scotttobejoking

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by scotttobejoking 13y ago
This one is a bit of a puff piece... Workers work harder in a recession. No big surprise. But I fail to see a clear link between a recession and "punishment or pampering". The one is a general climate which makes you value your
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by scotttobejoking 13y ago
Actually the bug 'breach' in the article is not the breach I was thinking about. It's a bad breach but it's a separate issue to me. For me the issue lies in how Facebook communicates. (Fair disclosure, it's been a
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by scotttobejoking 13y ago
>>Then you need to ban gossip as well. That's precisely the thing - effective society does ban gossip. Sure, it doesn't get rid of it 100%, but it recognizes it as a harmful thing and stigmatizes it. It does not meekly a
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by scotttobejoking 13y ago
You're right that if a friend shares personal information we would rather be kept generally private, our friend is responsible for the privacy breach. But the person they share with can also be guilty. Using a binary distinction (priva
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by scotttobejoking 14y ago
Citing one example of where cleverness was more effective than kindness falls far short of proving the statement that it is never more important to be kind than clever; you might want to tone down its sensationalist tone. A single counterex
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by scotttobejoking 14y ago
As they describe in the page, when you describe something, you are trying to place it within a general framework. In trying to describe a domain in an encyclopedia, it does little good to use language specific to the domain. If your reader
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by scotttobejoking 14y ago
I wouldn't say that library size is only tangentially relevant. After, all, if we all had small libraries, we wouldn't be worried about them as a valuable part of our estate, would we? You're right, digital media bring all kinds of convenie
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by scotttobejoking 14y ago
Classic first world problem, right here... Oh no - I have so much music that a physical storage model doesn't scale - in fact, I have so. much. music. that I can't afford to own it in physical media! I can only afford to license it for my l
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by scotttobejoking 14y ago
I don't think you properly take into account some of the internet factors that actually make a higher proportion of mobbish vigilantes: 1 - Visibility, which you yourself mention. We get to see injustices that we would never see before. Als
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by scotttobejoking 14y ago
The good reason is that that would be trying to present a technical solution to what is a personal conflict of interest. The basic problem is that people's stories are competing for eyeballs - a personal conflict - and that people are not s