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Truth Decay: Initial Exploration of the Diminishing Role of Facts and Analysis(rand.org)
5 points by kadenshep 8y ago|3 comments
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Truth Decay: Initial Exploration of the Diminishing Role of Facts and Analysis(rand.org)
1 points by kadenshep 8y ago|0 comments
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by kadenshep 8y ago
>I only wanted to highlight there are companies on the other side of the spectrum too. I am fully aware of that, hence some of my statements. I think it's contrived and not being completely honest, at the very least it seems pretty
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by kadenshep 8y ago
There is both an abnormal amount of promotions that you have somehow personally witnessed -- doesn't sound like you were even involved with, we'll also ignore implicit psychological biases here -- while you happened to overhear TH
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by kadenshep 8y ago
This sounds contrived, at the very least extremely anecdotal with a bit of hyperbole sprinkled on top.
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by kadenshep 8y ago
I thought the normalization of Nazi principles while debasing the U.S. government was pretty bad. But electronics costing more does really suck.
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by kadenshep 8y ago
Yeah, in the same way people might understand how MLM's work but don't need to explicitly agree to take part in the less savory aspects of why it might be lucrative. You can understand the game and play it with other actors withou
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by kadenshep 8y ago
But no one is talking about that kind of problem. We have the information. You're using an extremely contrived example just to make a point. One might even call it a straw man. I just prefer the term dishonest based on current online d
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by kadenshep 8y ago
Ideally democracy also assumes, for the most part, that the majority of the system is comprised of rational actors. But it's as they say. In theory, but not in practice.
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by kadenshep 8y ago
>its very easy to reach a conclusion that the edu system is failing as a large part of the population can't parse what they are being fed. I think the problem is deeper than any education system could reasonably be expected to fix.
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by kadenshep 8y ago
The information is there. Nothing you've said in your responses have been remotely realistic.
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by kadenshep 8y ago
>How is the average American going to figure out what the truth is? Basic education that was provided for free in middle and high school?
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by kadenshep 8y ago
>Seriously the down voting! Anything even slight center-left on this site will immediately get inundated with broken, inordinary American right+ talking points. We're not hackers here, just American middle class programmers. This th
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by kadenshep 8y ago
We dont discuss the merits fuedalism. Why are you condoning the discussion and apology of Nazi talking points in a disingenuous manner on this forum? The purpose of HN is to discuss topics from a hacker perspective is it not? Which typicall
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by kadenshep 8y ago
Yeah I don't think disallowing neo nazi talking points to spread like wildfire is "PC." I think that's just being sane and practical.
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by kadenshep 8y ago
I like how my grandparent comment got flagged. Was it uncomfortable reading actual Nazi talking points HN? You might want to evaluate why that's the case and why you were okay with someone putting the blame on the "journalist&#x27
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by kadenshep 8y ago
> If it's so obviously wrong, then nobody will believe it anyway. That's not objectively true. You have extremely obvious historical examples at your disposal that completely negate what you just said, assuming you've been
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by kadenshep 8y ago
Why do these discussions always assume rational or good faith actors, when that so obviously isn't the case?
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by kadenshep 8y ago
>very difficult to judge China's policies with an even tilt because private Chinese companies are ad hoc lifted to "public status" when they're convenient for the government to leverage. How is this different from any
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by kadenshep 8y ago
Because PG's essays are intellectually uninteresting and often times mistaken (which is a nice way of putting incorrect). If the essay's didn't have his name on it, they'd be harshly critiqued when they get past around t
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by kadenshep 8y ago
Is there a source for this quote? I'm having trouble finding it.
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by kadenshep 8y ago
The one set of material you probably shouldn't read.
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by kadenshep 8y ago
>they are meaningless in those areas because the government itself already defies them. That doesn't make laws meaningless.
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by kadenshep 8y ago
Who he works for won't negate the fact how ridiculous the original statement is at just bare face value.
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by kadenshep 8y ago
>The number of people who are saying it’s no big deal to comply with this huge law It's not if you're actually thinking about what you should be doing with user data from an ethical perspective. Our company has had zero probl
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by kadenshep 8y ago
He's not ignoring that? He's pointing out the laws are stricter when dealing with private companies. You are talking about two completely orthogonal laws or standards.
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by kadenshep 8y ago
>You think there is some grand conspiracy to annoy users so that they hate regulation? Yeah? U.S. companies do this all the time. They did it with the cookie warnings and tried to act like they didn't know they were creating an abso
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by kadenshep 8y ago
The amount of dishonest conversation in this thread coming from supposed "hackers" is extremely aggravating. These laws have existed in various forms across several European countries for a few decades. It's now a standard ac
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by kadenshep 8y ago
>its about poorly written regulation What is poorly written about it? > there must be clear paths to implementation and verification. There are. >Perhaps that should've been fixed instead of wondering why so many companies don
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by kadenshep 8y ago
I think you're just grandstanding, since I hope anyone with a sufficiently large business would understand who and where their customers are and what laws would affect their revenue streams. Smells like another right+ forward from gran

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