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by jpttsn 10y ago
Apple has a fairly small share of the phone market, which can matter for anti-trust legislation.
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Lots of people do ask that.
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You confuse. Killing for fun is when the killing is for fun. Killing because eating is fun is different.
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So what about the mercenary? If you're directly to blame, is the mercenary innocent? "Just doing his job"?
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by jpttsn 10y ago
Absolutely. Yet in some cases perhaps we're so easily duped only because what we're learning to distinguish is not such a strong signal; it could be an education in overfitting. https://xkcd.com/915/
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by jpttsn 10y ago
I share that slightly nihilistic vantage point in principle. I don't find it helps make decisions too often. I'm much more helped by thinking I exist, treating existence as a concept, requiring no metaphysics. Nitpick on "ill
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by jpttsn 10y ago
Some of your points resonate. But are you saying you choose a definition of "exist" whereby nobody exists?
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by jpttsn 10y ago
Part of me feels this is less objectionable than other fraud. If customers pay a premium for olive oil, even though they don't know enough to tell the difference, I feel like the joke's on them. This is hard to justify, maybe I&#x
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by jpttsn 10y ago
The study has examined 166 individuals. Some sub-group of these were depressed, and many depressed people could be identified based on photos. This is then compared with GP's rate of success at diagnosing depression. I fear that's
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by jpttsn 10y ago
It seems they worked with two groups. One consisted of individuals clinically diagnosed with depression.
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It isn't totalitarian.
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Interesting attitude. People kill themselves with toasters too. Would that dissuade you from using one?
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I agree, it's unappealing. Quote sounds like something an editor would request, on behalf of the wider readership. Perhaps a remnant from print newspapers where readers can't be assumed to have picked this exact article.
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Science can often be helped by some questioning, esp. from scientists outside the field of study.
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What's the difference? Everyone dies, right?
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I'm younger than you, and the many others who joined the chorus here. I'm curious if you feel that you had a plan, earlier in life. In other words did you expect to find a clearer purpose after finishing your degree? Or did you
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Because it helps the species on net. Also, you know, nipples on men. Evolution isn't that pragmatic.
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Your unstated assumption is deeply troubling.
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That's a sort of faith that doing nice things will eventually pay for itself. Isn't that a bit naive?
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I don't think so. Hiring is vulnerable to "behavioral" factors: cognitive biases etc. I'm very fearful of being overconfident, trusting hunches etc. I need hard data. When I'm being interviewed, I respect the interv
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by jpttsn 10y ago
> When a professional comes in, he expects to be treated like one How do I know if the person I'm talking to is one of your "professionals," without asking these questions? I need to weed out the pretend professionals.
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It's not perfectly valid. If you consume more than you produce, you will die. I did not make the rules.
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I'm not a utilitarian. If I'm not personally Alice or Bob, I don't care.
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> Why should people who've lived their entire life in a region be forced out because somebody with more money comes along Why should a store that has had groceries all day be forced to give away their groceries when someone with mo
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by jpttsn 11y ago
At the risk of sounding cynical, I think this whole ordeal indicates the opposite. If "people in the streets" is to be evidence that surveillance "isn't compatible with being part of the new global economy," then we
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by jpttsn 12y ago
Exactly. Synergies from working together are the reason we build businesses in the first place. If the only thing that mattered was individual merit and experience, we could all just sell our work to businesses without a hiring agreement.
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by jpttsn 12y ago
Anecdotally, yes.
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by jpttsn 12y ago
But what about the customers? If a customer buys a $1k laptop and gets $2k out of value from it, the customers are effectively exploiting the workers more than Apple the organization could ever dream of. Where would you draw the line?
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by jpttsn 12y ago
You're correct that my gripe is with the subtext. The statement itself is too vague to be accurate or inaccurate.
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by jpttsn 12y ago
> why is Palantir arming secretive organizations with very powerful technology? They get paid handsomely. > more good that can be achieved by opening up the code to the software so that anyone can use it to tackle local and global pro

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