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by lolinder 2y ago
I've found that sponsorship quality varies dramatically by channel. I never saw a single sponsorship for Honey, but I see a ton for Kiwico and Ground News. I can't speak for Ground News, but Kiwico is a sponsor of basically every
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by lolinder 2y ago
> I think the biggest problem in AI accuracy is expecting the AI to be better than a human. If it's not better across at least one of {more accurate, faster, cheaper} then there is no business. You have to be offering one of the abo
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by lolinder 2y ago
> You are literally competing against hundreds of engineers/product designers who had no other goal than to build the best possible experience for accomplishing X. I think part of what's been happening here is that the hubris o
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by lolinder 2y ago
Yes. If (in this hypothetical) the university found something worth contacting the FBI about before Wang knew he was made, we'd expect to see FBI action first and university action second, even if the university acted immediately after
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by lolinder 2y ago
You're assuming that the hypothetical university personnel responsible for the cleanup of the mess thought the whole thing through clearly and weren't in hardcore firefighting mode and reacting in ways that would seem to make sens
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by lolinder 2y ago
It accounts for it substantially better than the government whisking him away. I laid out the hypothesis in full here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43528036 Again, pure speculation, as is everything right now.
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by lolinder 2y ago
> This always poisons the tone of a comment. Just like, "I know this will get downvoted": You should just state your opinion without proactively casting yourself as the minority voice. It feels like self-pity, and at the same t
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by lolinder 2y ago
Truth doesn't matter when the question is what kinds of tactics we want to officially endorse for moving the political needle. Any tactics you adopt become fair game for your opponent, and if we start seeing laws named after Luigi we w
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by lolinder 2y ago
Or maybe it's only a problem when it happens on the right? I and others swarm on here to shut down people who try to justify the crimes committed by right wingers motivated by the same reasoning. It's only when it comes to Luigi M
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by lolinder 2y ago
I'm not especially interested in the moral and ethical dilemma of whether it's okay to murder—in my own frame of ethics it's not up for debate, and I don't share axioms with people who think it is. I'm far more inte
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by lolinder 2y ago
That is a totally separate question from whether this precedent will directly cause deaths that you and everyone else here will feel bad about. What happens when people internalize that it's not only okay but good to go kill the "
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by lolinder 2y ago
When was the last time we named a law—informally or otherwise—after someone because they committed a high profile murder and wrote a manifesto about it?
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by lolinder 2y ago
I know this is an unpopular opinion here, but Luigi Mangione as martyr figure makes me extremely uncomfortable. This is a very different situation than the Aaron Swartz or any of the other victims of abuse by powerful people and corporati
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by lolinder 2y ago
If I'm reading this right, this is a case of the FBI raiding the location of the leader of a ring of hackers and that leader going offline after confirming that the raid had happened. Unless I'm mistaken on that reading, that leav
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by lolinder 2y ago
No, and that's a good call-out.
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Sorry to keep doing this to you, but it's a big thread and most arguments have already been made. Here's a link to the best guess I have, which accounts for the delay between university action and law enforcement action (which not
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by lolinder 2y ago
I replied to this argument in response to a sibling. I'll link my reply instead of repeating myself: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43527605
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by lolinder 2y ago
We here—those of us having a conversation on Hacker News—are capable of analyzing our perceptions and molding them to better fit the observed facts. We do not need to be victims of our own instinctive reactions. So whether or not it does
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by lolinder 2y ago
I'm totally in favor of holding the current administration accountable for what they are doing and clamping down on all the authoritarian actions as much as possible. But I'm not in favor of compromising principles to do it. There
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by lolinder 2y ago
> That probably isn't correct given that IU has scrubbed him from their web pages. That alone makes this look like disappearing him and his wife. Why? As a possible explanation: Wang disappears suddenly and without warning. The univ
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by lolinder 2y ago
This article says that the communities are having a hard time figuring out which 48 people were arrested, which is a very different problem than having a specific person you're looking for and not knowing where they went to. Again: sti
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by lolinder 2y ago
Point taken. Better said: We have no evidence that they have been disappearing people in this manner. We also, clearly, have a large body of people who are on guard for any such possible evidence, so I would reasonably expect that if it w
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by lolinder 2y ago
Sure, it's possible, but it's also speculation. You can't rationally use speculated possible hushed-up disappearances as evidence to fuel further speculation: there lies the road to totally unhinged conspiracy theories. If
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by lolinder 2y ago
> by the government "disappearing" anyone (which they have objectively been doing lately) Notably, they haven't been "disappearing" people in the manner that would have to be happening here. Even the most egreg
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by lolinder 2y ago
If in the ensuing investigation they found out that he'd been spying for the PRC for the last 20 years and they were freaked out about the reputational implications of having been harboring a Chinese spy in a red state in the current p
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by lolinder 2y ago
We have no evidence that Wang "was" disappeared. We know that he's nowhere to be found, that the university put him on leave weeks ago [0], and that the FBI recently searched his home. Notably, the university put him on leave
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by lolinder 2y ago
There's an enormous semantic distinction between "Wang vanished" and "Wang was vanished". Yes, as far as we know he vanished, but as far as we know he did so under his own will before the university even put him on
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by lolinder 2y ago
> The idea that the FBI would call the employer of a suspected spy, inform them that something was going to happen, that all of his colleagues would be informed, and then after a week they'd search his home, stands out as not a full
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by lolinder 2y ago
> Spies don't get "vanished," at least not historically. They're caught, imprisoned and tried Or they vanish themselves before they're caught and are never heard from again because they got away . We don't
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The Child and the Shadow (1975) [pdf](johnirons.com)
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