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by wu-ikkyu 8y ago
>The third group is those in despair. They see the problems in society, and they see fifty years' worth of politicians who have promised to fix them, and the problems are still here. They've given up on politics as an answer to
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by wu-ikkyu 8y ago
>Bad forecasts aren’t lies, they’re mistakes. What if the weatherman knows there's going to be a massive shitstorm tomorrow, but decides to tell everyone that it's going to be clear and sunny?
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by wu-ikkyu 8y ago
So is the only difference between lying and knowingly misleading the point in time of the subject in question?
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by wu-ikkyu 8y ago
There are both human and technological problems at play here. The human problems, as you stated, have long been well known. These technological communications problems are new. It seems pretty self-evident that the character limits, the inc
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by wu-ikkyu 8y ago
>I think that people have an (almost) unalienable power, very strong, and pretty underused. >It's the power of walking away. Sure, although it seems the power of collective social pressures is far stronger. So while that might
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by wu-ikkyu 8y ago
It does delegitimize the complaint
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by wu-ikkyu 8y ago
>>The Standard Model ... fails to explain many physical phenomenon. >Yeah? Like what? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_Model >I am highly confident in this extrapolation. Even still, we shouldn&#x27
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by wu-ikkyu 8y ago
>>matter is just a bunch of atoms >Well, it is. Nah, it's much deeper than that as you well know. The word "just" implies there's nothing more to be explained. >No experiment has ever been done that contradic
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by wu-ikkyu 8y ago
>for the individual developer getting asked to implement this, it is over cookies No, cookies would be the straw that broke the camel's back. The context you're ignoring the the countless other straws beneath it. >The decisi
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by wu-ikkyu 8y ago
>Every decision you think you make is actually just a bunch of neurons firing That's like saying "matter is just a bunch of atoms". The reality is not so certain. Our understanding of the fundamental nature of reality (phy
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by wu-ikkyu 8y ago
>Do you just say "fuck it", and quit, ignoring all your responsibilities? Over cookies? If you follow the news about Google at all, you'd know its obviously not just about cookies. >Of course, when its not about cookies
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by wu-ikkyu 8y ago
>people have mortgages, families and other commitments. Some have social anxiety and find job hunting an impossibly scary prospect. Others might suffer from depression. So what? Standing up for what you believe in is never easy, and almo
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by wu-ikkyu 8y ago
>Change can come from internal activism and external Market pressures. Quitting is neither of those and actively contrary to the former. False. A mass exodus of employees can certainly increase market pressures as it signals instability;
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by wu-ikkyu 8y ago
>I think you'd have got a better response if you were clearer that that's what you were trying to do. "I don't know of a system but if we're to try and come up with one, [...]" or similar. Perhaps you'r
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by wu-ikkyu 8y ago
No, there is no known cause of schizophrenia.
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by wu-ikkyu 8y ago
>when people ask for a system, you can't just give them that list of goals as an answer. When someone asks for a satisfactory alternative that doesn't yet exist, intelligent creative people think about ways to make a new one. A
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by wu-ikkyu 8y ago
Again, I was making suggestions in the scope of the planning phase of the SDLC, not the implementation.
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by wu-ikkyu 8y ago
New intelligently designed systems/mechanisms aren't just created out of thing air like magic. The first phase of the systems development life cycle requires you to define (and agree upon) high level goals/requirements/p
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by wu-ikkyu 8y ago
Sure, but it's not about "being productive", it's about maintaining self image/identity. Google proclaims itself as a moral thought leader of the world, but actions speak louder than words.
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by wu-ikkyu 8y ago
Whats "magic" about it, in your opinion?
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by wu-ikkyu 8y ago
>just that the switching cost is really, really high Climate change says the cost of not switching is far greater. Also, that's what phased roll outs are for. >there's a huge difference between pointing out problems and poin
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by wu-ikkyu 8y ago
>What other alternative(s) would you propose? How about a system which: 1. Acknowledges the realities of automation and globalization 2. Does not have maximum employment and perpetual growth as primary goals 3. Does not create artificial
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by wu-ikkyu 8y ago
>disdain for the working class”? What, pray tell, might that be? Implicit support for corporate globalization which vastly diminishes the bargaining power of the working class.
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by wu-ikkyu 8y ago
Let's flip a coin: heads I win, tails you lose. If you decide not to play, are you being more rational or more apathetic?
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by wu-ikkyu 8y ago
>He joked that it's colonisation 2.0 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neocolonialism
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by wu-ikkyu 8y ago
>Andersen was willing to certify pretty much anything these companies wanted to do as fully legal and above-board, because these were big clients and Andersen didn't want to lose them to some other accounting firm by inconveniently
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by wu-ikkyu 8y ago
>Supposing I have the key to your chains The road to hell is paved with good intentions. How do you know you have the key?
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by wu-ikkyu 8y ago
Our plutocrats don't take kindly to illegal alien aliens.
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by wu-ikkyu 8y ago
>everything real can be measured in some way False https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Measurement_problem
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by wu-ikkyu 8y ago
>How much of this is cultural and how much of this biological? It would probably vary by job classification

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