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by ouid 5y ago
reddit is not a paragon here
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by ouid 5y ago
>"It should be easy for the office to provide a vastly superior working environment to the home" There are a number of reasons why this argument doesn't make any sense -commutes are expensive, and time consuming. -surveill
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by ouid 5y ago
I think the wholesale abolition of identity is probably too unpopular to be viable, and that the goal is accomplished with a sufficient reduction of identity. What counts as sufficient is anyone's guess, and probably too important to b
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by ouid 5y ago
Instead of talking about the dangers of anonymity, I think we need to reframe the argument in terms of the dangers of social credit score. I don't mean dangers from authoritarians, of course. Everyone understands how the Chinese system
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by ouid 5y ago
Tangent ahead. There's the sort of folksy saying "Don't argue with an idiot, they'll bring you down to their level and beat you with experience" (often attributed to Mark Twain, so I'm leaving it anonymous), an
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by ouid 5y ago
this is not a reasonable use of the word representative. Humans generalize from small amounts of data, even as little as zero.
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by ouid 5y ago
The idea that people are simultaneously intelligent enough to understand the somewhat nuanced argument that nuclear power is safe, but also so stupid that "2 million lives saved" makes more sense to them than just a number of QALY
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by ouid 5y ago
>making it the fastest moving object on earth at that point. Wait'll they hear about what those folks at CERN are doing.
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by ouid 5y ago
All you need are the S and K combinators.
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by ouid 5y ago
What the market has produced is not ipso facto what the people want. The market is simultaneously optimizing many things. Walled gardens are much better explained by companies benefitting from not having to allow their competitors access to
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by ouid 5y ago
Imagine being Rick Astley, who is not the rights holder
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by ouid 5y ago
the modern phenomenon being proposed, i assume, is that of more jobs requiring more education.
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by ouid 5y ago
Choosing a random float doesn't mean very much without a distribution.
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by ouid 5y ago
If you're being served ads on the internet, just install ublock origin.
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by ouid 5y ago
The purpose of education should not be the attainment of credentials, but rather the attainment of the ability to "do a leetcode interview". Institutions being given license to grant credentials is a more or less completely separa
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by ouid 5y ago
damn it, i live in oregon and california
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by ouid 5y ago
>but I don't think this article is that I feel like we might have read different articles.
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by ouid 5y ago
Anything that is capable of negotiating on behalf of society in the case of a transaction that produces externalities is going to be indistinguishable from a government. If you're arguing that no one should advocate for society's
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by ouid 5y ago
The lesson here is to intentionally use an older version of firefox.
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by ouid 5y ago
You're not getting my point here. People are physical proof checkers. Proof is the language of mathematics. The language is not the content.
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by ouid 5y ago
Big Pharma derives its oligopoly from the barriers to entry that the FDA imposes. Presumably they take every opportunity to lobby for more rigorous extensive testing. Not because they want to pay more to run tests, but because they want t
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by ouid 5y ago
Stop calling it greed. It's corruption and regulatory capture. Both of these, unlike greed, are problems that can be solved.
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by ouid 5y ago
Probably, yes. A warehouse is basically just a costco that you aren't willing to sell things out of. Why wouldn't you just make a new location?
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by ouid 5y ago
The market does not price in externalities. That's why they call them that. Nuclear has significantly cheaper externalities than fossil fuels. You should prefer it, and subsidize it in kind.
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by ouid 5y ago
Ok, but you should be a little bent out of shape that your PC can't run switch games.
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by ouid 5y ago
Fortunately, I wasn't arguing "it's a turing machine". I'm arguing that a switch is a quite powerful computer that has been crippled by its software to do less. Much less. The result of this is the thing that you th
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by ouid 5y ago
The switch runs extremely general software. Drawing a parallel between it and a ti84 is extremely disingenuous. The smart TV is basically just a worse version of a monitor with a very cheap computer attached. The peloton is a BIKE.
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by ouid 5y ago
I don't know really how to argue this here, but there is no such thing as a switch. It's a general purpose computer, implemented on a very specific set of hardware, restricted in its use by software whose only purpose is to mainta
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by ouid 5y ago
Not the formalization, because it isn't formalized, but definitely the consolidation, and the emphasis on linking all of your accounts. For my own part, I have deleted every reddit account that I have ever made in which I felt that I h
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by ouid 5y ago
I'm not sure that subscription fees are the panacaea to the proliferation of PR instead of journalism that you seem to think. When you had to pay for newspapers, they still had ads in them.

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