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by gerbilly 8y ago
Sounds like American idol for news. Who would decide if an article is 'proven true'? Some kind of majority vote? In the jim crow era lots of people would have 'proven' some very unsavory facts about a certain population
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by gerbilly 8y ago
> we will have [...] a reputation system that rewards objective, consistent analysis. This is unlikely. We will get a reputation system that rewards sensationalism, and polarization of viewpoints. This is already happening in the newspa
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by gerbilly 8y ago
I don't think that there's any reason to shame people for taking adventure selfies, any more than we 'shame' people for climbing everest¹ or people who run marathons.² Often it's not even the selfie itself that caus
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by gerbilly 8y ago
> Why are discussions surrounding Chinese Politics permitted but no other political discussions? Because it's easier to finger wag at the bad Chinese government than to have an honest discussion about the dysfunctional (and increasi
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by gerbilly 8y ago
The main differences in outcome, like the anecdote the article leads with, might be due to different micro-flora in the mouth. I used to get plaque build up something awful, but since I started taking probiotics a few years ago for another
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by gerbilly 8y ago
Maybe but in general, I am unmoved by any slippery slope argument that depends on evolutionary changes to a species.
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by gerbilly 8y ago
Yeah, how else can we use big data to figure out where to build new public toilets?
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by gerbilly 8y ago
Do you have any idea how hard it is to live off the land? There's a reason even animals: raccoons, squirrels and pigeons prefer to live in cities. The living is easier.
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by gerbilly 8y ago
> Is it possible those people running multi-billion-dollar organizations just know something you don’t, or have a perspective that you don’t? While it is possible, I'm kind of tired of hearing people defending the strong and powerfu
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by gerbilly 8y ago
FTFY: Revenge. Prison certainly didn't seem to deter this guy, nor does the death penalty deter murderers. http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/files/DeterrenceStudy2009.pd...
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by gerbilly 8y ago
Thre's a type of shoreline protection that is free and self maintaining. It's called mangroves. But people know better I guess, so we better keep throwing money at the problem we created.
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by gerbilly 8y ago
We live in the society of the spectacle as predicted by Guy Debord, in which he argues that authentic social life has been replaced with its representation. Relevant quotes: "All that once was directly lived has become mere representat
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Helvetica, the World's Most Popular Font, Gets a Face-Lift(wired.com)
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by gerbilly 8y ago
Some say Adam Smith was the last virtue ethicist. I find it amusing that so many people read his "Wealth of Nations" and founded edifices on it, while conveniently ignoring his other book: "The Theory of Moral Sentiments&quot
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by gerbilly 8y ago
Link to the televised debate: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYMpObbt2rs
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by gerbilly 8y ago
Also known as an 'Obiwan error'.¹ 1: http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/O/obi-wan-error.html
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by gerbilly 8y ago
Awesome thread, where body builders argue about how many days there are in a week: https://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?t=107926751
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by gerbilly 8y ago
And this is exactly the loophole that the government relies on.
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by gerbilly 8y ago
Ai is so pnambic right now.¹ We are flooded with hype about AI, but they seldom mention the armies of people it takes to get it working and to keep it working. Even members f the public are recruited to train AI system without their knowle
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by gerbilly 8y ago
I don't have a physical occupation now,but every other waking minute I do physical things as much as I can. I used to work farm labour when I was younger, never slept so well in my life.
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by gerbilly 8y ago
Whenever I get too worked up about how decisions are made in my group, I like to think of all the IT departments there are in my city, in the world even. I don't care about what decisions are being made in those places, so I shouldn&#x
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by gerbilly 8y ago
> I don't know why bike riding should be considered superior to building a world in Minecraft as an example. Nothing against fortnite, but we are animals with bodies, not brains in a jar. This is why I'd say that riding a bike
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You Are Not Google (2017)(blog.bradfieldcs.com)
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Cluster Schedulers: Kubernetes and Nomad(medium.com)
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Sparrow shot after it knocks over 23,000 dominoes (2005)(web.archive.org)
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by gerbilly 8y ago
I liked the article, but about a third of the way in I thought: "This article needs a good editor" Rule number one of writing is to be willing to cut some good material out because it does not fit your current piece.
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by gerbilly 8y ago
> So you better keep working harder and harder. You go ahead and do that, I'm going surfing later today. Kthxbye!
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by gerbilly 8y ago
I often feel very happy after catching a perfect surfing wave, or after flowing an effortless line down a mountain biking trail. In either case, nothing was produced, and often no one witnessed it.¹ 1: https://memegenerator.net&#
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by gerbilly 8y ago
Small suggestion: don't use the term 'boss'. I have a manager, but I don't have a boss.
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Are young people actually confused by rotary phones?
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