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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
>Money doesn't change the facts Money can make facts go unheard and/or unheeded. >astroturf is by definition finite. What definition says that? Astroturfing can be and is often automated >Facts, especially quantitative fa
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
Here is an interesting study from a couple years back about astroturfing reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/comments/38wl43/we_used_sock...
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
Yes indeed. I suppose my main concern is that if learned prejudices (against race, religion, ideology, age, economic status, etc.) cannot be eliminated by regenerating brain matter, then a potentially fatal error could arise for society
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
As I've grown from a junior to senior dev, I've found that the "harder" I work, the worse I work. There is definitely a balance to be struck (YMMV) but as I've decreased the number of "butt in seat" hours
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
Is there any evidence that stem cell therapy can eliminate old prejudices?
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
What about the habitual thought patterns and prejudices that have been "hard wired" from the life experiences of the elderly, which make it so difficult to think outside the box?
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
>How many wars do you think anyone would want to fight if we didn't have an endless streams of the young who are willing to die on the battlefield? We've got killer robots for that now. >How many murders are committed by peo
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
Full title: Russia is pushing to control cyberspace. We should all be worried. This is simply fear-based anti-russia propaganda. Why should the public threat model be so narrowly scoped?
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
Seems like an apt description of tech giants like Facebook, Google, and Apple. Consider the inordinate attention (~homage) and data forfeiture which billions of people submit to those walled gardens (fiefs). It seems symbolic that so many s
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
The digital landscape seems to be growing increasingly feudalistic. Users have increasingly less control over the products and services they use. -Instead of buying a movie or a song, you stream it -You don't own your data in the cloud
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
Working together with others (i.e. pair programming) can be very useful in helping you gain alternate perspectives on how to solve different problems. Edit: I should add that I learned more in a 2 hour pair programming session as a junior d
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
>companies in highly competitive industries don’t have the excess profits to reinvest in research. On the flip side, monopolies often have little incentive to invest in improving their products/services, and find they can profit fro
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
>Maybe Twitter API Perhaps it has changed since I used it last, but Twitter's API will give you a very limited amount of data unless you're prepared to fork over the big bucks.
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
They are paying with their data and attention to advertisements
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
>it could be that the property (or any other) rights of person A are more important than all of person B as such. How would you determine this? Is this not the same argument made by slave owners?
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
>History has shown the US to be on the right side of that conflict. That depends on who wrote the history book you're reading. By the accounts of the millions of innocents slaughtered by both sides, neither side was in "the rig
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
OP didn't "dismiss" the complaint. Rather, they prioritized it according to proximity
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
Should those crimes be excused just because someone else racked up a higher body count?
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
He didn't say "take away property rights"
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
It's ultimately humans behind the robots. So what we should really be wary of is the values and assumptions of those who develop the robots. >"When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
>If you don't want your social media info used... don't post it to social media! While I definitely heed this advice, it seems a bit like saying, if you don't wan't to be robbed or murdered, don't go outside your
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
Not if you say the magic words
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
The OP said the largest problems get the highest reward. Not markets. What is a more important problem, having a environment to live in, or being able to use fossil fuels?
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
Could you give a TLDR?
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
>The largest problems automatically provide the largest reward for solving! Is global warming a large problem? Because it would seem the destruction of the environment is highly profitable under the current system.
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
Why does it need a utility? When one spontaneously begins dancing, they aren't thinking of some practical purpose or end goal, they're just doing it because it's fun and they're enjoying themselves in the moment. Anyone
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
>I’ve been to “mindfulness events” for executives and corporate, where people claim to let go of their ego only to look down on anyone who is not as “open minded “ as they are. They're doing it wrong. Gloating about supposedly getti
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
>I don't tell people to do meditation, I tell them to go to a quiet place outside, in a park or woods, to sit and do nothing and let their thoughts go around. I consider that to be a form of meditation, even though many seem to thin
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
>"Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment. And, therefore, if you meditate for an ulterior motive – that is to say, to improve your mind, to improve your character, to be more
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
Aldous Huxley made the same point in the 1960's: >there is evidently a whole class of drugs effecting the CNS which can produce enormous changes in sedation in euphoria in energizing the whole mental process without doing any percep

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