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by vageli 6y ago
What would you expect someone who just won the lottery to do? Continue working and not enjoy a vacation, etc? Keeping contact with friends made in the workplace is completely orthogonal to giving notice after winning the lottery, and taking
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by vageli 6y ago
> Yes. Relative pitch will not definitely help the subject. However, it will still affect the test result, as it is involuntary to think about the relative pitch. Therefore, the test still was not purely testing absolute pitch. How might
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by vageli 6y ago
> That’s a clever idea! > I’m not sure how practical it is, however. The first problem that popped into my mind was that the stove would often be unattended while I ran downstairs to grab something I forgot from the fridge. I often le
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by vageli 6y ago
> I hope those stupid compa ies would never come back to FB with their spending. Lack of blue chips on FB allowed SMBs to get cheaper ads on FB and their overall spending is bigger than blue chips so at the end FB benefited from this act
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by vageli 6y ago
> So it's a power struggle where one side doesn't really have a choice, because the other side has all the power. You do have a choice though. You can choose not to use google ads and stop performing SEO and drive business in
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by vageli 6y ago
The problem is with word choice. "Tech" has little to do with the business domain.
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by vageli 6y ago
I completely agree and understand. My statements were about the person inciting others to commit the fraud without so many words. Basically, I was saying it is not fraud to tell your twitter followers to buy and return an item. It may be co
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by vageli 6y ago
I was thinking more along the lines of criminal laws, I should have been more specific in my word choice.
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by vageli 6y ago
I've heard of this but am curious, does this also apply to people calling for boycotting companies?
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by vageli 6y ago
> Why would I leave a stable well paying job Well, why are you doing that in the first place? Maybe the new opportunity is worth it or the current one is so bad that it's worth it.
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by vageli 6y ago
How is that fraud? "Everyone, buy this product and return it to the store for a full refund," doesn't sound like fraud to me. It doesn't result in personal or financial gain to the people perpetrating it, either. edit: s
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by vageli 6y ago
What laws would be broken in this case?
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by vageli 6y ago
> What’s your threat model here? People making up elaborate lies about code they’ve written? Likely people making up elaborate lies about code they didn't write. It's trivial to push code of which you are not the author.
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by vageli 6y ago
> "Interesting choice using collections.OrderedDict here, why did you choose that?" Without looking at the commit history, given enough time this is a challenge. I often don't recognize code I wrote myself 6 months ago.
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by vageli 6y ago
That is a fair point and in that light the statement is far less jarring.
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by vageli 6y ago
> This does not have any career benefit whatsoever; it’s done so as to be worthy of our patients’ trust. Keeping abreast of changes in the field and state of the art offer no benefits and is done solely for patients' trust?
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by vageli 6y ago
> Ursula K. LeGuin had an essay in her collection Languages of the Night (can't remember exactly which essay) where she said “Nobody who says, ‘I told you so’ has ever been, or will ever be, a hero.” Maybe that's because they w
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by vageli 6y ago
My cynical take is that this is precisely the point: parade this about as a test of UBI, when it fails, discount the notion of UBI in full.
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by vageli 6y ago
Shame is a way to impose social norms without violence. To me it is intuitive that shame is a fundamental tool used to organize groups, especially when thinking about the formation of more primitive societies. Not intended to replace a cita
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by vageli 6y ago
It's contracts between nations (the US federal government and the the tribes). Native American tribes are numerous (the federal government recognized 550 distinct tribes when I last checked) and have agreements with the government that
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by vageli 6y ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20200708175004/https://www.nytim...
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by vageli 6y ago
> I dont think this nitpicking achieves anything, his overall point stands - we have hundreds of military jets and pilots with fuck all to do (fortunately). How many intercepts are there, one every few months? It makes no material differ
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by vageli 6y ago
> Now, sure, from the outset, I could have viewed this idea from a defeatist attitude, that being, “What? I’m gonna try to compete with Indeed, SimplyHired, Monster, and the like? They’re VC backed heavyweights… I have no chance.” It&#x2
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by vageli 6y ago
> Your house has to be registered to someone and you have to declare who lives in it, if it's yours. I don't think this is true in every jurisdiction. You can certainly have a property registered under a corporate entity, and t
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by vageli 6y ago
Total aside but I love the train theme to indicate status of the proposal, and showing who is currently "holding up" the bill.
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by vageli 6y ago
I agree on principle, but I don't think FB will refuse these advertisers when they return (and the advertisers know it).
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by vageli 6y ago
That makes a lot of sense. If each (and every) of the actions is nuanced, I can see a group being oppressed without violence and possibly even without aggression if the oppressors believe they are helping the oppressed with their policies.
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by vageli 6y ago
How can you non-aggressively disenfranchise a group of people? Further, how can you maintain non-aggression if the group you are attempting to disenfranchise resists your attempts to disenfranchise them (which would make clear that your att
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by vageli 6y ago
Well, given that Communism was outlawed in the US [0], it seems sensible that the membership numbers would decline. Do you think it is sound policy to outlaw ideologies? I don't think that making something illegal is akin to deplatform
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by vageli 6y ago
> I can non-aggressively disenfranchise a group of people. How would you accomplish this non-aggressively, especially if the disenfranchised group resists?

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