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by kbutler 6y ago
But there seems to be precious little effort spent improving one's own side (or even recognition of the failings of one's own side). It's just so much easier and politically and socially beneficial to demonize the others.
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This is an obvious example of both sides of the political spectrum advocating either side of a single issue depending on the context. That's the clearest way to show that both sides argue in bad faith, rather than simply presenting fac
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Protests and riots: Lockdown protests - super spreader events or valid exercises of freedom of speech? George Floyd protests - super spreader events or valid exercises of free speech? Riots attacking federal court house in Portland - treaso
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The reason the US and the western world have been able to succeed and make such progress is because of the freedom to point out the failures and do something better. Whether that's building a better phone, medical procedure, or communi
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Also physics background, and I realized it looked right to me, and had to go back and look at the others...
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These are beautiful. Any thoughts on why the photographer reversed the spectrum (red cold, blue hot) for the fumarole? https://petapixel.com/assets/uploads/2019/07/image10-1.jpg (just looked cooler?) Or
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by kbutler 6y ago
Things become simple by abstracting out and hiding the complexity. My teenager doesn't need to know about cylinders and pistons and fuel injection and air-fuel ratios and timing and radio reception and electronic motors and A/C co
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The explanation was a bit hand-wavy.
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I chose historic examples specifically because they are now universally recognized as biased, and to show that problems of sensationalism and bias in journalism are not new. More recent examples of bias tend to be still politically controve
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I don't think there is any evidence to suggest deep, unbiased, evidence-based journalism ever dominated the field, or that the "crass commercial" interests didn't drive the news rooms. See the "yellow journalism&quo
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> "the media" is a bunch of opinion bloggers fabricating sources to drive "an agenda". In reality, the effort for producing a deep investigative story can be equivalent to an a mid-size software engineering project i
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Wouldn't allowing automakers to use it also benefit private profit?
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> they'd never reduce their app store cut, for anyone, ever. Why not 50%? 75%? 100%? 150%? It could also be that they are seeking the optimal rate of return, balancing developer incentives, bringing in new developers, etc. I think
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> We think cloud is as complex Architecture as any of those and that requires a single language and framework for it. Your conclusion does not follow from your premise.
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It could certainly poke holes in a straw man argument. Mises didn't say a planned economy could produce nothing, but that it would lead to irrational and inefficient use of resources. USSR military and overall production and eventual c
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Criteria for listing a species as endangered: https://www.fws.gov/endangered/esa-library/pdf/listing.pdf What are the criteria for deciding whether to add a species to the list? A `species is added to the
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by kbutler 6y ago
I could enjoy the research, stalking, and viewing parts of the experience, but I'd personally rather do it with a camera than a rifle.
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Rather than lying, state "I'm looking for [range]"
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The high-risk population introduces statistical complications evaluating the results - were bad outcomes caused by the treatment under investigation or by the preexisting conditions?
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If you detested it the first 49 times, why keep eating it?
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Post-consumer recycling also takes real effort, most of it from individuals. It just turns out to be largely wasted effort.
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But do we claim to be the experts, authorities, and judges of UI design? Well, ok, sometimes we do, but...yeah.
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Design tip: There is no such thing in the real world of materials and displays as pure black or pure white. Even if we had pure black and white, the real environment of the user would tweak the white balance. The same design or page, taken
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by kbutler 6y ago
"pride" I see what you did there.
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Trouble is it is impoliteness. Q: Are you listening? A: Yes Q: A: ? Q: [typing] Politeness would be preparing what you're going to ask me before requesting my attention.
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Client-server apps like YouTube reveal your IP to the server (Google). Peer-to-peer apps reveal your IP to any other peer in the network (anyone seeding, anyone else downloading, and anyone who wants to monitor by pretending to be a downloa
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by kbutler 6y ago
What would my freedom to step outside the walled garden on my iOS device take away from your curated experience?
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Personality, motivation to be with friend group, and availability of interesting/challenging courses. The 12-yo had been explicitly told he "could miss two weeks and not fall behind", and the teacher tried to forbid working a
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Is John Deere the curator of the "tractor" product, so they have every right to determine who can repair it? Is Chamberlain the curator of the garage door opener product, so they can determine what remotes can be used? You may pre
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Epi-pen approx 97% $8/injector, so $16/two-pack, selling for $700 in 2016 https://www.mercurynews.com/2016/10/01/epipen-outrage-silico... Of course, software sales have much higher margin of product

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