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by lovecg 6y ago
Of course, that wouldn’t work. Any platform that is “X, but with slightly relaxed rules” becomes a magnet for people who really really care about those particular rules not being enforced. If the enforcement effort is nontrivial (e.g., mode
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by lovecg 6y ago
For the Pink Floyd fans, my favorite story about songwriting credits concerns the album “Animals”. There are 5 tracks, the three longer compositions in the middle and a very short song split into two “bookends” (so it counts as two songs).
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by lovecg 6y ago
I don’t know why you’re getting the downvotes, this is the reality of the situation. People who already live in the US are in a privileged position and cannot emphasize with this point of view.
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by lovecg 6y ago
Wow 100% of comments so far are bullish. My contrarian spidey senses are tingling...
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by lovecg 6y ago
Sort of like Soviet dissident authors developed a roundabout way of writing to bypass the “algorithm” of the state’s censorship bureaucracy.
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by lovecg 6y ago
May I ask what brand of toothpaste do you happen to use?
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by lovecg 6y ago
Sure, but is that super uncommon? I’m judging by the number of people I went to high school with who now live with their parents. They could all treat it as a fallback and otherwise follow in pg’s footsteps, but none of them do.
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by lovecg 6y ago
I think that’s true but the “rich” part is not really relevant. Personally I can sort of relate to his life journey, and I come from a very much not rich immigrant family. I just remember not understanding why people cared about money inste
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by lovecg 6y ago
Have we read the same essay? Like half of the time he’s running on zero or negative dollars in the story. Some people just value different things in life.
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by lovecg 6y ago
Sure you can. Morality is hard wired into our brains by evolution. We’re not yet capable to understand all the details of how brain works, but it’s all there in theory. It’s understandable that this line of thinking would not be possible in
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by lovecg 6y ago
Why do you prefer to live in a world where professionals are afraid to blog? Scott himself shared [1] an example of a police officer facing disciplinary action and being forced to shut down his blog under similar circumstances (worse, his i
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by lovecg 6y ago
It’s this one https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/06/21/against-murderism/ He’s using him as an example to make another point - he could have just as easily used Hitler there or anyone else. Quite a stretch
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by lovecg 6y ago
Nowhere in the NYT article it explains the real problem Scott had with them publishing his name. It’s not the forward search (SSC -> real name) that’s the issue, it’s the reverse search (real name -> SSC). Before the NYT article his p
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by lovecg 6y ago
Thanks for the links. After having read the entire thread (it’s not long), a few things stand out: 1) This was not treated as a high pri issue at all until the story broke out in the media (compare the frequency of messages before and after
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by lovecg 6y ago
You’re making the same argument. Public comments are fair game and there’s no expectations of privacy. A private, or invite only, or a network like fb with complex privacy controls is another story entirely.
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by lovecg 6y ago
There’s a phenomenon quite similar to the Gell-Mann amnesia effect: the bias of an outlet is quite obvious in the coverage of an event one is particularly familiar with. Of course then we flip a page and continue taking them at their word.
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by lovecg 6y ago
You’re assuming a lot about the implementation. In fact I strongly doubt that somebody at Apple literally put “asian” as a blanket filter. It’s more likely an opaque machine learning feature gone awry.
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by lovecg 6y ago
Life finds a way. If not speaking fees it would be book royalties or any number of other schemes. Maybe we can have severely increased taxes beyond certain point on government officials?
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by lovecg 6y ago
I agree except for the prohibition on other sources of income. I do want some of these people to write memoirs for example. The exact amount is something that needs careful consideration as well, more is not always better. At $10M a year yo
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by lovecg 6y ago
I don’t believe that complexity means something nefarious is going on. Everything has been getting more complex, just compare the cost of building a mile of subway or a power line today vs. a hundred years ago. Heck, just any active codebas
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by lovecg 6y ago
I’m curious about the legal state of any academic research that would be done on top of these leaks. If I recall correctly some of the details of the exact workings of atomic instructions and cache coherence protocol are not publicly docume
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by lovecg 6y ago
Could the explanation be as simple as the economy? Younger people are less likely to have a career and more likely to live with their parents since 2008, both of these are not known to be turn-ons.
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by lovecg 6y ago
> this same technology has pushed us dangerous close to climate disaster This problem is much older than the last 25 years of tech. Arguably tech gave us better climate models and power generation (and the potential for much more). >
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by lovecg 6y ago
So let’s do it across the board. Slow everything down to sane levels. Won’t happen but one can dream...
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by lovecg 6y ago
My guess is that it’s the simplest explanation: lots of people that frequent HN are invested in the story, both figuratively and literally.
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by lovecg 6y ago
Not a lawyer, but I imagine it’s similar to how industrial accidents are treated. If there was proper due diligence and precautions, and it was truly an “act of God” sort of thing, that’s understandable. If on the other hand their processes
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by lovecg 6y ago
> And to add to that, a company (Citadel) that pays Robinhood a large amount of money for their data is one of those with the short positions. So Robinhood itself has a stake in this. That’s quite a claim. Got a source on that?
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by lovecg 6y ago
If you’re talking about this article https://www.reuters.com/article/us-retail-trading-shortbets-... the 70 billion number is loss on _all_ short sales YTD. GME is about 1 billion of that total.
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by lovecg 6y ago
Apparently made popular by David Letterman in the eighties so not much older than the Simpsons. It makes sense for it to not be very old, as most people didn’t own lawns until mid twentieth century or so. The lawn as a concept has a fascina
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by lovecg 6y ago
Do they? I keep hearing how college age students are “coddled” and the whole helicopter parenting thing. Your comment is the first time I saw the opposite view expressed in a while.

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