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by feoren 3y ago
The frame of reference is a revenue of $13.2 billion dollars. What is 2.6% of your annual revenue? Does that seem like a fair fine for illegally violating the privacy of children?
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by feoren 3y ago
Taking pictures of every child that walks past your house and selling access to those pictures online? $2k still seems fair to you?
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by feoren 3y ago
I thought it was brilliant when I first heard about them measuring coronavirus levels through sewage. Honest question: what's your problem? Why are you mad about that?
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by feoren 3y ago
> If the people in power are really smart though they’ll protect their constituents They have no incentive to do so. If they were actual human beings with functioning consciences maybe, but we often see people use the word "smart&qu
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by feoren 3y ago
That conclusion is not repugnant at all, it's just that its phrasing is so simplistic as to be nearly a straw-man. It's a poisoned intuition pump, because it makes you imagine a situation that doesn't follow at all from utili
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by feoren 3y ago
> The entirety of your post above is comprised of sentences that cannot be tested by science. I've literally given you a falsifiability test. Most of my sentences are not "claims", only claims can be tested, and all of my
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by feoren 3y ago
HN comments are small and my comments are limited by the amount of procrastination my day is able to endure. "Truth is the realm of science alone" is a lot of things significantly abbreviated into a pithy and over-simplified HN co
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by feoren 3y ago
FYI, it's "ulterior motive" -- an "anterior motive" would be one that is right in front of you; almost the opposite of an ulterior one.
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by feoren 3y ago
> Just look how finance people manage each other. Isn't finance in general a dystopian hellscape?
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by feoren 3y ago
All models are wrong; some models are useful.
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by feoren 3y ago
There is no parallel between scientific knowledge and whatever you're calling "cultural truths". To the extent that there is lasting progress in culture, it is through art, music, and literature, not through "truth"
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by feoren 3y ago
I'm having a lot of trouble understanding the scenario you're imagining here. Are you really just completely fabricating nonsense scenarios as some sort of counterargument? Can we just make up anything we want? "Until the AI
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by feoren 3y ago
I hate it when people don't add the word "standard" to gas quantity units like this, but that is almost always what they mean. A "standard cubic foot" has the same dimension as moles; that is, it's actually a c
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by feoren 3y ago
So if a website, which already has way too many ways to identify you, calls document.browsingTopics() to see that some of your recent topics of interest are pregnancy tests and abortion pills, or knows that you are male and sees that you&#x
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by feoren 3y ago
The browser that shows ads on its starting page? The browser that comes with "Pocket", that you can kinda hide but never turn off completely?
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by feoren 3y ago
Read the actual words that it actually says. Sites can pay Google to get a profile of you, based on your browsing history, sent to them when you visit their website. Who's keeping anything local?
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by feoren 3y ago
"Topics of interest are based on your recent browsing history and are used by sites to show you personalized ads" "Sites you visit can determine what you like and then suggest ads as you continue browsing" Chrome collect
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by feoren 3y ago
> I've seen how the US motivates itself to war (e.g. the invasion of Iraq) and it is clumsy, obvious and with lots of infighting. It somehow still works though.
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by feoren 3y ago
> i had 2 developers telling to vp of engineering that they not going to implement some functionality because they don't see the need in it Sounds like the VP of engineering needed to get his head out of his ass and listen to the p
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by feoren 3y ago
> economists can tell you exactly why it doesn't work Can they now? It seems to me that the more "exact" an economist gets, the more they should be ignored. Economics is a fiendishly difficult discipline and anyone who cla
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by feoren 3y ago
There is literally no incentive for a giant corporation to put anyone competent at the helm. That's a backward understanding of the situation. CEOs don't exist to enrich corporations; corporations exist to enrich CEOs. Anyone who
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by feoren 3y ago
As Jeffrey Dahmer (probably) once said: we all sure do love eating other humans. Amiright guys? Guys? We all want to do that, right? Guys?
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by feoren 3y ago
Quite the opposite: game engines are one of the few places where the sub-optimality and fundamental problems with object inheritance became so overwhelming that people starting abandoning their deeply ingrained CS 101 models of Dog : Animal
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by feoren 3y ago
Class inheritance is flawed because it tries to be two things at once: a shared "surface" (public members, polymorphism, etc.) and shared implementation. An abstraction is only a surface -- this could be an interface, a function
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by feoren 3y ago
It'd be wonderful if we could measure the utility of software engineering choices by counting keystrokes or measuring file sizes or putting them in a turbo encabulator and seeing which one has more modial interaction with its magneto-r
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by feoren 3y ago
You're absolutely right that it's important to look beyond how two modules superficially look right now, and look instead at how they change . However, if you've always defined your abstractions based on what their consumers
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by feoren 3y ago
Absolutely right. One of the most important questions to ask an abstraction is: what can I not do with this? If the answer is "nothing -- you can do everything you could before", then the abstraction is an inner platform. The en
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by feoren 3y ago
I will concede that "I suspect you have lived a very privileged life" was overly focused on you, and should have been something like "Nobody should seriously consider these options unless they are living a very privileged lif
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by feoren 3y ago
> I’ve switched industries twice in my life to the tune of nearly a third a million in student loan debt. And you're actually suggesting this as a solution to others? That they lose years of income and take on $300k in non-discharge
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by feoren 3y ago
Hot take: the industry as a whole is very bad at both front-end and back-end. They both have their intrinsic challenges, but the discipline of software engineering is so immature that the self-imposed / accidental complexity dwarfs

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