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what’s the story integrating R code into larger software systems (say, a saas product)? I’m sure part of Python’s success is sheer mindshare momentum from being a common computing denominator, but I’d guess the integration story is part of
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> I'm NOT trying to maintain my old 2002 Honda Civic My 2004 Pontiac Vibe is the newest car I've owned -- drove a few GM cars and one Nissan into 200-300kmi territory before that. Saved me tens of thousands of dollars and got
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> Apple's era of easily (or even hot) swappable parts. This. It existed. The laptops still commanded enthusiasm, felt great, capable, and solid without being too heavy, and had swappable RAM and disk. Keyboard and battery swap were
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How . How do we determine when something is true or disinformation? That's what good faith pro-social and pro-truth people ask. They talk process, principles, and reasons.
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Exercising editorial control over publications and an information networks that you own or manage is also free speech. As is engaging in discussion about it with people who own or manage them.
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Disinformation exists. Most people rely on quality information, and on social institutions that work to determine truth. Scare quoting disinformation is for nihilists. Is that where you're aiming?
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Personally, I respect reluctance to protest. Protest is situationally effective and sometimes necessary, but holds a dramatically outsized place in public imagination. So much of effective politics happens elsewhere. The core of politics
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Reading _First Principles_ by Thomas Ricks a few years ago was an eye opener -- the founding fathers and national civic culture definitely drew deeply from enlightenment thinking and further back classical civics and philosophy. Towards
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> Voters don’t take campaign platforms at face value Huh. That sounds like validation of my original point that the Democratic Party has been "prioritizing housing, infrastructure and government services supporting people's e
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Wikipedia will cite and often broadly source. Wikipedia has an auditable decision trail for content conflicts. It behaves more like an accountable mediator of authority. Perhaps LLMs offering those (among other) features would be reasonably
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> fully exploited by Republicans in a media system that is largely theirs Sounds like one answer to my question about why people don't recognize it when Democratic politicians do prioritize "housing, infrastructure and governme
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Composition fallacy much? I was a CA voter in 2020. The focus I saw from candidates and citizens alike were things like democracy, rule of law, housing costs/policy, and police reform. Prop 16 was a footnote , not a focus, which is pr
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Here's some quotes from the 2024 D platform: "[We] made record investments in public safety, putting more police officers on the beat; today, violent crime is at its lowest in 50 years" "Democrats provided funding for co
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Refocusing on outcomes is a good start. Getting voting constituencies to do so is a big lift. And that might be easier than getting people to look at places where ideological assumptions about production dynamics need examination (includi
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Seriously, we have a Haagen-bot[0] problem ("the robot that eats ice cream so you don't have to") widespread across the field where people are trying to figure out how they can get their piece of the new ML world. Part of it
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That's pretty much where liberal politicians end up targeting most of their policymaking and even a sizable portion of their campaign platform (as demonstrated in the Harris platform). Yet "tangled up in social issues" remain
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"Young people" or other age limits are a dramatically distinctive case because the considerations involved are universal, cross-cutting and temporary. Age-based standards can't be used to create systematic outgroups. They
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It could be structured to reward living authors, mechanical licensing has worked this way. But even if it wasn't -- even if couldn't be -- you could use it to fund all kinds of public goods which would benefit living authors. Mayb
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This is one of the reasons there should simply be a big tax on AI profits, assuming they come to pass: they literally require uncompensated training on the sum of human intellectual effort. There is no AI without standing on the shoulders
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The founding of the US is absolutely a remarkable achievement. A group of colonies successfully broke from global imperial power to successfully establish a society heavily influenced by the best enlightenment thinking and classical civil
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Probably not coincidentally, 2016 was the year that I decided I was done with front-end after about decade of focus.
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Full franchise democracy in the US is arguably younger than living memory. So are a lot of things we take for granted as civil rights (and some of powers that be seem determined to roll those back). But even assuming the premise, it’s not h
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The fundamental confusion here may be the misconception that pro-people pro-liberty or pro-progress means anti-state. Or that the new people are anti-state in any way that means well for most people. It seems entirely consistent that the pe
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Or foreign influence agents. What more resource efficient way to weaken a competing state than foment rebellion and attacks from within.
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There seems to be a class of decent mantras / heuristics like this: * Good at a first approximation for directing your own agency (conscientious effort definitely improves chances of success, there are few reasons not to engage it ot
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This is probably the fundamental attribution error in play -- " my situation is a twist of circumstance but their situation is a reflection of poor character and choices that need to be policed." The Golden Rule is an ages-old
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> Angela Merkel was known to text during parliamentary sessions, sometimes with multiple phones, with colleagues about the ongoing debate. Legislative / collective council discussion has probably always had some sort of quieter back
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> I think that majority prefer "algorithms" to serve them information This possibility was the theme of the (most?) recent video essay on the YouTube Technology Connections channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch
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Just want to say thanks for this -- I hadn't seen it before, and it touches effectively on a number of practical criticisms I have of Tailwind plus some I hadn't articulated yet. And I'm really glad it brings the context of w
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Yeah -- that's a big part of what I mean with "stop trying to get the organization and culture to do work they don't want to do" or "just give up." I do think there are tooling shortcomings that could change re

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