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by resters 8y ago
True. There is a risk that she will run for president without having had the time to adapt her views to match one of the dominant political parties.
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by resters 8y ago
Keep in mind that Facebook entered the spotlight only after it was alleged/found that it didn't do enough (in hindsight) to prevent Russian meddling in the 2016 election. What is often overlooked from the analysis is that the curr
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by resters 8y ago
I posted an analysis of this situation the other day which got downvoted harshly. I'd be curious to read any thoughtful rebuttals: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18716646
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by resters 8y ago
I think you are right. Consider the following: Assumptions: 1) Facebook's news feed algorithm is optimized to find viral stories and maximize engagement with them. During the 2016 election, Donald Trump exploited this behavior repeate
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by resters 8y ago
The Judith Miller article had a horrible humanitarian toll. It's definitely not a conspiracy theory or something to joke about.
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by resters 8y ago
I agree.
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by resters 8y ago
> You don't need to make this claim to support the rest of your point. True
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by resters 8y ago
Hackers breaching US Navy contractors tells us one important thing: That the US Navy is not doing adequate due diligence on the firms it allow to be contractors. This story is part of the campaign to present China as an unethical, capable a
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by resters 8y ago
Much like the now disgraced/debunked Judith Miller article helped garner massive support for Bush's Iraq war, this article is meant to support Trump's anti-China rhetoric and trade war. We're supposed to conclude that Tr
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by resters 8y ago
Exactly. Foisting the decision about tipping onto the customer is a major cop out that reduces the convenience of the service.
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by resters 8y ago
Sadly, this will reduce my use of instacart significantly. While PrimeNow has offered Whole Foods delivery, it is only for a small subset of items. And while PrimeNow has been steadily catching up to Instacart, Instacart is still significan
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by resters 8y ago
The article mentions that the US Government has not attributed the hack to China. This step has been done by private security contractor firms who "notice a lot of similarities" with other hacks attributed to China. This is extre
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by resters 8y ago
Criticism of Facebook fall into the following buckets: - Unethical use of UI dark patterns to make users (mostly the young and the elderly) unwittingly over-share. - Unethical design of the news feed algorithm to bias certain kinds of consu
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by resters 8y ago
Maybe you view the word neocon in a more idealistic sense than I do. I agree the horrible policy is bipartisan. Please clarify the nature of your disagreement with my comment. Not sure I fully understand.
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by resters 8y ago
Exactly. The neoconservative ethos does not concern itself with those sorts of side effects. What the US is doing is a form of terrorism. It completely nullifies any inspiring or positive influence that the narratives about the US founding
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by resters 8y ago
The US policy is deeply embarrassing and abjectly cruel. I am so deeply ashamed by how the US treats the people of Iran.
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by resters 8y ago
As an American, I am so ashamed that we did this to your country. The humanitarian toll of US policies is hard to fathom.
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by resters 8y ago
First, congrats. I think your humility comes through in your comment, which is refreshing. The nice thing about money is that you can simply put it into an investment or savings and defer the decision about what to do with it. I recommend
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by resters 8y ago
I think you are buying into two major fallacies and succumbing to one major bias. First, the fallacies: - The fallacy that leaders, even dictators, have anything resembling absolute power or are able to govern without some degree of consens
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by resters 8y ago
> society that is build on foundations that are unethical by American standards. I acknowledge the truth of this point, but I would argue that Google engineers are helping the US Government build a society that is unethical by American s
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by resters 8y ago
> An authoritarian oppressive government that has the support of the majority of the population is still an authoritarian and oppressive government. This is indeed the neoconservative view. An analogous statement by a sectarian neoconser
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by resters 8y ago
I think the post was referring to individual projects, not group dynamics, but your point is certainly true of group situations. Sometimes aspects of the group harm the group's ability to reason or behave rationally. I'd argue tha
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by resters 8y ago
The idea that the will of the Chinese people does not matter OR is not being reflected by the Chinese government's policy. Then the conclusion from this that the Chinese people are victims of their government, or dupes. This is step on
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by resters 8y ago
Exactly. The parent comment underscores the patronizing and disrespectful view of the Chinese people implicit in the anti-Dragonfly rhetoric. It also notes the bias that the Chinese Government is the customer, and the people just hapless vi
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by resters 8y ago
So why not quit over Google’s compliance with FISA warrants? Without drawing some very specific parallels and distinctions, the decision to quit over Dragonfly is mainly a voice of support for neoconservative anti-China warmongers.
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by resters 8y ago
Amateur radio Morse contest
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by resters 8y ago
Makes sense. Ok I’ll be careful.
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by resters 8y ago
Very true. An upvote should mean “this is well put” or “this is interesting” not “go team”.
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by resters 8y ago
Yes. Exactly. I love to refine an approach to the same argument over time, using the points as a guide. This helps the persuasive quality of the argument but also helps refine my own thinking.
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by resters 8y ago
A comment being down voted doesn’t constitute a mistake, usually it’s a case where someone disagrees but lacks the verbal fluency to express why.

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