luiscleto

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by luiscleto 7y ago
> We need some regulations; But the regulations are already in place. In the UK especially there are very strict and broad-range hate-speech laws. And most of the content referred to as problematic already breaches the ToS for the platfo
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by luiscleto 7y ago
> But it also covers harmful behaviour that has a less clear legal definition such as cyber-bullying, trolling and the spread of fake news and disinformation. So, basically any site with user content can be fined/blocked at any time
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by luiscleto 7y ago
> This argument would be stronger if the game industry didn't also feature a large number of insanely well paid executives. But why would a surplus of developers need to correlate with a surplus of executives? If anything it makes m
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by luiscleto 7y ago
> It's all accounting! I can't emphasize this enough--you can pay the employees 2x as much, or 10x as much, or 1/2x as much, and Fortnite will be EXACTLY as fun as it is now. That's what people are outraged about. Yes
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by luiscleto 7y ago
> I don’t think it’s about supply and demand for game developer pay either If there was a shortage of game developers, employers would be forced to give much better benefits and compensation to retain and hire staff (and probably there w
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by luiscleto 7y ago
I guess in that case it would come as a bigger surprise that I'm from the EU, and from a country where unions are quite well established, and have never been to, studied, or worked in the US.
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by luiscleto 7y ago
They don't need it. They do it because it's more profitable. If you don't want those conditions they can easily find someone else willing to accept them due to the huge hiring pool available. Edit: you're far less likely
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by luiscleto 7y ago
> Unionisation may help, but the only practical solution is for people to stop taking on terrible jobs because of some sense of 'passion', and to go where their skills are appreciated/where they're treated better&#x2F
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by luiscleto 7y ago
I'm from Portugal (where we've had somewhat similar experiences to Spain with the mentality for unions). When I was young I believed they were good as it was what I was taught and fell in the socialist-leaning mentality of much of
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Google dissolves AI ethics council after just 10 days(venturebeat.com)
6 points by luiscleto 7y ago|0 comments
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by luiscleto 7y ago
So, we won't find a correlation between people who go to prison and propensity to immoral behavior? Or even intentionally mislabeling immoral behavior as moral. HN should be wise enough to know that correlation is not causation, and th
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by luiscleto 7y ago
While that's an interesting approach for compensation which might mitigate knowingly bad/irresponsible decisions, it doesn't look like it would address the core issue here of having to choose a metric to base compensation on.
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by luiscleto 7y ago
> employees themselves has to be responsible for their output in such a way that higher output leads to more money for them But what metric would you use to measure output that solves the gamification problem? Even for contractors or sal
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by luiscleto 7y ago
Reminds me of Goodheart's law[1]. We have known this for a long time, but it is hard to have an alternative system which scales well with huge organizations. For startups and small companies, I could see an informal system working pret
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by luiscleto 7y ago
They can apply large pressure on the state, true. But so can labour unions (and probably so would guilds). It is still not true state ownership as competition does thrive (even if they still have obstacles). Edit: There are probably even be
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by luiscleto 7y ago
I originally thought this was going to be an April fool's satire on using Microservices as a religion.
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by luiscleto 7y ago
> "Distributism favors the dissolution of the current private bank system, or more specifically its profit-making basis in charging interest" Does not sound very Swiss to me.
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by luiscleto 7y ago
> "Further, some distributists argue that socialism is the logical conclusion of capitalism, as capitalism's concentrated powers eventually capture the state, resulting in a form of socialism" This greatly resembles Karl M
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by luiscleto 8y ago
I don't drive or cycle (on a regular basis), and I haven't been particularly exposed to generic rage towards cyclists. I don't think I see cyclists as any less human than cars and their drivers, or bikers for that matter. Yet
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by luiscleto 8y ago
However, the fact that there is a problem, does not legitimize doing something regardless of what the something is. I haven't seen any support for the articles which actually shows the effects of the policy will be good, rather than ar
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Whitcoulls Pulls Jordan Peterson's '12 Rules for Life' After Christchurch Attack(nzherald.co.nz)
1 points by luiscleto 8y ago|0 comments
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by luiscleto 8y ago
> How does that nullify any changes? The impact on society won't come from the number of crowdfunding platforms, but from the number of campaigns and their reach. My point with 1) and 2) was that neither is necessarily affected by t
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by luiscleto 8y ago
I completely agree. That's why I was trying to distance my argument from the perspective of whether GoFundMe made a good or bad decision. I just wanted to bring up the point from a societal perspective, since it's society as a who
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by luiscleto 8y ago
Starting this with a few disclaimers: 1) I unequivocally believe all anti-vaxxers are wrong, 2) I absolutely support efforts to fight their misinformation, 3) I don't even necessarily think it was a bad decision by gofundme to do this;
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by luiscleto 8y ago
Yes, it's a good thing for sites and apps to be accessible. No, it's not an obligation of any kind (nor should it be). For companies that have grown enough to be providing services to (and profiting off of) a large enough part of
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by luiscleto 8y ago
I noticed the [1] in your comment but it seems to be missing the actual link? I'd be interested in reading about it. Reminds me a bit of the observations by Michael Shellenberger who went from https://www.sfgate.com/opi
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by luiscleto 8y ago
1) Unless the people who sign the petition had not voted (or voted for brexit, in which case you could even see it as a x2 effect) you can't "make the difference" using these numbers as they doesn't necessarily show any
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by luiscleto 8y ago
By that logic if every individual in the 16,141,241 signed the petition it would suddenly make it 32,282,482 vs 17,410,742? I'm not trying to downplay the significance of the petition or its size, but I don't believe math works th
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by luiscleto 8y ago
The problem is defining those limits. And if you give a regulatory agency the power to do it, odds are they will push too far. It starts with fringe sites that most people would agree on, but the existence of those regulators depends on the
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by luiscleto 8y ago
I wonder if remote work opportunities could become significant enough to slow this trend and make more people prefer smaller/quieter towns to the big city life while still holding jobs for big industries. Does anyone happen to know if

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