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by liontwist 2y ago
That’s what I’m saying. The moral labeling game causes black and white thinking. You are not a moral person for working at an elementary school instead of a car manufacturer. The question is actually what you do, what talents you have, and
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by liontwist 2y ago
Did you get confused by two opposing morally charged labels in the same sentence? “And when the scribes and Pharisees saw him eat with publicans and sinners, they said unto his disciples, How is it that he eateth and drinketh with publicans
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by liontwist 2y ago
Just wanted to share an anecdote. When I first checked out this book from the library I couldn’t even get through the first math concept - mathematical induction. It’s famously a brief intro before the rest of the book, but more math than m
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by liontwist 2y ago
Yes. Ultimately I agree this is a social and legal construct, and technology cannot feasibly be configured to enforce it
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by liontwist 2y ago
> This only happens because companies need to adhere to regulations, not because they're doing it out of respect for people. Nobody involved in that decision is motivated by respect? You're sounding pretty pessimistic for such
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by liontwist 2y ago
This is definitely a well thought out comment that's worth replying to. If you're asking if every citizen living in Germany from 1933-1945 did only evil things, the answer is obviously no. If you're asking if every person who
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by liontwist 2y ago
You’re telling me bad guy labels (bad image for you), not impact. You're personifying on organization. For example, your job at the ad tech company could be anonymizing data and protecting people’s privacy. Your job at the children’s c
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by liontwist 2y ago
That’s not what I said. Do you actually know the impact? Or do you just know what labels they have?
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by liontwist 2y ago
Database roles are a thing
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by liontwist 2y ago
What I don’t like about this kind of “moral” analysis is you are basically reacting to negative branding. do you make a utilitarian analysis of the impact of your employer or other products you use? I don’t think you do, it’s just they may
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by liontwist 2y ago
If you are arguing reading books is the only way someone can learn about a topic I disagree.
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by liontwist 2y ago
New product with fewer features and less compatibility vs old product which is mature and has a full bug tracker
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by liontwist 2y ago
But we don’t know what the future of the policy is either.
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by liontwist 2y ago
The vast majority of websites should be calculating dates in a server and merely presenting them to clients. I have wondered why there isn’t a span style element which takes a UTC timestamp and presents it to the user in their preferred tim
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by liontwist 2y ago
You can’t understand the journalism problem until you face that it has always been propaganda and PR. We just didn’t know how bad it was until we had alternative sources. Maybe there was a little more effort, beyond writing up a tweet or Re
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by liontwist 2y ago
As opposed to data? What data? Imagine how hard this is to study: - can we identify groups who regularly use and don’t use - and isolate other lifestyle factors - and follow them for years of the life - and get them to accurately report dat
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by liontwist 2y ago
> Musk is extremely well informed about technology Yes. That’s different than reading. I’m not ascribing moral value either way.
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by liontwist 2y ago
The pictured inserted in the article are attractive for the nostalgia and don’t support the phone argument.
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by liontwist 2y ago
I think the amount of different activities you can do in a day is a personality thing. I work 9-10 hours a day. Could I physically squeeze in an Another hour and half of chores or socializing than I do now? Sure. Is that going to make my li
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by liontwist 2y ago
They are decorations. Very common for lawyers and finance pros to have similar styles for sales purposes. Elons brand isn’t really being a historian or an academic guy. I don’t think he reads and I don’t think he pretends to. Just focus on
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by liontwist 2y ago
Pledge
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by liontwist 2y ago
The cost for universities is the librarians, (and journal subscriptions?) not the books.
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by liontwist 2y ago
Sounds like a noble project. Why does each University need to do that though? > many publications make little impact on their contemporaries only to be discovered later to have been ahead of their time. I would say this is evidence that
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by liontwist 2y ago
I enjoyed many library programs growing up. But my local library now is a homeless shelter and pornography rental. Luckily they have a separate area for kids, but even then it's not a place I want to leave my 4 year old outside of a 10
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by liontwist 2y ago
> students are reading much less than they used to, and far less in the way of physical books There is the answer. It's really hard to justify when usage is so low. I am not under the illusion that "everything is on the interne
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by liontwist 2y ago
Post office visits are compelled by other business, like taxation.
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by liontwist 2y ago
What is business logic? What specifically is SQL bad at? I’m not sold by your foreign key example. Constraints are great. I guess you can do that in python? Good like getting ACID right As soon as your data stops resembling a tree and start
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by liontwist 2y ago
disable PRs if this is your policy.
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by liontwist 2y ago
Ok, but why is the burden on him to show that? Are they not interested in improving bandwidth and speed for their users? The conclusion of this line of reasoning is to never make any change. If contributions are not welcome, don’t pretend t
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by liontwist 2y ago
> breaking compatibility with just 0.1% Yes. But in this story nothing like that happened.

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