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by tedks 12y ago
And for HN, the "algorithm" is the subjective judgment of the moderation staff, as witnessed by countless articles on the misogyny in tech (as an example) getting axed from the front page.
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I met a traveller from an antique land Who said:—Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. Near them on the sand, Half sunk, a shatter'd visage lies, whose frown And wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command Tell that its
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by tedks 12y ago
I admit it's far fetched, but to quote the Romans, who benefits? Fabricating evidence seems a bit of a stretch, but hey, we're already believing that a COO can't copy files. I'd say that the most likely explanation is a
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Hey "throwaway", I explicitly pointed out that Uber is as bad as any other company. Where do you think your clothing comes from, a unicorn? No, they come from a child slave in an Indonesian sweatshop. There's no company in th
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I'd probably do that. Give the link to a few friends. It's pretty harmless, sort of an automatic snapchat. It'd definitely make me more conscious of when I'm being watched by my webcam, and I'd definitely want to ha
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by tedks 12y ago
I think at this point, it's clear to me that Lyft is the one with poor ethics. I would literally never have heard of Lyft without all of their accusations against Über. Über is trying to poach drivers; Über is getting our C-level guys
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This is the sort of arrogance that creates and bursts bubbles. I hope you can learn to live sustainably and in harmony with nature and your own soul before it's too late.
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Home Depot existed long before software. It'll exist long after software, too. Remember that we live in a bubble.
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I think saying it will definitely happen is pretty widely accepted within social psychology. This is called group polarization, and it's the default state that you'll hit without very, very involved countermeasures: https:/&
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It is possible to become better calibrated for long-term predictions. This takes a longer amount of time, but is still doable. It's an intuitive process, and the way I do it relies on discovering the true probabilities associated with
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>Congress continuing to fund the NSA is the legal basis for their existence. According to the rulebook, the Constitution trumps any and all laws Congress makes, and any unconstitutional law is unconstitutional from the moment it hits the
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Why should they? If the FreeBSD project wanted code to be given back, they would have used the GPL. It's Sony's right as a corporate person to take BSD-licensed code and profit from it without any sort of "giving back."
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White people love to talk about South Africa. But white people had fuck-all to do with South Africa. The thing that stopped Apartheid wasn't a boycott, it was sustained armed and unarmed struggle on behalf of the black majority in Sout
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by tedks 12y ago
You can look at my post history and see I'm totally comfortable with getting downvoted. Downvotes or upvotes don't make me right or wrong, though. I'm actually totally shocked that comment is above negative right now. But it
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I'm so surprised I fell over.
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We need a Butlerian Jihad against surveillance. You know what will never stop this? Posts on hacker news. Letters to your congressman (LG can donate a fuqton more to his re-election campaign than you can). Voting with your dollar (people wh
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>which goes to show citation is not an accurate measure of scientific impact because it is equivalent of citing "Git/compiler/IDE" for a software project. The key difference is that BLAST is not a commodity, or at lea
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I didn't attend a liberal arts college, but that was my experience in the liberal arts classes I took. Independent research is irrelevant; the patterns of argument used are rarely novel. I don't disagree that liberal arts colleges
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>Visit virtually any liberal arts college in the US and you'll find a place where the professors value teaching critical thinking and communication skills. The difference between Minerva and this is that at Minerva, it seems like th
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by tedks 12y ago
So, you're against "government control," but you support government control of abortion, state-sanctioned persecution queer people, and government control of movement across borders? Let me guess: You're a white heterose
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2018: Google Health Scanner begins operation in selected pilot cities. Lines wrap around the block as people try to make it in while it's still free (even though the crowd is exclusively composed of people who could certainly afford it
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Bet you could make a lot of people vegetarian by banning slaughterhouses. That's what 4chan is. It's a memetic slaughterhouse.
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As someone inside academic science, I think the only good thing it does is give people a place to think for a few years with relatively few distractions before they can go into industry or form a startup and actually get things done. If y
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>It was my understanding that most harassment and abuse is about dominance of the mind rather than physical. It's not about exercising entitlement, it's about establishing ownership. Subtle, but different. Well, yes, abuse is a
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...you can't downvote posts. I flagged it, which is similar. I came to the comments to see why it was posted, and responded to the comment I did to elucidate the viewpoint of people who don't like this being posted. Why comment at
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I'm not going to click that link, I'm sorry. I don't know what perverse topic /ck/ pertains to but there's no way it'd be good for me. It's a fact that 4chan is directly related to harassment and mass
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Typically the space telescopes and medical devices articles are related to startups. Those are okay. Startups and tech, that's the bread and butter of hacker news. Anything else is just weird and I don't see why anyone would post
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>but, really, isn't life a little more interesting when things don't always go according to script, e.g. not every post on HN is another "Powder and Diaper Your Baby with Rust"-esque post? If I wanted to read about ra
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Aeon is overtly anti-scientific in all the articles from it I've read. The trend tends to be to take something scientific, like cognitive biases or the Milgram experiments, use some postmodernist device like Freudian literary criticism
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>When this approach inevitably fails, then this same "societal pressure" will be parlayed into the new common wisdom of outright censorship of the Internet. I don't think it's possible to say that social pressure, or

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