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by maest 6y ago
> How does Facebook's long-term health look, 10 years from now, if it hastens the polarization and anti-intellectualism of society? Arguably, the PM doesn't care since they have short term targets the want to hit and they might
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by maest 6y ago
That's an interesting thought, for sure. I should point out that this doesn't only apply to facebook, but other large discussion forums as well: reddit, 4chan, tumblr, twitter etc.
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by maest 6y ago
Her gender does seem to cause divisiveness, but it affects both sides of the debate. _Anyone_ who criticises anything in articles coming from these domains is downvoted and _all_ arguments are hand waved away on the grounds that they'r
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by maest 6y ago
It's hard to argue that "remote devs" are a protected group.
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by maest 6y ago
Hi, quick question - do you think stalking and harassing moderators will get me unbanned?
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by maest 6y ago
Please don't.
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by maest 6y ago
I'm having a hard time understanding why this is controversial. Can someone with a dissenting opinion chime in? I'm curious what the other side of the argument sounds like.
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by maest 6y ago
Besides being kinda flippant, I don't see how this aids the discussion in any way.
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by maest 6y ago
In this case, the article dissmisively advises that you "stop reading and go back to scrolling Facebook". Sick burn from the author!
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by maest 6y ago
Is Conservapedia satire? > Ciaramella, who has been derided by critics as a beta male, is represented by kiddie-porn lawyer Mark Zaid. Regardless of political leaning, you can't take anything like this seriously, surely.
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by maest 6y ago
That sentence is so extreme and definitive that it's most likely provably false. Separately, opinion polls show that plenty of people support the current US president, so, regardless if their lives have been "improved" (whate
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by maest 6y ago
I don't think anyone is saying the code can't be better or even that the results might be wrong (I don't know as I haven't spent much time going through the codebase). My meta point is that people are: 1. pressuring and
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by maest 6y ago
Some of the commenters in that issue have a very regressive and myopic stance. Raising such a public ruckus will heavily disincentivise scientists from publishing their code in the future. Decisions will still be made, but in the dark. Ther
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by maest 6y ago
They probably mean from a user perspective. Most users don't care about the value of the data.
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by maest 6y ago
Bigger than Bing?
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by maest 6y ago
A lot of good series have this "open sandbox" format where the context of the show is just a vessel for whatever story the writer wants to tell. Examples: * Star Trek Holodeck * The various worlds in Sliders * The infinite worlds
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by maest 6y ago
r/hailcorporate is full of examples, although beware: 1. Users on that subreddit can be quite paranoid 2. You'll become paranoid yourself if you spend enough time on that subreddit.
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by maest 6y ago
Youre confused because you're not using Chrome on OSX: on osx there's no "Proceed to <website>" option.
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by maest 6y ago
> calmly contemplating a system until you get to a point where the next right decision reveals itself. I think I am not getting it because that just sounds like thinking about things and designing stuff. I mean, sometimes, I focus on get
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by maest 6y ago
I think strawmaning each other won't lead to any useful discussion.
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by maest 6y ago
You're arguing for taking out loans to invest in the stock market, which sounds irresponsible to me.
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by maest 6y ago
Is there any data on where wealth increase has come from for those people? e.g. started own business, vs savings + stock market, vs investing in real estate.
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by maest 6y ago
What new information do you think will become available in one year's time to make it obvious that this was an over-reaction? If it's about total number of deaths - we know that know and even if the number is lower, it means the l
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by maest 6y ago
Hello fellow Baltic Sea inhabitant .
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by maest 6y ago
Python's date handling is meh. Some languages have dates as first class primitives and are a dream to work with.
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by maest 6y ago
Be wary of survivorship bias. Not everyone that focuses on the process makes lots of money. However, some of the people that make lots of money do it as a byproduct of focusing on the process. We're all familiar with the stereotype of
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by maest 6y ago
> Taught me the logical impossibility of the stock market to go up by x% per year, forever. I mean, it's just a number, at ofc it can go up x% every year. For example, consider the case where the currency gets aggressively devalued.
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by maest 6y ago
There is a name for what you are saying: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nirvana_fallacy Alternatively, "perfect is the enemy of good".
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by maest 6y ago
FWIW, my stance is that there is way too little information to draw any conclusion with sufficient conviction. This is a highly politicised issue so the bar for proving something is, imo, higher. The post I was replying too had high convict
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by maest 6y ago
Related to this - is there a way to have a similar rich-styling library designed for email outputs? I have some daily reports generated by a python script via cron. The script currently outputs plaintext and the email just adds <pre>

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