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by tedks 13y ago
This is very true! But that doesn't make it right. Life usually has objective victory conditions. Even if you're playing by your own rules, the rules tend to be objective, because humans tend to care about the real world, not what
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by tedks 13y ago
This app exists, it's called Buycott: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.buycott.an...
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by tedks 13y ago
>What isn't always obvious is the ways that new abuses are being perpetrated, but once that reaches a certain level then the threshold for action is crossed, and new safeguards can be implemented. Why do you assume that the novel ab
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Good luck starting a union if all the union organizers are fired as soon as management finds out they're unionizing. Good luck starting new companies without any access to capital. Good luck finding a new job in a labor market like tod
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by tedks 13y ago
Stoicism seems like it would be relevant to a Roman. If you had no air conditioning and very little good things, being stoic would probably make you pretty happy. We're not in ancient Rome anymore. I don't see any reason for moder
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>Moral of the story: don't be so quick to condemn the old ways of family life. They have survived for millenia, and will continue to do so long after we're gone. Humans existed for tens of thousands of years without doing anyth
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by tedks 13y ago
That depends on the advertising you decide to accept as valid; I'm sure none of my Christian friends would agree with you, assuming I could explain the scenario to them.
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Or because the expected cost-benefit of a protracted legal battle might be negative. The legal system is not the only possible recourse for settling disputes or grievances.
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So what clothes do you wear?
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Why not? Are people in the west somehow worth more than people in "developing nations"? (Besides their dollar value, obviously.) If you're willing to condemn a Honduran to sweatshops, but not an American, that says something
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Looks like the comment-parent isn't a native english speaker; a lot probably got lost in translation.
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>Yes, because companies shouldn't have to work their employees to the bone to extract value from them. A long time ago, we decided that it's cruel, and created labor laws. Where have you been? Who is 'we'? You're
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by tedks 13y ago
This is exactly why God doesn't approve of a networking stack. Wake up, sheeple.
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Theoretical computer science is much like mathematics. But virtually no other area in computer science is, even slightly. If you look at computer science papers in machine learning, systems, human-computer interaction, networking, robotics,
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by tedks 13y ago
Oh no, I'm well aware of those -- but academic computer science is even worse! It's very new to have artifact evaluation at all, meaning almost any published result that represents an evaluation of a system (as opposed to somethin
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by tedks 13y ago
As someone with personal experience inside academic psychology and academic computer science, it's my impression that psychology is far stronger as a field, having a much more rigorous community dedicated to scientific truth, and exhau
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by tedks 13y ago
It's hardly new; people had commonplace books in the 1600's. I think QS is probably more popular in communities like hacker news because there are a lot of people here that understand: 1. Computers think faster than you 2. Compute
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...so basically no. Soylent was vegan from day one, in comparison. This is a definite advantage of engineered food -- you're not stuck in the past pulling embryos out of birds living in torture conditions.
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I really like this idea; I think it's complementary to Soylent. Are you planning on making vegan or keto versions?
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I'm not the one making claims. It's not my responsibility to validate anything. Even if I tried to, it's possible I'd miss the original sources that another person used to make an inference, and I'll lose the opport
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No exit node operator has ever been taken to court over something like this. The police eventually realize their mistake, realize the Tor node is of no help to their investigation, and move on. As more law enforcement become literate in tec
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>Anyone who has looked into causes of stress cannot avoid the fact that a lack of PHYSICAL activity, a lack of PHYSICAL presence, and a lack of PHYSICAL stimulation is a major, if not the major factor. Could you provide peer-reviewed res
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by tedks 13y ago
>My contact list was a glorious zero people (everyone I know uses WhatsApp). ...TextSecure is an SMS replacement. Your contact list is your contact list. Does nobody you know receive SMS messages?
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Presumably as anarchists they're unwilling to be blatantly manipulative? In either case, TextSecure works , so...
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From my vantage point in academia they're definitely the norm. I'd say the only one that's mostly false is #2, but that could be the norm outside of my particular field (computer science). I've seen fantastic research su
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by tedks 13y ago
Less Wrong is an online community for people who like misogyny, discussion thereof, and oneupmanship via the wide array of in-references. And according to their own surveys, they aren't very successful at debiasing, either.
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by tedks 13y ago
Moxie is only one person, and the TextSecure/OpenWhisperSystems team beyond him is pretty small, and they're focusing on a lot of things now. iOS is probably (and rightly so) at the top of their lists. TextSecure is open-source; y
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by tedks 13y ago
That's a very quotable statement, and it is indeed true -- some people are intelligent and sociopathic enough that they care about their own amusement more than anything else. But sadism is very rare, in reality. Most robbers don&#x27
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by tedks 13y ago
That's a very good point, and it makes me reconsider my earlier statement.

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