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> but ultimately most people /want/ to drive everywhere if they can afford to, otherwise cars wouldn't have taken off in the first place. I don’t buy it. People want cars since our infrastructure is optimized for it. But I
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> Midtown Manhattan Making midtown safe, especially at night, took a ton of effort.
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I agree funding isn’t the issue. The issue is the constant arguing over whose fiscal responsibility it is, causing the funds to be poorly used. As for an ethical solution, I can’t say concretely in either of the cases you’ve listed because
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Feels like most people want a ethical system for guiding people like this out of the street and to a place that is safe and healthy for them and their community. This is impossible when you need to argue over who’s gonna pay for it. So inst
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Fair enough. Here [0] is a survey of the homeless population in Hudson County. Last page shows pretty much everyone wanted housing help. But it doesn’t specifically ask about permanent housing, so I might need to keep digging to get a clear
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Did someone ask why they didn’t want to move into government housing? Because this is a known issue and it’s not because the homeless aren’t being punished enough. People are afraid to be split from their community, don’t want to be forced
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It seems like many people walk away from this kind of article with the hypothesis “liberal cities are dangerous” when a more accurate hypothesis is “urban business districts attract crime”. The solution isn’t simple, but it’s not endemic to
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And yet, we keep forgetting to do it and instead denigrate the people who remind us that this could be an approach to a divisive new technology.
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I wasn’t referring to this product specifically, but electronics in general.
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I thought it was great because it ended up being a debate about the different positions, rather than simply presenting Mearsheimer’s viewpoint. In the end I disagreed with both of their stances, and I felt much more informed on the potentia
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I’m of two minds on this one. Starting without notifications as an option in my devices would help me tremendously in my day to day life. But that’s just me. There are so many different brains out there. How does a company make a product th
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Finding news sources that meet your “traditional” definition is extremely difficult. Even the most dry, informative outlets are often complicated by the need to grab eyeballs. > News is also the gateway for deeper information. When the n
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I think that’s half of it. The other half is recognizing just how hard it is to actually improve the world in a way that doesn’t introduce negative externalities or other unintended consequences.
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Exactly. So long as we do a good job making the connection to other domains, CS is an excellent learning tool for computational thinking and systems thinking.
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Note that author made an explicit attempt to delineate between the act of advertising and data collection practices. Those things are bad, but I appreciate that he’s trying to have a discussion just on ads.
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We use “coding” and “programming” and “computer science” in these contexts and sell the domain short. Computational thinking and systems thinking are applicable to all aspects of life. The things taught in early coding activities are the bu
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> private schools From your description, it seems like what would really help is better policies and approach to public schools. Assuming that private schools would tend to pick better educational approaches seems flawed to me.
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> Most of the noise comes from Web technologists don't want to learn anything beyond JavaScript. I agree with a lot of what you wrote, but not this. PWAs are the only path for allowing open publishing of apps that is not gated by a
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There’s a ton of daylight between being oppressed and deciding not to engage in an argument. If you are not engaging out of a fear of large-scale repercussions, then it starts to smell like oppression. Not to say this isn’t bad, but it’s im
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Being unable to explain a standpoint is a deal breaker. Even if you’re an expert with good intuition, you should be able to translate that intuition into a coherent argument. I think we don’t do a good enough job of holding people to this b
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He tweeted a Dropbox link to the presentation at the end, and it has a list of papers referenced.
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My initial concern, based on reading the abstract, is that since this study only looks at Twitter and not Facebook, it isn’t enough evidence to make any conclusions about echo chambers in a general way as so many people get their news from
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Did some digging, here is the paper he references on echo chambers/bubbles: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/21582440198327...
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You are correct that the economy is not zero sum. It is not black and white, but the primary beneficiaries of automation are those who have the investment capital to leverage automation at scale. The rest get a better world sometimes, but o
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…until ~40 years ago[0] 0: https://insight.kellogg.northwestern.edu/article/wage-stagna...
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> Automation should be encouraged, not taxed I actually agree with you on this if taxation is framed as a way to discourage something. But the goal is to encourage automation but ensure it benefits society, not just a wealthy few, so… &g
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Examples of permanent redundancy are tricky to see, because even when people don’t really do a job anymore at a large scale, there are still humans involved, just way, way fewer. Examples are: Computers - not microprocessors but “computers”
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Automation, or the pay is really good because it’s bottom tier (implying unpleasant) and can’t be automated (yet).
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But the systems I’m referring to do not suggest taxing the hard work of people. They propose taxing the work of automation.
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> Success is not the universe sprinkling good fortune on mankind at random. Yes. Yes it is. For every successful person in the world, there are dozens, if not hundreds, of people with just as much courage, work ethic and intelligence who

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