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by icepat 4y ago
This sounds vaguely like a marketing pitch -- what's your affiliation with this project?
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by icepat 4y ago
Absolutely. The reason we use a judiciary system is to avoid a major problem of the mob: the most convincing voice is the one that the crowd listens to. You don't need proof, you just need to be compelling. That's the standard of
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by icepat 4y ago
Reminiscent of the Boston Bomber "manhunt" on Reddit, where they named a suicide victim as the bomber. IRC, the family harassed while they were in mourning as a result. Criminal investigations are not something you want to crowd-s
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by icepat 4y ago
I think the main problem is the reverse Dunning Kruger effect. It can be very hard to tell what's not obvious to another person when the entire thing is self-explanatory to you. The two most intelligent people I know write code that wo
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by icepat 4y ago
It's the YouTube equivalent of hitting up Google Scholar, rather than regular google for information. I also really recommend using Google Scholar for anything technical. You skip blog spam, and end up with better and more informative
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by icepat 4y ago
Yes, there's definitely an uncanny valley effect on these voices. There's something subtly not right about them, and I suspect if you were to hold a conversation with one, you'd catch on that something was wrong. The uncanny
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by icepat 4y ago
I think you may be right, at least in the developed Western nations. However, there are plenty of countries someone could settle in that have less developed infrastructure, and economies. You would be able to live in the same standards as s
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by icepat 4y ago
I've met plenty of Estonians who have a Russian ethnic background, however identify as Estonian, speak Estonian, and do not consider themselves Russian. Again, I think the point of what I was getting at should be clear. And, to your po
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by icepat 4y ago
> This is false. It's spelled the way it is spelled because that's how Estonian government wants names spelled. He's quite literally an Estonian national, go check the FBI report that was released.
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by icepat 4y ago
> If someone in Estonia decides to name their kid Muhamed, that doesn't magically become an Estonian name. Correct, but it does not suddenly make them another nationality. Also, it's not spelled as you spelled it for a reason -
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by icepat 4y ago
That's an Estonian name. Estonians are not Russian, though there's a Russian speaking city, Narva, in the east. Calling Estonians Russians is not taken well at all. The relationship between the Russian minority, and the Estonian
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by icepat 4y ago
Given the continued sarcasm, I'll take that as a no. I'll also point you over to these: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html > Be kind. Don't be snarky. Have curious conversation; don't c
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by icepat 4y ago
Not if you're going to sarcastically dismiss valid points that discredit what you're talking about like this.
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> Gatekeeping the term "Doctor" is uninteresting, and it doesn't make your side of the argument look good. You have nothing stronger to dun him on? I think the fact that he's claiming to have credentials that he does
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by icepat 4y ago
Except that's not at all what Doctor means, not even remotely. Doctor has a specific meaning, and it's understood to mean a set of credentials. If you don't have it, but say you do, you're lying . It's absolutely r
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by icepat 4y ago
> if you're willing to pick some actual scientific studies And I have. Meta-reviews are considered important, effective, and valuable ways of probing the state of the literature. Dismissing it out of hand because you dislike who pre
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by icepat 4y ago
When someone presented with overwhelming evidence to the contrary further entrenches themselves in a belief, we're no longer dealing with a matter of knowledge, but of belief. Reading your response, you're just trying to debunk ov
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by icepat 4y ago
I'm pretty sure that a a lot of existing hosting services let you do that. Even hosted Wordpress lets you do that.
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by icepat 4y ago
You've skipped pretty much most of my argument, but I'll humour you nonetheless. There's no such thing as science being out of the loop. Read my other comment, if you're pushing this unverified "technology" as
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by icepat 4y ago
This is a case of correlation, plus (again) totally unsubstantiated anecdotal claims. Suggesting people use unproven, non-evidence based approaches, to an illness that leads almost a million people a year to take their own lives, is reckles
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by icepat 4y ago
No, but I'm trained as a scientist, so I know how to read research, data, and scientific studies. I don't need to have experience with Scientology to tell you that, based on the available evidence, it's bunk. Nor do I need ex
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by icepat 4y ago
Nothing. Either something follows the scientific method, or it does not. Pre-scientific is a fancy way of saying "we have no evidence for this". Bear in mind, this field is decades old, and has been subjected already to scientific
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by icepat 4y ago
> learning and using this stuff every day Anecdotal evidence isn't evidence, it's anecdote. You're basing this all off what people are saying works for them. There's a strong possibility that having learned this gives
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by icepat 4y ago
Controversial in that it's generally considered a pseudoscience. I'd advise against anyone looking to figure out how to navigate this wasting their time with pseudosciences.
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by icepat 4y ago
I think you're right. Another big aspect is the why behind getting into the industry. Myself, I ended up getting here entirely by accident. Ended up finding that I was good at it, and good at selling myself as a developer to employer
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by icepat 4y ago
There was a dog api that sent dog images, it was a few years ago that I last saw it in action though.
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by icepat 4y ago
If you scale it up over the entire time-series, it's fallen off a cliff.
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by icepat 4y ago
I've always taken it to be a portion of a website that takes you onward to different areas of the website. Like, at least in Wikipedia, a portal is generally a list of links to areas related to a topic. In sales software, a sales porta
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by icepat 4y ago
There's something to be said about the corporate imagination when they can't even envision a VR shopping experience without a massive parking with zero utility.
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by icepat 4y ago
Not sure why, but there's something deeply depressing about this. Likely a combination of the VR graphics style and the bleakness of the inside of the store. But it gives me _backrooms_ vibes.

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