losteric

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by losteric 7y ago
Basically, labeling products the customer is most likely to purchase. but, pessimistically or realistically, I expect they are also training customers to blindly trust the black box and eventually the criteria will change towards maximizing
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by losteric 7y ago
And not Comcast, Walmart, AT&T? ... I wonder why
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by losteric 7y ago
Musk wants to re-engineering both tunnel boring and how we use tunnels - the latter may not pan out but the former is useful regardless of what gets run through the tunnel.
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by losteric 7y ago
We are talking about the federal government - do you think suits from the three-letter agencies will accept that reasoning? No. If they want quiet intercepts, that's what they get... even if it means "slow down conveyor belts and
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by losteric 7y ago
What social roles would that hypothetical secular church need to replace? I see a reinforcement of a group identity that can follow to new churches, often simply requiring attendance... opportunities to practice values through volunteering.
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by losteric 7y ago
I don't think it's a matter of pressure or choice, my grandparents simply lived in a more social environment. Broad family trees, churches, guilds/unions, even free-range childhoods - gone or fading across the nation. Aside f
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by losteric 7y ago
Consider the search phrase "Is the Earth flat?" If Google detects more engagement towards "Yes" and flatearther conspiracy websites, should their search engine prioritize results that say the Earth is flat? > If Zero
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by losteric 7y ago
I'm not planning to buy because Uber's "driver network" is a pool of independent contractors they are rapidly burning through with unsustainable wages. Uber depends on those suckers - they inflate Uber's coverage an
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by losteric 7y ago
I was curious who could write so well with such poor reasoning... unsurprisingly, it's a world-famous mental gymnast: > Yarvin, attacking the accepted "World War II mythology" in a speech to the 2012 BIL Conference, claim
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by losteric 7y ago
Housing groups are usually for people looking to rent a property together, not owners selling/renting. Some people view that relationship as "you need me so come to me" - in my experience, those are the worst people to live w
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by losteric 7y ago
Backblaze?
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by losteric 7y ago
True, but people with deadly peanut allergies are still completely fine when peanuts aren't around... I can't imagine why vaccine mercury would explain life-long CFS.
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by losteric 7y ago
Yes. One vaccine contains less mercury than one (average) serving of fish, and the mercury is in a less toxic form.
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by losteric 7y ago
Yes, data on mercury toxicity is quite clear that vaccines as safe. However it's unfortunately easy to find sham "doctors" that will diagnose whatever the patient requests - mercury poisoning, EBV, chronic lyme disease, just
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by losteric 7y ago
I know a couple spiritual scientists, but they all critically adopt practices based on their personal philosophy... so I don't consider them to be "religious". Religion requires dogma and worship, surrendering free will in
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by losteric 7y ago
Do you mean it should be seen as a public space? I agree there is an argument for regulating large for-profit social media sites as a public utilities... but I can't see how they are "a government" in and of themselves.
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by losteric 7y ago
Facebook is a corporation and their website is private property. You have no free speech.
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by losteric 7y ago
These articles take off because the general (non-Tesla-owning) public believes "autopilot" is full autonomy and Tesla is covering something up. If this was branded as a "driving assistant", people wouldn't bat an ey
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by losteric 7y ago
If you are getting a PhD, chances are you or your professor applied for and received funding for a specific research project - and that's what you research. Obviously an advisor will guide you towards doing work they can advise on, as
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by losteric 8y ago
Or that terrible customer experiences which are currently "exceptions to the rule" end up becoming the norm at whatever they pay drivers/charge customers... there are only so many good drivers and customers/contractors b
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by losteric 8y ago
Yes, it is - the recipient solves the problem by flagging your emails as spam.
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by losteric 8y ago
I do miss their higher quality and usually locally sourced products... and the friendly "customer experience" of local employees paid above minimum wage.
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by losteric 8y ago
I think it's analogous to overwhelming tech debt - stuck in an operational hell because there is no reprieve to actually put out any of the fires. The root cause is all the little issues, but you can't get there without first tack
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by losteric 8y ago
If one system's inflammation causes another system to degrade and inflame, and so on, until the body has systemic inflammation without an infection... that over-sensitivity/self-reinforcement mechanism is arguably the problem, but
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by losteric 8y ago
When you read that chapter in K-12, the textbook was no doubt very clear to put the Dark Ages in context of European history... you, and many other students, simply forgot. An elaborate or nuanced name wouldn't have helped retain time&
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by losteric 8y ago
Adblocking ad-supported websites is not a steady-state existence. Those websites will either shift to subscriptions, shutdown, or find the equilibrium of-difficult-but-not-impossible-to-avoid advertising I think the internet has overshot ou
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by losteric 8y ago
Then why could papers coexist with radio and TV? Why are all three dying now? The internet allows hyper-targetting individuals - that's why money flows to the web. Advertising efficiency. Pace or quality of news was never a factor - he
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by losteric 8y ago
Yes, exactly - it is bizarre. Tech pays very well with no culture of corporate allegiance, yet this generation of skilled in-demand labor with (hopefully) sizable bank accounts does not exercise their economic freedom. Why? Maybe fear of
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by losteric 8y ago
This (my) generation has been culturally conditioned against the idea of quitting a job... peers in struggling circumstances create a feeling of looming "economic uncertainty", there's a perception that forcing issues against
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by losteric 8y ago
Is it unreasonable to think of the method as a semantic "port" to which messages (arguments) are passed? And languages that allow programmers to bypass OO with jmp instructions seem multiparadigm rather than not-OO...

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