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by tnone 9y ago
I've long thought economics is the art of controlling an unstable feedback mechanism into spiraling out of control slow enough that generational amnesia prevents greater society from noticing.
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by tnone 9y ago
If economics is the study of macro-psychology, then it would have the same problems as regular psychology: the inability to do truly controlled experiments, only with an even smaller set of entities to build your N out of. I think the close
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by tnone 9y ago
I'd look into Facebook's actual app policies if I were you. What made Farmville successful was to basically bribe players into sharing by rewarding them with in game currency. This resulted in a ton of spam. If that's not out
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by tnone 9y ago
If Twitter had been preceded by a platform like it, but with longer character length, do you think people would switch to Twitter? I don't think so. We actually have a case to compare to due to the curiosity of language: Japanese twitt
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by tnone 9y ago
Is there any other subject that is given as much leeway for its abysmal pedagogical failures? "Economics, it's not about learning how money and markets work, it's about learning how to think." "Art, it's not ab
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by tnone 9y ago
It's basically a shibboleth that signifies quality in certain circles, like college humanities, but actually is the opposite. People in those circles can't say what they mean due to stifling ideological policing and status seeking
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by tnone 9y ago
In what way are tax funded services free?
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by tnone 9y ago
This has been tried in various forms, and always fails for a few reasons: - Spam. When the cost of bandwidth goes to zero, the most useless freeloaders are enabled with no negative consequences for their pollution. - Media storage. There is
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by tnone 9y ago
On this topic, it absolutely is. Whenever these threads happen, they go one way or the other. If the all-genders-equal, non-feminist side swings the discussion, the entire thread disappears off the front page, inexplicably sitting at positi
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by tnone 9y ago
Fun fact: The percentage of students in CS that are female is half of what it was in the mid 80s. All this hubbub is there to disguise the fact that as soon as comp sci stopped being necessary to do useful things with computers, women left
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by tnone 9y ago
The inability to use a different ID for different servers pretty much precludes professional use. I don't want to use my handle at work, I don't want to use my real name in random internet communities.
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by tnone 9y ago
I suspect it's just some astroturfing to go along with the French start up visa thing.
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by tnone 9y ago
The structural realities of our industry are that men are the majority at all echelons. Men have most of the power and men are most of the subjects. Ignoring half of the equation to paint women as a unique victim class is disingenuous, and
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by tnone 9y ago
>women, who have less power to complain about their behavior The exact opposite is true. Almost nobody would take a man who complains about sexual harassment seriously. Just look at the night and day difference in response to teacher stu
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by tnone 9y ago
Thank you for proving the point. Criticism must be punished, even when it's directly addressing raised questions. It is exactly these sorts of actions that create the "hostile excitement" OP was complaining about. Cause and e
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by tnone 9y ago
First off, if you want to see hostile excitement, go look at what happens when men try to get together to talk about real legal discrimination rather than just low representation. A skeptical internet thread is nothing compared to the prote
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by tnone 9y ago
Strange, I'm absolutely jaded on the technologies of today's world. The web and mobile phones have locked us into a shitty content consuming culture. Almost nobody is writing real novel software, they're just gluing together
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by tnone 9y ago
Not only that, but those enforcing the law are no less likely to break it. Giving the authorities this level of power is just inviting the most corrupt and immoral of them to run wild with official immunity. Police live under a fundamental
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by tnone 9y ago
No this thread is a response to obvious and blatant grievance mongering about one anecdote. If you don't want to be interrupted, keep talking. If the moderator is an ass, he's an ass. If you expect to always be treated with respec
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by tnone 9y ago
Parable of the polygons is extremely questionable. For one, it attempts to have its cake while eating it too, by pretending it's an abstract demonstration about choices while explicitly calling out to hot topics in diversity, implying
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by tnone 9y ago
Spot the contradiction: - the patriarchy teaches men to bottle up their feelings - in the patriarchy, women's issues are systematically ignored in favor of men Men generally don't hang out on sites to talk about their burrito
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by tnone 9y ago
But the fact that their movement for equality is called feminism and their satan is called patriarchy is absolutely not relevant, please look the other way.
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by tnone 9y ago
I'm on OSX and it magnetically snaps windows together as they get close. Makes it easy to divide ad hoc. As for messengers, what would be revolutionary is if you could actually use all these fragmented messengers in a single app.
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by tnone 10y ago
There is this weird effect in American politics where each wing considers the other to be the authoritarian one. The American right loves its military industrial complex, its police crackdowns, its bank bailouts, its manifest destiny, and s
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by tnone 10y ago
Gamergate, never allowed to speak for itself, never defined, never counted, but somehow, the people who invoke it as a boogieman know exactly who did what and why. That should tell you what was going on, especially when what set it off was
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by tnone 10y ago
Sorry but what are we supposed to take from this? It sounds like this person was helped every step of the way, including immigration, but fell into depression and mental health issues around the same time they transitioned gender. But appar
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by tnone 10y ago
There's a really easy solution to this. Don't buy junk you don't need sold by people who don't care. Who convinced you you needed it in the first place? That's probably a bigger source of noise pollution...
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by tnone 10y ago
No, it's been a victory for those peddling the fear articles and soliciting victim bucks. It's really simple. First you make outrageous claims, then you define everyone who disagrees as a harasser. Find the one tweet or comment th
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by tnone 10y ago
Fyi, that post was edited and originally contained two more paragraphs. There's an archive.is of it.
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by tnone 10y ago
It means the steady downward trend it's been on for the last 7-8 years is about to accelerate. PHP CMSes fill a niche of bespoke software deployments made irrelevant by more standardized collaboration and publishing tools with better u

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