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by tharne 5y ago
Meh, in the real world, the boundaries aren't so clear. In most organizations, data science or analytics will likely play all these Potemkin-ish roles to varying degrees, while also adding real value to the business. Sure, you may do s
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by tharne 5y ago
Yup, Trump was very good at motivating a lot of folks who don't normally vote. Careful what you wish for.
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by tharne 5y ago
People love to badmouth politicians, but they're just mirrors of our collective id. If we don't like what see, that's on us.
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by tharne 5y ago
There are also a lot more computers and things running software now.
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by tharne 5y ago
Amazing how quickly people forget the past.
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by tharne 5y ago
Because there was no such thing as cyber crime prior to the invention of cryptocurrency.
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by tharne 5y ago
The overwhelming majority of criminal commerce is conducted using traditional currencies such as U.S. Dollars or Euros. I truly don't get the ethics of it. It is killing people, literally blood money...
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by tharne 5y ago
This is an absurdly good analogy.
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by tharne 5y ago
It's not as if it has to one or the other, it can be both. The fact is, there is both a public health component as well as a moral component associated with the drug trade.
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by tharne 5y ago
> Proposed fix: put the right not to be charged with a victimless crime in a constitutional amendment. That's a good idea, but much harder to implement than it sounds. Being a small time drug dealer may be a victimless crime to many
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by tharne 5y ago
There are a lot of people breaking the law in America. Many of them get caught and go to prison. Few know this.
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by tharne 5y ago
Perhaps I didn't put enough nuance in my response, you're absolutely right. A nation state should put it's citizens first, but that should not preclude helping others.
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by tharne 5y ago
> The vaccine program was failing to rollout when Biden inherited it. Regardless of what you think of Joe Biden or Donald Trump, this statement is categorically false. There are enough legitimate things to criticize Donald Trump for that
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by tharne 5y ago
This reminds of the old quip about the founding of Fox News. Roger Ailes and Rupert Murdoch claimed they had found an untapped niche market in American broadcasting, "Half the country".
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by tharne 5y ago
> Why should 18 years olds in the EU/US receive a vaccine before 75 year olds in other countries? Because a nation state has a duty to protect the safety of its own citizens first and foremost. If a government continuously puts the
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by tharne 5y ago
Looks like Salesforce and Heroku have decided to embrace the "Oracle approach".
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by tharne 5y ago
> Humans need to be able to overrule anything, anytime. This needs to be a guiding principle of anyone who builds any sort of software.
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by tharne 5y ago
Don't put up a straw man. Folks who question the safety of nuclear are not advocating for coal and gas, they're advocating for increased investment in myriad other clean energy sources. Suggesting that anyone who questions nuclear
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by tharne 5y ago
Folks thought the same thing about Fukushima at the time. If history has shown us anything, it's that we're consistently not as smart as we think we are.
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by tharne 5y ago
> I bet that Altavista had its highest-ever user numbers right before Google appeared on the scene. That's an excellent point, especially since the financial cost and effort to switch search engines is effectively zero.
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by tharne 5y ago
> Also, even worst-case scenario like Chernobyl ultimately wasn't that bad. The problem with statements like this is that we don't actually know what a worst case scenario truly looks like. The day before Chernobyl, the worst-c
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by tharne 5y ago
We're not talking about the perfect vs. the good here. We're talking about a power source (nuclear) that can result in virtually unlimited harm to human life in cases of serious failure vs. power sources that, while not as well-de
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by tharne 5y ago
100%. We should be promoting energy sources that don't have catastrophic outcomes when somebody inevitably makes a serious operational error.
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by tharne 5y ago
What could go wrong?
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by tharne 5y ago
If one did not believe in free will, one would not believe in rewarding or punishing people, including criminals. It is not fair, reasonable, or productive to reward or punish people if their decisions are the result of some mechanistic pro
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by tharne 5y ago
Typical BS vendor. I will guarantee that Mr. Stephen Fry does not live his life as if he has no free will, in which case he is just another fraud promoting ideas that he himself does not believe to be true.
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by tharne 6y ago
I don't understand all the downvotes to this. Any harm reduction initiative is by nature paternalistic and somewhat arbitrary. In most societies, a "vice" is a just a habit that the upper middle class disapproves of. In the 1
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by tharne 6y ago
This is a an excellent point. As a corollary, it's easy to tell precisely who the elite is just by looking at who's doing the most censoring of others (and doing it effectively). A lot of the folks out there demanding that others
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by tharne 6y ago
The original commenter's point (I think) is that the government is inflating wages by giving money away for free. It's easy to tell others to pay higher wages when it's not your money or your business.
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by tharne 6y ago
I think this exactly right. However, in the U.S. we have been moving in precisely the opposite direction for decades, centralizing power more and more at the federal level. This is, in part anyway, what has turned federal elections into suc

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