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by lasfter 5y ago
Just want to point out, since I'm assuming you aren't a native English speaker, it should technically be "these kinds of people". "these kind of people" is ungrammatical ("kind" is singular, "the
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by lasfter 5y ago
> I believe people have the right to create life This is the crux of my disagreement with you, and you haven't really presented an argument for your position. > if no one is ever justified to bring others into being then all life
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by lasfter 5y ago
Can you guarantee the children won't suffer? If not, then again you're unilaterally deciding the risk is justified. > they'll also be free to decide if life is something they want to personally continue living or not Reall
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by lasfter 5y ago
No, they mean that the children did not consent to birth. It is selfish to have children whatever your motivation, because at some level you unilaterally decide that the suffering they will inevitably feel throughout their life is justified
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by lasfter 5y ago
Why does continuing the species matter? What is the inherent good in that? As it stands you're just presenting an argument from nature.
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by lasfter 5y ago
If I can sign a binding contract that regulates how my data will be used for as long as I have this software then I'm happy to use most products. Your examples don't capture what is happening here. Fig is freely downloadable, wi
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by lasfter 5y ago
I detest that it has become normalized to grant tech companies access to personal data with only limp promises that it won't be misused. If you give Fig permissions to look at what you are typing into the terminal, you should be prepar
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by lasfter 5y ago
> We will never sell data. That just isn't the business we want to build These are just words from strangers on the internet. You're offering a free and auto-updating app. You don't give me a contract guaranteeing anything
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by lasfter 5y ago
These are beautiful! And I second the other comment asking how it works. A good candidate for a blog post if you're looking for a more appreciative audience than your coworkers.
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by lasfter 5y ago
I don't tell lies about bad papers, only give some peremptory praise so that reviewers don't have ammunition to kill my submission. E.g. if a paper makes a false contribution X and a true contribution Y, I only mention Y. If I wer
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by lasfter 5y ago
Cooking results seems like outright cheating to me.
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by lasfter 5y ago
I suppose it depends on how you define nice? If you cheat at some point people will catch on, even if you don't face any real consequences. So if you want prestige within your community then cheating isn't the way to go. If you wa
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by lasfter 5y ago
The issue is that the authors of bad papers still participate in the peer-review process. If they are the only expert reviewers and you do not pay proper respect to their work, they will squash your submission. To avoid this, papers can pro
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by lasfter 5y ago
Powerpoint I'm guessing?
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by lasfter 5y ago
I'm usually of the same mind, but this is one scenario where individual action actually can help. For example, driving less won't significantly affect climate change even if most people do it, since the biggest contributors are in
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by lasfter 5y ago
100%. Lichess is an astounding achievement of FOSS and I wish it got more love in general. I can't think of any other open-source website with as much traffic and with as much complex functionality.
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by lasfter 6y ago
If you're curious about classical Iranian music, I highly recommend looking up Kayhon Kalhor. He is an extremely talented Kurdish musician (mainly playing the kamancheh, which is a sort of proto-violin) who often collaborates with Yo-Y
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by lasfter 6y ago
Certainly not on the scale of Amazon.
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by lasfter 6y ago
Because some of the money also goes to Sally who genuinely needs help. I don't understand how you can be okay with people starving or working themselves to death to survive and provide for their families, just because others do things
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John Urschel: From NFL Player to Mathematician(quantamagazine.org)
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by lasfter 6y ago
You're absolutely right, unfettered capitalism is at the root of all this. I just wanted to point out that technology is not exempt, seeing as SV-style idealists seem to think technology will solve the world's problems.
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by lasfter 6y ago
The entire hardware industry is dependent on human or environmental exploitation to acquire materials for batteries and chips. Cobalt and Tantalum are mined by child slaves in the Congo, smuggled to Rwanda and Zambia, then branded as "
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by lasfter 6y ago
Instead we give that access to Palantir workers? How is that any better?
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by lasfter 6y ago
I highly recommend The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben. Trees signal their neighbours of incoming dangers so they have to time to e.g. pump tannins into their leaves to deter animals that would munch on them.
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by lasfter 6y ago
This seems like a great approach! I'm glad you're aiming for something better, and I hope you're successful.
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by lasfter 6y ago
From the FAQ, under What's the hidden cost? : "[...] we do not sell your information." From the privacy policy, under How We Use The Information We Collect : "To send [...] information about jobs and third party produc
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by lasfter 6y ago
I wasn't always first world city folk, I've seen the horror and my family has been touched by it. I'd rather never see it again, though unfortunately news from my former home often makes it unavoidable. If you need to see bru
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by lasfter 6y ago
That's a fair take. I've seen plenty of this where I'm from, so I don't really have the stomach for more.
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by lasfter 6y ago
Distressing can be pretty subjective, and I was definitely not expecting to be THAT distressed. Figured other people might also be caught off guard.
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by lasfter 6y ago
The warning at the top of this article did not prepare me for the images, so I'll offer an additional one: the images are more disturbing than you think. Consider turning images off to read the content.

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