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by lukev 9y ago
Well, that's what the article is about. Even if it's "pretty rare" it's not rare enough. It also specifically states that many times people were jailed without even being aware that there was a suit against them. Th
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by lukev 9y ago
Nothing you just said is at odds with the article. The problem is that people are spending time in jail (via the process you describe) because of civil debts that can fall into one of the following categories: (a) debts of small sums (b) wi
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by lukev 9y ago
To be fair what you get with the $295 subscription is the _full_ OED, including all the expanded etymologies, which is 20 volumes and seems to sell for $1000.
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by lukev 9y ago
1ns according to whom? Clock skew is still a thing :)
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by lukev 9y ago
Oh boy. For supposed rationalists, there's a lot wrong with this sentiment. Biggest issues: 1. Confirmation bias. How many things were discussed on rationalist websites that people were sure were going to be yuge, petered out, and were
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by lukev 9y ago
> Except he never even said women on average are worse. That is literally the whole point of his memo, that women have a different (i.e, worse, in this context) statistical distribution of ability and inclination to the tech field. >
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by lukev 9y ago
Again, that's not the argument. Even stating that men are more suited to become programmers* is problematic!
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by lukev 9y ago
Except it is. Damore himself cites a study by David Schmitt at Bradley University, indicating that women had certain personality traits across cultures. What did Shmitt have to say about Damore, when interviewed? > “It is unclear to me t
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by lukev 9y ago
Two things: 1. Saying that women are "on average" worse programmers is exactly why people are upset with him. He doesn't need to be some kind of insane absolutist in order for what he said to be very problematic. 2. Even if
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by lukev 9y ago
What am I supposed to have empathy for? That he was paid a six figure salary, part of which required him to sit through a few hours of sensitivity training? And if we're worried about empathy, why don't we stop and think for a whi
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by lukev 9y ago
You probably won't like the tone of this article, but I think you'll find it difficult to argue with it's citation list: https://www.theverge.com/2017/8/16/16153740/tech-diversity-p...
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by lukev 9y ago
That's a strawman. Nobody is saying that Damore thinks every man is a better programmer than every woman. He suggested that on average men are biologically more suited to programming, and the contention of his opponents is that that
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by lukev 9y ago
What? Did we read the same memo? One of his central points is that the representation gap between men and women in technology is due to different biological distributions. From the memo: > I’m simply stating that the distribution of pref
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by lukev 9y ago
I mean, yes, all the issues pointed out here are real problems that I wish they would address. On the other hand, and, more importantly, no! Remember what the world was like before SO? It has been remarkably successful at its stated goal of
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by lukev 9y ago
I just wanted to say thanks for this (and for Codemirror.) I haven't released a product using this yet (although I hope to) but I really want to congratulate you for writing something that focuses on a narrow yet hard problem, that a l
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by lukev 9y ago
...what are you even responding to?
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by lukev 9y ago
Well there are at least two differences: - There are a lot of scientific studies (however dubious, see the original post) about the effects of meditation: there are none about Luminosity. - Meditation has been practiced for millennia with e
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by lukev 9y ago
Yes, I meant acknowledging thoughts as "things" which you can observe, pay attention to or ignore as you will.
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by lukev 9y ago
I normally wouldn't weigh in here, since I am the furthest thing possible from an expert, but after even a little dabbling in meditation I can see some major misconceptions in the other comments. It isn't about being bored, or abo
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by lukev 9y ago
Bitcoin isn't a payment processor. It can't handle the tiniest fraction of Visa's transaction volume natively. Of course you can work around this by having third party payment processors that sit between customers and the raw
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by lukev 10y ago
Everything is about politics. When this affects my co-workers, my neighbors, my friends, my church, this is political. Tech isn't getting involved in politics. Politics got involved with real people.
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by lukev 10y ago
I agree with you. Even setting aside the human rights angle for the sake of argument (and it should NOT be set aside), limitations on the press, of any kind, are a wickedly sharp two-edged sword and can swing back viciously on any would-b
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by lukev 10y ago
Because it doesn't even pretend to serve the truth instead of a particular agenda. "We are the platform of the alt-right" are words Bannon has used, verbatim. This bias is evident in even a cursory analysis of their headlin
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by lukev 10y ago
By "clinton obsession" do you mean the coverage of her email "scandal" more than any other political topic combined? Yeah, that was absolutely a media failure. But the answer is to hold media accountable, not to throw tr
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by lukev 10y ago
But you're doing it again. You're bringing emotion and "us vs them" and "good guys vs bad guys" to what ought to be (as much as possible) an objective analysis of facts.
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by lukev 10y ago
This kind of equivocation is exactly why we're in this mess to begin with. Yeah, the mainstream networks are not perfect. But they're not in the same league as Brietbart, which in turn is not in the same league as a chain-facebook
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by lukev 10y ago
I believe that inclusivity is important. I believe that speech should be moderated to make the tech community more welcoming. Not as a matter of law, but as a matter of civility and culture. I believe that we can and should have a discussio
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by lukev 10y ago
It is an extremely common tactic in online discussions to take violent offense to the least charitable possible interpretation of a post, in order to paint someone you disagree with as an idiot. For example, having read my post, one might
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by lukev 10y ago
I disagree completely. If anything, larger groups need to be more sensitive to context. I can make "offensive" jokes all day with a couple friends over beers, because nobody is going to actually be offended. If I'm speaking a
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by lukev 10y ago
Sigh. What I obviously meant (btw, you should read up on the Principle of Charity [0]) is that banning speech is not the goal, it's a means to an end, and one that society has already largely accepted. Enforcing a certain level of civi

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