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by lotu 4y ago
I was stunned when I went to a writing circle and saw college students using their phones.
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by lotu 4y ago
I'll take that bet. Google has lots of flaws but it is still has lots of people who are genuinely trying to do the right thing. I just don't see the people at Google implementing a feature like this designed to make people feel
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by lotu 4y ago
I seriously thought this was satire, but nope totally real.
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by lotu 5y ago
That is a total straw man. The argument is that as a society we permit people to do lots of things to their children that have far greater ramifications that this gene editing. It is there for inconsistent to get upset about gene editing
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by lotu 5y ago
quip uses a AAA battery that is easy to replace. They use multiple gaskets to keep it safe from water.
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by lotu 5y ago
No it just creates alert blindness. Most people barely understand what a cookie is. I was part of a team implementing cookie banners, and we were looking really hard for the best wording. But it didn’t matter because in user tests 75% of
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by lotu 5y ago
I kinda think that the lingua Franca, is very sticky. Think base 10 or the Gregorian calendar or QWERTY . None of these are the only or even best solution but they are going to all stick around forever just because it will never make sens
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by lotu 5y ago
Europe tends to have stupid ideas about privacy. The simple transmission of video between the camera and the computer is considered a privacy violation by a lot of privacy hacks.
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by lotu 5y ago
Also, they aren't testing masking effect on seroprevalence (or R0), they are testing the effect of sending out free masks and encouraging masking. That is only going to move the percent of people masking up or down a few percent at be
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by lotu 5y ago
Not in a reasonable time frame. Do you really believe we could fully automate all dishwashing over the next decade?
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by lotu 5y ago
Language is defined by the people who speak it, not by some authority. If people are using “les” than it is part of Spanish.
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by lotu 5y ago
While this might be appreciated by a small number technical people it would just be confusing to the overwhelming majority. The cell, wifi, and battery indicators all provide information the user can affect by moving the device or plugging
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by lotu 6y ago
I meant since the Columbia Disaster in the early 2000's, I just didn't type very carefully. Obviously there have been missions before the space station, and I think the Chinese may have done some orbital missions in that time fr
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by lotu 6y ago
It doesn't look like they are going to the ISS. If so I think this will be the first orbital space mission not going to space station. I know the spaceX capsule has been described as roomy by space standards but it's still the s
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by lotu 6y ago
I think nurses are an excellent example of systemic racism/sexism. Being a nurse used to be seen as an exclusively male profession. Given that it is pretty clear it is a cultural rather than innate association. How we handle this
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by lotu 6y ago
Rare earths aren't the big deal everyone thinks they are. Rare earths are more or less evenly distributed across the planet but do not form ores so you can't mine them efficiently. There is nothing about it that only China can d
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by lotu 6y ago
More suburban than rich. I seen million dollar NYC apartments that where it doesn't make sense to have separate room for work and the work "room" is more of wide hallway combined with the kid's beds. A more fair options
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by lotu 6y ago
The only way I see that happening is if we can get congress to allocate funding for a new one. It would be seen as widely popular move so I don't think there is zero chance, but it would take a concerted publicity effort
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by lotu 6y ago
I think there is a pretty clear distinction, in that wide spread sex selective abortion results in a skewed gender population which causes obvious negative long term problems. It is very reasonable for a person to look at a society and say
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by lotu 6y ago
You would still be able to delete any of your information if you don’t want it to become public GDPR does not apply here.
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by lotu 6y ago
The problem I see a lot is, "the algorithm contributes X" implies that "getting rid of the algorithm will fix X". This is not true. For an analogy imagine a town that with an arsonist setting lots of homes on fire. It
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by lotu 6y ago
If the environmental cost is dominated by shipping I could see destruction as more environmentally friendly. This is likely the for many small cheap items.
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by lotu 6y ago
Just like the super bowl or World Series or whatever.
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by lotu 6y ago
You can go ask every individual company you interact with for what data they have about you. The details should be found in privacy polices. Response to "that's an unreasonable amount of work, it should be easier". Do you t
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by lotu 6y ago
Free speech rights protect you from the government not private companies.
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by lotu 6y ago
> They could do speech recognition on the device and then ship off the plain text Not with the tiny cheap CPUs that are one these devices they couldn't. Or at least not very effective speech recognition.
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by lotu 6y ago
The anti-mask “propaganda” was obviously an only partially successful effort to preserve the supply of masks for first responders. If the CDC/WHO and came out and said everyone wear masks in the beginning of march the supply would ha
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by lotu 6y ago
This is about what we value most. People on the right then to value individualism, self-sufficiency, and self-determination more. While people on the left value equity, and community more. You can see these values reflected in what each
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by lotu 7y ago
There is zero chance that poorer tracking will reduce advertising meaningfully. You can’t track the effectiveness of TV and and radio and newspaper ads, but it’s not like people don’t use them.
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by lotu 7y ago
Would the photographer be allowed to identify using your face? This is pretty commonly done in newspapers.

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