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by tharne 3y ago
Outside of the Great Rift Valley, every country was built on immigration at some point.
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by tharne 3y ago
If a group of individuals migrates to another country, the onus is on that group to integrate into their host country, not the other way around.
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by tharne 3y ago
> sometimes I'll need to go on some "normie" website to book a flight or something I have ungoogled chromium installed alongside firefox for exactly this reason. A lot of mainstream sites clearly do not care about supporti
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by tharne 3y ago
Pretty sure that COVID showed the exact opposite. Our brains evolved in the meatspace and won't be happy anywhere else. Even the success of remote work shows this. People want to avoid the office (and the commute) to get more time with
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by tharne 3y ago
If Windows were really that great compared to Linux, you wouldn't need to write an entire essay on why that is so.
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by tharne 3y ago
Zig is cool and all, but someone should really rewrite it in Rust.
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by tharne 3y ago
> From a game theoretical POV this is false; Except we're not talking about game theory here, we're talking about reality.
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by tharne 3y ago
> Public transit has always been the cheaper option. Only if don't value your time.
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by tharne 3y ago
Love this comment. It elegantly captures something that most of us know, but is very hard to express.
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by tharne 3y ago
This is a case of "scientism", not science. Science is only equipped to address claims that are falisifiable. The question of whether or not there is a self isn't something that can be proven or dispproven, since consciousnes
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by tharne 3y ago
I'm always amused at how these journalists will make very confident and sweeping predictions about how thing X is going to do Y in the future; yet, I hear few stories along the lines of, "Brilliant journalist makes millions in the
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by tharne 4y ago
I said, "majority of the day focused on gathering food, not "spent gathering food". If this seems like an arbitrary distinction, allow me to provide an analogy. Most teenage boys spend the majority of their day focused on h
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by tharne 4y ago
> To make this possible we need to find a way to a new system that doesn't directly link labour with income. As others have pointed out, this is an incredibly naive opinion. Labor is tied to income precisely because it happened orga
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by tharne 4y ago
Exactly. Every discussion I see focuses almost exclusively on AI as it exists right now . Everyone is either dismissing the impact due to some minor shortcoming, or wildly overestimating the short-term impact. The one consistent thing amon
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by tharne 4y ago
> Wealth distribution has been a challenge since we've moved away from spending our day solely focused on gathering food / farming. Have you ever considered that this may be due to the fact that our brains evolved to exist in a
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by tharne 4y ago
> advocating against the study of business is just as naive as advocating against the study of computer science just because there are some bad CS grads. Criticizing garbage MBA programs is not criticizing the study of business. Business
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by tharne 4y ago
> What is so undesirable about productivity going up by a factor of a 100 or a 1000 and everyone living like an aristocrat, because machines do all the work? Why is full employment such an obsession? Nothing is undesirable about the futu
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by tharne 4y ago
Can you really blame people? As a country, we still remember all the horrible crap that was built in the 1950's and 60's in the name of the "greater good". Neighborhoods bulldozed to build highways, downtowns hollowed ou
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by tharne 4y ago
> Also - genuine question for anyone with a clue - what percent of high school age kids do you think have smartphones in, say, East Oakland? Answer: Effectively all of them. Source: worked in inner city schools for a bit in areas at lea
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by tharne 4y ago
I think the article is probably referring to functional illiteracy, e.g. someone who can understand, "Be there in 5" on their smartphone but can't read a news article and summarize the main point.
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by tharne 4y ago
On top of that, how will we even now when it's "ready"? We can't even manage social media effectively at the moment and AI is a arguably and order of complex. We're in way over our heads here and I don't see us
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by tharne 4y ago
This question misses the bigger point in some ways. The danger of AI is not that it will do bad thing X or terrible thing Y. It's that it will behave in ways we cannot predict and do things we cannot understand, all while we become mor
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by tharne 4y ago
> ..but again, the Right will happily use this tiny point to drive the wedge to say "TRANS IS BAD ALL THE TIME." I have no doubt that folks on the right will exploit that, but I'd also argue that supporting irreversible tr
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by tharne 4y ago
> I still respect his models, but I think the rest is the kind of stuff you’re expected to do as part of a media organization. Exactly. His models are still outstanding. Ironically, I think the signal from his models gets lost in all th
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by tharne 4y ago
"The Signal and the Noise" is a great book and it definitely impacted some of the most important choices I made around my career. I think that's part of the reason I'm so annoyed that Nate Silver has gone so far down the
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by tharne 4y ago
> Yup. The right is fuelling the moral panic about trans people I wouldn't call opposition to performing irreversible gender transition procedures on children "moral panic".
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by tharne 4y ago
I'm pretty sure the person referencing "ethnic genocide" was referring to China's internment and genocide of their Muslim population in western China, not COVID. I think their point is that if genocide wasn't enough
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by tharne 4y ago
> After seeing lots of Twitter threads about Nate Silver, condemning his lack of "certainty" in his predictions ("It's such a cop out! Since he never says yes or no one way or the other he always has an out when he&#x
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by tharne 4y ago
> I find the attitude on display here utterly gross and it makes me wonder where this person got it. It is gross. It's also very ignorant. The author's argument basically boils down to, "I can't see an obvious major d
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by tharne 4y ago
Can we get rid of those damned binding arbitration clauses next? I still can't believe (U.S.) employers are allowed to use coercion to take away an employees right to the court system.

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