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by shrimpx 5y ago
Prior to Trump getting banned, an outrage was mounting over Facebook/Twitter banning all kinds of content that was seen as far less dangerous, yet continuing to enable what was seen as extremely dangerous content from Trump. It was out
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Not really. There's a gradient of entrenchment. Your example doesn't work at all if we're talking about deeply-entrenched/natural-monopoly products like electricity or internet access instead of a trivially-switchable pr
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It's an honorable call but most people can't follow it -- like my dad. They're too entrenched. It's not reasonable, in a connected world-system like today's, to put all the burden on individual people to instantly s
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The difference is that gmail isn't publicly serving your emails to an open audience. The restrictions on Drive are only for publicly-served content.
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The temperature of the laptop is an accurate enough replacement for fan noise (if you use it normally, not in clamshell mode). I notice that I've become far more sensitive to subtle temperature changes in my M1 than I used to be in pri
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by shrimpx 5y ago
How do you propose to achieve freedom of speech, in order to have a democracy on top? What prior-to-democracy system would lead toward that free speech? Or do you believe free speech exists by itself in nature, prior to any system?
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Joe Biden has dementia?
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You can be skeptical about the vaccine, and fringe theories are normal and some are legitimate. It’s fully normal to be skeptical because you don’t have all the facts. But look at what Tucker Carlson is doing, as one example. He asserts out
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That’s not a reasonable position. In the limit that implies that you treat everyone as the enemy. Isolate in your own protected world, because you might get duped or harmed any minute now. That to me is a shitty world I don’t want to live i
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I don’t know about you, but any social group I’ve been part of has had its boundaries beyond which some speech and behavior becomes unacceptable and has consequences. What kind of social groups are you part of where all speech, including li
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What I’m seeing is a disintegration of the narrative, with a relatively small group of disinformation plutocrats bombarding minds at scale with conflicting positions. A compassionate view of humanity would say that humans are basically acce
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This seems like a “throw the baby out with the bath water” situation in both directions: Censorship, like you note, can be used for evil to suppress anything you disagree with and drive your narrative. But unbridled amplified speech opens t
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I don’t think that’s possible because I don’t think there’s any aspect of the runtime type checker that descends into complex type structures. It just checks if runtime type tags match when you invoke an operator, or that an attribute exist
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Sounds like the deliverables KPI is fantastic.
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Isn’t this true about all systems, not just “AI”? The definition of a software bug is an unintended behavior. In a large system, myriad intents overlap and combine in unexpected ways. You might imagine a complex enough system where the conf
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Where’s the dualism? It sounds like just a peculiar definition of learning.
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Reminds me of the movie Antitrust (2001), where an evil company, modeled after Microsoft, is surveilling programmers to steal their code.
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The USDS should work on stuff like this. https://www.usds.gov
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I think this is because "tech" is quickly becoming a business utility, and every company is becoming a "tech company" just by augmenting its business with an app stack. "Tech" has become watered-down by prolife
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When we speak of centrism in terms of political parties, the implicit false assumption in some of this discussion is that Trumpism is a legitimate political position. These days when we talk about "the right" we largely mean Trump
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I don't mind that kind of bias, if your 2x2 matrix was right -- that each of them reports everything good about their side and everything bad about the other side. If that were true, you could sum them up and have a pretty balanced tot
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I used to ride thin-tire road bikes but a year ago I bought a Mercier Kilo WT (WT is for "wide tire") which is a light road frame with a fork that allows beefy gravel tires. I don't think I'll go back to thin-tire road b
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But even a block is syntactically just a list of statements.
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This is what happens to every umbrella term that covers a hodge podge of broad ideas and patterns. Nobody knows what OOP is because it’s a bullet list of a dozen concepts that varies with which OOP guru you ask. Similarly, REST is a long li
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You and the article author basically agree but you insist that you can just say “hey let’s just get over it, guys!” instead of deconstructing it. But the root of the problem is a fundamental misunderstanding. It doesn’t work to just get ove
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The members of this board and the people who run YC don’t have much in common in terms of priories.
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Early coinbase stock holders have been eagerly cashing out. Their lack of confidence has been in the news.
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But crypto clones are much easier to create and have adopted than a company with real infra. The phenomenon of “this coin is too expensive let’s buy this new one hoping it’ll moon” is very real in crypto and encourages the creation of clone
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The comparison to SPY is unfair since it’s so diversified. A comparison to a correlated sector of stocks — like EV stocks, which can dip 10-25% in a week in unison — would be more fair.
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It’s similar to academic writing in single author papers. Generally you’d use “we” but specify “I” in cases where you’re emphasizing a personal choice. Also, “we” is often broad enough to include the reader, too.

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