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by wpietri 3y ago
It depends on the humans and what they're up to. Fast feedback is a very valuable attribute of a test suite, so reasonable people may well be willing to go down this road.
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by wpietri 3y ago
Yeah, HN has a strong vein of Dunning Kruger running through it. Anybody taken in by the waffle about the law being the only metric to judge actions has never thought about where laws come from. Or read MLK's Letter from a Birmingham J
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by wpietri 3y ago
I'm not sure exactly what you're disagreeing with. There are plenty of examples out there of individuals using these tools badly. E.g., the teacher who used ChatGPT to generate student reviews. The students who use them as high-qu
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by wpietri 3y ago
I think the article makes it pretty clear why suburban is in the title. The author relates the topic to her youth: "suburban life often felt stifling", for example. The link for her is the way American suburban culture involves di
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by wpietri 3y ago
I never said it was a lack of will from police. And I also don't think a 5-year-old pants-wetting video from a company well known for pushing right-wing views will convince me of much of anything. Especially that Seattle was dying 5 ye
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by wpietri 3y ago
Exactly. If anything, I think homeless encampments are proof of this. It's not like homeless people are generally eager to cluster together; as both cause and effect, the level of mental illness and general dysfunction among the homele
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by wpietri 3y ago
Definitely look at money, but also look at social power. Humans are primates, and primates have meticulously maintained status hierarchies. Actions driven by that may not "make sense". "Sense" came way later and it'
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by wpietri 3y ago
That's not at all what I said. I'm just saying that cops are on average more responsive to the needs of the "right" people than the "wrong" ones. And in the US, having money (e.g., nice house, nice car, or here
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by wpietri 3y ago
I get where you're going, but I think it depends a lot to me on what somebody did. If it's all water under the bridge, fine. But if the people are still recovering from the harm, I have more questions. If they haven't apolog
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by wpietri 3y ago
On the one hand, sure. When I started reading this new story, I was like, "If the guy has lived that long under a name, it's kinda his name now, right?" But then I read how thoroughly he fucked over the guy whose name he stol
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by wpietri 3y ago
In our system, one of the most serious crimes is inconveniencing a cop while poor.
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by wpietri 3y ago
I'm fine with people having money. Commerce is pretty great. I just don't think having money should equate to political power. There's a reason the US fought a war to get rid of the English "nobility".
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by wpietri 3y ago
The SEC already requires any significant investment to be publicly disclosed: https://www.reuters.com/markets/us/us-sec-shortens-stock-dis... And there's really no such thing as a "private corporation&qu
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by wpietri 3y ago
All modern corporations limit investor liability to the amount invested, something that did not become standard until the mid-1800s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limited_Liability_Act_1855 This is a huge government su
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by wpietri 3y ago
I understand why rich people want to keep secrets from the general public. I just don't think "rich people want it" is a justification for much of anything.
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by wpietri 3y ago
I'd say flip that around. If people own things in their own names, they're welcome to reasonable privacy. But the corporation is a special government program to enable certain kinds of collective action because we get broader econ
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by wpietri 3y ago
If you look at the flu seasons, I think one of the lessons is that relatively modest behavioral and infrastructural changes could radically reduce harm from respiration-transmitted diseases. However I think it's a lesson that went most
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by wpietri 3y ago
I think you are making a lot of soup from very little meat. I read those links the same way mtlynch read them. I think you're looking for a perfection of phrasing that is much more suited to peer-reviewed academic papers than random tw
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by wpietri 3y ago
Depends on which proposition. Remember that that once they've sold it, they have no further exposure. So if what's happening is looting a company, then as long as they get out before the rot becomes obvious, they don't care.
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by wpietri 3y ago
It's impossible to say definitely, something that's true for quite a lot of topics, but that doesn't mean there's nothing useful to be said. E.g., Transparency International's corruption index.
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by wpietri 3y ago
I like the idea, but $350 plus a Pi plus getting electrodes is beyond my "impulse by to try it out" price for sure.
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by wpietri 3y ago
I get why people are focusing on this bad actor. But the question that interests me more: how many other apparent individuals fit the profile that this person presented before caught?
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by wpietri 3y ago
I'm far from an expert, but my understanding is that the USSR was well more corrupt at the time. Something that provided a firm foundation for Russia's current situation, with Putin as gangster-in-chief: https://www.was
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by wpietri 3y ago
I think a lot of people in software development are familiar with the pattern described, of a person with power chasing the appearance of success without much regard to what's actually going on. In both cases I think we have 1) syste
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by wpietri 3y ago
If your point is that generalizations aren't universals, I agree. That's why I said "tends to". I further agree that markets like more than one thing, and you can see that with things like "growth stocks", &quo
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by wpietri 3y ago
I think others would for the reason described in sentence directly before it. Which, as "so" indicates, is the logical predecessor. I used to write code for financial traders. I promise you that there are a lot of people who do no
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by wpietri 3y ago
Our major system for evaluating companies is market-driven pricing of the company. That in turn is based mostly on the views of investors and traders, that is people who want to turn money into more money and generally aren't fussy abo
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by wpietri 3y ago
Which companies? The ones who had quality and lost it? There's not a lot of defense against being purchased on the open market, as happened with Boeing. Or Simmons is another good example: https://www.nytimes.com/2009&#
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by wpietri 3y ago
As always with Molly White, this is a good, thoughtful summary. But I'm particularly struck by SBF's lack of remorse.
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25 Years for Sam Bankman-Fried(citationneeded.news)
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