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by imgabe 3y ago
> things that you might not want being counted up if you ever run for office. Granted, I don't see a lot of campaign ads, but has this ever happened? Has anyone ever run an ad like "My opponent's credit card bill shows the
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by imgabe 3y ago
I'm sure if they filled the school library with pornography and comic books, that would be really popular with 13-17 year olds, but they don't do that. Obviously there are considerations aside from purely what is popular that go i
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by imgabe 3y ago
Nonsense. Curation is not purely logistical. It requires some judgment to select which books they believe are good and appropriate for their audience. Otherwise you wouldn’t need a librarian at all, just a random number generator to randoml
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by imgabe 3y ago
> removing books from school libraries is a de facto ban on those books. No, it isn't. There are millions of books that aren't in school libraries. Are they all de facto banned? Confidently declaring something doesn't ma
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by imgabe 3y ago
Yes, actually. The US has the Visual Artists Rights Act which means an artist can sue if you destroy their artwork. France has even stronger laws where you can’t destroy an artwork even with the permission of the artist. I assume the UK has
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by imgabe 3y ago
> we should judge a thing to be a duck or not, based on it having the external appereance and outward activity of a duck, and ignoring any further subleties, intent, internal processes, qualia, and so on. and the point here is we should
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by imgabe 3y ago
> I think that all of the companies that set these public carbon emissions goals as PR should be held fully accountable for missing them. Then they simply wouldn't set any such goals. Why would they bother risking it? If you want ta
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by imgabe 3y ago
There are very different things being talked about here as if they are the same. The original comment I replied to gave this example: > If corporations promise a feature, then fail to deliver, they should be held liable for false adverti
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by imgabe 3y ago
> Nations have started legislating laws against falsehoods after all. Which nations? How? Who determines what is a "falsehood"? A failed prediction is not the same thing as a lie. It might be disappointing if a company predicts
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When are public individuals held accountable for their statements? Public figures lie constantly, they tell us there's WMDs in Iraq, that inflation is transitory, that an election was stolen, and on and on. They never get held accounta
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by imgabe 3y ago
Too much time some days. I don’t comment all that often though, I’ve just been here a long time.
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by imgabe 3y ago
It doesn't sound like they're front-running. Fetch data from Hacker News API Set up Google Alerts for your query Fetch data from Google Alerts XML Enrich data and store in SQLite file with a cronjob Send aler
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by imgabe 3y ago
Sitting in a car also shortens your life and exercise extends your life. You have to weigh the benefits against the risk. There is a lot you can do to avoid getting hit by cars.
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by imgabe 3y ago
What do you think investors are doing with housing units? Do you think they just hoard empty apartments so they can twirl their mustaches and laugh at homeless people? Those units already have people living in them. Changing the ownership w
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by imgabe 3y ago
You're comparing two countries to a city. Paris has the rest of France for people to live in.
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by imgabe 3y ago
Most car companies have recalled cars at various times, sometimes for issues that have caused accidents. Yet, somehow there is not a national news story every time a Toyota gets into an accident, with the reporter speculating that the accid
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by imgabe 3y ago
"There are several paragraphs of warnings and disclaimers both on the sales page and when you use the product that exactly explain the limitations, but I absolutely insist on fixating on this one particular word. Nothing else matters.&
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This is content marketing for business insurance.
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In order for it to decrease prices, the rate of building would have to outpace the rate of demand. If you build 100 houses, but 1000 people move there, you can say "Oh look building more houses didn't help, prices still went up&qu
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by imgabe 4y ago
Nah we don’t need to strip out every ounce of personality from something someone was kind enough to write and share for free. Anyone whose delicate sensibilities are so offended can just simply write whatever free library they’re using them
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Every n under n list is just PR bullshit.
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Violence is expensive, and bad for business. Even criminals realize this at a certain point.
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The end goal of meditation, as I understand it, is to come to the conclusion that consciousness is an illusion anyway. So perhaps it wouldn’t matter.
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Sometimes you just want infinitely variable background noise while you're focusing on something else.
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If it were a Latin noun ending in -a the plural would probably be Draculae.
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Even if they aren't taking AP Calc, starting algebra in 8th grade means they get an extra year of practice with it. What is the benefit of having less practice with algebra?
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Algebra is basic math that every adult should know in and of itself, not something that is only needed to take AP calculus.
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by imgabe 4y ago
It's not about this particular list. People have been burned multiple times in the past by Google so they're going to be bitter and jump all over them whenever they cancel anything.
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Other companies kill projects when they’ve clearly failed and basically nobody is using. Google will kill things that are moderately successful and people are dependent on, but they aren’t a blockbuster success that makes a difference compa
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The main distinction as far as I understand is tenure / not-tenure, everything else is just window dressing. Is Senior Lecturer when they're awarded tenure in the UK? Generally it's failure to get tenure (or failure to get on

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