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by thelock85 4y ago
Couldn’t agree more. The quest for self-driving cars seems to be a capitalistic endeavor to offer the convenience of chilling in your car, and platform for all the services one could consume in the time they’d otherwise be driving. If safet
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by thelock85 4y ago
So interesting to see if this will affect politics since midterms have passed. At least at the moment I don’t think free speech (esp via Twitter) is a priority over guns, crime, economy and reproductive rights for the average voter, or that
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by thelock85 4y ago
Can anyone here provide some ideas of sensible regulation on this issue (or point to someone else talking about it)? IANAL or even novice on antitrust issues but seems Apple would just find another way to make up the slack if App Store (iOS
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by thelock85 4y ago
Intellectuals and Society by Thomas Sowell really challenged my political ideology in my mid-20s. I left unsatisfied or in disagreement with a lot of it, but it was the first time I could clearly apply conservative ideals to my social justi
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by thelock85 4y ago
I couldn’t finish The Righteous Mind (too dry) but Moral Foundations Theory (and the examples in the book) has made a profound impact on my understanding of perspectives I disagree with, and generally made me much more empathetic and inquis
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by thelock85 4y ago
I have no real philosophical or financial -besides a few BTC bought years ago- stake in crypto's success or demise, but it seems that there is an unsolvable marketing problem in this space: how to nudge considerable behavioral changes
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by thelock85 4y ago
I could totally see this. Scheming for access to “human data” not just “user data”. It also seems like a lot of people would mostly opt out of AI content for entertainment purposes, and instead seek in-person human community (surely still
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by thelock85 4y ago
Culture presents much harder problems than science when it comes to social media. Though I agree it’s not a stretch to think he can add Twitter to his successes.
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by thelock85 4y ago
I empathize with your experience having also grown up in relative poverty. But now that I have kids of my own and see other kids being disruptive, asleep, rude, violent, etc. I'm looking at those kids' parents and guardians like W
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by thelock85 4y ago
> The fact is, generally, anyone in the US who has a capable brain and really tries can excel. This is a great populist message but not sure it can be backed up with enough data at any meaningful enough scale to enact policies. Just like
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by thelock85 4y ago
> First there was no such thing as race, then suddenly everyone was using race for everything, and now only white people can't use racial terms. WTF? I don’t follow your first assertion. Pretty sure that an “Act concerning Servants
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by thelock85 4y ago
No argument here. Though there’s tough competition for some of those Nixon-Reagan era reauthorizations of ESEA which set the stage for standardized tests being the primary benchmark for everything (and priming the pump for education publish
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by thelock85 4y ago
The evidence is literally in the federal and state legislation passed since late 1800s to support public education with extreme prejudice toward women and minorities. And the subsequent battle to make the system inclusive, culminating with
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by thelock85 4y ago
> someone that has enthusiasm and a skill set could surely pick that up as they go. Sounds like the early days of Teach For America where enthusiasm will mostly get you between a few days and few years of service. I think it’s pretty com
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by thelock85 4y ago
> I think it's great that Wade is bringing more visibility to lesser-known female scientists, but if we are valuing that, I think we should do so regardless of the subject's identity. _we_ are not because the initiative and pro
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by thelock85 4y ago
What bearing does an increase in the overall number of industry workers have on whether or not the manual weavers and spinners were justified in their concerns (with respect to their own livelihood) about automation? With respect to that in
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by thelock85 4y ago
> They often have other side hustles and pursuits, and don't want to spend 100% of their working time for Uber or DoorDash. I've always been under the impression that one could have multiple W-2 jobs that don't have to be
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Chicago scientists are testing an unhackable quantum internet in their basement(washingtonpost.com)
5 points by thelock85 4y ago|1 comments
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Elon Musk offers to buy Twitter for original price before trial(washingtonpost.com)
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by thelock85 4y ago
> I don’t think the hope part really works. What other emotion than hope could have as much mass appeal as fear?
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Election “big lie” fueled a new generation of social media influencers(washingtonpost.com)
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by thelock85 4y ago
Visited Lanai once via ferry. Rode around with one of 2-3 taxi drivers who also runs the island's only newspaper. Learned that Lanai has always been owned mostly by a single benefactor, the latest of whom is Larry Ellison (which this a
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by thelock85 4y ago
“ Seeking help could even be framed as socially desirable.” Kinda buried an important part at the end of the article. Just last week I was doing a (not so rigorous) literature review on positive peer pressure for a work project, and in the
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by thelock85 4y ago
Can’t believe I’m defending journalist but this analogy is only partially accurate imho. People consume press and news media on their own volition, and even more less-vetted but newsworthy information through social media. Journalists are g
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by thelock85 4y ago
> Society is becoming a parody of itself. We've accepted emotional, mental, spiritual, and physical (to some extent) abstractions of ourselves as our true selves. And exchanged social cues for algorithms to manipulate our behaviors.
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Scooters and 3-wheelers are what’s driving an EV revolution(restofworld.org)
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by thelock85 4y ago
Initially I felt similar to you, but then I considered the potential impact on accumulating student loan debt both from the perspective of paying for classes that don’t contribute to a major and rising tuition costs in the name of giving ev
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by thelock85 4y ago
Also appreciate how you approached this. I think it’s very important for individuals in multi-ethnic societies (or any society) to understand the history of how they got there, and it’s relation to society at the time and up to the present.
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by thelock85 4y ago
I agree that parents should have much more responsibility on these matters, but not in exchange for state influence, at least in the US. 40M+ adults lack basic literacy to inform themselves well enough to pass on to their kids. Another 65M
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by thelock85 4y ago
> The Trump company stopped paying RightForge, a conservative web-hosting service, in March and now owes it more than $1 million, according to Fox Business, which first reported the dispute. How normal is this for a potentially high grow

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