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by llimos 4y ago
The both-sides fallacy is all well and good where you have some objective measure (e.g. the scientific method), even if it's one you chose yourself (objective in that case meaning w.r.t. the arguments being presented). For things like
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Saudi Arabia plans cube skyscraper the size of 20 Empire State Buildings(complex.com)
1 points by llimos 4y ago|0 comments
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by llimos 4y ago
It's certainly a valid option to decide that the books are no longer appropriate, and stop reprinting them. Or to print a warning and let the market decide. The problem is when you change the book, effectively making a new one, but wit
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by llimos 4y ago
He's not accused of anti-Semitism, he labelled himself an anti-Semite.
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by llimos 4y ago
Because housing isn't a free market. There's a finite supply of land, and what you can do with it is even more tightly controlled.
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by llimos 4y ago
It's not so complicated to judge whether rents are too high or house prices are too high or both. It might be somewhat subjective, but that's government's job - to make those calls.
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by llimos 4y ago
If cities are deciding on these taxes themselves, not central government, they can adjust it dynamically until the need for rentals and the need for affordable homes balance out. They could even do it per neighbourhood. If it never balances
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by llimos 4y ago
I can't quite place why I enjoyed this so much!
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by llimos 4y ago
So it will now take PDF's five times longer to render?
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by llimos 4y ago
Good article. But > Big Tech giants are often abbreviated as GAFAM Ok, FAANG is a bit out of date in both names and composition, but surely we can do better than that? I vote for GAMMA.
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by llimos 4y ago
Great comment, but tbf they did identify it so it is not U. > Scientist believe the phenomenon is connected to the launch of a SpaceX satellite.
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In Search of a Language of Loss(newstatesman.com)
1 points by llimos 4y ago|0 comments
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by llimos 4y ago
> Jews face the western wall in Jerusalem Close, but a few metres out - we face the place where the Holy of Holies was, on the Temple Mount.
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by llimos 4y ago
It's a wonderful place. I was recently visiting London (where I grew up), and in not the best mental health, and I pulled over the car by the Heath and went exploring. It did wonders for my soul.
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by llimos 4y ago
One advantage is that you can have a neutral state (in the middle), forcing the user to choose one way or the other. You can't do that with a checkbox.
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by llimos 4y ago
> “When I came to look closely at it,” he told me later, “the more it appeared to me that the European project was a deliberate attempt to reverse what happened at Babel. Curiously, the European Parliament building is based on Peter Brue
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by llimos 4y ago
> If you want to opt out of this - and you trust the IAB to handle your data safely - you can submit your email address and phone number to https://transparentadvertising.org/ . What does HN say, do we trust them for this
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by llimos 4y ago
My therapist told me I need to (and he's right). On the surface I have a cushty job. I've been wfh since March 2020, and since the company was acquired in 2021 I fell between the cracks, I basically do what I like, and nobody care
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by llimos 4y ago
Not sure you need AI for that.
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by llimos 4y ago
I think it's reasonable to differentiate between following the rules yourself and imposing them on others.
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by llimos 4y ago
And maybe bans on doing other work outside of work hours? If all three of those get axed there should be a noticeable improvement in overall productivity.
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by llimos 4y ago
I like how they were too modest to post the developer's comment in the bug: > "Also, this is a fantastic bug report. I don't know if I've ever seen a bug report this detailed before." Little things like that rest
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by llimos 4y ago
Is there a dashboard from some neutral third-party validating that everybody's current warrant canary is in fact valid? Who would spot it if it either a) stopped being updated b) had an invalid signature, or c) the headlines were not c
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by llimos 4y ago
Things like this are the best way to increase per-employee productivity in the economy, which has been flatlining. Another example could be tacitly encouraging holding multiple jobs. When the interests of employers conflict with the interes
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Marshall McLuhan on surveillance and identity in the electric age (1977) [video](twitter.com)
108 points by llimos 4y ago|32 comments
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by llimos 4y ago
https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/brendan-eich-steps-down-...
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by llimos 4y ago
It's not Google over there! At the BBC, you get bonuses for showing up.
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by llimos 4y ago
My wish list: - Type the default export in a single expression (issue #13626, open for 5 years) - Negated types. E.g. `string & not 'abc'`. `Exclude` only works for union types - Allow 'never' to take a type paramete
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by llimos 4y ago
Warren Buffett might be one example
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by llimos 4y ago
Why is this flagged? The methodology seems fairly sound, it's not an opinion piece.

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