lliamander

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by lliamander 2y ago
> I thought it wasn't a big issue until I saw how hard one side fought to keep the name "master". They only fight that hard because they know the people fighting to remove "master" are (as a group) acting in bad
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by lliamander 2y ago
No matter how smart or skilled they are, people who spend an inordinate amount of time arguing politics (and dragging others into it) at work are by definition not "the best staff". Having a narrow mission focus is the only way
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by lliamander 2y ago
The mission of reproducible builds is a social mission that will bring good to the world regardless of whether other social goods are achieved. Trying to tie that mission to other social movements is a strategic error that will more than li
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by lliamander 3y ago
> but they said their system isn't wrong and the address coordinate mapping can't be changed anyway. That is some breathtaking hubris.
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by lliamander 3y ago
That sounds like a pretty good life! But I think for someone 20 years your junior at the beginning of their career, they probably should be pushing themselves pretty hard. But even for those of us who are more established, I think it can b
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by lliamander 3y ago
Lots of good advice in this thread, but I'll add my two cents: First, learn your job. It's a new job, so there should be plenty to learn. Learn the tech stack, the processes and procedures, study the people and the social dynami
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by lliamander 3y ago
Except that at the point where there is a police interrogation, there is (or should be) probable cause to believe that the person in question is not a law-abiding citizen. While imperfect, adversarial systems are still our best means of est
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by lliamander 3y ago
As an aside, why is this the thing you chose to focus on in responding to me? While I do think it is true and I am willing to defend it, it's not really the central issue. What I understand as the central point of your original commen
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by lliamander 3y ago
I do not assume a static number of researchers, nor do I see why you would infer that from what I said. Of course there are more researchers going into these fields. The more people enter into a field, the more likely the typical person e
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by lliamander 3y ago
The fact that so many papers are published rather works against your argument. The more papers are published in a given field, the more likely they are to be bullshit. Of course, that applies for STEM fields as well as the social sciences.
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by lliamander 3y ago
I think of it this way: CICO is an axiom we have to assume in order to figure out why a diet isn't working. E.g. if your input is 1200 calories and you work out, but you aren't losing weight? Maybe your NEAT is way down (or you ha
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by lliamander 3y ago
Machete Order: https://www.slashfilm.com/1264147/what-is-star-wars-machete-...
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by lliamander 3y ago
> In my own case, I didn't see my own grandmother for two years during COVID other than via Zoom/FaceTime. She has a history of bad lung infections, so none of us wanted to get her sick. Absolutely! I was already under persona
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by lliamander 3y ago
> Section 230 was explicitly about allowing service providers to act in an editorial capacity Absolutely. Sites with user-generated content would be practically unusable without such protections. However, the first two sub-sections list
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by lliamander 3y ago
I'm not saying they are. I am just saying that imminent domain is what we have now, and that land-value tax is something that might be better. I'd rather the government not force people out of homes they paid for, but I don't
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by lliamander 3y ago
While I share your reservations, I do prefer this to imminent domain (a practice I am not a fan of). I think it's more likely for the seller to get the best value for their property, and incentivizes the seller to make good use of the
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by lliamander 3y ago
Again, that interpretation only makes sense if you are treating Thomas as a sci-fi novel for adults about sentient trains and the capitalist system, rather than as a fairy tale for children. Of course you will invariably butcher what the s
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by lliamander 3y ago
You could also explain The Wizard of Oz as "young girl travels to a foreign land and kills the first person she meets. She then teams up with three strangers to kill again" The purpose of Thomas the Tank Engine is not to specula
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by lliamander 3y ago
Density also comes with it's own problems - crime, pollution, disease, and a loss in personal freedom necessary to keep those other problems at bay. None of that is ideal for family formation. And increasing density only works up to a
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by lliamander 3y ago
There is value in mixed use neighborhoods - low density doesn't automatically mean suburban sprawl. Most of human history has been spent in much lower density living situations than we have now, and I'm pretty confident there is a
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by lliamander 3y ago
> The thing about women entering the workforce making it impossible to have a single earner home is nonsense. The problem is housing. I think you may be right about the overall problem, but I'm not sure I agree that density is the s
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by lliamander 3y ago
> You could say the same about the taxes used to pay for public schools. Absolutely, because it is true. Especially considering how much we overpay for public schools (costs having been rising faster than inflation for decades with no im
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by lliamander 3y ago
Do you think my preference for my wife to be a homemaker is wrong or irrelevant? It's not just an arbitrary preference: in general it is better for the children. It is also what most mothers (at least mothers of young children) would
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by lliamander 3y ago
> you're also telling him "you can't exist here". No, we are saying his behavior is unacceptable, and that if he wishes to participate in this community he will need to conform to those standards. It is not a mercy to
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by lliamander 3y ago
Yup, the incentive should always be to direct people toward high-value conversations.
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by lliamander 3y ago
That's interesting: I don't think I've ever been unsure of why people downvoted anything I've said. I don't think we should make it any more complicated. You might benefit (on the margin) from some feedback, but tha
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by lliamander 3y ago
You just asked one.
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by lliamander 3y ago
Sure, and scientists need a place to have such conversations. But publication is not a closed system. The "published, peer-reviewed paper" is frequently an artifact used to decide practical policy matters in many institutions both
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by lliamander 3y ago
Sounds like a problem worth solving.
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by lliamander 3y ago
I agree that most labs are probably not out to defraud people. But without replication I don't think it's reasonable to have much confidence in what is published.

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