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by shadowfox 6y ago
> Yep, we’re all rich racist WASPs. Hmm. That was a strange, but interesting jump indeed. > A direct link is tenuous That could be.
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by shadowfox 6y ago
> I guess the 'bias and inequality in AI' is less striking a cord for the HN crowd than 'fair business practices' That is interesting. I wonder if it indicates something about the demographics of HN.
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by shadowfox 6y ago
PG"s essays are not exactly known for the latter.
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by shadowfox 6y ago
Whether he was justified or not, I think the point OP was making was that it is still a political decision.
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by shadowfox 6y ago
> Instead the messaging should focus solely on the fact that they protect others from the infection carried (likely without knowledge) by the wearer, and that people without symptoms can be contagious. Given the prevailing attitude towar
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by shadowfox 6y ago
> GTD is not about getting things done; it’s about being engaged appropriately in your life It seems awkward to have to explain that "Getting things done" is not about getting things done :P
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by shadowfox 6y ago
I mean it can also be used as a universal, semi-permenant activity tracking id with almost no work, which may not be desirable depending on your feelings wrt privacy. Maybe an ability to generate virtual IDs based on a permanent id (like wi
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by shadowfox 6y ago
> Can you guess what the most common methodology people chose was? > Did you guess an XML document? If that is your most common experience with asking that question, maybe it is time you consider whether you are communicating what y
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by shadowfox 6y ago
Not the OP, but it is interesting that the US criminal law is so state dependent. Out of curiosity: do you have reason to believe that the sentencing disparity is better when considering states?
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by shadowfox 6y ago
> Ah but universal cynicism and nihilism is also a form of control. When the very idea of objective truth has been destroyed, this makes the job of authoritarians easier, not harder. Universal cynicism and nihilism may function that way.
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by shadowfox 6y ago
> he set back computing by 50 years No opinion on Chomsky's politics. But that quote definitely needs some substantiation. Personally, I don't see how anyone , has managed to set back computing by 50 years.
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by shadowfox 6y ago
> It makes no sense that 50+ states and territories have 50+ systems for the DMV, business registration, taxes, etc. when the basic functionality is most likely the same across all of them. While this is likely true, this being the US, y
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by shadowfox 6y ago
> Wikipedia isn't a reliable source anymore. They seems to have become a Islamist and left propaganda machine I do think that needs some stronger sourcing. It is one thing to argue that certain wiki articles have some bias or the ot
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by shadowfox 6y ago
> If I will be having to deal with those quirks anyway, then the guide is helpful That assumes that the guide is frank and truthful. Unfortunately this is, in my experience, rarely the case. There is strong incentive to use this as a PR
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by shadowfox 6y ago
> Being POC doesn't make you any more or less right That is obviously true. However when someone is describing thier personal experience , that context is quite useful, which was clearly what was going on in the original comment.
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by shadowfox 6y ago
It is not a FAANG, by definition :)
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by shadowfox 6y ago
> if within the first week you can learn enough to form some opinions, you now have some ideas to test against and disprove Interestingly there is some evidence that this might lead to anchoring bias related issues. I am not sure what w
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by shadowfox 6y ago
> used to A very large number of people still do, even here.
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by shadowfox 6y ago
I second micro. It has become my default console editor on both Windows and Linux for quick editing tasks.
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by shadowfox 6y ago
I doubt that would satisfy the ego of most regular Americans, to say nothing about the leadership. Exceptionalism is very deeply ingrained here.
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by shadowfox 6y ago
> IBM and Yahoo radically curtailed their WFH policies, and they made (what seemed to me to be) pretty credible arguments that the policies were being abused While it is possible that they were correct, both companies, but especially Yah
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by shadowfox 6y ago
The new PowerToys [1] are interesting too, though somewhat different in scope from the old ones. [1] https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys
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by shadowfox 6y ago
> Fair enough, so not capitalism, not communism. > What political system might be capable of meeting these requirements? Capitalism isn't really a political system, even though people seem to elevate it to one. Different politica
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by shadowfox 6y ago
That would have been useful. In the meanwhile there is gsudo [1]. [1] https://github.com/gerardog/gsudo
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by shadowfox 6y ago
This is a great advice. Do you know of any publicly accessible design documents that you would consider good (to serve as An example)?
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by shadowfox 6y ago
> Even if I could live forever, I'd never reach von Neumann's intelligence Forever is a long time ...
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by shadowfox 6y ago
An alternative is Scoop [1], which personally I find more convenient. [1] https://scoop.sh/
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by shadowfox 7y ago
> Society would be better off if we avoid appeal to authority and instead focus on evidence-based decision-making While this sounds awesome in isolation (and is perhaps even a goal to aim for), I am in two minds about the reality of it.
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by shadowfox 7y ago
You may well be talking about different kinds of math here. Most of what functional programmers / theorists tend to care about are from sub-fields like logic, abstract algebra and the like. The "real mathematicians" that you
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by shadowfox 7y ago
To add to what others have said: Kotlin is a language that does path sensitive (re-)typing of variables. This is often very convenient in the presence of OO-style polymorphism or in cases where the language supports ad-hoc unions. Personall

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