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by toss1 7y ago
So, now we need the scale to be: 1, 2, 3, 4.0, 4.2, 4.4, 4.6, 4.8, 5 Then, inflation will require it to be: 1, 2, 3, 4, 4.90, 4.92....
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by toss1 7y ago
Obviously, as TFA describes, this is a huge end-run to create a problem. But, would this leave a loophole for text-only and/or highly bandwidth-limited communications to remain end-to-end encrypted? If you cannot sent a photo, audio or
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by toss1 7y ago
And that, right there, is one of the most stupid uses of data based on bad assumptions. One of the keys to high performance driving, whether for racing or emergency driving, is the ability to get the absolute maximum out of the available tr
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by toss1 7y ago
I'm talking about a society itself run by warlords and rival gangs without institutions, not deliberate twisting of the word to refer to geopolitical actions. You also apparently deliberately overlook the contrast between the US, which
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by toss1 7y ago
This is a fine example of the mistake of false equivalence, and its consequences. Of course one can find infractions from anyone. As Cardinal Richelieu famously said: "If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of
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by toss1 7y ago
excellent info - thanks!
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by toss1 7y ago
Yes, I'm very well aware that this has been a thing since, like, forever. A fine example was in the 2000 South Carolina primary when Karl Rove working for Bush, distributed door-to-door flyers just ahead of the primary that implied tha
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by toss1 7y ago
Counterpoint Like the Y2K bug, focusing a large amount of society's resources on the problem is the only think that may prevent it from becoming catastrophic. I also don't see much hysteria - some real concern, starting to slowly
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by toss1 7y ago
Exactly. Moreover, the second sentence gets it entirely backwards >The previously little-known company, reporters claimed, had used behavioral influencing techniques to turn out social media users to vote in both elections. The major Cam
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by toss1 7y ago
great list I'd edit the 1.5 feet to 1.5 meters I'm also going to start refusing to handle objects handled by multiple people, such as the signature stylus in credit card checkout terminals. door handles are also a problem mandator
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by toss1 7y ago
Yup, a brief glimpse into the far landscape, showing what the mind can do, but you must then work to get there for real
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by toss1 7y ago
It seems past the point where we need to have pro-information bot campaigns to counteract the disinformation/dezinformatsiya campaigns that are actively undermining western democracies.
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by toss1 7y ago
> “physical intuition is a skill you want to keep" (or build if necessary) In whatever field of work, THIS is most critical. Grounding in the hard reality. Without it, you literally don't know what you are missing With it, you
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by toss1 7y ago
True, the question is, how do we ensure that they are in fact A_Players, and what is the recourse if they are found not to be A_Players or not loyal to the project/company or are in fact starting to play games, or even just inadvertent
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by toss1 7y ago
When management makes statements like "we don't need [to pay for] senior engineers here, these are mature products... ", and clearly putting finance first among corporate goals, the natural result is that engineering dies a d
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by toss1 7y ago
I also assumed that the death rate was lower due to under-diagnosis of mild cases -- until a few hours ago when I asked a few questions to someone with connections to Wuhan. The response indicated that the deaths were likely significantly
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by toss1 7y ago
Of course transient deflation can be a good thing. Adn deflation as we are now accustomed in the tech industry is a very good thing - it is caused by an increase in the quality/supply of available goods, rather than a decrease in the
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by toss1 7y ago
Deflation is bad because it is a self-reinforcing slowdown in the economy. The money gets more valuable and the assets get cheaper. so the incentive in every micro-decision is to hoard money and not spend. Why spend when the same thing wi
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by toss1 7y ago
Yes, the filtering systems of the brain are amazing, and the Invisible Gorilla experiment is particularly fun! Another striking experiment I learned of in neuroscience courses shows how deep it goes. A particular setup of electrodes can sh
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The natural selection of bad science(royalsocietypublishing.org)
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by toss1 7y ago
OK, what behaves like a Ponzi scheme that lasts too long? Money Laundering of assets on a national scale, e.g., for oligarchs who have taken 95% of a nations' wealth. Their biggest problem is to get it "legitimately" into th
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by toss1 7y ago
YEs. Switched to DuckDuckGo a few months ago and haven't looked back, the results pages are much cleaner, like the old Google results. One blatant issue with Google (& DDG still often does not get right) is the search for a specifi
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by toss1 7y ago
> I wonder if these food delivery and ride sharing companies are even sustainable. Then reports they use VC money to subsidize things. >They're not, they're all following Thiel's 0 to 1 model and aiming for a monopoly.
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by toss1 7y ago
Plus the reputational damage from dissatisfied customers who think it is the restaurant that is dishonest or incompetent.
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by toss1 7y ago
>>"McDonnell Douglas managers were more cutthroat, and it was all about the bottom line — cut those costs!" she told CBC's The Fifth Estate. "They didn't follow a good capitalist model. They followed greed and
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by toss1 7y ago
True, but merely by noticing your vocabulary choices, and evident familiarity with scientific research & standards, (& just that you are here) it is obvious that you are a massive outlier. Most people do not even begin to think so
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by toss1 7y ago
Whether or not we call them "good", the fallacy is that if a person takes an exploitative job as their least-worst option, that this is somehow acceptable. Perhaps in some idealized distopia, but not in any kind of modern society
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by toss1 7y ago
Part of the reason they don't switch to other jobs is that squandering years on gig jobs does zero for your resume. The logic above is simply restating the same fallacy that allows for the exploitation -- just because there's noth
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by toss1 7y ago
Two Issues First, the problem is described in the article but not specifically called out It is Bait-and-Switch. The initial wages are rather generous, enough to get workers to move to their platform from other potential employers. The init
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by toss1 7y ago
The problem is not so much paying for the tech that you want, but the ability to reverse accidental or unintentional purchases. It is not like the customer accidentally hit a button that burned up $4K of electricity; it is a digital enable

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