I'm going to nitpick the "why", as I think the context of how these changes are forced i
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by existencebox 8y ago
While I agree with your over/underestimate statement, I unfortunately think you've got it backwards, where we're overestimating the change this pressure is going to lever on how our data is utilized in the short term, and und
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by existencebox 8y ago
I don't know why this is being downvoted as much as it is. Wife works in a related field of neuro-sci, and regularly laments this difference, especially how it's played up in both in reporting and in assuming consistency in treatm
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by existencebox 8y ago
Isn't this the purpose of insurance adjustments? When an event occurs that would cost the insurance company money, they change their prior of what you should be paying, no need to try and "pre-crime" with tracking chips. I w
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by existencebox 8y ago
FYI: Your campnab link in the footnotes has a spurious encoded 'period'. (" https://www%2Ccampnab.com/" ) Sorry for the trivial comment, this was an interesting enough article that ABSOLUTELY resonated wit
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by existencebox 8y ago
re: my confusion between scene and emo/hipster, I think it was largely that scene was "just becoming a thing" as I was graduating highschool so while those who were "Down with the kids" knew the new patterns, I was
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by existencebox 8y ago
"Why would they have "unambiguously" fallen into those categories? " Pragmatically, because they often _wanted_ to and designed their personas intentionally. You seem to be arguing that visible signifiers of subcultures
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by existencebox 8y ago
"I think my problem with the Wikipedia definition is that it's so overly broad that it's virtually unfalsifiable if you're young and white" Not my experience whatsoever. Philadelphia public school growing up, we ha
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by existencebox 8y ago
I'm going to probably be unwisely candid in this answer. It's a game, and a game that often in large corps involves deception, but I don't think has to. (Or perhaps I'm just making myself feel better by calling it &quot
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by existencebox 8y ago
That's absurd. I've worked in call centers, as a mover, and as a software engineer. There are perfectly valid reasons to complain across the spectrum. Worker rights are not some limited good that only need to go to the most vul
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by existencebox 8y ago
Your argument implies a race to the bottom in which the only way to "win" is not to play, since otherwise you drive taxes for megarich as near 0 as you can bear. I prefer the approach where if we lose them, "tough nuts."
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by existencebox 8y ago
I'm torn. On one hand, I absolutely see the logic, feel the occasional despair, and tend to agree with you, especially when it comes to economies of scale. I'll never write algos that'll detect the alpha hedge funds can. I&#
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by existencebox 8y ago
No not dismissive at all, everything you've said sounds quite sane, thanks for indulging my dumb questions :) I've just had different experiences when interacting with local govt, so this is in part the self-reflective "what
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by existencebox 8y ago
To be perfectly clear, I don't necessarily _blame_ redmond or seattle. I just think the convolution around "who funds what and who deals with the pragmatic result" is both unnecessarily opaque in this situation, and not a qu
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by existencebox 8y ago
That's the understanding they communicated to us. Basically, the inter-township roads are funded in large part by the larger funding pools (redmond+seattle) and oftentimes "Growth funding" has to trickle down from federal, s
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by existencebox 8y ago
"Lack of transit funding no longer rings true." I can only address this for the Duvall area, but I can't agree with this statement. According to the latest city council meetings I was at, we're slated for >11% YoY gro
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by existencebox 8y ago
You're entirely right. I was, laxly, overlapping county/city/state legislature, since they all have some amount of impact on your day to day. (Transportation, another of my example, at least in my county, is largely being h

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