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by md224 13y ago
> This is crazy, intellectually debilitating blabber. Would you care to elaborate on what's crazy and intellectually debilitating about the sentence you quoted? I know people that would agree completely with that sentence, so I&#x27
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by md224 13y ago
I think the key to understanding Arrington's perspective here is to look at this sentence: "And I certainly don’t see people giving out their Google+ names on the cable news networks and other TV shows." My guess is that Arri
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by md224 13y ago
But what if the failure rate for those who do try is 99%? Trying isn't always zero-risk... I wonder if ambition could be subject to a cost/benefit analysis, haha. At some point I suppose you just have to let go of the numbers.
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by md224 13y ago
I've been kind of struggling lately with this sort of inspirational attitude. It seems like a good attitude, but it also comes with this hidden assumption: if you try hard and keep at it, there's a good chance you'll succeed.
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by md224 13y ago
Another important aspect is whether or not the belief in these theories is justified , regardless of whether or not they turn out to be true. This kind of relates to the Gettier problem in epistemology, where one may "know" somet
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by md224 13y ago
That's a nice aphorism, but it's too vague; obviously we wouldn't condone artists breaking rules against child abuse or murder. Figuring out where to draw the line is the hard part. One could argue that if an artist breaks a
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by md224 13y ago
I agree completely; my nihilistic viewpoint was not meant to suggest inaction. Rather, my point was that we cannot use "ensuring the continued existence of life" as the sole justification for potentially oppressive structures of p
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by md224 13y ago
> Why is spreading life beyond earth so important? Because without doing that, in the long run, life will end. Why is that? Which existential threat are you referring to? Overpopulation? The sun's transition into a red giant? (Not t
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by md224 13y ago
I haven't read a lot of his stuff (although what I have read/heard I mostly respect), but I'm not super comfortable with how he just waltzes over the is/ought divide. But this brings up a larger issue: where do we draw
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by md224 13y ago
Then why not show the best shopping websites, rather than ads for shopping websites?
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by md224 13y ago
> 'Ranking' on Google is very much a pay to play kind of thing these days with their page layout Could you expand on this? Are you referring to how AdWords content is visually privileged over organic search results?
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by md224 13y ago
Do you believe it could be explained eventually by future discoveries utilizing the scientific method? This is, by the way, the major weakness with Physicalism as an ontology; the scientific method is a great methodology, but it would be fo
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by md224 13y ago
Yeah I was actually considering that as well, in terms of how information evolves. Whatever is best at spreading will spread.
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> In summary, the idea is to give all of the information to help others to judge the value of your contribution; not just the information that leads to judgement in one particular direction or another. Sometimes I think if we could exten
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by md224 13y ago
That's fair. I realize that bid amount is just one factor among a few, but I suppose my concern stems from the fact that there is a positive correlation between bid price and ad ranking at all . To put it another way: increasing bid p
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by md224 13y ago
Honest question: how do you rationalize the influence of bid amount on AdWords ad positioning? In other words, if two companies buy ad space, and one of the ads has a slightly lower quality score but a much higher bid price, it will be plac
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Bay Watched: How San Francisco’s Entrepreneurial Culture Is Changing the Country(newyorker.com)
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by md224 13y ago
Is artificially modifying one's self ipso facto a bad thing? What's your basis for this claim?
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That's fair, but I found this portion of Gladwell's response interesting: > Chabris does not like this study. He thinks it involved too few subjects and that its findings were not replicated by a subsequent study. Alter and Opp
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by md224 13y ago
I'm not so sure... I assume you're referring to this line: Return host, serialized, ":", and port concatenated. ...except if the port is an empty string, the process will terminate one step sooner: If port
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by md224 13y ago
> I mean, seriously. FBI? What do they have to do with this? I think you might've misread "FB"...
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by md224 13y ago
I think it's political because it reduces the debate over healthcare policy to a caricature. I lean left (hell, I voted for the Green Party in the last presidential election) but even I don't believe that every Republican is twirl
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by md224 13y ago
Do you support the sale of digital content in general? If so, isn't there a moral issue in allowing one person to have for free what another person had to pay for? (Unless you're implementing some kind of "pay what you can af
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by md224 13y ago
> nothing of any worth is obtained by any means except for good old honest hard work This sounds nice as a slogan on a motivational poster, but is it actually true? On the one hand, I sort of understand what he's trying to say: many
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by md224 13y ago
It's pretty simple: graph.facebook.com/[integer]/picture?type=large
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Google+ May Finally Matter Thanks To YouTube Comments(techcrunch.com)
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by md224 13y ago
While I agree that naive technological utopianism is worrisome and we need to be discussing the social/psychological impact of our inventions, I can't say I would draw an equivalence between Twitter and something like cigarettes..
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by md224 13y ago
"And yet I see no solution to this problem." Dustin's problem is similar in some respects to an addiction (which he alludes to), so perhaps the solution is treating it as such; forcing moderation on himself, or even complete
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by md224 13y ago
It's not exactly 140 character chunks spread out over time, but perhaps this comes close: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wittgenstein's_Mistress
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I grew up wearing "dorky" glasses, switched to vertically narrower frames, and now wear a pair of Warby Parker retro-ish glasses ( http://bit.ly/1btLNTC for reference). So as someone who's been on both sides,

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