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by kevinh 7y ago
Do you have evidence that one is the cause of the other?
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by kevinh 7y ago
Previous discussion about the referenced 2016 paper: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12414676
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by kevinh 7y ago
This is a joke with a real history—the Mulford Act was passed in California in the 1960s as a response to the Black Panthers arming themselves and patrolling the streets. I would imagine this isn't the only example.
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by kevinh 7y ago
I'm not sure you want to create a subscription plan where you're punished for using it in a situation that's not a monopoly.
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by kevinh 7y ago
Do you have any evidence for that claim?
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by kevinh 7y ago
> Why do you think LGBT rights (first item on your list) is something that should be discussed at work? If you're gay and you mention the gender of your spouse, you are going to get a reaction. People consider the existence of LGBT
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by kevinh 7y ago
When I had Amazon Prime, I would buy items more often than I do now that I have to make a trip to the store (or pay for shipping) to purchase. For me at least, it's not a one-to-one exchange of miles on the road.
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by kevinh 7y ago
> The founders had a very good rationale for putting it in. Yeah, slavery. How would you have a popular vote if you're allowing slaves to count as 3/5ths of a person for vote share? They obviously wouldn't have allowed the
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by kevinh 7y ago
It's great that these are in a consistent formatting style. When trying to extract some contents programmatically from some Gutenberg texts, I kept running into different formatting styles. That combined with being able to check out th
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by kevinh 7y ago
I don't see the inherent issue with using Unity to create another Doom port. As long as you get everything right, it's cross-platform and should play identically.
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by kevinh 7y ago
> Ultimately, each company has to make its own decision about whether to prioritize those who are allergic to pets or those who wish to bring pets in the office. There are costs and benefits to each. Ultimately, it's a question of w
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by kevinh 7y ago
Just because you don't like what they have to say doesn't mean they're clickbait. The articles linked cite their sources.
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by kevinh 7y ago
To my knowledge, billboards don't fund roads. Unless they are the exclusive source of revenue for roads, the situations aren't really comparable.
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by kevinh 7y ago
Are you able to block the unlabeled sponsored content the article is referring to?
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by kevinh 7y ago
Equality of opportunity seems like a pipe dream to me. Are you really going to equalize socioeconomic status? Parental skills? Pollution? Proximity to opportunities? Those all determine the opportunities one has access to.
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by kevinh 7y ago
Claiming that Epic Games is to blame for the shutdown of Silicon Knights is a reach. Silicon Knights initiated the fight against Epic Games and lost two court cases against them. They were responsible for their own demise. https:/&#x2
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by kevinh 7y ago
By that standard, evolutionarily speaking, he should have worked to maximize the number of children he had, as he had the means to provide for them. Or maybe he should have worked to fight climate change, as that could be a long-term threat
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by kevinh 8y ago
The current interpretation of antitrust law in the United States is fairly new (it's only been around for 50 years or so, and as I understand it, largely driven by The Antitrust Paradox by Robert Bork [yes, that Bork]). Before that, th
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by kevinh 8y ago
If you put the first quote in context, it would be clear that they were consistent. > The board, founded to guide “responsible development of AI” at Google, would have had eight members and met four times over the course of 2019 to consi
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by kevinh 8y ago
I'm not the person you're responding to, but for me it's much easier to abstain from meat than to moderate it to a certain amount of times per week. It's not difficult for me to eat meat, but it would be if I were to hal
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by kevinh 8y ago
This isn't the first line though–Facebook already bans things like ISIS propaganda. This is in a similar bucket.
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by kevinh 8y ago
Should I be able to dump toxic waste in a river that runs through my property?
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by kevinh 8y ago
> On a side note, it feels conspiratorial to explain failure as, "there's double agents on the inside sabotaging the effort" There are people currently heading government agencies that lobbied or fought against those agenc
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by kevinh 8y ago
Removing a book for breaking a law is censorship. Removing a book for being lewd or pornographic is censorship. What makes those instances of censorship acceptable, and removing books peddling harmful claims masquerading as science unaccept
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by kevinh 8y ago
Should the government not pay for costs due to pregnancy? The steps to avoid it are well understood, and it does cost a lot of money.
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by kevinh 8y ago
1980 and 1990 were both more than 25 years ago. Wikipedia puts the 2017 estimate at 2,716,450, which is roughly the same as the 1990 numbers.
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by kevinh 8y ago
> Since you seem to work in adtech or advertising, that famous Upton Sinclair quote probably legitimately applies to you ("It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!&
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by kevinh 8y ago
The one I'm aware of is Sargon of Akkad, who I'd certainly consider to be alt-right. Who are you referring to?
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There are other tech companies doing related work in China. Are you saying that the employees of those companies are all complicit with genocidal actions?
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by kevinh 8y ago
I think that they're saying it would be interesting to use music detection to have the podcast playback switch from an accelerated playback speed during speech to normal speed when music is detected.

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