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by jawarner 6y ago
Yes, and follow the latest work of Alexander Mordvintsev, e.g.: https://distill.pub/2020/growing-ca/
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by jawarner 6y ago
Are you suggesting that COVID tests were widely submitted with kiwi fruit rather than saliva?
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by jawarner 6y ago
dogs
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by jawarner 6y ago
Google’s algorithms will social engineer whether Google likes it or not. They might as well be intentional about it.
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by jawarner 6y ago
The initial U.S. response to the virus was to do nothing. It will go away soon. We can blame it on China for not communicating it sooner, but what would we have done? Things would be better if we had done nothing, sooner?
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by jawarner 6y ago
> It's virtue signaling. You don't need to shame people who have an overabundance of precaution.
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by jawarner 6y ago
An emotional anecdote conveys the personal impact of an issue. It helps with empathy, something OP is not demonstrating. Statistics do back that it is possible for young people to die of COVID, albeit less likely than older people.
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by jawarner 6y ago
That's a good point the local variation. I think it's significant to note that for a while after the spike in the summer, the U.S. wasn't in a growth curve. A lot of people thought that the worst was behind them. This article
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by jawarner 6y ago
I don't think this article is saying what you think it says. It's cautioning against cloth masks, like bandanas. It actually affirms that medical masks, those typically used, do work.
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by jawarner 6y ago
> For example, when a police officer harasses a person on the pretext of enforcing the law, that would be improper law enforcement. To be clear, in this example, the officer is enforcing a law that doesn’t exist. > Otherwise, I'm
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by jawarner 6y ago
> See, you said "enforcement of the CoC". I said "improper enforcement of the CoC". As an example, "improper enforcement of the law" might suggest that something was enforced which wasn't the law. Is th
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by jawarner 6y ago
> Or do you think it is the awkward ones who are sitting on the CoC tribunal? Would it be fair to say that you believe the majority of CoC reports are due to a misunderstanding of a well-intentioned behavior on the part of an awkward ind
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by jawarner 6y ago
> Yes, you are speculating that pindab0ter would think the enforcement action was related to the CoC That's not what I said. You seem to be focused on detailed differences in meaning but missing the thrust of these arguments. You cl
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by jawarner 6y ago
It's clear you've had experiences that have caused you to feel unsafe at times in your life. What's stopping you from having empathy for people that feel that way currently? One aspect of this newfangled definition of safe is
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by jawarner 6y ago
pindab0ter said: > This discussion is about someone being punished by a committee for something that wasn’t in the CoC, as you can read in the article. I said: > I think pindab0ter would agree that it was improper enforcement of the C
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by jawarner 6y ago
> Yes. Really? I thought it was more people being overly sensitive, and the enforcement team not using their brains. I think pindab0ter would agree that it was improper enforcement of the CoC. I'm not sure anybody can speak to the i
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by jawarner 6y ago
> it’s unreasonable to expect that a person can redefine a common word in their own mind I mean, the word is used a lot. You even referenced it being commonly used. Have you tried to understand it?
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by jawarner 6y ago
I think we're talking past each other. Would you be able to answer any of the questions I posed earlier? > but they're usually (as evidenced by this very OP) applied inconsistently, politically Do you have the impression OP was
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by jawarner 6y ago
> The word “unsafe” doesn’t mean anything any more An alternate possibility is that you don't understand what people mean when they say they feel unsafe. Do you feel you have invested effort into empathizing with these concerns, or
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by jawarner 6y ago
pindab0ter's idea, as I read it, is that no, CoCs are not inherently weapons to exclude people for no reason. They typically language about what constitutes bigotry. In the OP, yes, the CoC was weaponized, but it doesn't reflect a
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by jawarner 6y ago
> Can you expand on this, explain the connection? In particular, why the former (belief) would influence the latter (behavior)? It's not universally the case, to be sure. If you voice your belief that women are intellectually inferi
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by jawarner 6y ago
gwbas1c did not reject the idea that CoCs could be used as a weapon. They rejected that is their only use case. barumi referenced OP article as an example of CoC as a weapon. pindab0ter argues this not a fault in the CoC itself per se, but
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by jawarner 6y ago
CoCs are about politics to the extent that politics affects one's ability to be empathetic. If you believe that genetics cause women to perform worse in technical roles, that will be reflected in your social behavior. To use an extreme
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by jawarner 6y ago
I don't think that fits here.
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by jawarner 6y ago
This thread is very Hacker News.
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by jawarner 6y ago
Fair point. White supremacy is an attitude, whereas white privilege a state of being. I would quibble that white supremacist ideas are quite widespread - see, e.g., references to "thugs" during the BLM protests. I also agree that
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by jawarner 6y ago
The justice system (1) does discriminate against people of color to some extent, and (2) it also discriminates against the poor. The arguments for these points are laid out in detail in the book I referred to, so I'm not going to waste
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by jawarner 6y ago
The status quo is not explicitly racist, and a lot of people are comfortable with it. The push by the left is to suggest that just because a system does not have discriminatory laws, that doesn't mean it's not oppressive. Take the
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by jawarner 6y ago
One reference mentions a nurturing bias in girls. No reference brings up a hunting-versus-nurturing instinct. It appears it is the unnamed author's own invention.
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by jawarner 6y ago
Agreed. This article didn't distinguish between "problems caused by Big Data" and "problems caused by your aunt on Facebook who would disown you if you post the wrong thing."

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