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by wutbrodo 4y ago
It's pretty clear that you've failed to understand my second comment as well. Perhaps the fault is mine, but I'm not sure it'd be productive to continue the conversation. Thanks for your thoughts
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by wutbrodo 4y ago
If this were truly the case, then bots wouldn't be a problem! More narrowly, I buy that this is true for some segment of the tweeting population. I know this is provocative, but removing those false positives from Twitter may be a good
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by wutbrodo 4y ago
I still don't underatand why paying would help. Wouldn't simply filtering out the unverified work the same way?
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by wutbrodo 4y ago
The only economic actor directly hurt by bots is the advertiser, right? To some degree, it's against investors' incentives to attempt to strictly exclude bots. Obviously in the longterm it hurts value, but "doing things that
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by wutbrodo 4y ago
If I'm not mistaken, you've completely misunderstood my comment. And as far as I can tell, your comment is making the opposite point that you think it does. I didn't "acquire the knowledge" from a third-party; as I
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by wutbrodo 4y ago
> That's were a good education comes in. A good education gives one an inquiring mind Education isn't magic, and can't instill an inquiring mind reliably. I went to a (at the time) $35k/yr private school that I consid
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by wutbrodo 4y ago
> any other tesla shareholder can sell tesla shares to buy twitter, and why wouldn't they when the tesla CEO is doing it. Because they wouldn't be taking control over the company... That's the purpose of those whole situat
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
Note that the parent comment is not talking about the ability to live as one wants, express oneself in any manner, or even to be referred to as one pleases. It's about the desire to literally change the definition of one of the most fu
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
> When I receive a call from a number outside my contacts that has never called me before I want a dialog to pop up after I close the call that asks me if I want to block the caller or whitelist him Is this not standard on phones? Termin
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
I'm in the same boat, and I'm American. I don't really know how Gmail users manage to get non-negligible amounts of spam, given their filtering and the "Promotions" inbox auto-filter. And as far as phone calls: Do y
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
I live in lower Manhattan now, and my unconscious mental model for navigating the streets as a ped/biker includes a pretty large coefficient on is_yellowcab. They're complete menaces.
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
Sure, but then we're not "putting a wall around the problem" either. Like I said, I'm not agreeing with the claim, but your objection contradicted itself
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
In the article it mentions that his second iteration was externally mounted, and didn't take up trunk Space.
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
> By the 50s it was a "failed" idea. What do you mean by this?
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
The claim is not that a border wall would keep violent cartels out of the US, but that it would drive down the drug profits fueling Mexico's violence. I'm not sure I agree with this claim, but "this puts a fence around it&quo
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
Obviously both are true, by definition. The ridiculousness of the situation is not about the choices made by the technician and the company, but the fact that the guy that was already there was prohibited from using a screwdriver.
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
> We now feel that it is "over", so we relax instead of buckling down and asking ourselves "how can we make the next time this happens not such a shitshow?" The cultural rot that prevents iterating on effective govern
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
He's the CEO and Chief Engineer of SpaceX and CEO and Product Architect of Tesla, among other things if I'm not mistaken. Were you under the impression that he's a silent shareholder of the companies he's founded, spendi
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
Gosh, this is utter nonsense. Pretty much every anti-woke person on the left was just as critical of illiberalism when the right was flexing its cultural muscles. Are you under the impression that Paul Graham was in support of post-9/1
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
I chose that term carefully, and put it in quotes, to avoid derailment about my choice of words. I wanted to make it clear I'm referring without judgment to the types of people he is talking about, and was willing to make my short comm
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
The reason is covered in the article: > I've deliberately avoided mentioning any specific heresies here. Partly because one of the universal tactics of heretic hunters, now as in the past, is to accuse those who disapprove of the wa
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
What the comment is remarking on is why so many adults let obvious trolling affect their mental state so deeply. Independently of judging the troll for his behavior, it's reasonable to wonder at people's fragility, particularly in
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
I've noticed it's gotten very common recently for wingnuts on both sides to pick an Emmanuel Goldstein figure that represents the root of all seemingly-unrelated evil in the world. Elon has become that figure for a big chunk of th
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
> It was a disappointing turn from someone who could lead with vision to a billionaire troll that shows signs of what looks like depression to me Are these mutually exclusive? My model is that he's picked up trolling as a hobby, but
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
As the perfect complement to the parent comment, you're conveniently ignoring the qualifier "close to the city center". No part of the American dream has ever claimed the suburban paradise to be in the middle of Manhattan. It
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
> large plots of land This assumption that you've smuggled in begs the entire question
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
What does the behavior of current human-operated cars have to do with the value of domain-limited AVs? Your comment was not "these are not 100% replacement for cars yet", which would obviously be uncontroversial. It was "thes
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
> in some people's understanding of what a driverless car should be. I don't understand at all what you mean by "should". The comment I was responding to said that [whatever this is] "wasn't a reality".
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
You are correct, and it says so in the article. Really not sure how I missed that. Sorry!
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
> The other problem with thinking "this is what everybody does" is there's the unstated "so keep your mouth shut and just go along with it" that's really unhealthy for us all. I agree with you that most peop

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