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by ve55 8y ago
When opponents think about how 'damaging' papers like this are, they should also consider how damaging things like this are to the field in general, and how they may cause a lot of second-order harm. Many that I know have begun to
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by ve55 8y ago
We all know tech companies can do what they want, they've been doing it from day one. But consistency is a desirable trait for a lot of reasons, not just for fairness or equality but also because it allows one to make predictions about
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by ve55 8y ago
One of the most difficult issues with the style of bans that large tech companies perform is that there is no hope for them to have strong consistency. For them to be consistent they would have to ban anyone that has been an equal or worse
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by ve55 8y ago
Most effective altruists would agree with you (and thus disagree with a possible takeaway from Chik-Fil-A's advertising) that eating chicken is better than cows, as cows provide significantly more meat than a chicken, with ratios being
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by ve55 8y ago
If your audience cares significantly about the charitable donations and not at all for animal suffering, and your goal is to only to convince them to be against the company, then sure, go for it. But any effective altruist should have their
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by ve55 8y ago
Chik-Fil-A is not an arbiter of LGBTQ rights. Their small 6-figure donations to organizations that focus on other issues do very little in the grand scheme of things. Do you really think Chik-Fil-A is directly causing more suffering by dona
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by ve55 8y ago
If you're going to complain about the ethics related to Chik-Fil-A, it would probably be better to start with the fact that they raise and kill a billion chickens every year rather than that they have donated $120,000 to organizations
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by ve55 8y ago
Yes, Firefox is held to a higher standard of user privacy than Chrome. This is how it should be given that Chrome is a product made by one of the largest for-profit surveilliance and advertising companies that has ever existed. Firefox has
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by ve55 8y ago
It was noticed that those who were in more higher education went on to achieve more success later in life (where success is often more income, but obviously many other things too). Over time some inferred causality from this: clearly the re
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by ve55 8y ago
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empathizing%E2%80%93systemizin... for more information on this concept
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by ve55 8y ago
This trader likely bought their contracts with very high leverage, probably 20x, meaning that they had $20.8 million USD of BTC as collateral for a trade with a notational value of 20 times that (416 million). Other platforms with better en
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by ve55 8y ago
It's pretty relevant though. The article is completely unreadable for me unless I disable images. I don't understand the mindset of someone putting huge gifs everywhere in their article, that is something a small child would do, n
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by ve55 8y ago
Some related posts by the same author, some about drugs (SSRIs and Adderall), some about other topics: https://slatestarcodex.com/tag/much-more-than-you-wanted-to-...
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by ve55 8y ago
I'd prefer they be honest about what they're doing, which is complaining that others don't agree with them politically and then attempting to shame them into submission. But instead of admitting this, they use phrasing like “
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by ve55 8y ago
This article should mention a lot of other factors that are important, including changes in technology, automation, globalization, etc. It's too short-sighted to simply say that the problem America faces is as simple as a small group o
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by ve55 8y ago
It's funny that this post doesn't mention some of the worst offenders in this area. There are large subreddits where it's explicitly against the rules to debate the validity of topics with participants, and many others where
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by ve55 8y ago
You're asking for a 'smart' product that respects your privacy, which generally isn't something that exists for the consumer market. Your easiest option is refusing to give your TV an Internet connection and doing things
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by ve55 8y ago
I have no clue. It's too hard to tell the fake content (or similarly exaggerated content) from the real content (that actually matters and is mostly true) unless you devote a lot of your time to it, and I usually try to focus on other
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by ve55 8y ago
There doesn't seem to be much actual content here. The article states "Tesla CEO Elon Musk appears to have" without ever mentioning what caused them to believe Elon Musk is involved. Then it states "It's not clear h
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by ve55 8y ago
The article demonstrates an unfortunately narrow view of supreme court cases - seeing them as something that should constantly side on a certain moral answer to the object-level question (a specific case), rather than something that upholds
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by ve55 8y ago
Stop finding excuses to stay on Facebook. Be strong and do what is right. You can convince your friends to use other things if they are truly your friends.
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by ve55 8y ago
It's unfortunate some people don't see the benefit of trying to move their users to TLS, but Quakenet is the exception here. Most IRC users and networks I know encourage TLS usage and do their best to help users and chatrooms use
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by ve55 8y ago
In practice this is very easy to achieve with IRC if you just use a BNC or otherwise have a client always running, for example inside of tmux. A lot of IRC users run their client inside of tmux, then they attach to it from any device, deskt
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by ve55 8y ago
I'm interested to see how they manage to convince communities to use their IRC services over competitors like Discord when so many users see Discord as easy, free, trendy, etc. Of course services liks Slack, Telegram, Skype, etc, are a
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by ve55 8y ago
>Microsoft has been positioning itself as tech’s moral leader. Mr. Nadella and Microsoft’s president, Brad Smith, have publicly said they want to protect user privacy Hard to take this seriously given what Windows 10 and other new micros
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by ve55 8y ago
Reposting an old comment I made about TRON (the cryptocurrency) here: For those that haven't heard of TRON, it is what I would call one of the most successful scams in the history of cryptocurrency. It is a currency that was made on to
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by ve55 8y ago
A study finding that women cause less corruption isn't quite sufficient evidence that governments across the globe need more women, just as a study finding that men are better for a nation's economy is not sufficient evidence that
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by ve55 8y ago
These things do not belong in Firefox. Firefox should be a standalone web browser that focuses on security, privacy, efficiency, and customization. Not Chome+Social Media 2.0.
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by ve55 8y ago
Keep in mind the definition we can use legally for a security is "a contract, transaction or scheme whereby a person invests his money in a common enterprise and is led to expect profits solely from the efforts of the promoter or a thi
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by ve55 8y ago
It takes a lot more than one paper and a CNN article to overturn the evidence that is against this. I'm not talking about IQ scores falling, but rather the cause of it suggested here. Although the environment does have notable roles (f

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