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by sinxoveretothex 11y ago
I had a hearthy chuckle when learning about Android's Log class: the highest level of importance for a message is WTF. Documented as What a Terrible Failure.
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by sinxoveretothex 11y ago
I can't tell if you're being serious or facetious. A given moral rule doesn't change because it's held by you versus someone else. Just like it makes no sense to refuse to answer the question of whether a fruit is an app
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by sinxoveretothex 11y ago
I said that sinxoveretothex_atThatTime was wrong. The reason I dismissed the product then was because of the aesthetics. The same reason that my parent commenter pointed to to suggest holoportation wouldn't work. I gave the example of
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by sinxoveretothex 11y ago
> The other thing that wasn't so evident by this video is that everyone you were taking to would have to be wearing Hololenses, so it will still be a bit awkward. I remember seeing the guy who invented the selfie stick present it to
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by sinxoveretothex 11y ago
'Convincing A' is a different thing than 'convincing you' and different approaches will achieve the one or the other. Then again, the article notes that in a majority of cases, the OP wasn't convinced, so there&#x27
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by sinxoveretothex 11y ago
It could also be that people don't change their views instantly. It has certainly been my experience that changing important views takes time. The idea(s) have to kind of coalesce in my mind before I accept them fully. Sort of a Kübler
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by sinxoveretothex 11y ago
Some would consider themselves payed in full in the fact that their environment is clean. Less taxes being used to clean the streets or wherever people's 'dumpsite' is, if you prefer.
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by sinxoveretothex 11y ago
I don't have an analogical example in mind, but I think that often-times, what happens when a revolution gets past a hurdle like automation vs maintenance, is that the hurdle gets worked around. In this case, I think that, to a large e
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by sinxoveretothex 11y ago
How would we judge that? Per Wikipedia, Stallman wrote the GPLv1 in 1989. I wasn't even born then. Moreover, I doubt this is a good argument. Would the Mill (youtube.com/watch?v=QyzlEYspqTI) be possible using Free Software (consid
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by sinxoveretothex 11y ago
Yes you did say actions in that last post. I'm fairly certain your flagged post argued for "coming down hard" on people advocating for certain things rather than doing things. I'm fairly sure, given the tone, that I woul
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by sinxoveretothex 11y ago
Dell abandoned Openstack in May 2013? Better tell ComputerWorldUK then, they seem out of date by 9 months because they linked me to this story from December 2013: http://www.computerworlduk.com/news/it-vendors/dell
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by sinxoveretothex 11y ago
> It said bad actions shouldn't be tolerated. What do you mean by not tolerating if not stifling? If you look at the Mizzou and Yale things, stifling is exactly the right word: "we're just walking forward", "we
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by sinxoveretothex 11y ago
Hmm, I thought thinking about my initial question would be enough to see my point from your perspective. Maybe it is. You were, in your now flagged comment, arguing for stifling (or censoring if you prefer) people who, you believe, hold th
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by sinxoveretothex 11y ago
The cases you give are good examples of places where technology was harnessed to solve social problems. But it is possible to not "care" about these issues: either by working on solutions to other problems or by focusing only on m
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by sinxoveretothex 11y ago
I love material that so profoundly affect my thinking like this one did (last time was probably being introduced to LessWrong). I can't thank you enough for linking this.
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by sinxoveretothex 11y ago
Suppose that everyone in the world (except Jews perhaps) believed that it WERE OK for them not to have property rights, then what would protect their property rights? The truth is that what is right is decided by how well the arguments for
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by sinxoveretothex 11y ago
Why is it necessary to "come down hard" on people who express morally wreak (or even stupid) viewpoints? Surely, putting forth a better argument or, at least, ignoring them is a far more morally superior response than suppressing
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by sinxoveretothex 11y ago
I think that the "association" in "Freedom of association" means the right to get with people (associate as in form a group). The "association" that you speak of is a different concept: figurative association (
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by sinxoveretothex 11y ago
> And right now, you are not focussing on technology, but on gender issues. So you're a hypocrite. You care enough about gender to voice an opinion, but only to lash out at others who dare to have an opinion? When two unrelated fiel
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by sinxoveretothex 11y ago
This distaste is unsurprising. Research has concluded (see this popular science article about it http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2013-09/why-were-shutt... ) that polarized opinions do affect how strongly
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by sinxoveretothex 11y ago
Slightly tangential, but I wish this blog would date its posts. Reading "If you're starting a brand-new application today, there are plenty of valid reasons to write it in 2 instead of 3. There will be for a long time." on th
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by sinxoveretothex 11y ago
I do not look forward to advertisements using this technology.
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by sinxoveretothex 11y ago
There's a finite population that a single planet can hold, so there will have to be some form of population control eventually. Now, why the heck would you (the farmer entrepreneur) care about what the government does with the taxes it
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by sinxoveretothex 11y ago
Well, if your view on work is that we shouldn't make processes more efficient if it means taking jobs away, how about this: automate work and then pay people to dig a hole and fill it, paying them with the profits from the automation.
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by sinxoveretothex 11y ago
For whatever it's worth, there are owners on the Tesla motors subreddit who say they have issues and that Tesla won't fix because they are out of warranty. One guy was over the mileage too (I don't remember the amount but it
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by sinxoveretothex 11y ago
[Same poster as ohhimark, had forgotten my password] Maybe so, but what I mean is that I (and presumably the people she is writing this for) are not black women. They're not indians, asians and many other things too of course (which is
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by sinxoveretothex 11y ago
Would you care to expand on this one? It seems to me that stock price is correlated with more money: if I have X stock options worth Y dollars each, I effectively have X*Y dollars worth of stock. If stock price increase by 1 dollars, I have
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by sinxoveretothex 11y ago
I don't know why I couldn't reply to your comment 4 children down but oh well. I don't understand how what you say is somehow a case for fossil fuel more so than a case for energy use. That is: why is the rise of a country&#x